By The Associated Press
                 - Today is Tuesday, May 11, the 131st day of 1999. There are 234 days
                   left in the year.

                 - On May 11, 1946, the first packages from the relief agency CARE
                   (Cooperative for American Remittances to Europe) arrived in Europe,
                   at Le Havre, France.
                 - In 1647, Peter Stuyvesant arrived in New Amsterdam to become
                   governor.
                 - In 1858, Minnesota became the 32nd state of the Union.
                 - In 1910, Glacier National Park in Montana was established.
                 - In 1944, Allied forces launched a major offensive in central Italy.
                 - In 1949, Israel was admitted to the United Nations as the world
                   body's 59th member.
                 - In 1949, Siam changed its named to Thailand.
                 - In 1973, charges against Daniel Ellsberg for his role in the
                   "Pentagon Papers" case were dismissed by Judge William M. Byrne, who
                   cited government misconduct.
                 - In 1985, more than 50 people died when a flash fire swept a
                   jam-packed soccer stadium in Bradford, England.
                 - In 1996, an Atlanta-bound ValuJet DC-9 caught fire shortly after
                   takeoff from Miami and crashed into the Florida Everglades, killing
                   all 110 people on board.
                 - In 1997, the Deep Blue IBM computer demolished an overwhelmed Garry
                   Kasparov and won the six-game chess match between man and machine in
                   New York.
                 - Ten years ago: Kenya announced it would seek a worldwide ban on the
                   trade of ivory - a move intended to preserve its fast-dwindling
                   elephant herds.
                 - Five years ago: Arkansas put to death two convicted murderers; it
                   was the first time a state executed two people on the same day since
                   the U.S. Supreme Court allowed states to restore the death penalty
                   in 1976.
                 - One year ago: India set off three underground atomic blasts, its
                   first nuclear tests in 24 years. Attorney General Janet Reno
                   requested an independent counsel to investigate Labor Secretary
                   Alexis Herman for alleged influence-peddling and solicitation of
                   illegal campaign contributions. A French mint produced the first
                   coins of Europe's single currency, the euro.

                 *Happy Birthday*
                 - Actor-comedian Foster Brooks is 87.
                 - Comedian Mort Sahl is 72.
                 - Rock singer Eric Burdon (The Animals; War) is 58.
                 - Actress Frances Fisher is 47.
                 - Actor Boyd Gaines is 46.
                 - Country musician Mark Herndon (Alabama) is 44.
                 - VJ Martha Quinn is 40.
                 - Actress Natasha Richardson is 36.
                 - Country singer-musician Tim Raybon (The Raybon Brothers) is 36.
                 - Actor Austin O'Brien ("Promised Land") is 19.
                 - Actor Jonathan Jackson is 17.