Timeline 1999 July

Timeline 1999 July

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1999        Jul 1, Exactly six months before the year 2000, Congress passed legislation to shield businesses from a potential flood of Y-2-K computer-related lawsuits.
    (AP, 7/1/00)
1999        Jul 1, Lawrence Summers was confirmed as US Treasury secretary.
    (WSJ, 7/2/99, p.A1)
1999        Jul 1, In Maryland some 20,000 fish turned up dead in the tributaries of the Magothy and Patapsco Rivers. Drought conditions and the build up of phosphorus and nitrogen was suspected.
    (SFC, 7/24/99, p.A8)
1999        Jul 1, Movie director Edward Dmytryk died in Encino, California, at age 90.
    (AP, 7/1/00)
1999        Jul 1, African nationalist Joshua Nkomo died in Harare, Zimbabwe, at age 82.
    (AP, 7/1/00)
1999        Jul 1, Forrest Mars Sr., creator of the M&Ms candies, died in Miami at age 95.
    (SFC, 7/3/99, p.A21)(AP, 7/1/00)
1999        Jul 1, In Congo fighting intensified as rebels advanced on key diamond areas near Kabinda and Miba.
    (SFC, 7/2/99, p.A18)
1999        Jul 1, Croatia planned to file charges against Yugoslavia in The Hague for genocide following its declaration of independence in 1991.
    (SFC, 7/2/99, p.A18)
1999        Jul 1, In France a cable car gondola in the French Alps crashed and killed 21 [20] people in Grenoble.
    (SFC, 7/1/99, p.A15)(AP, 7/1/00)
1999        Jul 1, In Germany Johannes Rau (68) was sworn in as the 8th postwar president. He succeeded Roman Herzog as the symbolic head.
    (SFC, 7/2/99, p.A18)
1999        Jul 1, Mexico planned to introduce a $15 per person entry fee for travel into the country beyond the border.
    (SFEC, 3/7/99, p.A21)
1999        Jul 1, Scotland celebrated the opening of its 129-member Parliament.
    (SFC, 7/2/99, p.A13)
1999        Jul 1, In Turkey Kurdish rebels killed 3 people in a coffeehouse in Elazig. One of the attackers was killed by security forces.
    (SFC, 7/2/99, p.A18)

1999        Jul 2, In Skokie, Illinois, north of Chicago, a driveby gunman, Benjamin Nathaniel Smith (21), killed Ricky Byrdsong, former Northwestern Univ. basketball coach. Smith wounded 6 Orthodox Jews Chicago and fired on an Asian-American couple in Northbrook over three-day shooting rampage and then committed suicide.
    (SFEC, 7/4/99, p.A1)(SFC, 7/5/99, p.A1)(AP, 7/2/00)
1999        Jul 2, Mario Puzo, author of "The Godfather," died on Long Island at age 78. His last book, "Omerta," was scheduled for publication in 2000.
    (SFC, 7/3/99, p.A21)
1999        Jul 2, A 3-day UN conference on population closed after 170 nations agreed on sex education, access to abortion and parental rights.
    (SFC, 7/3/99, p.C1)
1999        Jul 2, The Congo government and rebel officials said they had reached an accord to end the 11-month war in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Rebel forces were to be merged with the government army.
    (SFC, 7/3/99, p.A10)
1999        Jul 2, Two boats off the Pacific coast of Mexico overturned and over 40 suspected illegal immigrants from Central America were killed.
    (SFEC, 7/4/99, p.A17)
1999        Jul 2, In Northern Ireland Britain's Tony Blair and Ireland's Bertie Ahern issued a take-or-leave-it plan for a new local government to begin in 2 weeks before the IRA gives up any of its guns with disarmament to begin later.
    (SFC, 7/3/99, p.A1)
1999        Jul 2, The Pakistani army reported that 58 Kashmiri civilians had been killed and 158 wounded over the last 2 month by Indian shelling.
    (SFC, 7/3/99, p.A9)
1999        Jul 2, In Rwanda a court sentenced 9 people to death and 16 others to life in prison on charges related to genocide in 1994.
    (SFC, 7/3/99, p.A10)
1999        Jul 2, In Serbia 5,000 people demonstrated against Pres. Milosevic in Novi Sad.
    (SFC, 7/3/99, p.A9)

1999        Jul 3, President Clinton, acting to head off potential problems with the safety of imported food, said in his weekly radio address he was ordering inspectors at American ports to brand all unsafe and rejected food products, "Refused US."
    (AP, 7/3/00)
1999        Jul 3, Benjamin Nathaniel Smith fired at Asians and Blacks in Springfield, and Champaign-Urbana, Illinois.
    (SFC, 7/5/99, p.A1)
1999        Jul 3, In Beijing talks between the North and South Korea collapsed.
    (SFEC, 7/4/99, p.A22)
1999        Jul 3, A boat smuggling 11 people out of Cuba capsized and one person was killed. Joel Dorta Garcia (27) and David Garcia Capote (33) were arrested and accused of charging $8,000 for smuggling each passenger.
    (SFC, 8/28/99, p.A11)
1999        Jul 3, In Kosovo British NATO troops killed 2 ethnic Albanians and wounded 2 others during a street celebration marking the 9th anniversary of Kosovo's unrecognized declaration of independence.
    (SFEC, 7/4/99, p.A15)
1999        Jul 3, In Kuwait elections were held for seats in the 50-member parliament. Only some 113,000 men of the 1.8 million population were allowed to vote. Liberals raised their number of seats from 4 to 14.
    (SFEC, 7/4/99, p.A20)(SFC, 7/5/99, p.A12)

1999        Jul 4, Pete Sampras and Lindsay Davenport won the singles titles at Wimbledon, defeating Andre Agassi and Steffi Graf.
    (AP, 7/4/00)
1999        Jul 4, In Bloomington, Ind., Benjamin Nathaniel Smith killed Won Joon Moon (26), a Korean-born Indiana Univ. student. Later the same day he shot himself dead during a police chase in Salem, Ill. Authorities believe Smith was also responsible for killing former college basketball coach Ricky Byrdsong during a three-day rampage targeting minorities.
    (SFC, 7/5/99, p.A1,5)(AP, 7/4/00)
1999        Jul 4, A 2,000 pound tombstone for "Unknown Civilians Killed in Wars" departed from Sherborn, Mass., on a 450-mile trek to Arlington National Cemetery. It was impounded by police on August 6 for safekeeping pending approval by Congress. In the 20th century 62 million civilians died in wars as compared to 43 million military people.
    (SFC, 8/7/99, p.A2)(SFEC, 8/8/99, Z1 p.8)
1999        Jul 4, In Congo Abdulaiye Yerodia, the foreign minister, objected to the inclusion of foreign rebels in a joint military commission to verify terms of a cease-fire. Meanwhile The Congolese Liberation Movement, led by Jena-Pierre Bemba, took Gbadolite, 750 miles northeast of Kinshasa.
    (SFC, 7/5/99, p.A12)
1999        Jul 4, In East Timor anti-independence fighters fired for the first time on a convoy of foreign workers and wounded as many as 3.
    (SFC, 7/5/99, p.A12)
1999        Jul 4, Pakistani PM Nawaz Sharif met with Pres. Clinton and announced that it would abandon its seized positions in Kashmir. Meanwhile India claimed a victory at Tiger Hill.
    (SFC, 7/5/99, p.A8)
1999        Jul 4, In Mexico City elections for governor were scheduled. Arturo Montiel (55), a PRI former congressman, faced Jose Luis Duran (38), a PAN mayor of Naucalpan. PRI candidate Arturo Montiel defeated Jose Luis Duran of the National Action Party. In Nayarit Antonuio Echeverria, a coalition candidate, led a victory over the PRI.
    (SFC, 7/3/99, p.A12)(SFC, 7/5/99, p.A8)
1999        Jul 4, In Puerto Rico anti US Navy protests drew some 50,000 people.
    (SFC, 7/26/99, p.A3)
1999        Jul 4, In Russia troops were forced to delay their departure for Kosovo after NATO blocked air corridors on their route.
    (SFC, 7/5/99, p.A1)
1999        Jul 4, In Turkey PKK guerrillas planted a bomb in an Istanbul park that killed one person and injured 25.
    (SFC, 7/6/99, p.A8)

