By The Associated Press

              - Today is Sunday, July 11, the 192nd day of 1999. There are 173
                days left in the year.

              - On July 11, 1798, the U.S. Marine Corps was formally
                re-established by a congressional act that also created the U.S.
                Marine Band.
              - In 1533, Pope Clement VII excommunicated England's King Henry
                VIII.
              - In 1767, John Quincy Adams, the sixth president of the United
                States, was born in Braintree, Mass.
              - In 1804, Vice President Aaron Burr mortally wounded former
                Treasury Secretary Alexander Hamilton in a pistol duel near
                Weehawken, N.J.
              - In 1864, Confederate forces led by General Jubal Early began an
                abortive invasion of Washington, D.C., turning back the next day.
              - In 1934, President Roosevelt became the first chief executive to
                travel through the Panama Canal.
              - In 1955, the U.S. Air Force Academy was dedicated at Lowry Air
                Base in Colorado.
              - In 1974, the House Judiciary Committee released volumes of
                evidence it had gathered in its Watergate inquiry.
              - In 1977, the Medal of Freedom was awarded posthumously to the
                Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.
              - In 1978, 216 people were killed when a tanker truck overfilled
                with propylene gas exploded on a coastal highway south of
                Tarragona, Spain.
              - In 1979, the abandoned U.S. space station "Skylab" made a
                spectacular return to Earth, burning up in the atmosphere and
                showering debris over the Indian Ocean and Australia.

              - Ten years ago: Actor Laurence Olivier died at age 82. The American
                League won the 60th All-Star Game, defeating the National
                League 5-3 in Anaheim, Calif.
              - Five years ago: Haiti's army-backed regime ordered the expulsion
                of international human rights observers. President Clinton, on his
                first official visit to Germany, urged his hosts to take on a
                stronger leadership role in global affairs. Shawn Eckardt was
                sentenced in Portland, Ore., to 18 months in prison for his role in
                the attack on figure skater Nancy Kerrigan.
              - One year ago: Air Force Lt. Michael Blassie, a casualty of the
                Vietnam War, was laid to rest near his Missouri home after the
                positive identification of his remains, which had been enshrined at
                the Tomb of the Unknowns in Arlington, Va.

              *Happy Birthday*
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              - Actress Brett Somers is 72.
              - Actor Tab Hunter is 68.
              - Singer Jeff Hanna (Nitty Gritty Dirt Band) is 52.
              - Singer Bonnie Pointer is 48.
              - Actor Stephen Lang is 47.
              - Boxer Leon Spinks is 46.
              - Actress Mindy Sterling is 46.
              - Actress Sela Ward is 43.
              - Reggae singer Michael Rose (Black Uhuru) is 42.
              - Singer Peter Murphy is 42.
              - Actor Mark Lester is 41.
              - Singer Suzanne Vega is 40.
              - Rock guitarist Richie Sambora (Bon Jovi) is 40.
              - Actress Debbe Dunning is 33.
              - Actor Michael Rosenbaum is 27.
              - Rapper Lil Kim is 24.