By The Associated Press
                        - Today is Sunday, April 11, the 101st day of 1999. There are 264 days
                          left in the year.

                        - One hundred years ago, on April 11, 1899, the treaty ending the
                          Spanish-American War was declared in effect.
                        - In 1814, Napoleon Bonaparte abdicated as emperor of France and was
                          banished to the island of Elba.
                        - In 1898, President McKinley asked Congress for a declaration of war
                          against Spain.
                        - In 1921, Iowa became the first state to impose a cigarette tax.
                        - In 1945, during World War II, American soldiers liberated
                          Buchenwald, the notorious Nazi concentration camp in Germany.
                        - In 1951, President Truman relieved Gen. Douglas MacArthur of his
                          commands in the Far East.
                        - In 1968, President Johnson signed into law the Civil Rights Act of
                          1968, a week after the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.
                        - In 1970, Apollo 13 blasted off on its ill-fated mission to the moon.
                          The astronauts managed to return safely.
                        - In 1979, Idi Amin was deposed as president of Uganda as rebels and
                          exiles backed by Tanzanian forces seized control.
                        - In 1980, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission issued
                          regulations specifically prohibiting sexual harassment of workers by
                          supervisors.
                        - Ten years ago: Mexican officials unearthed the remains of 12 of 13
                          victims of a drug-trafficking cult near Matamoros. The dead included
                          University of Texas student Mark Kilroy, who had disappeared while
                          on spring break.
                        - Five years ago: The White House disclosed that President and Mrs.
                          Clinton had failed to report $6,498 in income that the first lady
                          made in commodities trading in 1980; the couple wrote checks
                          totaling $14,615 in back taxes and interest.
                        - One year ago: The executive committee of the Ulster Union Party
                          voted 55-23 to support the Northern Ireland peace accord and its
                          leader, David Trimble, who had outmaneuvered rebels in his ranks.

                        *Happy Birthday*
                        - Fashion designer Oleg Cassini is 86.
                        - Movie producer Howard W. Koch is 83.
                        - Former New York Gov. Hugh Carey is 80.
                        - Ethel Kennedy is 71.
                        - Actor Johnny Sheffield is 68.
                        - Actor Joel Grey is 67.
                        - Actress Louise Lasser is 60.
                        - Syndicated columnist Ellen Goodman is 58.
                        - Movie writer-director John Milius is 55.
                        - Actor Peter Riegert is 52.
                        - Actor Bill Irwin is 49.
                        - Country singer-songwriter Jim Lauderdale is 42.
                        - Country singer Steve Azar is 35.