By The Associated Press
                       - Today is Monday, June 7, the 158th day of 1999. There are 207 days
                         left in the year.

                       - On June 7, 1776, Richard Henry Lee of Virginia proposed to the
                         Continental Congress a resolution calling for a Declaration of
                         Independence.
                       - In 1769 frontiersman Daniel Boone first began to explore the
                         present-day Bluegrass State.
                       - In 1848 French post-impressionist painter Paul Gauguin was born in
                         Paris.
                       - In 1864 Abraham Lincoln was nominated for another term as president
                         at his party's convention in Baltimore.
                       - In 1929 the sovereign state of Vatican City came into existence as
                         copies of the Lateran Treaty were exchanged in Rome.
                       - In 1939 King George VI and his wife, Queen Elizabeth, arrived at
                         Niagara Falls, New York from Canada on the first visit to the United
                         States by a reigning British monarch.
                       - In 1948 the Communists completed their takeover of Czechoslovakia
                         with the resignation of President Eduard Benes.
                       - In 1967 author-critic Dorothy Parker, famed for her caustic wit,
                         died in New York.
                       - In 1981 Israeli military planes destroyed a nuclear power plant in
                         Iraq, a facility the Israelis charged could have been used to make
                         nuclear weapons.

                       - Ten years ago 169 people were killed when a Suriname Airways
                         airplane crashed in a tropical forest near the Paramaribo airport.
                       - Five years ago President Clinton addressed the French National
                         Assembly, challenging his generation of Allied leaders to strive for
                         greater European unity or face "the grim alternative" of violence
                         like that in Bosnia. Twelve-year-old Vicki Van Meter of Meadville,
                         Pa., completed a trans-Atlantic flight, landing in Glasgow,
                         Scotland.
                       - One year ago in a crime that shocked the nation, James Byrd Jr.,
                         a 49-year-old black man, was chained to a pickup truck and dragged
                         to his death in Jasper, Texas. (Three white men were arrested; so
                         far, one of them, John William King, has been convicted of murder
                         and sentenced to death.) At the Tony Awards, "The Lion King" won
                         best musical and "Art" was named best play.

                       *Happy Birthday*
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                       - Movie director James Ivory is 71.
                       - Actress Virginia McKenna is 68.
                       - Singer Tom Jones is 59.
                       - Poet Nikki Giovanni is 56.
                       - Actor Ken Osmond ("Leave It to Beaver") is 56.
                       - Talk show host Jenny Jones is 53.
                       - Actress Anne Twomey is 48.
                       - Actor Liam Neeson is 47.
                       - Actor William Forsythe is 44.
                       - Record producer L.A. Reid is 43.
                       - The artist formerly known as Prince is 41.
                       - Rock singer-musician Gordon Gano (The Violent Femmes) is 36.
                       - Rock musician Eric Kretz (Stone Temple Pilots) is 33.
                       - Actress Helen Baxendale ("Friends") is 29.