any information on manuel noriega being wounded in a failed prison break while enroute to chicago grand jury?

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initial report: russian. f.b.i. involvement?

Answer 1

I doubt it.

Answer 2

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any information on manuel noriega being wounded in a failed prison break while enroute to chicago grand jury?
initial report: russian. f.b.i. involvement?

Answer 3

i read about that and watched it. i cant believe it myself. its nonsense, i am firm and saying it was all a race issue and frankly most girls whoa re 15 date guys 17 its the norm. when i was 15 i dated a guy for a year that was 19 . i feel like he never should have went to jail, i think he took it up the behind frankly and now they are making a mountain out of a mole hill.first off if her parents were that concerned why was a 15year old at a party? why are her parents not equally responsible for allowing their child to party? ..i have a 15 year old and he is not allowed to parties, i know where he is At all times and if he did have sex with someone 17 it would be a choice he made, its ridiculous and it happens daily. where are all these people when 13 year olds get pregnant? now I'm all pissy ....and for the record oral ssex in so0me states is a crime.. and you can go to jail for it.. so is lying tothe grand jury its all the same to me , if it was necessary, but the hole dang thing is bullcrap

Answer 4

1999 Mar 1, The US General Accounting Office released an audit of the Internal Revenue Service which found chronic problems in the agency's record-keeping.
(AP, 3/1/00)
1999 Mar 1, Minutes before a midnight deadline Pacific Lumber agreed with government negotiators on a $480 million deal to preserve the Headwaters Forest in northern California. 10,000 acres of old growth forest was to be sold and protection was imposed on 211,000 acres of adjacent lands.
(SFC, 3/2/99, p.A1)
1999 Mar 1, The Service Employees Int'l. Union announced a major campaign to organize salaried physicians.
(SFC, 3/2/99, p.A6)
1999 Mar 1, New York Univ. announced that its journalism professors and others had compiled a list of the top 100 works of 20th century American journalism.
(WSJ, 3/12/99, p.W18)
1999 Mar 1, The 1997 Ottawa Treaty, banning the use, production, transfer and storage of land mines, went into effect. 133 countries honored the treaty but the US and China had not signed it. Participating nations agreed to destroy anti-personnel land mines within 4 years and to get them out of fields within 10.
(SFEC, 1/3/99, Par p.13)(SFC, 2/19/99, p.A3)
1999 Mar 1, A US report on policy with North Korea indicated that North Korea was involved in the production and distribution of narcotics. An area 10-17 thousand acres was estimated to be under poppy cultivation with opium production at 30-44 annual metric tons.
(SFC, 3/27/99, p.A10)
1999 Mar 1, Balloonists Bertrand Piccard of Switzerland and Brian Jones of Britain took of from the Swiss Alps in an attempt to circle the globe.
(SFC, 3/15/99, p.A9)
1999 Mar 1, In Colombia a far-right death squad killed 8 people and kidnapped 3 in Barrancabermeja, a stronghold of the National Liberation Army (ELN).
(SFC, 3/2/99, p.A9)
1999 Mar 1, In Haiti Senator Jean-Yvon Toussaint (47) was shot in the head in Delmas.
(SFC, 3/2/99, p.A9)
1999 Mar 1, In Indonesia 9 people were killed when police opened fire on a crowd outside a mosque at Ambon.
(SFC, 3/2/99, p.A9)
1999 Mar 1, US warplanes dropped over 30 laser-guided bombs on military targets in northern Iraq.
(SFC, 3/2/99, p.A8)
1999 Mar 1, In Nigeria a gasoline bombing of 2 police stations left 2 people dead including one policeman and 4 injured. The attack was blamed on a group called Odudua, which wants a separate country for the Yoruba tribe of southwest Nigeria.
(SFC, 3/4/99, p.C4)
1999 Mar 1, In Uganda Hutu rebels kidnapped 13 tourists and an unknown number of Ugandans at the Bwindi Nat'l. Park. Linda Adams of Alamo, Ca., escaped, the rebels by faking an asthma attack. An attack by Rwandan Hutu rebels left eight foreign tourists, including two Americans, and a park guard dead. Separately rebels of the Allied Democratic Forces killed 5 people in a camp near Ntotoro village.
(SFC, 3/2/99, p.A8)(SFC, 3/4/99, p.A1,C5)(AP, 3/1/00)
1999 Mar 2, Conservative commentator Pat Buchanan launched a third presidential bid.
(AP, 3/2/00)
1999 Mar 2, Texas Governor George W. Bush announced he was forming a presidential exploratory committee.
(AP, 3/2/00)
1999 Mar 2, Hewlett-Packard announced that it would split its non-computer business into a separate company.
(SFC, 3/3/99, p.A1)
1999 Mar 2, In England Dusty Springfield (59), pop-soul singer, died from breast cancer. Her hits included ""You Don't Have to Say You Love Me," "I Just Don't Know What to Do With Myself" and "Son of a Preacher Man."
(SFC, 3/4/99, p.D2)
1999 Mar 2, Israeli leaders made campaign promises to leave Lebanon within a year.
(SFC, 3/3/99, p.A10)
1999 Mar 2, In Atyrau, Kazakstan, 26 inmates stabbed themselves in the stomach in an attempted mass suicide to protest prison conditions. All survived.
(SFC, 3/5/99, p.D2)
1999 Mar 2, In Kosovo KLA leader Adem Demaci announced that he would step down but would continue to oppose the peace plan. Meanwhile Yugoslav tank and mortar fire pounded rebel positions in the hillsides of the Macedonian border. Demaci was replaced by Hashim Thaci (29).
(SFC, 3/3/99, p.A8)(SFC, 3/4/99, p.A12)
1999 Mar 2, In Sierra Leone the Kamajors militia won the battle for Moyamba after 6 days of heavy fighting. They reported that 200 rebels were killed.
(SFC, 3/3/99, p.A10)
1999 Mar 2, In Uganda Hutu rebels killed 8 hostages and 4 Ugandans. Among the dead were Americans Robert Haubner and Susan Miller of Hillsboro, Ore. They were there to track the mountain gorillas. Uganda insisted that the 2 Americans, 4 Britons and 2 New Zealanders died in a police rescue bid.
(SFC, 3/3/99, p.A1)(WSJ, 3/3/99, p.A1)(SFEC, 3/7/99, p.T14)
1999 Mar 3, Monica Lewinsky, in an ABC interview, the 20/20 TV show, timed to coincide with the publication of her book, recounted for Barbara Walters some of the fondest, as well as most painful, aspects of her relationship with President Clinton.
(SFC, 3/4/99, p.A1) (AP, 3/3/00)
1999 Mar 3, The Supreme Court ruled that public schools had to finance one-on-one nursing care for some disabled students throughout the school day.
(AP, 3/3/00)
1999 Mar 3, The New England Forestry Foundation announced a conservation deal that banned development on over 754,673 acres of prime Maine woods owned by the Pingree family. Gov. Angus King said the $28 million agreement would allow managed logging while preserving the wilderness character of the forestland.
(SFC, 3/4/99, p.A3)(WSJ, 3/4/99, p.A1)
1999 Mar 3, In Arizona Walter LaGrand (37), a German citizen, was executed with cyanide gas for the 1982 murder of a bank manager. Germany later filed a complaint with the World Court for human rights violations because neither he nor his brother were not informed of their right to assistance from the German consulate.
(SFC, 3/4/99, p.A3)(USAT, 9/17/99, p.13A)
1999 Mar 3, In Ecuador the sucre fell 14% and the Banco del Occidente closed due to liquidity problems.
(WSJ, 3/4/99, p.A9)
1999 Mar 3, In Japan the short term interest rate fell to .02% as the central bank flooded the interbank market with cash.
(WSJ, 3/4/99, p.A9)
1999 Mar 3, In Kosovo the KLA reverted to its earlier guerrilla tactics and killed 2 Serbians.
(SFC, 3/5/99, p.D3)
1999 Mar 3, In Nigeria 8-14 people were killed in post-election violence.
(SFC, 3/4/99, p.C4)
1999 Mar 3, From South Africa it was reported that 3.6 million people, one in eight adults, were carrying the AIDS virus by the end of 1998. This compared with 2.7 million in 1997.
(SFC, 3/4/99, p.C5)(SFC, 4/27/99, p.A10)
1999 Mar 3, Turkey called US raids on Iraq that cut off oil flow to Turkey unacceptable. The US planes were based in Turkey.
(WSJ, 3/4/99, p.A1)
1999 Mar 3, The Ugandan army killed 15 of the Rwanda Hutu rebels who butchered 8 foreign tourists Mar 1. Another 100 rebels escaped into the bush in side the Republic of the Congo.
(SFC, 3/5/99, p.A12)
1999 Mar 4, In North Carolina a military jury acquitted Captain Richard J. Ashby of all charges in the 1998 death of 20 people, who died when his jet cut the cable of their ski gondola in the Italian Alps. Italian authorities were outraged,
(SFC, 3/5/99, p.A1)(AP, 3/4/00)
1999 Mar 4, Manuel Noriega's sentence was reduced from 40 years to 30 by a federal judge in Florida. He would be eligible for parole in 2007.
(WSJ, 3/5/99, p.A1)
1999 Mar 4, Retired Supreme Court Justice Harry A. Blackmun, who wrote the 1973 decision that legalized abortion nationwide, died in Arlington, Va., at age 90.
(SFC, 3/5/99, p.A1) (AP, 3/4/00)
1999 Mar 4, In Brazil Arminio Fraga, the new Central Bank president, raised the interest rates to 45%.
(SFC, 3/5/99, p.D2)
1999 Mar 4, Congo rebels who served under Mobutu Sese Seko took the town of Bolobo, upstream from Kinshasa.
(SFC, 3/5/99, p.D2)
1999 Mar 4, In Nigeria the outgoing military government freed 47 political prisoners including Gen'l. Oladipo Diya.
(SFC, 3/5/99, p.D2)
1999 Mar 4, In Russia Pres. Yeltsin ordered Boris Berezovsky to be fired from his job with the Commonwealth of Soviet States.
(WSJ, 3/5/99, p.A1)
1999 Mar 4, In Turkey a female suicide bomber killed herself and wounded 3 civilians in the town of Batman.
(SFC, 3/5/99, p.A14)
1999 Mar 4, Ugandan soldiers killed 10 more Rwandan rebels inside Congo for the killing of foreign tourists.
(SFC, 3/8/99, p.A16)
1999 Mar 4, In Venezuela the bodies of 3 Americans, who were kidnapped Feb 25 in Colombia, were found shot to death. Ingrid Washinawatok (41), Lahe'ena'e Gay (39) and Terence Freitas (24) were coordinating a campaign for the U'wa Indians when they were abducted. Raul Reyes, senior commander of FARC, later said that local commander Gildardo and 3 rebels seized and executed the 3 Americans without authorization. In Dec. German Briceno, a FARC officer, was indicted in absentia on murder charges along with Gustavo Bogota, a member of the U'wa Indian tribe. In 2000 Nelson Vargas was captured in Saravena and identified as the guerrilla commander responsible for the kidnap-slayings. Police later said Gildardo Gomez was the commander suspected in the killings, but still held Vargas on suspicion of rebel membership.
(SFC, 3/6/99, p.A10)(SFC, 3/11/99, p.A10)(SFC, 12/22/99, p.A18)(SFC, 3/24/00, p.D3)(SFC, 3/27/00, p.A13)
1999 Mar 5, Italian Prime Minister Massimo D'Alema met at the White House with President Clinton, a day after a military jury in North Carolina acquitted a Marine pilot in the Italian cable car accident that killed 20 people; D'Alema demanded justice, while Clinton expressed profound regret.
(AP, 3/5/00)
1999 Mar 5, A federal appeals court in Virginia struck down the 1994 Violence Against Women Act which let rape victims sue for civil-rights violations.