1999        Jul 5, President Clinton began a four-day, cross-country tour to promote a plan for drawing jobs and investment to areas that had not shared in the prosperity of the 1990’s.
    (AP, 7/5/00)
1999        Jul 5, It was reported that Norman Nixon (57) of Sarasota, Fla., planned to build a live-at-sea Freedom Ship to house some 50,000 people. The project was estimated at $6 billion. As of 2008 he was still working on realizing his dream. He was also suing several people who fleeced his company out of hundreds of thousands of dollars.
    (SFC, 7/5/99, p.A3)(www.freedomship.com/)
1999        Jul 5, In Fort Campbell, Ky., Pvt. Calvin Glover (18) beat to death Pfc. Barry Winchell (21) with a baseball bat. Glover was later convicted of pre-meditated murder and sentenced to life in prison with the possibility of parole.
    (SFC, 12/9/99, p.A1)(SFC, 12/10/99, p.A3)
1999        Jul 5, In China a landslide caused a cave dormitory at a cement factory to collapse in Dengfeng and 17 people were killed.
    (SFC, 7/9/99, p.A15)
1999        Jul 5, NATO and Russia resolved their differences and cleared the way for some 3,600 Russian troops to arrive in Kosovo.
    (SFC, 7/6/99, p.A1)
1999        cJul 5, Russian troops attacked some 150 militants in Chechnya and a number of people were killed.
    (WSJ, 7/6/99, p.A1)
1999        Jul 5, In Turkey Rusen Tabanci (19), a PKK suicide bomber, killed herself and injured 17 others in Adana. There were over 30 bombings in the last 2 days.
    (SFC, 7/6/99, p.A8)

1999        Jul 6, A 3rd day of heat raised temperatures to 100 degrees in the East and Midwest. Power blackouts and 8 deaths were attributed to the heat.
    (SFC, 7/7/99, p.A3)
1999        Jul 6, In Louisiana Gov. Mike Foster signed a polite-student law that required students to address teachers with appropriate titles.
    (SFC, 7/7/99, p.A3)
1999        Jul 6, Hillary Clinton filed with the Federal Election Commission for a campaign for a Senate seat from New York.
    (SFC, 7/7/99, p.A1)
1999        Jul 6, Pres. Clinton signed Executive Order 13129 to impose sanctions against the ruling Taliban militia in Afghanistan.
    (SFC, 7/7/99, p.A8)(SFC, 5/3/00, p.A12)
1999        Jul 6, In Bosnia British troops seized Radoslav Brdjanin, who was charged with crimes against Muslims and Croats around Banja Luka in 1992.
    (SFC, 7/7/99, p.A10)
1999        Jul 6, Britain began selling gold and dumped 50,250 pounds, 3.5% of the UK's 1.6 million-pound reserve. Gold dropped to $257.80 per ounce.
    (SFC, 7/7/99, p.B1)
1999        Jul 6, Piseth Peaklica (34), Cambodian actress, was shot by 2 gunmen in a Phnom Penh market and died on July 13. It was rumored that she was involved with a high official (Hun Sen) and ordered killed by a jealous wife (Bun Rany).
    (SFC, 11/4/99, p.A15)(http://tinyurl.com/5n83tu)
1999        Jul 6-1999 Jul 7, Some 1000 members of Falun Gong demonstrated at the Chinese Communist Party headquarters in Nanchang, the capital of Jiangxi province.
    (SFEC, 7/11/99, p.A26)
1999        Jul 6, In Israel Ehud Barak was sworn in as Prime Minister, pledging to seek peace with neighboring Arab countries. David Levy became his foreign minister and Avraham Shochat the finance minister.
    (WSJ, 7/6/99, p.A1)(AP, 7/6/04)
1999        Jul 6, In Jamaica Michael Wallace, musician in the reggae group Third World, was shot dead in a suspected robbery. Some 22 murders were reported in this one week and 486 murders since the start of the year.
    (SFC, 7/9/99, p.D5)
1999        Jul 6, In Kashmir fighting continued despite a US-Pakistan pact to push for peace. India reported 55 mercenaries killed along with 9 Indian soldiers.
    (SFC, 7/7/99, p.A10)
1999        Jul 6, In Mexico it was reported that Angel Salvador "El Chava" Gomez, leader of the Gulf drug cartel, was killed execution style.
    (SFC, 7/7/99, p.A10)
1999        Jul 6, Thor Alex Kappfjell (32) was killed during a miscalculated jump in Norway. He had earlier parachuted from the World Trade Center, Empire State Building and the Chrysler Building in NYC, after which he pleaded guilty to 3 counts of reckless endangerment and was sentenced to 7 days of community service.
    (SFC, 4/2/99, p.A3)(SFC, 7/9/99, p.D6)
1999        Jul 6, In Spain Joaquin Rodrigo, classical composer, died at age 97 in Madrid. His best known work was "Concierto de Aranjuez."
    (SFC, 7/8/99, p.A19)
1999        Jul 6, In Yugoslavia some 10,000 people demonstrated against Pres. Milosevic in Uzice despite attempts by the police to stop them.
    (SFC, 7/7/99, p.A8)

