MILESTONES

RESIGNING. HENRY CISNEROS, 49, U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, citing financial reasons. He's the seventh Clinton Cabinet member to leave since the election; in Washington.

RESIGNING. LOU HOLTZ, 59, Notre Dame football coach; after 11 seasons; in South Bend, Indiana.

CHARGED. RICHARD LUNDWALL, 55, former Texaco executive who tape-recorded the racial slurs of executives; with obstruction of justice; in White Plains, New York. He is accused of destroying documents related to a discrimination lawsuit against the company, now settled.

SENTENCED. MARTIN BRYANT, 29, gunman who killed 35 and injured 19 at a Tasmanian tourist spot in April; to 35 life terms; in Hobart, Australia.

SENTENCED. ROBERT CITRON, 71, former Orange County, California, treasurer; to one year in prison and a $100,000 fine; for securities fraud and misuse of public funds that led to a $1.7 billion loss in 1994; in Santa Ana, California.

DIED. CORDELL HULL REAGON, 53, civil rights leader and founding member of the 1960s Freedom Singers; of a gunshot wound; in Berkeley, California.

DIED. ROBERT GINGRICH, 71, adoptive father of Newt Gingrich; hours before his son was renominated as House Speaker; of lung cancer; in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.

DIED. BOB MAGNESS, 72, founder of Tele-Communications Inc., the cable-television giant; of lymphoma; in Charlottesville, Virginia.

DIED. EVELYN HOOKER, 89, UCLA psychologist whose research in the 1950s led to the removal of homosexuality as a psychological disorder from the American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual; in Santa Monica, California.