By The Associated Press
                      - Today is Sunday, March 21, the 80th day of 1999. There are 285 days
                        left in the year.

                      - On March 21, 1965, more than 3,000 civil rights demonstrators led by
                        the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. began their march from Selma to
                        Montgomery, Ala.
                      - In 1685, composer Johann Sebastian Bach was born in Eisenach,
                        Germany.
                      - In 1790, Thomas Jefferson reported to President Washington in New
                        York as the new secretary of state.
                      - In 1806, Mexican statesman Benito Juarez, Mexico's first president
                        of Indian ancestry, was born in Oaxaca.
                      - In 1945, Allied bombers began four days of raids over Germany.
                      - In 1946, the United Nations set up temporary headquarters at Hunter
                        College in New York.
                      - In 1960, some 70 people were killed in Sharpeville, South Africa,
                        when police fired on demonstrators.
                      - In 1963, the Alcatraz federal prison island in San Francisco Bay was
                        emptied of its last inmates at the order of Attorney General Robert
                        F. Kennedy.
                      - In 1972, the Supreme Court ruled that states cannot require at least
                        a year's residency for voting eligibility.
                      - In 1979, the Egyptian Parliament unanimously approved a peace treaty
                        with Israel.
                      - Ten years ago: Randall Dale Adams, whose conviction for killing a
                        police officer was overturned after the documentary "The Thin Blue
                        Line" challenged evidence, was released from a Texas prison.
                      - Five years ago: "Schindler's List" won best picture at the 66th
                        Academy Awards; Holly Hunter was named best actress for "The Piano"
                        while Tom Hanks was named best actor for "Philadelphia." Actor
                        Macdonald Carey died in Beverly Hills, Calif., at age 81.
                      - One year ago: Pope John Paul II began a visit to Nigeria with the
                        Vatican pressing the African nation's military regime to release
                        dozens of prisoners, including prominent opposition figures and
                        journalists.

                      *Happy Birthday*
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                      - Actor Al Freeman Jr. is 65.
                      - Actor Timothy Dalton is 55.
                      - Actress Marie-Christine Barrault is 55.
                      - Singer-musician Rose Stone (Sly and the Family Stone) is 54.
                      - Rock singer-musician Roger Hodgson (Supertramp) is 49.
                      - Rock musician Conrad Lozano (Los Lobos) is 48.
                      - Rhythm-and-blues singer Russell Thompkins Jr. (The Stylistics) is
                        48.
                      - Actress Sabrina LeBeauf is 41.
                      - Actor Gary Oldman is 41.
                      - Actor Matthew Broderick is 37.
                      - Comedian-talk show host Rosie O'Donnell is 37.
                      - Actress Cynthia Geary is 33.
                      - Rock MC Maxim (Prodigy) is 32.
                      - Rock musician Andrew Copeland (Sister Hazel) is 31.