(WSJ, 3/8/99, p.A1)
1999 Mar 5, Actor Richard Kiley died in Warwick, N.Y., at age 76.
(AP, 3/5/00)
1999 Mar 5, In Bosnia the town of Brco was removed from ethnic Serb control and proclaimed a neutral zone under int'l. supervision. Nikola Poplasen, president of the Bosnian Serb Republic, was removed from office for not cooperating with the int'l. community.
(SFC, 3/5/99, p.A12)(SFC, 3/6/99, p.A10)
1999 Mar 5, In China the annual 2-week plenary session was scheduled to amend the Constitution. The preamble will mention the goal of developing a "socialist market economy" and acknowledge the late Deng Xiaoping. Revisions were also planned to protect private enterprise and recognize multiple forms of ownership.
(SFEC, 1/31/99, p.A22)(WSJ, 2/1/99, p.A1)
1999 Mar 5, Denmark's parliament voted 81-27 to legalize prostitution, effective Jul 1.
(SFC, 3/6/99, p.A14)
1999 Mar 5, From Sudan it was reported that southern rebels had kidnapped 7 people working with the Int'l. Committee of the Red Cross near the town of Bentiu, 500 miles south of Khartoum.
(SFC, 3/8/99, p.A16)
1999 Mar 5, In Cankiri, Turkey, a carbomb attack killed 3 people and wounded provincial governor Ayhan Cevik. The Maoist guerrillas of the Turkish Workers and Peasants Liberation Army (TIKKO) claimed responsibility.
(SFC, 3/6/99, p.A14)
1999 Mar 6, The emir of Bahrain (Sheik Isa bin Salman Al Khalifa), a key Western ally who had ruled for nearly four decades, died shortly after a meeting with Defense Secretary William Cohen; he was 65. He was succeeded by his eldest son, Crown Prince Hamed ibn Isa Khalifa (49).
(SFEC, 3/7/99, p.D8) (AP, 3/6/00)
1999 Mar 6, From Brazil it was reported that heavy flooding had hit Sao Paulo. 27 people were killed and 10,000 left homeless.
(SFC, 3/6/99, p.A8)
1999 Mar 6, Ta Mok (72), aka "the butcher," the one-legged last senior leader of the Khmer Rouge, was arrested.
(SFEC, 3/7/99, p.A17)(SFC, 3/8/99, p.A12)
1999 Mar 6, From El Salvador it was reported that extermination squads were killing gang members at the rate of 1-2 a week.
(SFC, 3/6/99, p.A10)
1999 Mar 6, Some 40 Haitians were apparently drowned when 2 boats loaded with refugees sank. There were 3 survivors.
(SFC, 3/8/99, p.A4)
1999 Mar 6, From Kiribati it was reported that state of emergency had been declared after a prolonged drought nearly exhausted the underground fresh water supply of the 81,000 inhabitants.
(SFC, 3/6/99, p.A8)
1999 Mar 7, Movie director Stanley Kubrick, whose films included "Dr. Strangelove," "A Clockwork Orange" and "2001: A Space Odyssey," died in Hertfordshire, England, at age 70.
(SFC, 3/8/99, p.A1) (AP, 3/7/00)
1999 Mar 7, In Austrian state elections the anti-immigration Freedom Party of Joerg Haider won 42.1% of the vote in Carinthia.
(SFC, 3/8/99, p.A12)
1999 Mar 7, In El Salvador presidential elections were scheduled. FMLN candidate Facundo Guardado was expected to lose to ARENA candidate Francisco Flores (39). Flores and his Republican National Alliance won with about 52% of the vote.
(SFC, 3/4/99, p.A12)(SFC, 3/8/99, p.A12)(SFC, 3/9/99, p.B10)
1999 cMar 7, An Antonov 32 Indian air force plane crashed near New Delhi airport killing all 18 onboard and 3 people on the ground.
(WSJ, 3/8/99, p.A1)
1999 Mar 7, Ukraine restarted nuclear reactor No. 3 at Chernobyl following repairs that began Dec 15.
(SFC, 3/8/99, p.A16)
1999 Mar 8, Alice Munro of Canada won the National Book Critics Circle award for fiction for her short-story collection "The Love of a Good Woman." Philip Gourevitch won the nonfiction award for "We Wish To Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families," a work on the Rwandan genocide. Sylvia Nassar won the biography award for her work on John Forbes Nash Jr., Nobel laureate in mathematics. Gary Giddins won the award for criticism for "Visions of Jazz: The First Century."
(SFC, 3/9/99, p.C2)
1999 Mar 8, Women around the world took part in ceremonies and protests marking Int'l. Women's Day.
(SFC, 3/9/99, p.B10)
1999 Mar 8, The Clinton administration directed the firing of nuclear scientist Wen Ho Lee from his job at the Los Alamos National Laboratory because of alleged security violations.
(AP, 3/8/00)
1999 Mar 8, Pres. Clinton began a 4-day tour of Central America and the region's efforts to recover from Hurricane Mitch. Clinton toured Posoltega, Nicaragua, by the Casita Volcano where a wall of mud took 2,000 lives.
(SFC, 3/8/99, p.A1)(WSJ, 3/9/99, p.A1)
1999 Mar 8, US warplanes dropped laser-guided bombs on northern and southern Iraq.
(SFC, 3/9/99, p.B10)
1999 Mar 8, Intel settled an antitrust suit with charges that it had abused monopoly power in the computer chip industry.
(SFC, 3/9/99, p.A1)
1999 Mar 8, Joe DiMaggio, New York Yankees baseball star known as the "Yankee Clipper," died at age 84 in Hollywood, Florida.
(SFC, 3/9/99, p.A1)(WSJ, 3/9/99, p.A1)
1999 Mar 8, Brazil sealed a deal with the IMF for a currency injection in exchange for more belt tightening.
(SFC, 3/9/99, p.B10)
1999 Mar 8, Britain and Ireland signed 4 treaties for the Northern Ireland peace accord. Formation of a new government was postponed.
(WSJ, 3/9/99, p.A1)
1999 Mar 8, In China 148 people were poisoned in Luoyang after nitric acid was put into the donkey meat soup. 5 people were later arrested. Chi Jianguo, the owner of a competing restaurant, hired 4 farmers to poison the soup. He was later sentenced to death, but the sentence was suspended for 2 years.
(SFC, 3/22/99, p.A11)(SFC, 4/7/99, p.C12)
1999 Mar 8, In Ecuador the government declared a banking holiday to deal with the plunging currency.
(WSJ, 3/9/99, p.A17)
1999 Mar 8, Guinea said that it had reinforced its border with Sierra Leone following the fall of Kambia to rebels and raids by rebels against Guinean villages.
(SFC, 3/9/99, p.B10)
1999 Mar 8, Kosovo KLA leaders agreed to accept a peace plan but commander Ramush Hajredinaj insisted that they would not give up their arms.
(SFC, 3/9/99, p.A12)
1999 Mar 9, Pres. Clinton visited Honduras and paid tribute to US military efforts in rebuilding roads, bridges, schools and clinics following Hurricane Mitch.
(SFC, 3/10/99, p.A12)
1999 Mar 9, Energy Secretary Bill Richardson fired Wen Ho Lee, a Los Alamos weapons designer, who was under suspicion of handing nuclear secrets to China in 1988.
(SFC, 3/9/99, p.A1)
1999 Mar 9, Amtrak unveiled a new high speed train for travel between Boston and New York in 3 hours. A New York to Washington run was expected to take 2 1/2 hours. The new Acela service was planned to begin in Nov or Dec.
(SFC, 3/10/99, p.A4)(WSJ, 3/10/99, p.B1)
1999 Mar 9, RJR Nabisco Holdings Corp., the food-and-tobacco conglomerate, announced that it would split its tobacco business from its food operations.
(SFC, 3/10/99, p.A1)
1999 Mar 9, A late winter storm dumped snow from the upper Midwest to the East Coast and caused 3 deaths. 4 motorists died the next day.
(WSJ, 3/10/99, p.A1)(SFC, 3/11/99, p.A6)
1999 Mar 9, The Antigua Labor Party won the elections and Prime Minister Lester Bird extended his rule for another 5 years.
(SFC, 3/11/99, p.A11)
1999 Mar 9, Ecuador declared a 60-day state of emergency prompted by the economic crises.
(WSJ, 3/10/99, p.A14)
1999 Mar 9, French police arrested Javier Arizcuren-Ruiz, aka Kantauri, leader of the military wing of the Basque ETA along with 5 other ETA members.
(SFC, 3/10/99, p.A14)
1999 Mar 9, Serb tanks attacked ethnic Albanian villages near Macedonia.
(WSJ, 3/10/99, p.A1)
1999 Mar 9, A Sierra Leone rebel leader made a radio appeal to his followers for a cease-fire and peace talks.
(WSJ, 3/10/99, p.A1)
1999 Mar 9, In South Africa a gunman killed Patata Nqwaru, vice chairman of the local United Democratic Movement in Cape Town.
(SFC, 3/10/99, p.A13)
1999 Mar 9, The UN announced a program for India to set up schools in the eastern Punjab to get children out of the carpet weaving industry. The US planned to contribute $2 million to the $2.9 million program.
(SFC, 3/10/99, p.A13)
1999 Mar 10, Pres. Clinton visited Guatemala and acknowledged the U.S. role in Central America's "dark and painful period" of civil wars and repression. He apologized for US support of rightist regimes that ruled the country for 3 decades.
(SFC, 3/11/99, p.A1)(AP, 3/10/00)
1999 Mar 10, Physicist Ian Barbour (75) won the $1.24 million Templeton Prize for Progress in Religion. He promised to donate $1 million to the Center for Theology and Natural Sciences in Berkeley.
(SFC, 3/11/99, p.A2)
1999 Mar 10, In Ecuador two days of general strikes were scheduled.
(WSJ, 3/10/99, p.A14)
1999 Mar 10, In Iceland the parliament passed a resolution to resume whale hunting within its territorial waters.
(SFC, 3/12/99, p.A15)
1999 Mar 10, In Indonesia troops fired on rioting Christians and Muslims on Ambon and at least 7 people were killed.
(WSJ, 3/11/99, p.A1)
1999 Mar 10, In Mexico a power failure at the Penitas hydroelectric plant cause a blackout across the Yucatan for several hours.
(SFC, 3/11/99, p.A10)
1999 Mar 10, In Mozambique officials reported 12 deaths due to flooding and some 200,000 people stranded following 3 months of rain.
(SFC, 3/11/99, p.A11)
1999 Mar 10, In Palestine security forces shot and killed 2 teenagers during protests in Gaza after Raed al-Attar was sentenced to die for killing police captain Rifat Joudah in Feb. Two others were sentenced to jail.
(SFC, 3/11/99, p.A12)
1999 Mar 10, In Serbia Pres. Milosevic met with Richard Holbrooke and stood firm against NATO troops in his country.
(SFC, 3/11/99, p.A10)
1999 Mar 10, In Sierra Leone rebels rejected a cease fire plea by their jailed leader.
(WSJ, 3/11/99, p.A1)
1999 Mar 10, In Spain 9 Basque separatists were arrested.
(WSJ, 3/11/99, p.A1)
1999 Mar 10, In Thailand Michael Wansley (58), an auditor for Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu, was shot to death on his way to the Kaset Thai sugar mill. The murder was traced to Pradit Siriviriyakul, one of the brothers running the family mill.
(WSJ, 4/2/99, p.A9)
1999 Mar 11, The House voted 219-191 to conditionally support President Clinton's plan to send U.S. troops to Kosovo if a peace agreement was reached.
(AP, 3/11/00)
1999 Mar 11, Defense Sec. William Cohen announced $3.2 billion in subsidized arms sales to Egypt.
(SFC, 3/12/99, p.A16)
1999 Mar 11, The US Rodman naval base in Panama was transferred to Panama.
(WSJ, 3/12/99, p.A1)
1999 Mar 11, Pope John Paul II met with Mohammad Khatami of Iran.
(SFC, 3/12/99, p.A14)
1999 Mar 11, In Germany Oskar Lafontaine, the finance minister, resigned following an apparent power struggle with Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder. Hans Eichel. Governor of Hesse, was expected to succeed him.
