By The Associated Press
                - Today is Thursday, May 6, the 126th day of 1999. There are 239 days
                  left in the year.

                - On May 6, 1937, the hydrogen-filled German dirigible Hindenburg
                  burned and crashed in Lakehurst, N.J., killing 35 of the 97 people
                  on board and a Navy crewman on the ground.
                - In 1861, Arkansas seceded from the Union.
                - In 1889, the Paris Exposition formally opened, featuring the
                  just-completed Eiffel Tower.
                - In 1935, the Works Progress Administration began operating.
                - In 1941, dictator Josef Stalin assumed the Soviet premiership,
                  replacing Vyacheslav M. Molotov.
                - In 1942, during World War II, some 15,000 Americans and Filipinos on
                  Corregidor surrendered to the Japanese.
                - In 1954, medical student Roger Bannister broke the four-minute mile
                  during a track meet in Oxford, England.
                - In 1960, Britain's Princess Margaret married Anthony
                  Armstrong-Jones, a commoner, at Westminster Abbey. They divorced in
                  1978.
                - In 1987, CIA Director William J. Casey died at age 74.
                - In 1992, actress Marlene Dietrich died at her Paris home at age 90.
                - In 1996, the body of former CIA Director William E. Colby was found
                  washed up on a riverbank in southern Maryland, eight days after he'd
                  disappeared.
                - Ten years ago: Sunday Silence scored an upset victory over Easy Goer
                  in the 115th Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs.
                - Five years ago: Former Arkansas state worker Paula Jones filed suit
                  against President Clinton, alleging he'd sexually harassed her in
                  1991.
                - One year ago: Rep. Dan Burton, chairman of the House fund-raising
                  inquiry, apologized to GOP colleagues for the furor over his release
                  of selected portions of tapes of Webster Hubbell's prison
                  conversations; Burton's top investigator departed, ordered fired by
                  House Speaker Newt Gingrich. Astronomers announced the detection of
                  a gamma ray burst in a galaxy 12 billion light years away that was
                  equal to the energy expended by the sun in a trillion years.

                *Happy Birthday*
                - Baseball Hall-of-Famer Willie Mays is 68.
                - U.S. Sen. Richard Shelby (R-Ala.) is 65.
                - Rock singer Bob Seger is 54.
                - Singer Jimmie Dale Gilmore is 54.
                - Actor Ben Masters is 52.
                - Actor Gregg Henry is 47.
                - British Prime Minister Tony Blair is 46.
                - Actor George Clooney is 38.
                - Actress Roma Downey is 36.
                - Rock singer-musician Tony Scalzo (Fastball) is 35.
                - Rock musician Mark Bryan (Hootie and the Blowfish) is 32