1999        Jul 7, In NYC "The Peony Pavilion," a 22-hour Chinese opera, opened at the LaGuardia Theater.
    (WSJ, 7/7/99, p.A20)
1999        Jul 7, President Clinton became the first president since Franklin D. Roosevelt to visit an Indian reservation as he toured the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota.
    (AP, 7/7/00)
1999        Jul 7, In the first class-action lawsuit by smokers to go to trial, a jury in Miami held cigarette makers liable for making a defective product that causes emphysema, lung cancer and other illnesses.
    (SFC, 7/8/99, p.A1)(AP, 7/7/00)
1999        Jul 7, In Bahrain the top dissident, Sheik Abdul-Ameer al-Jamri, was sentenced to 10 years in prison and fined $15 million after he was convicted of spying and inciting unrest. He was freed the next day with an amnesty.
    (WSJ, 7/8/99, p.A1)(WSJ, 7/9/99, p.A1)
1999        Jul 7, Britain and Libya announced a resumption of diplomatic relations.
    (SFC, 7/8/99, p.A8)
1999        Jul 7, From China it was reported that flooding on the Yangtze River since late June had killed 240 people and caused over $3 billion in damage.
    (WSJ, 7/7/99, p.A1)
1999        Jul 7, In Iran the parliament approved general outlines for new press restrictions.
    (SFC, 7/8/99, p.A9)
1999        Jul 7, From Kazakstan it was reported that a rocket carrying a telecom satellite blew up and that launches at Baikonur would be suspended.
    (WSJ, 7/7/99, p.A1)
1999        Jul 7, Pres. Ahmed Tejan Kabbah of Sierra Leone signed a peace accord with rebel leader Foday Sankoh in Togo. Sankoh was given the vice-presidency and the rebels were promised 4 ministerial and 4 deputy ministerial posts.
    (SFC, 7/8/99, p.A8)

1999        Jul 8, An Air Force cargo jet took off from Seattle on a dangerous mission to Antarctica to drop medicine for Dr. Jerri Nielsen, a physician at the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Research Center who had discovered a lump in her breast. The mission was successful; Nielsen was evacuated the following October.
    (AP, 7/8/00)
1999        Jul 8, Astronaut Charles "Pete" Conrad Junior, the third man to walk on the moon, died after a motorcycle accident near Ojai, California; he was 69.
    (SFC, 7/9/99, p.A1)(AP, 7/8/00)
1999        Jul 8, In Columbia heavy fighting in Gutierrez between the government and FARC killed as many as 78 soldiers.
    (SFC, 7/9/99, p.A14)(SFC, 7/10/99, p.A10)
1999        Jul 8, In Malaysia Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad unveiled phase one of Cyberjaya, a futuristic high-tech city expected to cost some $5.3 billion.
    (SFC, 7/9/99, p.D2)
1999        Jul 8, In southern Nigeria activists claimed to have captured and shut down 61 oil wells operated by Shell Co. Shell workers were also ejected from wells in the states of Egbema East and Egbema West.
    (SFC, 7/9/99, p.D5)
1999        Jul 8, It was reported that Palestinian water shortages were due Israeli diversions of 80% of West Bank aquifer water.
    (SFC, 7/8/99, p.A10)
1999        Jul 8, In Yugoslavia some 4,000 protested against Pres. Milosevic in Prokupje.
    (SFC, 7/9/99, p.A12)

1999        Jul 9, In LA a jury ordered GM to pay $4.9 billion to 6 people burned when their 1979 Chevrolet Malibu fuel tank exploded Dec 24, 1993 following a rear end collision. In Aug a judge reduced the award to $1.2 billion. A judge later reduced the punitive damages to $1.09 billion, while letting stand $107 million in compensatory damages; GM continued to appeal.
    (SFC, 7/10/99, p.A1)(SFC, 8/27/99, p.A3)(AP, 7/9/00)
1999        Jul 9, In China the number of AIDS cases was reported to have climbed past 400,000.
    (SFC, 7/10/99, p.C1)
1999        Jul 9, In Iran police and vigilantes attacked a student rally protesting a ban of the daily Salam in Tehran.
    (SFC, 7/10/99, p.A10)
1999        cJul 9, In Jamaica Vivian Blake, alleged leader of the Shower Posse, was extradited to Miami. His gang was blamed for 1,400 murders in several US states during the 1980s.
    (SFC, 7/14/99, p.C10)
1999        Jul 9, In Kosovo NATO peacekeepers identified a site in Ljubenic containing the remains of as many as 350 victims.
    (SFC, 7/10/99, p.A10)

1999        Jul 10, In Pasadena the US women won the Women's World Cup in soccer against the team from China in a 5-4 kick-off following a 0-0 tie after double overtime.
    (SFEC, 7/11/99, p.A1)
1999        Jul 10, In Colombia the government declared a dawn-to-dusk curfew across over 30% of the country as guerrillas attacked security forces, raided 15 towns and bombed energy infrastructure. 64 guerrillas, 6 civilians and 3 policemen were reported killed in the last 24 hours.
    (SFEC, 7/11/99, p.A19)
1999        Jul 10, In Northern Ireland the Parades Commission reversed a previous ban and gave the Protestant Orange Order permission to gather at Ormeau Park on July 12 after the parade route was altered.
    (SFEC, 7/11/99, p.A24)
1999        Jul 10, In India the prime minister said most of the Pakistani soldiers had been cleared out of the Indian side of Kashmir.
    (SFEC, 7/11/99, p.A26)
1999        Jul 10, In Iran some 25,000 gather to protest against Ayatollah Ali Khomenei in Tehran.
    (SFEC, 7/11/99, p.A17)
1999        Jul 10, In Nigeria clashes began between the Yorubas, mostly Christians, and Hausas, northern Muslims, that left at least 60 people dead in the southwestern city of Sagamu.
    (SFC, 8/24/99, p.A10)
1999        Jul 10, In Serbia American troops killed Afrim Gagica and another person in southeastern Kosovo. The killing was only acknowledged in 2000 after a Serb and his 2 sons faced trial for the killing.
    (SFC, 7/22/00, p.C1)
1999        Jul 10, In Zambia 5 nations involved in the Congo civil war signed a peace accord.
    (SFC, 8/2/99, p.A12)

1999        Jul 11, A US Air Force cargo jet, braving Antarctic winter, swept down over the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Research Center to drop off emergency medical supplies for Dr. Jerri Nielsen, a physician at the center who had discovered a lump in her breast.
    (AP, 7/11/00)
1999        Jul 11, In London 2 Egyptian associates of Osama bin Laden were arrested. The fingerprints of Ibrahim Hussein Abdel Hadi Eidarous (42) and Adel Abdel-Meguid Abdel-Bary (39) were found on statements taking responsibility for the attacks against US embassies in Africa last August.
    (SFC, 7/13/99, p.A8)
1999        Jul 11, In Colombia the leftists offensive continued. An army statement said 202 guerrillas, 19 policemen, 4 soldiers and 9 civilians had been killed. Rebel sources said 68 security force members were killed and 32 rebels.
    (SFC, 7/12/99, p.A10)
1999        Jul 11, In Congo rebels dismissed the peace agreement signed by 6 countries involved in the war and said the war would continue and get worse.
    (SFC, 7/12/99, p.A9)
1999        Jul 11, In India and Pakistan top commanders agreed to the withdrawal of Islamic militants from Kashmir along with a complete cease fire.
    (SFC, 7/12/99, p.A1)
1999        Jul 11, In Gaza Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak met with Yasser Arafat and both promised to work for peace.
    (SFC, 7/12/99, p.A1)
1999        Jul 11, In Iran some 10,000 students demonstrated in Tehran with protests in other major cities. Two security chiefs responsible for the raid on a student dormitory, that prompted the demonstrations, were fired.
    (SFC, 7/12/99, p.A8)
1999        Jul 11, In Turkey a bomb exploded in Van and 16 people were injured.
    (SFC, 7/12/99, p.A9)