(SFC, 3/12/99, p.A15)(WSJ, 3/12/99, p.A1)
1999 Mar 11, In Ecuador Pres. Mahuad announced tax increases and other harsh measures to fight the economic crises.
(SFC, 3/12/99, p.A14)
1999 Mar 11, In northern Italy an avalanche killed 3 German skiers.
(SFC, 3/12/99, p.A15)
1999 Mar 11, In Kosovo fighting spread as Yugoslav forces shelled villages near Prizren.
(SFC, 3/12/99, p.A14)
1999 Mar 11, Norway approved a $57.7 million package to compensate the nation's Jews for suffering during WW II.
(SFC, 3/12/99, p.A15)
1999 Mar 11, In Palestine at least 85 people were injured in a 2nd day of clashes in the Gaza Strip.
(SFC, 3/12/99, p.A15)
1999 Mar 12, It was reported that scientists had developed a device to shoot streams of atoms in any direction. Atoms from a Bose-Einstein condensate were propelled with pulsating lasers.
(SFC, 3/12/99, p.A6)
1999 Mar 12, Yehudi Menuhin, violinist, died at age 82 in Berlin.
(SFC, 3/13/99, p.A1)
1999 Mar 12, Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic formally joined NATO in a ceremony at Independence, Mo., where Pres. Truman announced in 1949 the formation of the Atlantic alliance for defense against the Soviet bloc.
(SFC, 3/11/99, p.C14)
1999 Mar 13, Evander Holyfield, the WBA and IBF champion, and Lennox Lewis, the WBC champion, kept their respective titles after fighting to a controversial draw in New York.
(AP, 3/13/00)
1999 Mar 13, It was reported that Nasa measurements showed ice sheets in the low-lying areas of Greenland were melting at the rate of 3-feet per year.
(SFC, 3/13/99, p.A6)(AP, 3/13/00)
1999 Mar 13, Garson Kanin, playwright and film director, died in New York at age 86.
(SFEC, 3/14/99, p.D8)
1999 Mar 13, In Indonesia the National Front Party of prime minister Mahathir Mohamad won elections in oil-rich Sabah state with 25 of the 48 seats.
(SFEC, 3/14/99, p.A8)
1999 Mar 13, In Kosovo 2 bombs struck in Podujevo and 1 in Kosovska Mitrovica killing 6 people and wounding 58. The state TV blamed the Albanians, who in turn blamed the Serbs.
(SFEC, 3/14/99, p.A17)
1999 Mar 13, Serb government forces destroyed more than 25 homes of ethnic Albanians in Kosovo, apparently in retaliation for the killing of Serb civilians.
(AP, 3/13/00)
1999 Mar 13, In Turkey 13 people were killed in a bomb attack on a shopping center in the Goztepe section of Istanbul.
(SFEC, 3/14/99, p.A24)
1999 Mar 13, In Zimbabwe three Americans appeared in court on charges of terrorism, espionage and sabotage against Pres. Kabila. They had been tortured and pictures with the names: Gary George Blanchfield, Jona Lamonte-Dixon, and Joseph Pettijohn were displayed. The men were associated with Harvestfield Ministries in Indianapolis.
(SFC, 3/13/99, p.A13)(SFC, 3/15/99, p.A8)(WSJ, 3/15/99, p.A1)
1999 Mar 14, Pi day.
(SFEC, 3/14/99, p.C5)
1999 Mar 14, The Clinton administration conceded the Chinese had gained from technology allegedly stolen from a federal nuclear weapons lab but insisted the government responded decisively; Republicans demanded a comprehensive review of U.S. policy toward China.
(AP, 3/14/00)
1999 Mar 14, In southeastern Congo rebels reportedly killed over 100 villagers in retaliation for an attack by pro-government militia. Moise Nyarugabo, head of the rebel Congolese Democratic Coalition said his forces killed at least 150 Zimbabwean soldiers allied to Kabila at Kabinda. Zimbabwe denied the report.
(SFC, 3/15/99, p.A9)(SFC, 3/17/99, p.C3)
1999 Mar 14, In India a fire swept a New Delhi shantytown and at least 22 people were killed in the Vijay Ghat district.
(SFC, 3/15/99, p.A9)
1999 Mar 14, In Kosovo heavy fighting preceded the resumption of peace in Paris.
(SFC, 3/15/99, p.A1)
1999 Mar 14, In Turkeminstan the warring factions of Afghanistan agreed in principle to a peace deal.
(SFC, 3/15/99, p.A8)
1999 Mar 14, In Venezuela Irene Saez, a former Miss Universe, won the governorship of Margarita Island.
(SFC, 3/15/99, p.A9)
1999 Mar 15, Bruce Springsteen, Paul McCartney, Billy Joel and Dusty Springfield were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
(AP, 3/15/00)
1999 Mar 15, The US prison population was reported at 1.8 million with 668 inmates per 100,000 residents.
(SFC, 3/15/99, p.A2)
1999 Mar 15, In Bourbonnais, Ill., the "City of New Orleans" Amtrak train derailed after hitting a truck loaded with steel. The truck was driven by John Stokes and 11 people were killed and 119 injured. A witness testified that Stokes tried to go around the crossing gates to beat the train, but the testimony was later reported as mistaken.
(SFC, 3/16/99, p.A3)(SFC, 3/17/99, p.A1)(WSJ, 3/17/99, p.A1)(SFC, 3/17/99, p.A3)(SFC, 3/18/99, p.A3)(SFC, 3/20/99, p.A10)
1999 Mar 15, All 20 members of the EU executive body, the European Commission, resigned in the wake of charges of fraud, corruption and mismanagement.
(SFC, 3/16/99, p.A1)
1999 Mar 15, In Ecuador the banks reopened as taxi drivers protested the doubling of gas prices.
(SFC, 3/16/99, p.A9)
1999 Mar 15, Eritrea claimed to have shot down an Ethiopian MiG-23 and to have destroyed 19 tanks. Ethiopia denied the claims.
(SFC, 3/16/99, p.A9)
1999 Mar 15, In Haiti a UN helicopter crashed in the mountains and 13 people were killed. They included 6 Argentines, 6 Russians and 1 American.
(SFC, 3/16/99, p.A9)
1999 Mar 15, In Indonesia the government closed 38 banks, took over 7, and agreed to bail out 9 in an attempt to revitalize the financial system.
(WSJ, 3/15/99, p.A13)
1999 Mar 15, The Kosovar Albanian delegation to peace talks in Paris said it was ready to sign an international accord for Kosovo. In Kosovo the ethnic Albanians gave a written pledge to sign a peace proposal.
(SFC, 3/16/99, p.A8)(AP, 3/15/00)
1999 Mar 15, In Northern Ireland Rosemary Nelson (40), a Catholic human rights lawyer, was killed by a car bomb in Lurgan. In 2000 William Thompson, a former British soldier, was arraigned on terrorist charges following an inquiry into Nelson's death.
(SFC, 3/16/99, p.A8)(SFC, 3/17/00, p.D4)
1999 Mar 16, The Nebraska Cornhuskers beat Chicago State 50-3 in an NCAA baseball game.
(AP, 3/16/00)
1999 Mar 16, The Dow Jones industrial average briefly topped the 10,000 level, reaching a high of 10,001.78 before retreating.
(AP, 3/16/00)
1999 cMar 16, Cuban Americans, whose sons were in custody by the INS, began a hunger strike outside the gates of the Krome Detention Center at the edge of the Everglades.
(SFC, 4/22/99, p.A11)
1999 Mar 16, Retired Major General David Hale (53) pleaded guilty to charges of sexual affairs with the wives of subordinate officers. Hale was ordered to pay $22,000 in penalties. He was the highest officer to be court-martialed since 1952. Hale was demoted in Sept. to a one-star brigadier general.
(SFC, 3/17/99, p.A2)(SFC, 3/17/99, p.A8)(SFC, 9/3/99, p.A2)
1999 Mar 16, It was reported that the world's 300 right whales faced extinction.
(SFC, 3/16/99, p.A2)
1999 Mar 16, The National Marine Fisheries Service announced the addition to the endangered species list of 9 salmon species from the Pacific Northwest.
(SFC, 3/16/99, p.A2)
1999 Mar 16, The entire 20-member European Commission resigned following publication of a critical report on sloppy management and cronyism.
(AP, 3/16/00)
1999 Mar 16, In northern Argentina a team of archeologists discovered 3 frozen mummies on Mount Llullaillaco. The mummies were of children sacrificed about 500 years ago.
(SFC, 4/7/99, p.A11)
1999 Mar 16, In Ecuador former Pres. Fabian Alarcon was arrested on charges that he loaded the state payroll with phantom employees while serving as the head of Congress.
(SFC, 3/17/99, p.C3)
1999 Mar 16, The first passenger bus service between India and Pakistan was scheduled to begin.
(SFEC, 3/14/99, p.A22)
1999 Mar 16, In Kosovo Serbia moved in heavy tanks and thousands more troops as their negotiators insisted on major changes in the Paris peace talks.
(SFC, 3/17/99, p.A8)
1999 Mar 16, North Korea agreed to allow US inspectors to visit a suspected nuclear weapons site in exchange for assistance to increase potato yields.
(SFC, 3/17/99, p.A8)
1999 Mar 16, In Sri Lanka a suicide bomber killed 2 people in a Colombo assassination attempt.
(WSJ, 3/17/99, p.A1)
1999 Mar 16, In Turkey 2 people were killed in a car explosion in Hatay.
(SFC, 3/17/99, p.A8)
1999 Mar 17, Instant replay was voted back in the NFL for the 1999 season.
(AP, 3/17/00)
1999 Mar 17, A US science panel commissioned by the Clinton administration called for clinical trials of medical marijuana. Medical experts concluded that marijuana has medical benefits for people suffering from cancer and AIDS.
(SFC, 3/17/99, p.A1)(AP, 3/17/00)
1999 Mar 17, In Nebraska a large prairie fire around Thedford burned tens of thousands of acres and killed one volunteer firefighter.
(SFC, 3/18/99, p.A2)
1999 Mar 17, The Int'l. Olympic Committee expelled 6 members in the wake of a bribery scandal, but gave a vote of confidence to IOC pres. Juan Antonio Samaranch.
(SFC, 3/18/99, p.A1)(AP, 3/17/00)
1999 Mar 17, Eritrea said it repulsed Ethiopian troops after a 3-day battle. 300 Ethiopian soldiers were reported dead and 57 tanks destroyed. Ethiopia said the results of the battle were staged.
(SFC, 3/18/99, p.C3)
1999 Mar 17, Iraqi pilgrims flew to Saudi Arabia for the Hajj. It was the 2nd day of flights violating UN prohibitions.
(SFC, 3/18/99, p.C2)
1999 Mar 17, In Belfast gunmen killed Frankie Curry, a Protestant extremist recently paroled from prison.
(SFC, 3/18/99, p.A12)
1999 Mar 17, In Israel Rabbi Aryeh Deri, head of the Shas party of religious Sephardim, was convicted on bribery charges.
(SFC, 3/18/99, p.A12)
1999 Mar 17, In Russia the Federal Council, the upper house of parliament, defied Pres. Yeltsin's attempt to oust Yuri Skuratov, the prosecutor general. Skuratove exposed the Central Bank's secret transfer of hard currency reserves to the FIMAKO company in the Channel Islands.
(SFC, 3/18/99, p.C3)
1999 Mar 17, Allan Boesak (53), a leading anti-apartheid activist, was convicted of stealing money from foreign donors intended for the Foundation for Peace and Justice. He was later sentenced to 6 years in prison for theft and fraud.
(SFC, 3/18/99, p.A13)(SFC, 3/25/99, p.A10)
1999 Mar 17, The Vatican and Sony announced the release of the first music video, "Abba Pater," by Pope John Paul II.
(SFC, 3/17/99, p.C3)
1999 Mar 18, A US federal judge ordered US telephone companies to pay $6.2 million owed to Cuba to the families of 3 Cuban Americans killed in 1996.
