By The Associated Press

              - Today is Tuesday, July 13, the 194th day of 1999. There are 171 days
                left in the year.

              - On July 13, 1974, the Senate Watergate Committee proposed sweeping
                reforms to prevent another Watergate scandal.
              - In 1787 Congress enacted an ordinance governing the Northwest
                Territory.
              - In 1793 French revolutionary writer Jean Paul Marat was stabbed to
                death in his bath by Charlotte Corday.
              - In 1863 deadly rioting against the Civil War military draft erupted
                in New York City.
              - In 1878 the Treaty of Berlin amended the terms of the Treaty of San
                Stefano, which had ended the Russo-Turkish War of 1877-78.
              - In 1960 John F. Kennedy won the Democratic presidential nomination
                at his party's convention in Los Angeles.
              - In 1967 race-related rioting broke out in Newark, N.J.; by the time
                the violence ended, 27 people had been killed.
              - In 1977 a blackout that would last 25 hours hit the New York City
                area.
              - In 1978 Lee Iacocca was fired as president of Ford Motor Co. by
                chairman Henry Ford II.
              - In 1979 a 45-hour siege by Palestinian guerrillas began at the
                Egyptian Embassy in Ankara, Turkey.
              - In 1985 "Live Aid," an international rock concert in London,
                Philadelphia, Moscow and Sydney, took place to raise money for
                Africa's starving people.

              - Ten years ago Washington, D.C. attorney Thomas L. Root was rescued
                after ditching his private plane in the Atlantic Ocean near the
                Bahamas; he had suffered a mysterious gunshot wound. Cuba executed
                four military officers for conspiring to smuggle drugs to the U.S.
              - Five years ago President Clinton visited flood-stricken Georgia,
                where he announced more than $60 million in aid for Georgia, Alabama
                and Florida. Tonya Harding's ex-husband, Jeff Gillooly, was
                sentenced in Portland, Ore., to two years in prison for his role in
                the attack on Nancy Kerrigan. He ended up serving six months.
              - One year ago a jury in Poughkeepsie, N.Y., ruled that the Rev. Al
                Sharpton and two others had defamed a former prosecutor by accusing
                him of raping Tawana Brawley. Four young cousins in Gallup, N.M.,
                died after becoming trapped in a car trunk.
 

              *Happy Birthday*
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              - Former Housing Secretary Jack Kemp is 64.
              - Actor Patrick Stewart is 59.
              - Actor Robert Forster is 58.
              - Actor Harrison Ford is 57.
              - Singer-guitarist Roger McGuinn (The Byrds) is 57.
              - Actor-comedian Cheech Marin is 53.
              - Actress Didi Conn is 48.
              - Singer Louise Mandrell is 45.
              - Actor-director Cameron Crowe is 42.
              - Tennis player Anders Jarryd is 38.
              - Country singer-songwriter Victoria Shaw is 37.
              - Actor Michael Jace is 34.
              - Singer Gerald Levert is 33.
              - Rhythm-and-blues singers Lovell and Laval Jones (Twice) are 28.
              - Singer Deborah Cox is 26.