By The Associated Press
                      - Today is Thursday, March 25, the 84th day of 1999. There are 281
                        days left in the year.

                      - On March 25, 1911, in a tragedy that galvanized America's labor
                        movement, 146 immigrant workers were killed when fire broke out at
                        the Triangle Shirtwaist Co. in New York.
                      - In 1634, Maryland was founded by English colonists sent by the
                        second Lord Baltimore.
                      - In 1865, during the Civil War, Confederate forces captured Fort
                        Stedman in Virginia.
                      - In 1894, Jacob S. Coxey began leading an "army" of unemployed from
                        Massillon, Ohio, to Washington, D.C., to demand help from the
                        federal government.
                      - In 1913, the home of vaudeville, the Palace Theatre, opened in New
                        York City.
                      - In 1918, French composer Claude Debussy died in Paris.
                      - In 1947, a coal mine explosion in Centralia, Ill., claimed 111
                        lives.
                      - In 1957, the Treaty of Rome established the European Economic
                        Community.
                      - In 1965, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. led 25,000 marchers to the
                        state capitol in Montgomery, Ala., to protest the denial of voting
                        rights to blacks.
                      - In 1990, 87 people, most of them Honduran and Dominican immigrants,
                        were killed when fire raced through an illegal social club in New
                        York City.
                      - In 1992, Soviet cosmonaut Sergei Krikalev, who had spent 10 months
                        aboard the orbiting Mir space station and missed the upheaval in his
                        homeland, finally returned to Earth.
                      - Ten years ago: In the wake of the Exxon Valdez oil spill in Prince
                        William Sound, Alaska's chief environmental officer, Dennis Kelso,
                        criticized cleanup efforts as too slow.
                      - Five years ago: American troops completed their withdrawal from
                        Somalia.
                      - One year ago: Shaken by horror stories from the worst genocide since
                        World War II, President Clinton grimly acknowledged during his
                        Africa tour that "we did not act quickly enough" to stop the
                        slaughter of up to 1 million Rwandans four years earlier. The FCC
                        netted $578.6 million at auction for licenses for new wireless
                        technology.

                      *Happy Birthday*
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                      - Modeling agency founder Eileen Ford is 77.
                      - Former astronaut Jim Lovell is 71.
                      - Movie reviewer Gene Shalit is 67.
                      - Feminist author Gloria Steinem is 65.
                      - Singer-actor Hoyt Axton is 61.
                      - Singer Anita Bryant is 59.
                      - Singer Aretha Franklin is 57.
                      - Actor Paul Michael Glaser is 56.
                      - Singer Elton John is 52.
                      - Actress Bonnie Bedelia is 51.
                      - Singer Nick Lowe is 50.
                      - Actress-comedian Mary Gross is 46.
                      - Actor James McDaniel ("NYPD Blue") is 41.
                      - Actor-writer-director John Stockwell is 38.
                      - Actress Lisa Gay Hamilton is 35.
                      - Actress Sarah Jessica Parker is 34.
                      - Singer-musician Jeff Healey is 33.
                      - Olympic bronze medal figure skater Debi Thomas is 32.
                      - Singer Melanie Blatt (All Saints) is 24.