(SFC, 3/19/99, p.A12)
1999 Mar 18, In Afghanistan fighting continued for a 2nd day and 12 people were reported killed by Taliban bombing in Parwan province.
(SFC, 3/19/99, p.A14)
1999 Mar 18, In China the Grand Hyatt Shanghai opened on the top 35 stories of the new $540 million Jin Mao Tower, the 3rd tallest in the world.
(WSJ, 3/17/99, p.B1)
1999 Mar 18, In Ecuador Pres. Mahuad revoked the decree doubling gas prices under protests from taxi drivers.
(SFC, 3/19/99, p.A14)
1999 Mar 18, In Paris the ethnic Albanians signed the peace proposal, which the Serbian delegation rejected. The Kosovar Albanian delegation signed a U.S.-sponsored peace accord following talks in Paris; the Clinton administration warned NATO would act against Serb targets if Yugoslav leader Slobodan Milosevic didn't accept the agreement.
(SFC, 3/19/99, p.A12)(AP, 3/18/00)
1999 Mar 18, In India 35 upper-caste villagers of Senari in Bihar state were killed by members of the Maoist Communist Center.
(SFC, 3/19/99, p.A14)
1999 Mar 18, In Indonesia at least 59 people were killed on Borneo as ethnic groups clashed for a 3rd day.
(SFC, 3/19/99, p.A14)
1999 Mar 18, In Malaysia an outbreak of encephalitis caused a order for the extermination of 64,000 pigs and the evacuation of 11,000 people.
(SFC, 3/19/99, p.A14)
1999 Mar 19, At a White House news conference, President Clinton prepared the nation for airstrikes against Serbian targets following the collapse of Kosovo peace talks in Paris.
(AP, 3/19/00)
1999 Mar 19, Balloonists Bertrand Piccard and Brian Jones were expected to complete their circumnavigation of the globe and planned to land in Egypt.
(SFC, 3/20/99, p.A3)
1999 Mar 19, In Colombia Marxist rebels were reported to have abducted over 90 people in 3 provinces. 25 people were taken in Hormiga, over 50 were taken in northern Cesar province, and 19 were seized in Cauca.
(SFC, 3/20/99, p.A11)
1999 Mar 19, In Russia at least 60 [53] people were killed in an explosion in Vladikavkaz, North Ossetia, at an outdoor bazaar. This was 2 days following a blast in neighboring Ingushetia that destroyed 2 homes. The Federal Security Service put the death toll at 63 with 104 injured.
(SFC, 3/20/99, p.A3)(SFEC, 3/21/99, p.A20)(AP, 3/19/00)
1999 Mar 19, Saudi Arabia permitted some 18,000 destitute Iraqis to cross the border for the annual pilgrimage to Mecca.
(SFC, 3/20/99, p.A8)
1999 Mar 20, Balloonists Bertrand Piccard of Switzerland and Brian Jones of Britain established an around the world record after floating over Mauritania at 1:54 a.m. PST. This won them a $1 million prize from Anheuser-Busch as the first aviators to fly a hot-air balloon around the world nonstop.
(SFEC, 3/21/99, p.A21)(AP, 3/20/00)
1999 Mar 20, A war crimes tribunal at the Hague recommended that 3 Croatian generals be indicted for war crimes for "Operation Storm" in Aug, 1995.
(SFEC, 3/21/99, p.A17)
1999 Mar 20, In Paris thousands of French teachers marched to demand a greater say in educational reform.
(SFEC, 3/21/99, p.A22)
1999 Mar 20, Serb forces in Kosovo launched a new offensive along a 20-mile arc west and northwest of Pristina. The Yugoslav army, taking advantage of the departure of international monitors from Kosovo, launched a furious offensive against outgunned ethnic Albanian rebels.
(SFEC, 3/21/99, p.A1)(AP, 3/20/00)
1999 Mar 20, In Spain some 60,000 people marched in Bilbao to protest recent arrests of members and supporters of the ETA.
(SFEC, 3/21/99, p.A23)
1999 Mar 21, At the Academy Award Oscar ceremonies "Shakespeare in Love" won 7 awards and "Saving Private Ryan" won 5 with Steven Spielberg as best director. Roberto Benigni won best actor for "Life Is Beautiful" and Gwyneth Paltrow won best actress for "Shakespeare in Love." Steven Spielberg won best director for "Saving Private Ryan."
(SFC, 3/22/99, p.A1)(AP, 3/21/00)
1999 Mar 21, Balloonists Bertrand Piccard and Brian Jones landed their Breitling Orbiter 3 north of Mut, Egypt, a day after setting their around the world record.
(SFEC, 3/21/99, p.A21)
1999 Mar 21, It was reported that the Space Laser Energy group, SELENE, proposed to transmit energy to satellites by 2004.
(SFEC, 3/21/99, p.D1)
1999 Mar 21, In Alaska an avalanche killed at least 4 snowmobilers at the Turnagain Pass in Chugach National Forest.
(WSJ, 3/23/99, p.A1)
1999 Mar 21, In Chechnya one person was killed as a bomb exploded in the motorcade of Pres. Maskhadov.
(SFC, 3/22/99, p.A10)
1999 Mar 21, On the 2nd day of Serb attacks against Kosovo, envoy Richard Holbrooke met with Pres. Milosevic with serious threats of NATO air strikes.
(SFC, 3/22/99, p.A1)
1999 Mar 21, In Finland the ruling social Democrats under Prime Minister Paavo Lipponen lost 12 seats but kept 51 in the 200-member Eduskunta. The Center Party gained 4 seats with voter frustration over unemployment.
(SFC, 3/22/99, p.A10)(WSJ, 3/22/99, p.A1)
1999 Mar 21, In Indonesia at least 96 immigrant Madura were killed by ethnic Malay, Dayak and Bugis men on the island of Borneo.
(SFC, 3/22/99, p.A11)
1999 Mar 21, Israel's Supreme Court rejected a final effort to have American teen-ager Samuel Sheinbein returned to the United States to face murder charges. Under a plea agreement with Israeli prosecutors, Sheinbein was later sentenced to 24 years in prison for the murder of Alfred Tello Jr.
(AP, 3/21/00)
1999 Mar 21, In Northern Ireland masked men beat a 13-year-old boy with baseball bats at Newtownards.
(SFC, 3/22/99, p.A10)
1999 Mar 21, In Malaysia soldiers began killing the pig population to control an outbreak of Japanese encephalitis.
(SFC, 3/22/99, p.A11)
1999 Mar 21, In Turkey the Kurdish New Year began with unrest and police arrested 1,500 people across the country with the southeast under a virtual state of siege. A pipeline explosion halted the flow of oil from Iraq.
(SFC, 3/22/99, p.A10)(WSJ, 3/22/99, p.A1)
1999 Mar 22, The Clinton administration announced new food deals for North Korea to total $60 million.
(WSJ, 3/23/99, p.A1)
1999 Mar 22, Acting as his own lawyer, Dr. Jack Kevorkian went on trial on murder charges for the first time, telling a jury in Pontiac, Mich., he was merely carrying out his professional duty in a videotaped assisted death shown on "60 Minutes." Kevorkian was convicted of second-degree murder.
(AP, 3/22/00)
1999 Mar 22, A woman, held as a sex hostage, escaped from David Ray and Cindy Hendy near Elephant Butte Lake, NM. Ray and Hendy were arrested on charges of kidnapping and torture and then other reports emerged that 4-6 other victims had been mutilated and dumped into the lake.
(SFC, 3/31/99, p.A6)
1999 Mar 22, The Volantor, a flying car, was described. It was designed by Paul Moller of Davis, Ca., and estimated to have range of 900 miles.
(SFC, 3/22/99, p.A15)
1999 Mar 22, In Congo Mai Mai warriors hired by Rwanda were reported to have killed 100 people. Rwanda denied the report.
(WSJ, 3/24/99, p.A1)
1999 Mar 22, Serb attacks on ethnic Albanians continued after envoy Richard Holbrooke failed to convince Pres. Milosevic to stop.
(WSJ, 3/23/99, p.A1)
1999 Mar 22, In Sierra Leone at least 150 people drowned when an overloaded motorized canoe capsized near Tasso.
(SFC, 3/26/99, p.A14)
1999 Mar 23, The US Senate voted 58-41 to support US participation in a NATO bombing of Serbia.
(WSJ, 3/24/99, p.A1)
1999 Mar 23, NATO Secretary-General Javier Solana gave the formal go-ahead for airstrikes against Serbian targets following the failure of Kosovo peace talks.
(AP, 3/23/00)
1999 Mar 23, Japanese navy ships fired warning shots at 2 suspected North Korean spy vessels that entered its waters 180 miles northwest of Tokyo.
(WSJ, 3/24/99, p.A1)
1999 Mar 23, In Paraguay vice president Luis Maria Argana was shot to death in Asuncion. Paraguay later tried without success to extradite Lino Oviedo from Argentina for involvement in the assassination. In 2000 Fidencio Vega Barrios and Luis Alberto Rojas were ordered to be extradited from Argentina for their role in the killing.
(WSJ, 3/24/99, p.A1)(SFC, 9/4/99, p.A13)(WSJ, 4/6/00, p.B1)
1999 Mar 23, Russia's Prime Minister Primakov turned his plane home and cancelled talks in Washington following the NATO decision to bomb Serbia.
(WSJ, 3/24/99, p.A21)
1999 Mar 24, The US Supreme Court ruled to uphold an 1837 treaty with the Chippewa Indians for hunting and fishing on 13 million acres of public land in Minnesota.
(SFC, 3/25/99, p.A8)
1999 Mar 24, The National Transportation Safety Board concluded that Boeing 737 rudder problems caused two fatal airline crashes and nearly triggered a third.
(AP, 3/24/00)
1999 Mar 24, The US Operations Allied Force, Noble Anvil, Shining Hope and Falcon began in Kosovo. About $5 billion was appropriated and left 4 US casualties.
(WSJ, 9/22/99, p.A8)
1999 Mar 24, The EU leaders in Berlin chose Romano Prodi, former prime minister of Italy, as the new chief executive.
(SFC, 3/25/99, p.A5)
1999 Mar 24, In Algeria Muslim rebels slashed the throats of 9 people and kidnapped 2 women near Blida. The victims included a mother and her 2 children.
(SFC, 3/25/99, p.A10)
1999 Mar 24, In Britain the high court rejected the claim of Pinochet for immunity from prosecution, but reduced the charges that could be brought against him to offenses after Sep 29, 1988. 27 of the 30 charges in the Spanish warrant were thrown out.
(SFC, 3/25/99, p.A3)
1999 Mar 24, In Congo a massacre of 250 people in the Kivu region was reported. The slayings by Rwandan troops appeared to be in retaliation for earlier attacks by Congolese Mai Mai tribesmen.
(SFC, 3/25/99, p.A10)
1999 Mar 24, In the 7-mile Mt. Blanc tunnel between France and Italy a fire killed 4 people with smoke a burning truck transporting flour. The death toll was raised to 9 with 24 injured. The fire was extinguished after 3 days and the death toll rose to 35. Identification of the remains of at least 40 people began Mar 28. Thirty-nine people were killed when fire erupted in the Mont Blanc tunnel in France and burned for two days.
(WSJ, 3/25/99, p.A1)(SFC, 3/26/99, p.A14)(SFC, 3/27/99, p.A10)(SFC, 3/29/99, p.A8)(AP, 3/24/00)
1999 Mar 24, In Kenya a train enroute to Mombasa derailed at high speed in Tsavo East National Park and at least 32 people were killed.
(SFC, 3/25/99, p.A9)
1999 Mar 24, In Paraguay legislators began impeachment proceedings against Pres. Raul Cubas, a bitter rival of slain vice president Argana. Meanwhile the 3rd day of a labor strike continued.
(SFC, 3/25/99, p.A4)(SFC, 3/26/99, p.A12)
1999 Mar 24, In Romania tens of thousands of workers in Bucharest and other cities protested for lower taxes and a cut in utility rates.
