By The Associated Press

                      Today is Monday, April 5, the 95th day of 1999. There are 270 days left in the
                      year.

                      - On April 5, 1792, George Washington cast the first presidential
                        veto, rejecting a congressional measure for apportioning
                        representatives among the states.
                      - In 1614, American Indian princess Pocahontas married English
                        colonist John Rolfe in Virginia.
                      - In 1621, the Mayflower sailed from Plymouth, Mass., on a return
                        trip to England.
                      - In 1649, Elihu Yale, the English philanthropist for whom Yale
                        University is named, was born.
                      - In 1895, playwright Oscar Wilde lost his criminal libel case against
                        the Marquess of Queensberry, who had accused the writer of
                        homosexual practices.
                      - In 1951, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were sentenced to death
                        following their conviction on charges of conspiring to commit
                        espionage for the Soviet Union.
                      - In 1964, Army Gen. Douglas MacArthur died in Washington at age 84.
                      - In 1975, nationalist Chinese leader Chiang Kai-shek died at age 87.
                      - In 1976, reclusive billionaire Howard Hughes died in Houston at
                        age 72.
                      - In 1988, a 15-day hijacking ordeal began as gunmen forced a Kuwait
                        Airways jumbo jet to land in Iran.
                      - In 1997, Allen Ginsberg, the counterculture guru who shattered
                        conventions as poet laureate of the Beat Generation, died in New
                        York City at age 70.
                      - Ten years ago: Joseph Hazelwood, former captain of the Exxon Valdez
                        supertanker that leaked nearly 11 million gallons of oil into
                        Alaska's Prince William Sound, surrendered to authorities in New
                        York. The government of Poland signed an agreement restoring the
                        independent labor movement Solidarity after a seven-year ban.
                      - Five years ago: President Clinton presided over a 90-minute town
                        hall meeting in Charlotte, N.C., in  which he called himself the
                        victim of "false charges" in connection with the Whitewater
                        controversy.
                      - One year ago: In Leeds, England, environment chiefs from the world's
                        top eight industrialized nations announced plans to curb the
                        smuggling of hazardous waste, endangered species and substances
                        that damage the ozone layer.

                      *Today's Birthdays*

                      - Actor Gregory Peck is 83.
                      - Novelist Arthur Hailey is 79.
                      - Actress Gale Storm is 77.
                      - Movie producer Roger Corman is 73.
                      - Actor Nigel Hawthorne is 70.
                      - Country music producer Cowboy Jack Clement is 68.
                      - Impressionist-actor Frank Gorshin is 66.
                      - Jazz musician Stanley Turrentine is 65.
                      - Retired Gen. Colin L. Powell, is 62.
                      - Country singer Tommy Cash is 59.
                      - Actor Michael Moriarty is 58.
                      - Writer-director Peter Greenaway is 57.
                      - Actor Max Gail is 56.
                      - Actress Jane Asher is 53.
                      - Singer Paula Cole is 31.