1999        Jul 12, President Clinton and Republican congressional leaders held their first face-to-face budget meeting of the year; the talk was described afterward as positive.
    (AP, 7/12/00)
1999        Jul 12, The US Justice Dept. sued Toyota Corp. for violating clean air standards after Toyota rejected a settlement for $100 million in penalties. A potential $60 billion in fines was reported.
    (SFC, 7/13/99, p.A6)
1999        Jul 12, In St. Louis several hundred workers and activists of MO-KAN blocked I-70 to demand that more minorities be hired for state construction jobs.
    (SFC, 7/13/99, p.A3)
1999        Jul 12, In Argentina stocks fell nearly 9% as investors worried over the local political and economic factors.
    (WSJ, 7/13/99, p.C16)
1999        Jul 12, In Belgium a new coalition government under Guy Verhofstadt took office.
    (SFC, 7/13/99, p.A10)
1999        Jul 12, In Colombia fighting subsided after a 4-day guerrilla blitz.
    (SFC, 7/13/99, p.A10)
1999        Jul 12, In Iran student protests spread to 18 cities across the country. In Tehran security forces and fundamentalist vigilantes emptied Tehran Univ. in a campaign to crush the demonstrations.
    (SFC, 7/13/99, p.A8)
1999        Jul 12, In Serbia some 7,000 people protested against Pres. Milosevic in Valjevo.
    (WSJ, 7/13/99, p.A1)
1999        Jul 12, From Sudan it was reported that heavy fighting had left 150,000 people without food after they fled their homes.
    (WSJ, 7/12/99, p.A1)
1999        Jul 12, In Taiwan Pres. Lee Teng-hui abandoned the operating "one China" principle in favor of "state-to-state" relations.
    (SFC, 7/13/99, p.A1,12)
1999        Jul 12, In Zimbabwe the trial for 3 American held on sabotage and weapons charges was scheduled. They were found guilty on Sep 10 and were sentenced to 1-year prison terms. They were released on Nov 6 and sent home.
    (SFC, 5/22/99, p.A16)(SFC, 9/11/99, p.A9)(WSJ, 9/16/99, p.A1)(SFC, 11/8/99, p.C14)

1999        Jul 13, The American League won the All-Star game for the third straight time, defeating the National League 4-to-1 at Boston’s Fenway Park.
    (SFC, 7/14/99, p.A1)(AP, 7/13/00)
1999        Jul 13, Angel Maturino Resendiz, suspected of being the "Railroad Killer," surrendered in El Paso, Texas. He was subsequently tried, convicted and executed on July 27, 2006 at Huntsville Prison in Texas. He had been suspected of killings in 15 cases in the United States, Canada and Mexico.
    (AP, 7/13/00)
1999        Jul 13, In Tehran police fired tear gas at thousands of protesters as street battles spread across the city for the sixth day. Tens of thousands of security forces countered the protesters.
    (SFC, 7/14/99, p.A1)(AP, 7/13/00)
1999        Jul 13, In Kashmir Islamic militants of the United Jihad Council said they would change positions but not pull out of the disputed region.
    (WSJ, 7/14/99, p.A1)
1999        Jul 13, In Russia Nikita Krivchun (20) stabbed Leopold Kaimovsky (52), director of the Jewish Cultural Center, numerous times in Moscow.
    (SFC, 7/14/99, p.C10)

1999        Jul 14, Major league umpires voted to resign September second and not work the final month of the season. The strategy collapsed, with baseball owners accepting the resignations of 22 umpires.
    (AP, 7/14/00)
1999        Jul 14, Race-based school busing in Boston came to an end after 25 years.
    (AP, 7/14/00)
1999        Jul 14, The EU agreed to resume British beef exports on Aug 1, ending a 3-year ban due to mad cow disease.
    (WSJ, 7/15/99, p.A13)
1999        Jul 14, China announced that it had developed the design technology to make neutron bombs 11 years ago and could make miniaturized nuclear weapons.
    (SFC, 7/15/99, p.A9)(WSJ, 7/16/99, p.A1)
1999        Jul 14, Iranian hard-liners answered a week of pro-democracy rallies with one of their own, sending 100,000 people into the streets of Tehran.
    (SFC, 7/15/99, p.A1)(AP, 7/14/00)
1999        Jul 14, In Northern Ireland the Ulster Unionists under David Trimble rejected a compromise for the creation of a power sharing government.
    (SFC, 7/15/99, p.A12)
1999        Jul 14, In Jamaica troops were deployed in Kingston to control gang violence. Some 500 people had been murdered since the start of the year.
    (WSJ, 7/15/99, p.A1)
1999        Jul 14, In Peru army soldiers captured Oscar Ramirez Durand (46), aka Comrad Feliciano, head of the Shining Path rebels. He was later sentenced by a military tribunal to life in prison.
    (SFC, 7/15/99, p.A12)(SFC, 8/18/99, p.C2)(SFC, 8/31/99, p.A13)
1999        Jul 14, The Sudanese government banned aid flights to Western Upper Nile province where 2 factions allied to the government were fighting for control of oil fields. This soon put 150,000 people to face starvation.
    (SFC, 7/29/99, p.A16)

1999        Jul 15, The Seattle Mariners played their first game in their new home, Safeco Field, losing to the San Diego Padres, 3-to-2.
    (AP, 7/15/00)
1999        Jul 15, The Clinton administration conceded that workers exposed to beryllium deserved compensation for induced beryllium disease. Some 26,000 workers had been exposed over the last 50 years and there were an estimated 500 to 1000 cases of the disease.
    (SFC, 7/16/99, p.A5)
1999        Jul 15, The US House voted to give Congress a pay raise of $4,600 in January and to double the next president's salary to $400,000.
    (WSJ, 7/16/99, p.A1)
1999        Jul 15, The Religious Liberty Protection Act was signed by 107 House Democrats and 199 Republicans. It said local and state officials must bend their rules to accommodate religious claims.
    (SFC, 8/14/99, p.C14)
1999        Jul 15, Pres. Clinton met with Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak for the beginning of 5 days of talks.
    (SFC, 7/16/99, p.A10)
1999        Jul 15, In Indonesia final election results showed Megawati's PDI-P party winning 34% of 122 million votes with Golgar at 22%.
    (SFC, 7/16/99, p.A10)