(SFC, 3/25/99, p.A10)
1999 Mar 24, Russia denounced the NATO attack on Serbia.
(SFC, 3/25/99, p.A1)
1999 Mar 24, In Serbia NATO forces sent a broad wave of air attacks against Yugoslav forces in an attempt to halt the Serbian offensive in Kosovo. Cruise missiles and planes targeted military sites near Belgrade and some 40 sites in total. Initial reports said 10 people were killed and 38 wounded in the bombing. The airstrikes marked the first time in its 50-year existence that NATO had ever attacked a sovereign country.
(SFC, 3/25/99, p.A1)(WSJ, 3/25/99, p.A1)(SFC, 3/26/99, p.A6)(AP, 3/24/00)
1999 Mar 25, Alexei Yagudin won the men's title for the second time at the World Figure Skating Championships held in Helsinki, Finland.
(AP, 3/25/00)
1999 Mar 25, NATO forces struck Serbian air defenses and other sites for a second night as Serb forces stepped up their efforts to crush resistance in Kosovo. The village of Goden was burned by Serb forces and 174 residents were forced to leave. 20 men were kept back and presumed killed.
(SFC, 3/26/99, p.A1)(SFEC, 4/4/99, p.A1,8)(AP, 3/25/00)
1999 Mar 25, Some 70 men were reported massacred at the village Bellacerk in Kosovo. In the village of Velika Krusa 14 ethnic Albanians were killed and burned by Serb police and paramilitaries. Selami Elshani played dead escaped to tell the story.
(SFC, 4/6/99, p.A8)(SFEC, 4/18/99, p.1,4)
1989 Mar 25, In Colombia an arrest warrant was issued for German Briceno, aka Grannobles, for the kidnapping and killing of 3 Americans. Briceno was the brother of Jorge Briceno, No. 2 leader of FARC.
(SFC, 3/27/99, p.C1)
1999 Mar 25, In Kosovo Serbian police officers took away Bajram Kelmendi, a human rights lawyer, and his 2 sons. Their bodies were found the next day.
(SFEC, 3/28/99, p.A17)
1999 Mar 25, In Haiti Pres. Preval appointed a new government by decree.
(WSJ, 3/26/99, p.A1)
1999 Mar 25, In South Africa Wouter Basson, the former head of chemical and biological warfare dubbed "Doctor Death," was indicted on 64 charges that included murder, theft and fraud. Conspiracy charges for offenses in Namibia, Swaziland, Mozambique and Britain were later dismissed. 61 charges remained.
(SFC, 3/26/99, p.A16)(SFC, 10/13/99, p.A12)
1999 Mar 26, Hillary Clinton continued her 12-day African tour with a speech in Tunis at a women's rights conference.
(SFC, 3/27/99, p.C1)
1999 Mar 26, Right-to-die advocate Dr. Jack Kevorkian was convicted in Pontiac, Mich., of second-degree murder for giving Thomas Youk, a patient with Lou Gehrig's disease, a lethal injection. His action was videotaped and broadcast on television.
(SFC, 3/27/99, p.A1)(AP, 3/26/00)
1999 Mar 26, The Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) near Carlsbad, N.M. received its first shipment of nuclear waste. The facility was completed in 1988.
(SFC, 3/26/99, p.A3)(SFC, 3/27/99, p.A2)
1999 Mar 26, A computer virus named "Melissa" began infecting computers across the country.
(AP, 3/26/00)
1999 Mar 26, American-led NATO forces launched a third night of airstrikes against Yugoslavia and 2 MiG-29 fighters were shot down as Serbian troops continued to sweep ethnic Albanian villages in Kosovo..
(SFC, 3/27/99, p.A1)(AP, 3/26/00)
1999 Mar 26, The EU declared that the creation of a Palestine state was the best way to resolve the Middle East conflict, and the action could not be vetoed by Israel.
(SFC, 3/27/99, p.A10)
1999 Mar 26, The UN Security Council defeated a Russian resolution demanding an immediate end to NATO attacks on Yugoslavia. In Russia NATO representatives were from Moscow.
(SFC, 3/27/99, p.A11)
1999 Mar 26, In Bulgaria some 10,000 people protested NATO strikes; in Greece some 15,000 marched on the US embassy in protest; in Bosnia some 3,000 Serb youths turned violent in Banja Luka over the NATO strikes.
(SFC, 3/27/99, p.A11)
1999 Mar 26, In Uganda it was reported that wheat stem-rust fungus had appeared on a crop. The fungus killed nearly half the world's crop before the green revolution of the 1950s.
(WSJ, 3/26/99, p.A1)
1999 Mar 27, Maria Butyrskaya of Russia won the World Figure Skating Championships in Helsinki, Finland; defending champion Michelle Kwan of the United States finished second.
(AP, 3/27/00)
1999 Mar 27, NATO expanded its air assault on Yugoslavia in the fourth straight day of attacks. A $42 million US F-117A stealth fighter was downed over Yugoslavia during continued NATO airstrikes. The downed American pilot was rescued by US forces. The wreckage was later believed to have been sold.
(SFEC, 3/28/99, p.A1,16)(SFC, 9/17/99, p.A10)(AP, 3/27/00)
1999 Mar 27, This was the 1st day of the Muslim feastday Id al-Lahma, feast of meat, or Id al-Adha, feast of sacrifice.
(SFC, 3/29/99, p.A7)
1999 Mar 27, Chinese Pres. Jiang Zemin in a speech to Swiss business leaders criticized NATO airstrikes in Yugoslavia.
(SFEC, 3/28/99, p.A16)
1999 Mar 27, In Paraguay at least 5 people were killed and some 100 injured in Asuncion as protestors called for the resignation of Pres. Cubas.
(SFEC, 3/28/99, p.A21)
1999 Mar 27, In Turkey a young woman set of grenades strapped to her body in a suicide that wounded 10 others in Istanbul.
(SFEC, 3/28/99, p.A25)
1999 Mar 28, Venus Williams beat kid sister Serena 6-1, 4-6, 6-4 to win the Lipton Championships in the first all-sister women's final in 115 years.
(AP, 3/28/00)
1999 Mar 28, NATO broadened its attacks on Yugoslavia to target Serb military forces in Kosovo in the fifth straight night of airstrikes. UN officials reported that some 500,000 ethnic Albanians had fled Kosovo. NATO officials raised the possibility of using ground troops in Yugoslavia as low-level strikes against tanks began. It was feared that anger over the war would spill over to Bosnia.
(SFC, 3/29/99, p.A1,10)(AP, 3/28/00)
1999 Mar 28, An American Stealth F117 Nighthawk is shot down over northern Yugoslavia during the NATO air strikes against Serbs attacking Kosovo.
(HN, 3/28/00)
1999 Mar 28, The Sea Launch Co. successfully fired a Ukrainian and Russian built rocket from their Odyssey, marine based, self-propelled platform.
(SFC, 3/29/99, p.A2)
1999 Mar 28, It was reported that Amnesty Int'l. placed the US on its list of human rights violators on the 1st day of the 1st week of the UN annual meeting on global democratic rights in Geneva.
(SFEC, 3/28/99, p.A25)
1999 Mar 28, In Cuba the Baltimore Orioles beat a Cuban baseball all-star team 3:2 in 11 innings. A rematch in Baltimore was scheduled for May 3.
(SFC, 3/29/99, p.A1)
1999 Mar 28, Ethiopia claimed to have killed tens of thousands of Eritrean soldiers since Feb 23. Eritrea made equally high and unconfirmed claims of enemy casualties.
(WSJ, 3/29/99, p.A1)
1999 Mar 28, In Israel hundreds of government and public service workers resumed their nationwide strike against a decision to cap wage increases.
(SFC, 3/29/99, p.A8)
1999 Mar 28, In Japan the exploits of Nasubi, a 23-year-old comedian, came to an end as his producers revealed him naked to a studio audience. For over a year he had been shown on weekly TV, without his knowledge, trying to survive on prizes from magazine competitions. He never won any clothes.
(SFC, 4/1/99, p.E5)
1999 Mar 28, In Paraguay Pres. Raul Cubas resigned and ended a week of political turmoil. Senator Luis Gonzalez Macchi was sworn in as president. Gen'l. Lino Oviedo was granted asylum in Argentina.
(SFC, 3/29/99, p.A9)(SFC, 3/30/99, p.F2)
1999 Mar 29, Connecticut beat top-ranked Duke, 77-to-74, for its first NCAA basketball championship.
(AP, 3/29/00)
1999 Mar 29, It was reported that the US government knowingly risked the lives of thousands of workers over the last 50 years by allowing them to be exposed to dangerous levels of beryllium, a metal critical to the military.
(SFC, 3/29/99, p.A6)
1999 Mar 29, The Dow Jones broke the 10,000 level and closed at 10,006.
(SFC, 3/30/99, p.A1)
1999 Mar 29, The Melissa computer virus, first reported Mar 26, was spreading and infecting E-mail in tens of thousands of computers. In Dec. David L. Smith, a New Jersey programmer, pleaded guilty to creating the virus and spreading it through a sex Web site. It was reported to have caused $80 million in damage.
(SFC, 3/29/99, p.A3)(SFC, 12/10/99, p.B1)
1999 Mar 29, In Michigan 5 people died in Osseo following an explosion and fire at the Independence Professional Fireworks Co.
(SFC, 3/30/99, p.A2)
1999 Mar 29, Legendary jazz singer Joe Williams died in Las Vegas at age 80.
(AP, 3/29/00)
1999 Mar 29, NATO airstrikes against Yugoslavia continued for a sixth night.
(AP, 3/29/00)
1999 Mar 29, Albania and Macedonia appealed for help as thousands of refugees fled Kosovo on the 6th day of bombing. NATO said Serbs were targeting ethnic Albanian leadership for executions and the US accused Milosevic of "crimes against humanity."
(WSJ, 3/30/99, p.A1)(SFC, 3/30/99, p.A1)
1999 Mar 29, In India at least 51 people were killed following a 6.8 earthquake in the Kumaon Hills in Uttar Pradesh. The quake struck just after midnight and the death toll rose to at least 87. The toll was raised to 110 at Chamoli on the Alaknanda River.
(SFC, 3/29/99, p.A8)(WSJ, 3/30/99, p.A1)(SFC, 3/30/99, p.F2)(SFC, 3/31/99, p.A10)
1999 Mar 29, In Mexico 2 of the largest banks agreed to plead guilty to laundering millions of dollars for the Cali and Juarez drug cartels. Bancomer will pay $9.9 million in fines while Banca Serfin will pay $4.7 million.
(SFC, 3/30/99, p.F2)
1999 Mar 29, In Montenegro Pres. Milo Djukanovic made a plea for an end to NATO attacks on Yugoslavia. The country reported that over 30,000 refugees had taken asylum there.
(SFC, 3/30/99, p.A10)
1999 Mar 29, Paraguay's ousted president, Raul Cubas, was given asylum by Brazil.
(WSJ, 3/30/99, p.A1)
1999 Mar 29, In Moscow the IMF agreed in principle to a loan for Russia. The loan was estimated to be about $4.8 billion.
(SFC, 3/30/99, p.F8)
1999 Mar 29, Rwanda began voting in local elections. Candidates were not allowed to run as representatives of any ethnic or political group due to continued Hutu-Tutsi hostility.
(WSJ, 3/30/99, p.A1)
1999 Mar 29, In Uganda officials reported that the army had killed another 18 of the Rwandan Hutu rebels who had murdered 8 foreign tourists.
(SFC, 3/30/99, p.F8)
1999 Mar 30, A jury in Oregon hit Philip Morris with an $81 million verdict for damages in the lung cancer death of Jesse Williams who died of lung cancer after smoking Marlboros for four decades.
