By The Associated Press
                - Today is Thursday, April 15, the 105th day of 1999. There are 260
                  days left in the year.

                - In the early hours of April 15, 1912, the British luxury liner
                  Titanic sank in the North Atlantic off Newfoundland, less than three
                  hours after striking an iceberg. About 1,500 people died.
                - In 1817, the first American school for the deaf opened in Hartford,
                  Conn.
                - In 1850, the city of San Francisco was incorporated.
                - In 1861, three days after the Confederate attack on Fort Sumter,
                  President Lincoln declared a state of insurrection and called out
                  Union troops.
                - In 1865, President Lincoln died, several hours after he was shot at
                  Ford's Theater in Washington by John Wilkes Booth. Andrew Johnson
                  became the nation's 17th president.
                - In 1945, during World War II, British and Canadian troops liberated
                  the Nazi concentration camp Bergen-Belsen.
                - In 1947, Jackie Robinson, baseball's first black major league
                  player, made his official debut with the Brooklyn Dodgers on opening
                  day.
                - In 1959, Cuban leader Fidel Castro arrived in Washington to begin a
                  goodwill tour of the U.S.
                - In 1986, the U.S. launched an air raid against Libya in response to
                  the bombing of a discotheque in Berlin on April 5; Libya says 37
                  people, mostly civilians, were killed.
                - In 1980, existentialist philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre died in Paris
                  at the age of 74.
                - In 1990, actress Greta Garbo died in New York at age 84.
                - Ten years ago: Students in Beijing launched a series of
                  pro-democracy protests upon the death of former Communist Party
                  leader Hu Yaobang; the protests culminated in the Tiananmen Square
                  massacre. Ninety-five people died in a crush of soccer fans at
                  Hillsborough Stadium in Sheffield, England.
                - Five years ago: Ministers from 109 countries signed a 26,000-page
                  world trade agreement known as the "Uruguay Round" accords in
                  Marrakesh, Morocco.
                - One year ago: Pol Pot, the notorious leader of the Khmer Rouge, died
                  at age 73.

                *Happy Birthday*
                - Actor Michael Ansara is 77.
                - Country singer Roy Clark is 66.
                - Bluesman Frank Frost is 63.
                - Actress Claudia Cardinale is 60.
                - Rock singer-guitarist Dave Edmunds is 55.
                - TV producer Linda Bloodworth-Thomason is 51.
                - Actor Michael Tucci is 49.
                - Actress Amy Wright is 49.
                - Columnist Heloise is 48.
                - Actress-screenwriter Emma Thompson is 40.
                - Singer Samantha Fox is 33.
                - Rock musician Ed O'Brien (Radiohead) is 31.
                - Actor Flex is 29.