By The Associated Press
                        - Today is Sunday, March 28, the 87th day of 1999. There are 278 days
                          left in the year.

                        - Twenty years ago, on March 28, 1979, America's worst commercial
                          nuclear accident occurred inside at the Three Mile Island plant in
                          Pennsylvania.
                        - In 1797, Nathaniel Briggs of New Hampshire patented a washing
                          machine.
                        - In 1834, the U.S. Senate voted to censure President Jackson for the
                          removal of federal deposits from the Bank of the United States.
                        - In 1854, during the Crimean War, Britain and France declared war on
                          Russia.
                        - In 1898, the Supreme Court ruled that a child born in the U.S. to
                          Chinese immigrants was a U.S. citizen.
                        - In 1930, the names of the Turkish cities of Constantinople and
                          Angora were changed to Istanbul and Ankara.
                        - In 1939, the Spanish Civil War ended as Madrid fell to the forces of
                          Francisco Franco.
                        - In 1941, novelist and critic Virginia Woolf died in Lewes, England.
                        - In 1942, during World War II, British naval forces raided the
                          Nazi-occupied French port of St. Nazaire.
                        - In 1943, composer Sergei Rachmaninoff died in Beverly Hills, Calif.
                        - In 1969, the 34th president of the U.S., Dwight D. Eisenhower, died
                          in Washington at age 78.
                        - Ten years ago: President Bush sent three high-ranking officials to
                          Alaska to "take a hard look" at the Exxon Valdez oil spill in
                          Alaska's Prince William Sound.
                        - Five years ago: More than 50 people were killed in violence that
                          erupted in Johannesburg, South Africa, during a march by Zulu
                          nationalists. Absurdist playwright Eugene Ionesco died in Paris at
                          age 81.
                        - One year ago: President Clinton, during his visit to South Africa,
                          went to Soweto, a landmark in the bloody uprising against apartheid,
                          to honor South Africans "who answered the call of conscience" and
                          defeated their country's system of white supremacy.

                        *Happy Birthday*
                        - Actor Dirk Bogarde is 78.
                        - Ex-White House national security adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski is 71.
                        - Sen. Frank Murkowski (R-Alaska) is 66.
                        - Country musician Charlie McCoy is 58.
                        - Movie director Mike Newell ("Four Weddings and a Funeral") is 57.
                        - Actress Conchata Ferrell is 56.
                        - Actor Ken Howard is 55.
                        - Actress Dianne Wiest is 51.
                        - Rhythm-and-blues musician Milan Williams (The Commodores) is 51.
                        - Country singer Reba McEntire is 44.
                        - Actor Max Perlich is 31.
                        - Rapper Salt (Salt-N-Pepa) is 30.
                        - Actor Vince Vaughn is 29.