By The Associated Press
                        - Today is Sunday, June 6, the 157th day of 1999. There are 208 days
                          left in the year.

                        - On June 6, 1944, Allied forces stormed the beaches of Normandy,
                          France in the D-Day invasion of Europe in World War II.
                        - In 1799 American orator Patrick Henry died in Charlotte County, Va.
                        - In 1844 the Young Men's Christian Association was founded in London.
                        - In 1925 Walter Percy Chrysler founded Chrysler Corp.
                        - In 1934, the Securities and Exchange Commission was established.
                        - In 1942 Japanese forces retreated in the World War II Battle of
                          Midway.
                        - In 1966 black activist James Meredith was shot and wounded as he
                          walked along a Mississippi highway to encourage black voter
                          registration.
                        - In 1968 Sen. Robert F. Kennedy died at Good Samaritan Hospital in
                          Los Angeles, a day after he was shot by Sirhan Bishara Sirhan.
                        - In 1978 California voters overwhelmingly approved Proposition 13, a
                          primary ballot initiative calling for major cuts in property taxes.
                        - In 1982 Israeli forces invaded Lebanon to drive out Palestine
                          Liberation Organization fighters. (The Israelis withdrew in June
                          1985.)
                        - In 1985 authorities in Brazil exhumed a body later identified as the
                          remains of Dr. Josef Mengele, the notorious "Angel of Death" of the
                          Nazi Holocaust.

                        - Ten years ago burial services were held for Iran's spiritual leader,
                          Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini. On Capitol Hill, Thomas Foley was
                          elected the 49th speaker of the House of Representatives.
                        - Five years ago a Chinese passenger jet crashed, killing all 160
                          people on board.
                        - One year ago the UN Security Council demanded in a unanimous vote
                          that India and Pakistan refrain from further nuclear tests and sign
                          nuclear control agreements. "Real Quiet" was denied horse racing's
                          Triple Crown as "Victory Gallop" won the Belmont Stakes by a nose.

                        *Happy Birthday*
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                        - Actress Billie Whitelaw is 67.
                        - Civil rights activist Roy Innis is 65.
                        - Singer Levi Stubbs (The Four Tops) is 63.
                        - Country singer Joe Stampley is 56.
                        - Actor Robert Englund is 50.
                        - Singer Dwight Twilley is 48.
                        - Playwright-actor Harvey Fierstein is 45.
                        - Comedian Sandra Bernhard is 44.
                        - Tennis player Bjorn Borg is 43.
                        - Actress Amanda Pays is 40.
                        - Record producer Jimmy Jam is 40.
                        - Rock musician Steve Vai is 39.
                        - Rock musician Sean Yseult (White Zombie) is 33.
                        - Rock musician David Navarro is 32.
                        - Actor Max Casella is 32.