(SFC, 3/31/99, p.A1)(AP, 3/30/00)
1999 Mar 30, Olusegun Obasanjo, pres. elect of Nigeria, met with Pres. Clinton and vowed to build democracy.
(WSJ, 3/31/99, p.A1)
1999 Mar 30, Yugoslav leader Slobodan Milosevic insisted that NATO attacks stop before he moved toward peace, declaring his forces ready to fight "to the very end." The US called the offer "woefully inadequate." NATO moved to step up the air war and Serbian forces continued unopposed in Kosovo as refugees streamed out. NATO answered with new resolve to wreck his military with a relentless air assault.
(AP, 3/30/00)(WSJ, 3/31/99, p.A1)
1999 Mar 30, Tanzania arrested a former Rwanda army officer suspected in the killing of 10 Belgian peacekeepers in 1994. The officer was freed Mar 29 by a UN war crimes tribunal.
(WSJ, 3/31/99, p.A1)
1999 Mar 31, A federal judge was expected to approve a settlement by black United Parcel Service (UPS) workers for over $8 million for racial discrimination.
(SFEC, 3/7/99, p.D2)
1999 Mar 31, Four New York City police officers were charged with murder for killing Amadou Diallo, an unarmed African immigrant, in a hail of bullets. The officers were later acquitted.
(AP, 3/31/00)
1999 Mar 31, Three peacekeeping US soldiers were captured by Serb forces near the Yugoslav-Macedonia border. Sgt. James Stone (25), Spec. Steven Gonzales (21) and Sgt. Andrew Ramirez (24) were shown on Serbian TV and were released more than a month later.. Azen Syla, founder of the KLA, said that his guerrilla supply lines from Albania were cut off when the bombing began. Yugoslav soldiers herded ethnic Albanians onto trains bound for the Macedonian border as NATO bombing continued for the 8th day.
(SFC, 4/1/99, p.A1,12)(SFC, 4/2/99, p.A1)(AP, 3/31/00)
1999 Mar 31, NATO bombs destroyed the Sloboda household utilities plant in Cacak, Serbia. It had employed some 5,000 people. Allied leaders said they would bomb government buildings in Belgrade.
(SFC, 4/1/99, p.A14)(WSJ, 4/1/99, p.A1)
1999 Mar 31, In the village of Dzakovo, Kosovo, a witness reported the Serbian paramilitary forces invade a mosque during morning prayers and killed some 80 people.
(SFC, 4/6/99, p.A8)
1999 Mar 31, On Serbian TV Ibrahim Rugova appealed for an end to NATO bombings. He had recently been quoted by a German magazine that chaos would result if NATO does not send in ground troops immediately. Serbs put Rugova under house arrest and ordered him to appear on TV.
(SFC, 4/2/99, p.A15)(SFC, 4/17/99, p.A9)
1999 Mar 31, In England the House of Lords passed a bill that stripped aristocrats with inherited seats from voting in the upper chamber of Parliament.
(SFC, 4/1/99, p.C2)
1999 Mar 31, In Zambia the high court declared former leader Kenneth Kaunda, born to Malawian missionaries, a non-citizen.
(WSJ, 4/1/99, p.A1)
1999 Mar, The ABC TV show "The Century" will begin a 27 hour documentary of the 20th century.
(WSJ, 4/28/98, p.A1)
1999 Mar, Legoland California, a children's theme park, was scheduled to be completed in San Diego by the Danish toy company.
(USAT, 5/7/98, p.1D)
1999 Mar, At Los Alamos National Laboratory scientist Wen Ho Lee tried to delete evidence of his transfer of over 1000 files containing nuclear secrets. Between 1994and 1995 he had transferred millions of lines of computer code from a classified computer to an unclassified system that were a distillation of over half a century of research on how to perfect nuclear weapons.
(SFEC, 5/2/99, p.A24)
1999 Mar-Jun, A US State Dept. report in Dec. estimated that 10,000 Albanians were killed in Kosovo during this period with 1.5 million expelled from their homes.
(SFC, 12/10/99, p.D6)



April

1999 Apr 1, The United States branded as an illegal abduction the capture of three U.S. Army soldiers near the Macedonian-Yugoslav border; President Clinton demanded their immediate release.
(AP, 4/1/00)
1999 Apr 1, A New Jersey man was arrested and charged with originating the "Melissa" e-mail virus. David L. Smith later pleaded guilty to various state and federal charges.
(AP, 4/1/00)
1999 Apr 1, A heavy snowstorm hit the US northern plains.
(SFC, 4/2/99, p.A3)
1999 Apr 1, In Kittrell, N.C., William Harvey Bawcum Jr., (46), was shot to death from a .38 caliber pistol by his 11-year-old twins, who also wounded their mother and sister in a squabble over a hunting rifle. A trail was avoided after the boys admitted to the shooting.
(SFC, 4/7/99, p.A5)(SFC, 8/3/99, p.A3)
1999 Apr 1, In Albania Pres. Rexhep Meidani said NATO should help Kosovo seize independence.
(WSJ, 4/2/99, p.A9)
1999 Apr 1, A oil pipeline from Baku, Azerbaijan, to the Georgian Black Sea port of Supsa was to begin operating.
(SFC, 10/27/98, p.B5)
1999 April 1, In recognition of Inuit land claims, 770,000 sq. mls. of the Canadian Northwest Territories' Central Keewatin and Baffin Region became Nunavut Territory. Nominations for naming the western half were solicited. The territory would be governed by a 19-member legislature.
(CAM, Nov. Dec. '95, p.28)(WSJ, 10/9/97, p.B1)(SFC, 3/30/99, p.F3)(SFEC, 8/15/99, p.T5)
1999 Apr 1, In Mexico effective on this day the midday break, siesta, for government was eliminated. Electricity savings were estimated to be $192 million.
(SFC, 3/17/99, p.C2)
1999 Apr 1, In Montenegro Yugoslav Gen'l. Radoslav Martinovic was recalled by Pres. Milosevic and replaced by nationalist Gen'l. Milorad Obradovic. A coup was feared to be imminent. The Yugoslav military demanded control of Montenegro's state-run TV, but the demand was rejected.
(SFC, 4/2/99, p.A13)(WSJ, 4/5/99, p.A17)
1999 Apr 1, In Belfast, Northern Ireland, Bertie Ahern and Tony Blair called for the rival paramilitary groups to surrender their weapons on a new all-Ireland holiday, a "day of reconciliation" devoted to peace.
(SFC, 4/2/99, p.D2)
1999 Apr 1, In Mexico Rene Juarez was sworn into office as governor in Chilpancingo, Guerrero, while thousands protested that he won by fraud.
(SFC, 4/2/99, p.D2)
1999 Apr 1, In Nigeria the NV George, a wooden vessel, capsized on the St. Bartholomew River several dozen people were presumed drowned. The death toll was raised past 100 after 50 bodies were found in a sunken hull.
(SFC, 4/3/99, p.A4)(SFC, 4/8/99, p.C3)
1999 Apr 1, Serbia planned to start criminal proceedings against the 3 US soldiers captured on the Macedonian border. Allied planes bombed the Danube bridge at Novi Sad.
(SFC, 4/2/99, p.A1)(WSJ, 4/2/99, p.A1)
1999 Apr 1, Serbian radio and TV reported that Pres. Milosevic met with Dr. Ibrahim Rugova, leader of the ethnic Albanians in Kosovo, and "came to a joint stand on resolving problems... through political means."
(SFC, 4/2/99, p.A1)
1999 Apr 1, In Zhytomyr, Ukraine, Anatoly Onoprienko was sentenced to death for the deaths of 52 men, women and children between 1989 and 1996. 43 of the killings occurred in a 6 month period.
(OTD)
1999 Apr 2, The US Labor Department reported that the nation's unemployment rate fell to a 29-year low of 4.2 percent in March 1999.
(AP, 4/2/00)
1999 Apr 2, Sec. of Energy Bill Richardson ordered the computer systems at Los Alamos laboratory to be shut down due to security leaks.
(SFEC, 5/2/99, p.A24)
1999 Apr 2, David L. Smith (30), a New Jersey computer programmer, was arrested and charged with writing and unleashing the Melissa computer virus.
(SFC, 4/3/99, p.A3)
1999 Apr 2, At least 7 people died in a freak snowstorm while trying to cross the Mexican border into California in the Cleveland National Forest.
(SFC, 4/3/99, p.A1)
1999 Apr 2, NATO planners began preliminary discussions about the possibility of sending ground troops into Kosovo.
(SFC, 4/3/99, p.A1)
1999 Apr 2, Allied aircraft resumed bombing in Iraq after a 2 week lull.
(SFC, 4/3/99, p.A4)
1999 Apr 2, In Albania Hashim Thaci, a leading nationalist politician, named a new government with himself in charge. Moderates loyal to Ibrahim Rugova were excluded after no candidates were put forth.
(SFC, 4/3/99, p.A6)
1999 Apr 2, From West Kalimantan, Indonesia, it was reported Malays and indigenous Dayaks had killed over 200 people over the last 2 weeks. Nearly 30,000 Muslim people, originally from Madura, were reported to have fled their villages.
(WSJ, 4/2/99, p.A9)
1999 Apr 2, In Russia Pres. Yeltsin ordered the dismissal of Persecutor Gen'l. Yuri Skuratov just hours after Skuratov appeared on TV announcing that he had the names of Russian officials who had illegally transferred dirty money into Swiss bank accounts. Skuratov was earlier caught on video cavorting with 2 prostitutes.
(SFC, 4/3/99, p.A3)
1999 Apr 2, At least 55 people were gunned down by Serbian police and militiamen in the Kosovo city of Djakovica.
(SFC, 4/29/99, p.D2)
1999 Apr 3, In Louisiana a tornado hit north of Shreveport and 10 people sere reported killed with some 100 injured.
(SFEC, 4/4/99, p.A2)
1999 Apr 3, Pres. Clinton authorized $50 million in emergency funds for Kosovo refugees and urged Americans to make donations.
(SFEC, 4/4/99, p.A11)
1999 Apr 3, A small plane crashed in a snowstorm San Diego County and 4 people on board were killed.
(SFC, 4/5/99, p.A5)
1999 Apr 3, NATO missiles struck downtown Belgrade for the first time, destroying the headquarters of security forces accused of waging a campaign against Kosovo Albanians. NATO bombs struck the Serbian Internal Ministry buildings near the Sava River.
(SFC, 4/3/99, p.A1)(AP, 4/3/00)
1999 Apr 3, Melaim Bellanica, a villager from Velike Krusa, handed to international media a 5-day-old, smuggled video clip of Serb atrocities from his home.
(SFEC, 4/4/99, p.A12)
1999 Apr 3, Montenegro announced that over 31,000 Kosovar Albanians had entered the country since NATO assaults began and that it was facing a humanitarian catastrophe.
(SFEC, 4/4/99, p.A10)
1999 Apr 3, Macedonia, overwhelmed by some 70,000 Kosovar Albanians, declared that it won't accept any more refugees unless they are sent on to other European countries.
(SFEC, 4/4/99, p.A10)
1999 Apr 3, Montenegro announced that over 31,000 Kosovar Albanians had entered the country since NATO assaults began and that it was facing a humanitarian catastrophe.
(SFEC, 4/4/99, p.A10)
1999 Apr 3, It was reported that North Korea would run out of food this month and that some 2 million people would be packed off to the countryside to farm in the 4th year of famine.
(SFC, 4/3/99, p.A3)
1999 Apr 3, Lionel Bart, born as Lionel Beglieter, died at age 68 in London. He wrote and composed the 1960 musical "Oliver" based on the Dickens novel "Oliver Twist."
(SFEC, 4/4/99, p.B12)
1999 Apr 3, In Sri Lanka 15 rebels were killed at Janakapurna village and 4 soldiers were killed by a land mine in Tanmakeny village. 5 other rebels were killed in the north.
(SFC, 4/5/99, p.A9)
1999 Apr 4, The Colorado Rockies beat the San Diego Padres 8-2 in baseball's first season opener held in Mexico.
(AP, 4/4/00)
1999 Apr 4, NATO dropped more bombs on downtown Belgrade and said that it would send some 8,000 troops into Albania to help Kosovo refugees. The Freedom Bridge over the Danube at Novi Sad was destroyed. The US announced that it would send 24 Apache helicopter gunships to attack Serbian troops and tanks in Kosovo. Some 30,000 refugees crossed into Albania in the last 24-hour period.
