By The Associated Press
           - Today is Wednesday, March 10, the 69th day of 1999. There are 296
             days left in the year.

           - On March 10, 1949, Nazi wartime broadcaster Mildred E. Gillars, also
             known as "Axis Sally," was convicted in Washington, D.C., of
             treason. She served 12 years in prison.
           - In 1785, Thomas Jefferson was appointed minister to France,
             succeeding Benjamin Franklin.
           - In 1848, the Senate ratified the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, ending
             the war with Mexico.
           - In 1864, Ulysses S. Grant became commander of the Union armies in
             the Civil War.
           - In 1876, the first successful voice transmission over Alexander
             Graham Bell's telephone took place in Boston as his assistant heard
             Bell say, "Mr. Watson, come here. I want you."
           - In 1880, the Salvation Army arrived in the U.S. from England.
           - In 1894, New York Gov. Roswell P. Flower signed the nation's first
             dog-licensing law. The fee was $2, renewable annually for $1.
           - In 1948, the body of the anti-Communist foreign minister of
             Czechoslovakia, Jan Masaryk, was found in the garden of Czernin
             Palace in Prague.
           - In 1965, Neil Simon's play "The Odd Couple," starring Walter Matthau
             as Oscar Madison and Art Carney as Felix Unger, opened on Broadway.
           - In 1969, James Earl Ray pleaded guilty in Memphis, Tenn., to the
             assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. Ray later repudiated that
             plea, maintaining his innocence until his death last April.
           - In 1985, Konstantin U. Chernenko, Soviet leader for just 13 months,
             died at age 73.
           - Ten years ago: One day after the Senate rejected the defense
             secretary nomination of John Tower, President Bush announced he
             would nominate Wyoming Rep. Dick Cheney, who was later confirmed.
           - Five years ago: White House officials began testifying before a
             federal grand jury about the Whitewater controversy.
           - One year ago: U.S. Air Force and Navy personnel in the Persian
             Gulf received vaccinations against anthrax. Indonesia's President
             Suharto was elected to his seventh term. Actor Lloyd Bridges died
             in Westwood, Calif., at age 85.

           *Happy Birthday*
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           - Talk show host Ralph Emery is 66.
           - Actor Chuck Norris is 59.
           - Playwright David Rabe is 59.
           - Singer Dean Torrence (Jan and Dean) is 59.
           - Actress Katharine Houghton is 54.
           - Newspaper columnist Bob Greene is 52.
           - Rock musician Tom Scholz (Boston) is 52.
           - Actress Shannon Tweed is 42.
           - Actress Sharon Stone is 41.
           - Rock musician Gail Greenwood (Belly) is 39.
           - Rock musician Jeff Ament (Pearl Jam) is 36.
           - Britain's Prince Edward is 35.
           - Actress Jasmine Guy is 35.
           - Singer Edie Brickell is 33.
           - Actor Stephen Mailer is 33.
           - Country singer Daryle Singletary is 28.
           - Olympic gold-medal gymnast Shannon Miller is 22.