The Fund for UFO Research begins a day-long symposium today in Bethesda, Maryland. Topics on the agenda include incidents in Roswell, New Mexico; the "Alien Autopsy" video and the "real X-Files."

Latino gangs from throughout Los Angeles are expected to meet today to seek a truce in their deadly street fighting.

A March to Defend Immigrants is scheduled in San Francisco, California today.

The Audobon's Society's annual "World Series of Birding" takes place all today in Cape May, New Jersey. The contest concludes at midnight.

On Sunday, May 12 in New York City, members of the Transsexual Menace are scheduled to demonstrate outside the American Psychiatric Association's national convention. They are protesting the APA's inclusion of transsexuals within a mental-disorder category.

On Monday, May 13, three men accused of plotting to blow up 11 U.S. airliners on a single day in 1995 over the Far East are scheduled to go on trial in New York. The defendants include Ramzi Yousef, the man accused of masterminding the World Trade Center bombing.

On Tuesday, May 14, French President Jacques Chirac is scheduled to begin a four-day visit to the United Kingdom. He and his wife will stay at Buckingham Palace.

On Wednesday, May 15, the United States and the U.K. will participate in the "largest parachute assault since D-Day," as part of the Combined Joint Task Force Exercise Royal Dragon at Pope Air Force Base in North Carolina. The deployment of 6,000 U.S. and U.K. troops from 147 aircraft is expected to be the largest since the Gulf War.

On Thursday, May 16, presidential elections will be held in the Dominican Republic.

In 1647, Peter Stuyvesant arrived in New Amsterdam to become governor.

In 1858, Minnesota became the 32nd U.S. state.

In 1888, songwriter Irving Berlin was born Israel Baline in Temun, Russia.

In 1910, Glacier National Park in Montana was established.

In 1944, Allied forces launched a major offensive in central Italy.

In 1946, the first packages from the relief agency CARE (Cooperative for American Remittances to Europe) arrived in Europe, at Le Havre, France.

In 1947, the B.F. Goodrich Company of Akron, Ohio, announced the development of a tubeless tire.

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 1981, reggae artist Bob Marley died at age 36 in a Miami hospital.

In 1985, more than 50 people died when a flash fire swept a jam-packed soccer stadium in Bradford, England.

In 1987, in a medical first, doctors in Baltimore transplanted the heart and lungs of an auto accident victim to a patient who gave up his own heart to a second recipient. Clinton House, the nation's first living heart donor, died 14 months later.

Today is Lamb's Day in Cameroon.

In the Netherlands, today is National Windmill Day.

Today is Bob Marley Day in Jamaica.