(SFEC, 4/4/99, p.A1,12)(SFC, 4/5/99, p.A1,10)
1999 Apr 4, Bexhet Ahmeti witnessed Serb militiamen shoot and burn 5 Kosovars.
(SFC, 4/21/99, p.A10)
1999 cApr 4, In Kyrgyzstan Prime Minister Zhumabek Ibraimov (50) died following recent surgery in Russia.
(WSJ, 4/5/99, p.A1)
1999 Apr 4, In Malaysia Azizah Ismail, the wife of Anwar Ibrahim, announced the formation of the National Justice Party and called on opposition forces to topple Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad.
(SFC, 4/5/99, p.A9)
1999 Apr 5, The US Supreme Court ruled that police can search the belongings of car passengers while seeking evidence against the driver.
(WSJ, 4/6/99, p.A1)
1999 Apr 5, In Laramie, Wyo., Russell Henderson pleaded guilty to kidnapping and felony murder in the death of Matthew Shepard, a gay college student.
(AP, 4/5/00)
1999 Apr 5, At Newport News, Va., members of local 8888 of the United Steelworkers went on strike. The shipyard offered a $2.49 per hour raise over 3 years as opposed to the union demand for $3.95.
(SFC, 4/6/99, p.D1)
1999 Apr 5, In Kansas City 5 decomposing bodies were found in the home of a father (56) and stepson. Gary Beach (56) was arrested the next day. The 5 dead included his stepson and were thought to have been dead from 2-7 days.
(SFC, 4/6/99, p.A3)(SFC, 4/7/99, p.A2)
1999 Apr 5, NATO attacks struck Belgrade, Nis and Novi Sad in the most ferocious attacks for a 13th straight day. The first Kosovo refugees were flown out to Norway and Turkey and the US said it would take some 20,000 to Guantanamo Ari Base in Cuba. Pres. Clinton asked for public donations for the relief effort.
(SFC, 4/6/99, p.A1,8)(AP, 4/5/00)
1999 Apr 5, In Indonesia 2 people were killed during clashes in Liquisa, East Timor. Jose Alexandre Gusmao, under house arrest in Jakarta, called for guerrilla attacks against Indonesian forces. In Maluku province soldiers found some 20 burned bodies in the village of Larat on Kai Besar Island.
(SFC, 4/6/99, p.A10)
1999 Apr 5, In Macedonia ethnic Albanians were blocked at the border due to extremely slow processing by government officials. Political stability was feared and the UN was denied a mandate to process the refugees.
(SFC, 4/6/99, p.A8)
1999 Apr 5, Iraq claimed that US and British warplanes bombed a control station that delivered oil approved for export on a UN humanitarian program.
(SFC, 4/7/99, p.A1)
1999 Apr 5, Libya handed over to UN officials 2 men accused in the 1988 bombing of Pan Am flight 103. They were then flown to the Hague to be tried under Scottish law. UN Sec. Gen'l. Kofi Annan immediately suspended economic sanctions on Libya.
(SFC, 4/6/99, p.A1)(SFC, 4/6/99, p.A1)(WSJ, 4/6/99, p.A1)
1999 Apr 5, Serbia said a dozen civilians were killed by NATO bombs at Aleksinac.
(WSJ, 4/7/99, p.A1)
1999 Apr 5, In Turkey a suicide bomber killed himself and a teenage girl in an apparent attempt on the life of Gov. Suleyman Kamci.
(SFC, 4/6/99, p.A10)
1999 Apr 6, Chinese Premier Zhu Rongji began a 9-day, 6-city US visit in Los Angeles. He planned to gain support for China's entry into the World Trade Organization (WTO).
(SFC, 4/7/99, p.C12)(WSJ, 4/6/99, p.A1)
1999 Apr 6, In Massachusetts Maria Grasso (54), a Chilean immigrant working as a baby sitter for a millionaire, won the $197 million Big Game jackpot.
(SFC, 4/15/99, p.A2)
1999 Apr 6, In East Timor gunmen fired shots and lobbed grenades into a church where 1500 residents had taken refuge. Some 40 people were reported killed in Liquica and 5 people were shot to death at the home of a parish priest. Military officials denied the massacre and a bishop later said the number killed might be less than 40. At least 25 people were killed by members of the Red and White Iron (Besi Merah Putih) militia group.
(SFC, 4/7/99, p.C12)(WSJ, 4/8/99, p.A1)(SFC, 4/9/99, p.D2)(WSJ, 8/24/99, p.A10)
1999 Apr 6, In Indonesia troops opened fire on Christian and Muslim gangs in the Spice Islands where a week of rioting left 76 dead.
(WSJ, 4/7/99, p.A1)
1999 Apr 6, In Iraq 4 men were hanged for the Feb murder of Mohammed Sadiq al-Sader, a top Shiite cleric.
(WSJ, 4/7/99, p.A1)
1999 Apr 6, NATO bombed Yugoslav forces in Montenegro.
(WSJ, 4/7/99, p.A16)
1999 Apr 6, In Serbia Pres. Milosevic announced a unilateral Easter cease-fire through to Sunday. NATO rejected the proposal and escalated its aerial bombardment on Serbian forces and supplies. A NATO missile reportedly missed its target and hit Aleksinac and 5 civilians were killed.
(SFC, 4/7/99, p.A1)(SFC, 4/20/99, p.A7)
1999 Apr 6, In Sierra Leone rebels ambushed 2 passenger boats on the Mabang River and 60 people were killed.
(SFC, 4/7/99, p.C12)
1999 Apr 6, In Uganda rebels of the Allied Democratic Forces killed 11 civilians near Bundibugyio by the Congolese border.
(SFC, 4/8/99, p.A13)
1999 Apr 7, In Kentucky 2 volunteer firefighters, Kenneth Nickell (28) and Kevin Smith (30), were killed while battling a blaze at the Daniel Boone National Forest.
(SFC, 4/8/99, p.A13)
1999 Apr 7, The US State Dept. made public a list of Serb commanders whose names were to be sent to the Yugoslav was crimes tribunal in The Hague.
(SFC, 4/8/99, p.A10)
1999 Apr 7, Chechen gunmen killed 4 Russian policemen patrolling the border near Stavropol.
(WSJ, 4/8/99, p.A1)
1999 Apr 7, Spyros Kyprianou, the acting president of Cyprus, planned to fly to Belgrade to negotiate the release of the 3 American soldiers held by Serbia.
(SFC, 4/8/99, p.A1)
1999 Apr 7, In Macedonia the government evacuated a huge refugee encampment overnight and sent them to locations in Albania, Greece and Turkey.
(SFC, 4/8/99, p.A1)
1999 Apr 7, Heavy NATO bombing reportedly killed 10 civilians in Pristina, Kosovo. The Provincial Executive Council Building, which housed the offices of Zoran Andjelkovic, Kosovo's top Serbian official, were was hit by bombs.
(SFC, 4/8/99, p.AQ10)
1999 Apr 7, Yugoslav forces sealed the Morini border with Albania and the border at Macedonia and told refugees to return home. The wave of refugees approached the half-million mark.
(SFC, 4/8/99, p.A1)(SFC, 4/20/99, p.A7)(AP, 4/7/00)
1999 Apr 8, At a White House news conference, President Clinton said NATO could still win in Kosovo by air power alone, and he expressed hope for an early release of three American POW's.
(AP, 4/8/00)
1999 Apr 8, Pres. Clinton and Premier Zhu Rongji of China made some trade agreements but did not agree on China's entry into the WTO. Premier Zhu Rongji promised to cooperate in investigations of alleged nuclear-weapons spying and illegal campaign contributions by Beijing.
(SFC, 4/9/99, p.A1)(AP, 4/8/00)
1999 Apr 8, An enzyme called presenilin was reported to be a critical factor in Alzheimer's disease.
(SFC, 4/8/99, p.A2)
1999 Apr 8, In Florida a power plant explosion killed 2 people in Tampa and injured 49.
(WSJ, 4/9/99, p.A1)
1999 Apr 8, The EU cut interest rates by .50% from 3% to 2.5% in an attempt to stave off a recession.
(WSJ, 4/9/99, p.A9)
1999 Apr 8, NATO bombing in Yugoslavia blocked freighter and barge traffic on the Danube.
(SFC, 4/9/99, p.A17)
1999 Apr 8, In Malaysia it was reported that some 111 people had died in the last 6 months from a new virus that was believed to be spreading from pigs to humans.
(SFC, 4/9/99, p.A16)
1999 Apr 8, In Montenegro Pres. Milo Djukanovic warned Gen'l. Milorad Obradovic to stop breaking into homes and forcibly taking citizens into military service.
(SFEC, 4/11/99, p.A28)
1999 Apr 8, In Kacanik, Kosovo, a Serbian firefight with the KLA left 17 people dead.
(SFC, 6/15/99, p.A12)
1999 Apr 8, Serbia said it has ended its Kosovo offensive and was allowing refugees to return home.
(WSJ, 4/9/99, p.A10)
1999 Apr 9, A US judge ordered the federal government to pay $909 million to Glendale Federal Bank in California for breach of contract. The ruling stemmed from a 1996 Supreme Court decision that said the government broke its contract with Glendale and two other thrifts when it changed the rules on how they must count their assets.
(AP, 4/9/00)
1999 Apr 9, A $250 million Air Force satellite, intended to warn of missile launches, went into a useless orbit after being launched aboard a Titan IV.
(WSJ, 4/12/99, p.A1)
1999 Apr 9, A tornado hit the Cincinnati area and 7 people were reported killed.
(SFC, 4/10/99, p.A1)
1999 Apr 9, The Clinton administration set $191.4 million worth of European products on a sanction list. The figure was the estimated amount of lost sales by American banana companies due to European import restrictions as ruled by the WTO.
(SFC, 4/10/99, p.A2)
1999 Apr 9, NATO forces made air strikes across Yugoslavia on Orthodox Good Friday. Military industrial plants, fuel depots and communications facilities were hit. Reports of the rape and murder of 20 ethnic Albanian women at an army training camp near Djakovica was reported. The car and small arms factory at Kragujevac was bombed and 100 workers were reported injured.
(SFC, 4/10/99, p.A1,13)(SFC, 4/20/99, p.A7)
1999 Apr 9, In Kacanik Yugoslav troops massacred a number of ethnic Albanians. When NATO troops arrive in June they found new graves with 81 markers.
(SFC, 6/15/99, p.A12)
1999 Apr 9, China's Premier Zhu Rongji said that he would trade China's $57 billion surplus, which he called exaggerated, for technology for a cleaner environment.
(SFC, 4/10/99, p.A10)
1999 Apr 9, It was reported that the US planned to give $10 million in emergency aid to Montenegro.
(WSJ, 4/9/99, p.A10)
1999 Apr 9, The Larson B and Wilkins ice shelves were reported to have lost 1,100 sq. miles due to melting over the last year.
(SFC, 4/9/99, p.A16)
1999 Apr 9, In Lesotho Prime Minister Pakalitha Mosisili announced that South Africa and Botswana would soon pull their forces out of Lesotho following a 7 month peacekeeping operation.
(SFC, 4/10/99, p.C14)
1999 Apr 9, In Namibia some 13.6 tons of elephant tusks were sold at auction to Japanese buyers at the first legal sale since a 1989 int'l. ban on the sale of ivory.
(SFC, 4/10/99, p.C14)
1999 Apr 9, In Niger Pres. Ibrahim Bare Mainassara was shot to death by his own presidential bodyguards at Niamey Airport.
(SFC, 4/10/99, p.C14)(AP, 4/9/00)
1999 Apr 9, Russia threatened to take military action against NATO and considered an offer by Serbia to form an alliance. Gennady Seleznyov, speaker of parliament, said that a proposal was discussed to aim Russia's nuclear weapons at NATO countries.