1999        Jul 16, Stanley Kubrick’s final film, "Eyes Wide Shut" starring Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman, made its debut.
    (AP, 7/16/00)
1999        Jul 16, US Representative Michael Forbes of New York announced his switch from the Republican to the Democratic Party.
    (SFC, 7/20/99, p.A5)
1999        Jul 16, Scientists announced plans to develop "chemically assembled electronic nanocomputers" (CAENs).
    (SFC, 7/16/99, p.A1)
1999        Jul 16, John F. Kennedy Jr. (38), his wife Carolyn Bessette Kennedy and sister, Lauren Bessette, were killed when the Piper Saratoga, which he piloted crashed into the Atlantic Ocean near Martha's Vineyard, Mass.
    (SFEC, 7/18/99, p.A1)(AP, 7/16/07)
1999        Jul 16, In Wiener Neustadt, Austria, the 3-day Woodstock '99 "One World" experienced music festival was projected to have an audience of 250,000.
    (SFC, 1/29/99, p.D9)
1999        Jul 16, In Burundi peace talks ended in a deadlock.
    (SFC, 7/17/99, p.A14)
1999        Jul 16, In Mexico a judge cut the 50 year prison sentence of Raul Salinas in half and a Swiss court overturned the seizure of his stashed fortune, though the money remained frozen pending further investigation.
    (SFC, 7/17/99, p.A11)
1999        Jul 16, A NATO memorandum warned soldiers and workers of a "possible toxic threat" from the use depleted uranium ordnance used by the US during the air campaign across Yugoslavia. The "hazard awareness" document was not released and was not made public until 2001.
    (SFC, 1/8/01, p.A9)(SFC, 1/9/01, p.A14)
1999        Jul 16, A Russian supply ship for Mir was launched from Baikomur in Kazakstan. It proceeded to successfully dock with Mir.
    (WSJ, 7/19/99, p.A1)

1999        Jul 17, A search began for the missing plane that was carrying John F. Kennedy Junior, his wife, Carolyn, and her sister, Lauren Bessette, on a flight from New Jersey to Massachusetts. The plane had crashed into the Atlantic Ocean near Martha’s Vineyard the night before, killing all three aboard.
    (AP, 7/17/00)
1999        Jul 17, In Colombia FARC and government negotiators failed to agree on observers for peace talks and the talks were put on hold.
    (SFC, 7/19/99, p.A12)
1999        Jul 17, In Iran the Select Council of Sit-In Students called off student protests and faxed a communique to news organizations calling for meetings with government leaders.
    (SFEC, 7/18/99, p.A21)
1999        Jul 17, The front page of the Economist featured a photograph of Ahmad Batebi (21), an Iranian student, holding aloft a T-shirt bespattered with the blood of a fellow protester. He was soon arrested and told “you have signed your death warrant.” A global outcry reduced his sentence to 15 years. In 2008 he escaped to Iraq and then moved to America.
    (Econ, 7/12/08, p.18)
1999        Jul 17, In Nigeria fighting erupted when a Hausa woman was caught watching a Yoruba ritual. Over the next days hundreds of Hausa tribespeople fled Shagamu to escape fighting with their Yoruba neighbors.
    (SFC, 7/21/99, p.C2)

1999        Jul 18, David Cone of the New York Yankees pitched a perfect game against the Montreal Expos, leading his team to a 6-to-0 victory.
    (AP, 7/18/00)
1999        Jul 18, Paul Lawrie won the British Open after Jean Van de Velde triple-bogeyed on the 72nd hole.
    (AP, 7/18/00)
1999        Jul 18, Authorities looking into the disappearance of the plane carrying John F. Kennedy Junior, his wife and sister-in-law announced that the "search and rescue" operation had become "search and recovery."
    (AP, 7/18/00)
1999        Jul 18, US air strikes in southern Iraq killed 14 civilians and wounded 17 others according to the Iraqi military.
    (SFC, 7/19/99, p.A10)
1999        Jul 18, British ambassador Nick Browne presented his credentials to Pres. Khatami of Iran following a decade-long break in relations.
    (SFC, 7/19/99, p.A12)(SFC, 2/9/02, p.A9)

1999        Jul 19, Federal officials said radar data showed the plane piloted by John F. Kennedy Junior dropped 11,000 feet in just 14 seconds. Senator Edward Kennedy released a statement saying, "We are filled with unspeakable grief and sadness by the loss of John and Carolyn and of Lauren Bessette."
    (AP, 7/19/00)
1999        Jul 19, Carleton "Carly" Fiorina (44) was named the new president and CEO of Hewlett Packard Co. She was brought over from Lucent Tech. and became the 3rd woman running a Fortune 500 company. In 2003 George Anders authored "Perfect Enough," a look at HP and Fiorina’s efforts. In 2003 Peter Burrows authored "Backfire," a look at Fiorina’s past work.
    (SFC, 7/20/99, p.A1)(WSJ, 2/7/03, p.W12)
1999        Jul 19, In Nanaimo, BC, public hearings began on the expropriation of a 140-square-mile area of Nanoose Bay by the Canadian federal government from the province. The area was used by the US for torpedo testing.
    (SFC, 7/22/99, p.C2)
1999        Jul 19, China began arresting 70 members of the Fulan Gong in raids in at least 15 cities.
    (SFC, 7/21/99, p.A10)
1999        Jul 19, In Iran the secret police alleged that student leader Manouchehr Mohammadi had confessed to serving US-based "spies and Zionists."
    (SFC, 7/20/99, p.A12)
1999        Jul 19, Off the Nicaragua coast a lobster boat with 72 people sank. 64 were rescued and 18 were missing. All 18 were later recovered. A plane with 16 people was presumed crashed in the Nicaragua jungle.
    (SFC, 7/21/99, p.C2)(SFC, 7/23/99, p.A12)

1999        Jul 20, In Tulia, Texas, an indictment was handed down for the arrest of 46 people on drug charges under the testimony of undercover agent Tom Coleman. A probe into the arrests was opened in 2002 and in 2003 Gov. Rick Perry pardoned 35 defendants. In 2004 45 of those arrested split a $6 million civil rights settlement. In 2005 Tom Coleman, former undercover drug agent, was sentenced to 6 years on probation for perjury in the bogus drug busts. In 2005 Nate Blakeslee authored “Tulia: Race, Cocaine and Corruption in a Small Texas Town.”
    (SFC, 6/3/03, p.A3)(SFC, 8/23/03, p.A3)(SFC, 1/15/05, p.A6)(SSFC, 11/6/05, p.M3)
1999        Jul 20, After 38 years at the bottom of the Atlantic, astronaut Gus Grissom’s "Liberty Bell Seven" Mercury capsule was lifted to the surface.
    (AP, 7/20/00)
1999        Jul 20, Algerian government sources said rebels had cut the throats of 9 villagers in Medea province.
    (SFC, 7/21/99, p.C2)
1999        Jul 20, In Belarus the term of Pres. Lukashenko expired. He had extended his term to 2002 but the US said it would no longer recognize him.
    (WSJ, 7/22/99, p.A1)
1999        Jul 20, In Kashmir 20 Hindus were killed in 3 separate incidents by Muslim insurgents.
    (SFC, 7/21/99, p.C2)

