By The Associated Press
                - Today is Thursday, April 29, the 119th day of 1999. There are 246
                  days left in the year.

                - One hundred years ago, on April 29, 1899, jazz legend Duke Ellington
                  was born in Washington D.C.
                - In 1861, Maryland's House of Delegates voted against seceding from
                  the Union.
                - In 1862, New Orleans fell to Union forces during the Civil War.
                - In 1916, the Easter Rising in Dublin collapsed as Irish nationalists
                  surrendered to British authorities.
                - In 1945, American soldiers liberated the Dachau concentration camp;
                  that same day, Adolf Hitler married Eva Braun and designated Admiral
                  Karl Doenitz his successor.
                - In 1946, 28 former Japanese leaders were indicted as war criminals.
                - In 1974, President Nixon announced he was releasing edited
                  transcripts of some secretly made White House tape recordings
                  related to Watergate.
                - In 1983, Harold Washington was sworn in as the first black mayor of
                  Chicago.
                - In 1992, deadly rioting erupted in Los Angeles after a jury in Simi
                  Valley, Calif., acquitted four Los Angeles police officers of almost
                  all state charges in the videotaped beating of Rodney King.
                - Ten years ago: In a sign that student demonstrators in Beijing had
                  gained influence, China's government conducted informal talks with
                  leaders of the democracy protests, and then televised the
                  discussions.
                - Five years ago: Hundreds of thousands of refugees fleeing the terror
                  of ethnic massacres in Rwanda were pouring into Tanzania. Israel and
                  the PLO signed an agreement in Paris granting Palestinians broad
                  authority to set taxes, control trade and regulate banks under
                  self-rule in the Gaza Strip and Jericho.
                - One year ago: The U.S., Canada, and Mexico agreed to eliminate
                  tariffs on items accounting for $1 billion in trade at a meeting in
                  Paris of the North American Free Trade Agreement. Israelis began
                  marking the 50th anniversary of the founding of their country.

                *Happy Birthdays*
                - Singer Don Mills (The Mills Brothers) is 84.
                - Actress Celeste Holm is 80.
                - Rhythm-and-blues singer Carl Gardner (The Coasters) is 71.
                - Singer-musician Lonnie Donegan is 68.
                - Poet Rod McKuen is 66.
                - Actor Keith Baxter is 66.
                - Bluesman Otis Rush is 65.
                - Conductor Zubin Mehta is 63.
                - Actor Lane Smith is 63.
                - Country singer Duane Allen (The Oak Ridge Boys) is 56.
                - Singer Tommy James is 52.
                - Comedian Jerry Seinfeld is 45.
                - Actress Kate Mulgrew is 44.
                - Actress Michelle Pfeiffer is 42.
                - Actor Daniel Day-Lewis is 42.
                - Actress Eve Plumb is 41.
                - Rock musician Phil King is 39.