1999        Jul 21, Navy divers found the bodies of John F. Kennedy Junior, his wife, Carolyn, and sister-in-law, Lauren Bessette, in the wreckage of Kennedy’s plane in the Atlantic Ocean off Martha’s Vineyard.
    (AP, 7/21/00)
1999        Jul 21, It was reported that the Lilly Endowment Inc. of Indianapolis presented a $50 million grant to the SF based Hispanic Scholarship Fund.
    (SFC, 7/21/99, p.A1)
1999        Jul 21, David Ogilvy (88), British-born American advertising executive, died in Bonnes, France. In 2009 Kenneth Roman authored “the King of Madison Avenue: David Ogilvy and the making of Modern Advertising.”
    (AP, 7/21/00)(WSJ, 1/21/08, p.A15)

1999        Jul 22, Family members watched mournfully from the deck of a Navy destroyer as the ashes of John F. Kennedy Junior, his wife, Carolyn, and her sister, Lauren Bessette, were cast into the sea off Martha’s Vineyard, consigned to the depths where they died.
    (SFC, 7/22/99, p.A1)(AP, 7/22/00)
1999        Jul 22, Joie Ruth Armstrong (26), naturalist for the Yosemite Institute, was found murdered and beheaded in Yosemite National Park. Cary Stayner (38), a motel maintenance man, was sought in relation to the murder. Staynor was arrested July 24 and admitted to the February murders of Carole Sund, Juli Sund and Silvina Pelosso. In 2000 Stayner pleaded guilty to federal murder charges. As of 2008 he was still on death row at San Quentin, Ca.
    (SFC, 7/24/99, p.A1)(USAT, 7/26/99, p.1A)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cary_Stayner)
1999        Jul 22, In Waverly, Iowa, the Cedar River crested at 21 feet and flooded 65 city blocks forcing some 1500 people out of their homes.
    (SFC, 7/23/99, p.A3)
1999        Jul 22, In Maryland some 300,000 menhaden fish turned up dead at the mouth of the Pocomoke River in the Chesapeake Bay. Depleted oxygen in the water due to drought conditions was suspected. Nearly one million fish died in the tributaries of the Pocomoke.
    (SFC, 7/24/99, p.A8)(SFC, 7/31/99, p.A14)
1999        Jul 22, The WTO agreed to a job-sharing deal with New Zealand Premier Mike Moore serving as director-general for 3 years followed by Supachai Panitchpakdi of Thailand.
    (SFC, 7/23/99, p.A12)
1999        Jul 22, In Minsk, Belarus, police broke up a march by some 5,000 people against Pres. Lukashenko.
    (WSJ, 7/23/99, p.A1)
1999        Jul 22, In China the government announced a ban on the Falun Gong spiritual movement.
    (SFC, 7/23/99, p.A1)
1999        Jul 22, In Iran The Culture and Islamic Guidance Ministry moved against 3 newspapers for printing a secret letter from the Revolutionary Guards warning that their patience with "insults against the system" was running out.
    (SFC, 7/22/99, p.A13)

1999        Jul 23, The 3-day Woodstock '99 music festival began at the decommissioned Griffiss Air Force Base in Rome, NY, with some 225,000 people. The $35-38 million production ended in chaos with hundreds of concertgoers burning fires, looting and vandalizing.
    (USAT, 7/26/99, p.1D,5D)(SFC, 7/26/99, p.E3)(SFC, 7/27/99, p.A3)
1999        Jul 23, Pres. Clinton signed the National Missile Defense Act.
    (SSFC, 7/15/01, p.A3)
1999        Jul 23, After a 2 day delay the Chandra X-ray Observatory was launched from Cape Canaveral aboard the shuttle Columbia led by Commander Eileen Collins, the first woman to command a U-S space flight.
    (SFC, 7/23/99, p.A3)(AP, 7/23/00)
1999        Jul 23, Members of the Kennedy family gathered in New York City for a private memorial Mass a week after John F. Kennedy Junior, his wife, Carolyn, and her sister, Lauren Bessette, died in a plane crash off Martha’s Vineyard.
    (AP, 7/23/00)
1999        Jul 23, Jaquita Mack (11) was raped and strangled in Oakland’s Fruitvale district after she disappeared following a bike ride. Her body was found the next day in East Oakland, Ca. On Aug 8 police arrested Alex Demolle (24), a neighbor on Fruitvale Ave. In 2007 Demolle was convicted of 1st degree murder and was sentenced to death on Dec 14.
    (SFC, 7/27/99, p.A13,15)(SFC, 8/9/99, p.A1)(SFC, 5/4/07, p.B5)(SFC, 12/15/07, p.B3)
1999        Jul 23, Kelvin Lancaster, economist, died in NYC at age 74. He outlined "The General Theory of the Second Best" and analyzed consumer demand by looking at the underlying characteristics of consumer demand.
    (SFC, 7/28/99, p.C2)
1999        Jul 23, In Colombia a US anti-narcotics reconnaissance airplane crashed with 5 US Army personnel and 2 Colombians.
    (USAT, 7/26/99, p.7A)
1999        Jul 23, In Japan Yuzi Nishizawa (b.1970) attempted to hijack flight 61 from Tokyo and stabbed to death pilot Naoyuki Nagashima (51). The hijacker was overcome and the plane landed safely with 516 passengers. On March 23, 2005, Nishizawa was found to be guilty, but of unsound mind and thus only partly responsible for his actions. Presiding judge Hisaharu Yasui handed Nishizawa a life sentence in 2005.
    (SFC, 7/24/99, p.A9)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ANA_Flight_61)
1999        Jul 23, In Kosovo 14 Serb farmers were found shot dead near the village of Gracko.
    (SFC, 7/24/99, p.A9)
1999        Jul 23, In Morocco King Hassan II died at age 70. He was succeeded by his son, Crown Prince Sidi Mohamed (36), who became King Mohammed VI.
    (SFC, 7/24/99, p.A1)(AP, 7/23/00)
1999        Jul 23, Russia ended a 4-month boycott on contacts with NATO.
    (SFC, 7/24/99, p.C1)

1999        Jul 24, President Clinton attacked the Republicans’ $792 billion tax-cut plan in fund-raising speeches and his weekly radio address, saying it would "imperil the future stability of the country." House Majority Leader Dick Armey replied that the GOP plan would help fix an unfair tax system.
    (AP, 7/24/00)
1999        Jul 24, In China the government arrested some 1,200 government officials accused of associating with the Falun Gong.
    (SFC, 7/27/99, p.A8)
1999        Jul 24, Shoukry Ayyad, Egyptian poetry critic, died at age 78. His 20 books on Arabic poetry, language and theater included "The Hero in Literature and Fables," "Music of Poetry," and Language and Creativity."
    (SFC, 7/27/99, p.A17)
1999        Jul 24, In Indonesia troops killed as many as 41 people during a raid on a rebel base in Beutong village in Aceh province. Separatist leader Teungku Bantaqiah was among the dead. A Jakarta inquiry in Oct. found that troops killed 54 civilians, not rebels, in Aceh. 56 students and a teacher from an Islamic boarding school in Beutong Ateuh village were executed. In 2000 24 soldiers and a civilian were convicted for the June murders.
    (SFC, 7/27/99, p.A10)(WSJ, 11/1/99, p.A1)(SFC, 5/18/00, p.A14)

1999        Jul 25, The Woodstock ‘99 music festival in Rome, New York, ended in fires and looting.
    (AP, 7/25/00)
1999        Jul 25, Lance Armstrong won the Tour de France cycling race for his 1st time. In 2005 a French sports newspaper reported that frozen urine specimens indicated that Armstrong had used EPO (erythropoietin), a hormone drug that boosts production of red cells.
    (AP, 7/25/00)(SFC, 8/26/05, p.A1)
1999        Jul 25, The US and Vietnam agreed to normalize relations after 3 years of negotiations. Commercial ties were expected to follow.
    (SFC, 7/26/99, p.A8)
1999        Jul 25, Jack Gargan, a political activist from Florida, was elected chairman of the Reform Party in Dearborn, Mich.
    (USAT, 7/26/99, p.12A)
1999        Jul 25, In the Cincinnati area 7 people were reported dead over the weekend from sweltering heat.
    (SFC, 7/26/99, p.A7)
1999        Jul 25, In Iraq residents of Rumaitha and Khudur took to the streets over food and medicine shortages. 16 soldiers were killed and Saddam Hussein ordered a tank unit to quell the riots after which another 14 people died.
    (SFC, 8/7/99, p.A12)
1999        Jul 25, Morocco held a funeral for King Hassan the Second.
    (AP, 7/25/00)
1999        Jul 25, In Nigeria ethnic fighting over the weekend killed at least 70 people in Kano.
    (WSJ, 7/27/99, p.A1)
1999        Jul 25, In Pakistan tens of thousands protested against Pres. Sharif for the pullback in Kashmir.
    (SFC, 7/26/99, p.A10)
1999        Jul 25, In Venezuela candidates from the Fifth Republic Movement, supported by Pres. Chavez, won over 80% of the 131 constituent assembly seats in preliminary results. Less than half the eligible voters cast ballots.
    (WSJ, 7/26/99, p.A19)

1999        Jul 26, Secretary of State Madeleine Albright and her Russian counterpart, Igor Ivanov, announced a second Washington-Moscow "hot line" would be installed to help avoid misunderstandings like those that had developed over Kosovo.
    (WSJ, 7/27/99, p.A1)(AP, 7/26/00)
1999        Jul 26, Cary Stayner, a motel handyman, described in detail for an off-camera jailhouse interview with San Francisco TV station KBWB how he’d killed a naturalist and three Yosemite sightseers.
    (AP, 7/26/00)
1999        Jul 26, The eastern third of the US was gripped in heat and at least 24 deaths over the last week resulted.
    (SFC, 7/27/99, p.A3)
1999        Jul 26, Brazil said it would temporarily suspend all trade talks with Argentina after Argentina moved to curb certain Brazilian exports.
    (WSJ, 7/28/99, p.A20)
1999        Jul 26, Eritrea and Ethiopia agreed to send delegates to Algeria to finalize arrangements to end their 14-month border war.
    (SFC, 7/27/99, p.A10)
1999        Jul 26, Japanese government officials and US Sec. of State Madeleine Albright issued a threat of economic and diplomatic consequences to North Korea if it fires another rocket over Japanese territory.
    (SFC, 8/3/99, p.A10)

1999        Jul 27, The House approved President Clinton’s one-year extension of normal trade with China.
    (AP, 7/27/00)
1999        Jul 27, In an overwhelming defeat for major league umpires, their threatened walkout collapsed when all of the umpires withdrew their resignations; however, about one-third of them ended up losing their jobs anyway.
    (AP, 7/27/00)
1999        Jul 27, The US eased sanctions against Iran, Libya and Sudan to allow the sale of food, medicine and medical equipment.
    (SFC, 7/27/99, p.A5)
1999        Jul 27, The Columbia space shuttle landed at Cape Canaveral after a 3 day mission to deploy the Chandra X-ray telescope. With Air Force Colonel Eileen Collins at the controls, space shuttle "Columbia" returned to Earth, ending a five-day mission.
    (SFC, 7/28/99, p.A3)(AP, 7/27/00)
1999        Jul 27, Binney & Smith Inc., makers of Crayola crayons, adopted the name "chestnut" to replace "Indian red."
    (SFC, 7/28/99, p.B12)
1999        Jul 27, In Indonesia renewed fighting in Ambon and Aceh left 17 people dead.
    (WSJ, 7/28/99, p.A1)
1999        Jul 27, A bomb in Pakistan-ruled Kashmir killed 7 people and injured 40 when it exploded on a bus in the Kotli district.
    (WSJ, 7/28/99, p.A1)
1999        Jul 27, It was reported that Paraguay had raised $400 million through 2 bond issues arranged by the government of Taiwan with 20-year maturities and an interest rate of about 6.8%.
    (WSJ, 7/28/99, p.A20)
1999        Jul 27, In Switzerland 19 people were killed as they tried to "canyon" down a narrow gorge on the Saxeten River off Lake Brienz. Two people were still missing and 13 were identified as Australians. 18 tourists and 3 guides died in the flash flood. In 2001 6 former employees of the adventure company were convicted of negligent manslaughter and given suspended sentences with fines.
    (SFC, 7/28/99, p.A1)(SFC, 7/29/99, p.A10)(SFC, 12/12/01, p.A7)

1999        Jul 28, The US Senate opened debate on the Republicans’ $792 billion tax cut bill.
    (AP, 7/28/00)
1999        Jul 28, US Surgeon General David Satcher declared suicide a serious national threat, saying, "People should not be afraid or ashamed to seek help."
    (AP, 7/28/00)
1999        Jul 28, Defense Sec. William Cohen announced that NATO commander Army Gen'l. Wesley Clark would be replaced by Air Force Gen'l. Joseph Ralston.
    (SFC, 7/29/99, p.A3)
1999        Jul 28, In Florida Lionel Tate (12) flung Tiffany Eunick (6) around a living room in a session of play wrestling. Eunick died from severe injuries. Tate was convicted of 1st degree murder in 2001 and sentenced to life in prison. In 2003 an appeals court ordered a new trial and Tate agreed to a 2nd degree murder charge. Tate was released in 2004.
    (SFC, 1/26/01, p.A3)(SFC, 3/10/01, p.A1)(AP, 6/19/01)(SFC, 12/11/03, p.A3)(AP, 1/5/04)(SFC, 1/27/04, p.A2)
1999        Jul 28, In Afghanistan Taliban fighters launched an offensive to crush warlord Ahmed Shah Massood following weeks of preparations.
    (SFC, 7/29/99, p.A12)
1999        Jul 28, In Brazil the army was ordered by Pres. Cardoso to clear the nation's highways from blockades set up by striking truckers protesting poor roads, high tolls and high gasoline prices.
    (WSJ, 7/29/99, p.A1)
1999        Jul 28, The IMF approved a $4.5 billion financial package to help keep Russia afloat through Dec. parliamentary elections and presidential voting in June, 2000.
    (SFC, 7/29/99, p.A10)

1999        Jul 29, US warplanes struck targets in northern and southern Iraq after anti-aircraft artillery shot at them. Iraq reported 8 people killed.
    (SFC, 7/30/99, p.D3)
1999        Jul 29, A federal judge ordered Pres. Clinton to pay $90,000 to the lawyers of Paula Jones in compensation for extra work due his false testimony.
    (SFC, 7/30/99, p.A1)
1999        Jul 29, California Governor Gray Davis abandoned the state’s effort to preserve Proposition 187, a divisive voter-approved ban on schooling and other public benefits for illegal immigrants.
    (AP, 7/29/00)
1999        Jul 29, In the NYC area federal and municipal authorities arrested 38 people in connection with a gambling operation that brought in over $50 million a year from over 500 illegal gambling spots.
    (SFC, 7/30/99, p.A9)
1999        Jul 29, The MGM Grand Detroit Casino opened in downtown Detroit in a former IRS building. It was the 1st of 3 planned temporary casinos. It closed in 2007 just before the opening of a new $800 million MGM Grand across the street.
    (SFC, 7/30/99, p.D5)(WSJ, 9/26/07, p.B1)
1999        Jul 29, It was reported that research led by Dr. Robert Weinberg of MIT had created a cancerous human cell by genetic modification of a normal one.
    (SFC, 7/29/99, p.C2)
1999        Jul 29, In Atlanta Mark O. Barton (44) shot and killed 9 people in 2 day-trading offices in the Buckhead district of Atlanta. He wounded another 13 before shooting himself to death. Police also found the dead bodies of his wife Leigh Ann Barton (27) and 2 children, Matthew (11) and Elizabeth Mychelle (7) in suburban Stockbridge. Barton had been a suspect in the 1993 murders of his first wife and mother-in-law.
    (SFC, 7/30/99, p.A1)(AP, 7/29/00)
1999        Jul 29, Belgium announced that it had quarantined 175 more farms and that it would destroy all 115,000 tons of dioxin suspect beef, pork and poultry. Testing for all pork and poultry products for export was extended to Aug 31.
    (SFC, 7/30/99, p.A13)
1999        Jul 29, In Serajevo a 2-day conference by leaders of over 60 countries was to begin for a Balkan Stability Pact nicknamed "Marshall II."
    (SFC, 7/27/99, p.A8)
1999        July 29, In China authorities issued an arrest warrant for Li Hongzhi, the founder of Falun Gong living in NY.
    (SFC, 7/30/99, p.A12)
1999        Jul 29, In South Africa some 300,000 workers staged a public sector strike and demanded a 10% pay hike.
    (SFC, 7/30/99, p.D3)
1999        Jul 29, In Sri Lanka a suicide bomber killed Neelan Tiruchelvam, a leader of the Tamil minority, in Colombo. Tiruchelvam had helped draft changes to the constitution that would grant greater autonomy to Tamil dominated areas. The bombing appeared to be the work of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Elam (LTTE).
    (SFC, 7/30/99, p.D2)

1999        Jul 30, In Serajevo Pres. Clinton pledged $700 million in aid in addition to $500 million for Kosovo as talks began to rebuild the Balkans.
    (SFC, 7/31/99, p.A6)
1999        Jul 30, The US agreed to pay $4.5 million to the injured and families of the victims of the May 7 bombing of the Chinese embassy in Belgrade.
    (SFC, 7/31/99, p.A6)
1999        Jul 30, US Republicans pushed their $792 billion-dollar tax cut through the Senate.
    (AP, 7/30/00)
1999        Jul 30, Linda Tripp, whose secretly recorded 1997 phone conversations with Monica Lewinsky led to the impeachment of President Clinton, was charged in Maryland with illegal wiretapping. Prosecutors later dropped the charges.
    (SFC, 7/31/99, p.A1)(AP, 7/30/00)
1999        Jul 30, United Airlines agreed to offer domestic-partner benefits to employees and retirees worldwide following a 2-year legal struggle against the SF domestic-partners law.
    (SFC, 7/31/99, p.A1)
1999        Jul 30, The leaders of some 40 nations gathered in Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina, pledging to push economic and democratic reforms for the war-torn Balkans.
    (AP, 7/30/00)
1999        Jul 30, In Colombia a powerful car bomb exploded in Medellin outside an anti-kidnapping unit that had arrested 7 suspected members of FARC just hours earlier. At least 10 people were killed.
    (SFC, 7/31/99, p.A8)
1999        Jul 30, A Venezuelan airliner with 16 people went missing. Rebels on Aug 8 promised to free 14 passengers and crewmen. Colombian rebels freed 8 passengers Aug 9 and allowed the pilot and co-pilot to fly the plane back to Venezuela.
    (WSJ, 8/2/99, p.A1)(WSJ, 8/9/99, p.A1)(WSJ, 8/10/99, p.A1)

1999        Jul 31, NASA controllers planned to send the $63 million Lunar Prospector crashing into the Mawson crater located in the Moon’s south pole. They hoped to churn up some water vapor for possible detection. Evidence of the crash at 2:51 PDT was not detected.
    (SFC, 6/3/99, p.A4)(SFEC, 8/1/99, p.A3)
1999        Jul 31, Chicago authorities said as many as 46 more residents had died as a result of a relentless heat wave that enveloped much of the nation and produced the hottest July on record in New York City.
    (AP, 7/31/00)
1999        Jul 31, In Cottrellville Township, Mich., 10 people died from a skydiving plane crash shortly after takeoff from Marine City Airport, 40 miles north of Detroit.
    (SFEC, 8/1/99, p.A5)
1999        Jul 31, Chinese authorities seized a Taiwanese freighter near the Taiwanese military post of Matsu Island with accusations of smuggling.
    (SFC, 8/2/99, p.A10)
1999        Jul 31, The Ukraine and the US agreed to extend the nuclear weapon and ballistic missile dismantling program for 6 years.
    (SFEC, 8/1/99, p.A20)

1999        Jul, Catholic Family Radio began broadcasting in the Bay Area. The national network was the brainchild of Rev. Joseph Fessio of SF.
    (SFC, 10/16/99, p.A1)
1999        Jul, Apple corp. introduced a mobile Macintosh, the iBook. The laptop was priced at $1,599 and had a 233 MHz G3 processor.
    (SFC, 1/24/04, p.A12)
1999        Jul, Britain launched the $35.9 million Vinopolis, the first theme park devoted to wine, between Southwark Cathedral and the re-created Globe Theater in London.
    (SFEC, 7/18/99, p.T3)

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