(SFC, 4/10/99, p.A1)(SFC, 4/10/99, p.A13)
1999 Apr 9, In Sri Lanka investigators found 16 human skeletons buried in the Durayappa Stadium in Jaffna where it was alleged that hundreds of ethnic Tamils were buried.
(SFC, 4/10/99, p.C14)
1999 Apr 10, The Miami Heat humiliated the Chicago Bulls, 82-49, holding the Bulls to the lowest point total since the introduction of the shot clock.
(AP, 4/10/00)
1999 Apr 10, The US announced that 82 more warplanes were being shipped to join the NATO campaign in Yugoslavia. It was reported that half Yugoslavia's most modern planes had been destroyed.
(SFEC, 4/11/99, p.A1)
1999 Apr 10, In Iran Gen'l. Ali Sayyad Shirazi was assassinated. The murder was attributed to terrorists, a euphemism for the opposition Mujahedeen Khalq.
(SFEC, 4/11/99, p.A11)
1999 Apr 10, US F-16s struck southern Iraqi radar and antiaircraft sites after the fighters were fired upon. Iraq claimed that 2 people were killed and 9 wounded in the attacks.
(SFEC, 4/11/99, p.A11)(WSJ, 4/12/99, p.A1)
1999 Apr 10, Poland welcomed the first of several thousand ethnic Albanian refugees from Kosovo.
(SFEC, 4/11/99, p.A30)
1999 Apr 10, In Russia Prime Minister Primakov appealed to the lower house of the Duma to drop impeachment proceedings against Pres. Yeltsin.
(SFEC, 4/11/99, p.A11)
1999 Apr 10, Serbia allowed some 1,500 refugees from Vragolija to leave Kosovo for Albania. Some 4,000 refugees crossed into Albania.
(SFEC, 4/11/99, p.A14,26)
1999 Apr 10, Bad weather hampered NATO's bombing campaign against Yugoslavia, but the allies warned Slobodan Milosevic the lull wouldn't last. The Pentagon, meanwhile, announced that 82 U.S. planes would join the force conducting airstrikes over Yugoslavia.
(AP, 4/10/00)
1999 Apr 10, In Venezuela Pres. Chavez said he would extend his term from 5 to 10 years. He had already threatened to dissolve Congress and the Supreme Court.
(SFC, 4/13/99, p.A11)
1999 Apr 11, Jose Maria Olazabal won the Masters by two shots over Davis Love III.
(AP, 4/11/00)
1999 Apr 11, In Los Angeles British architect Sir Norman Foster was named the winner of the 1999 Pritzker Architecture Prize.
(SFC, 4/12/99, p.A4)
1999 Apr 11, The Justice Department reported that more than one-third of the women in state prisons and jails said they were physically or sexually abused as children.
(AP, 4/11/00)
1999 Apr 11, In Yonkers, NY, some 400 Americans prepared to fly to Albania to fight as volunteers with the KLA.
(SFC, 4/12/99, p.A14)
1999 Apr 11, NATO restrained bombing over the Orthodox Easter but dropped at struck at least 50 targets in Kosovo alone. 3 Serbian civilians were reported killed.
(SFC, 4/12/99, p.A13)
1999 Apr 11, Albania decided to hand over control of its airspace, ports and military infrastructure to NATO and to accept more NATO troops.
(SFC, 4/12/99, p.A17)
1999 Apr 11, Hungary turned back a Russian aid convoy headed for Belgrade.
(SFC, 4/12/99, p.A12)
1999 Apr 11, India tested a new missile with a 1,250 mile range.
(SFC, 4/12/99, p.A12)
1999 Apr 11, Israel warplanes fired at least 10 missiles in 2 raids on suspected guerrilla bases in southern Lebanon.
(SFC, 4/12/99, p.A13)
1999 Apr 11, In Japan a gubernatorial election in Tokyo showed conservative author Shintaro Isihara (66) in the lead. Ishihara won with 29.6% of the total vote.
(SFC, 4/10/99, p.A10)(SFC, 4/12/99, p.A12)
1999 Apr 11, In Niger Daouda Malam Wanke, head of the guard unit that witnesses said assassinated Pres. Bare., was named president and head of the National Council for Reconciliation, which would run for a 9 month transition period. The Supreme Court and National Assembly were dissolved.
(SFC, 4/12/99, p.A13)
1999 Apr 11, In Belgrade, Serbia, Slavko Curuvija, the owner of a prominent opposition newspaper, Dnevni Telegraf (Daily Telegraph), was shot and killed by 2 gunmen.
(SFC, 4/12/99, p.A14)
1999 Apr 12, In Arkansas U.S. District Judge Susan Webber Wright cited President Clinton for contempt of court, concluding that the president had lied about his relationship with Monica Lewinsky in a deposition in the Paula Jones case.
(SFC, 4/13/99, p.A1)(AP, 4/12/00)
1999 Apr 12, A jury in Little Rock, Ark., acquitted Susan McDougal of obstructing Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr's Whitewater inquiry and deadlocked on two other charges, causing a mistrial.
(AP, 4/12/00)
1999 Apr 12, The Snake River in southeastern Washington state was named as the nation's most endangered river because of 4 dams that have brought salmon runs to the brink of extinction.
(SFC, 4/12/99, p.A19)
1999 cApr 12, BoxCar Willie, country singer, died at age 67. He was born as Lecil Martin in Starett, Texas, and spent 22 years in the Air Force.
(SFC, 4/13/99, p.A19)
1999 Apr 12, NATO allies considered establishing a protectorate to shield Kosovo from Yugoslav forces. Senior commander Gen'l. Wesley Clark asked the Pentagon for 300 more warplanes. NATO bombs hit a train car at a railroad bridge over the Juzna Morava River and 10 were killed and 16 injured.
(SFC, 4/13/99, p.A12)(WSJ, 4/13/99, p.A1)(SFC, 4/14/99, p.A13)(SFC, 4/20/99, p.A7)
1999 Apr 12, NATO bombs destroyed the October 14 heavy machinery manufacturing plant in the Krusevac region of Serbia.
(SFEC, 4/25/99, p.A28)
1999 Apr 12, In Colombia an Avianca plane was hijacked with 46 people aboard and flown to a guerrilla stronghold in Bolivar province.
(SFC, 4/13/99, p.A11)
1999 Apr 12, In East Timor 4 people were killed in fighting between factions for and against independence from Indonesia.
(WSJ, 4/13/99, p.A1)
1999 Apr 12, In Germany a monorail fell from its suspension rail and plunged 30 feet into the Wupper river. 3 people were killed and 47 injured in the derailment of the historic (1901) "hanging railway."
(SFC, 4/13/99, p.A11)
1999 Apr 12, In Hungary a Russian aid convoy bound for Serbia was allowed to proceed.
(WSJ, 4/13/99, p.A1)
1999 Apr 12, In southern Lebanon guerrillas detonated a roadside bomb and killed one Israeli soldier and wounded 2 others. The Shiite Muslim Hezbollah claimed responsibility and announced that Israeli troops had killed one its fighters hours earlier.
(SFC, 4/13/99, p.A11)
1999 Apr 12, In Russia the parliament voted to delay an vote of impeachment on Pres. Yeltsin.
(SFC, 4/13/99, p.A11)
1999 Apr 12, Yugoslavia's federal parliament voted to join a political alliance with Russia and Belarus. Igor Ivanov, the foreign minister of Russia, endorsed the proposal, but the alliance existed for the most part only on paper.
(WSJ, 4/13/99, p.A14)
1999 Apr 13, The digital 3-D opera, Monsters of Grace," by composer Philip Glass and director Robert Wilson was scheduled to premier at UC Berkeley. The score was set to English translation of love poems by the Sufi poet Rumi.
(SFEC, 4/11/99, DB p.13)
1999 Apr 13, In Michigan Judge Jessica Cooper sentenced Dr. Kevorkian to 10-25 years in prison for second-degree murder in the lethal injection of a Lou Gehrig's disease patient. He planned to appeal the sentence which would require him to serve over 6 years before being eligible for parole.
(SFC, 4/14/99, p.A3)(AP, 4/13/00)
1999 Apr 13, NATO bombs were dropped on Pristina. Yugoslav infantry troops crossed into northeastern Albania for a short time and clashed with Albanian border police. Refugees in Albania reported gang-rapes and murders by Serbian soldiers.
(SFC, 4/14/99, p.A1,13)
1999 Apr 13, In Chile Alejandra Matus, author, launched her new book "The Black Book of Chilean Justice." Police confiscated the books the next day and Matus fled the country to Argentina.
(SFEC, 5/2/99, p.A26)
1999 Apr 13, In Colombia rebels released 6 of 46 hostages from a commandeered Avianca airplane.
(SFC, 4/14/99, p.A14)
1999 Apr 13, In Malaysia Anwar Ibrahim was convicted on 4 charges of corruption by High Court Judge Augustine Paul. He was sentenced to 6 years on each charge with the sentences to run concurrently.
(SFC, 4/14/99, p.A14)
1999 Apr 13, Pakistan test-fired a ballistic missile, the Ghauri II, at Dina. It was reported to have a range of 1200 miles.
(SFC, 4/14/99, p.A14)
1999 Apr 14, Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr told Congress the Watergate-era law that gave him the power to probe actions of executive branch officials was flawed and should be abolished.
(AP, 4/14/00)
1999 Apr 14, In Michigan Dr. Kevorkian said that he would begin to refuse food immediately.
(SFC, 4/15/99, p.A3)
1999 Apr 14, The Pulitzer Prize in literature went to Michael Cunningham for his novel "The Hours."
(WSJ, 4/16/99, p.W15)
1999 Apr 14, British entertainer Anthony Newley died in Jensen Beach, Fla., at age 67.
(AP, 4/14/00)
1999 Apr 14, In Algeria 6 of the 7 presidential candidates withdrew to protest fraud in the early stages of voting. Abdelaziz Bouteflika, the remaining candidate, was backed by the generals who have ruled since 1962. The vote was meant to end the civil war that has killed 75,000 people since 1992.
(SFC, 4/15/99, p.C3)(WSJ, 4/15/99, p.A1)
1999 Apr 14, The German capital began to be moved from Bonn to Berlin.
(SFC,11/26/97, p.A9)
1999 Apr 14, NATO warplanes mistakenly struck refugee vehicles and some 60-75 ethnic Albanians were reported killed near Djakovica in Kosovo. NATO acknowledged the next day that a civilian vehicle had been hit and broadcast a taped interview with the US pilot who carried out the mission. A week later NATO acknowledged that 2 separate groups of vehicles were hit.
(SFC, 4/15/99, p.A1)(SFC, 4/16/99, p.A1,16)(SFC, 4/20/99, p.A6)
1999 Apr 14, Some 3,000 refugees reached the border of Macedonia and another 7,000 were expected. Another 3,000 arrived in Albania. An estimated 18,000 were making their way to Montenegro. Over the last 3 weeks 305,000 arrived in Albania, 121,000 in Macedonia, and 61,000 in Montenegro.
(SFC, 4/15/99, p.A12)
1999 Apr 14, The US pledged $37 million to help the Kenyan victims of the 1998 US Embassy bombing in Nairobi.
(SFC, 4/15/99, p.A15)
1999 Apr 14, The EU countries proposed a peace plan for Kosovo, wherein the province would be placed under temporary European administration if Pres. Milosevic withdraws his forces and allows refugees to return.
(SFC, 4/15/99, p.C2)
1999 Apr 14, Serbian police forced families from Popovic St. in Mitrovica, Kosovo. The men were separated from their families and 26 were executed and dumped 10 miles away in Zvecan. 4 suspects were later arrested by French peacekeepers.
(SFC, 9/28/99, p.A13)
1999 Apr 14, Pakistan tested a Shaheen I missile with a range of 450 miles.
(SFC, 4/15/99, p.C16)
1999 Apr 14, In Rwanda Bishop Augustin Misago was put under "preventive detention" pending charges that he refused to shelter Tutsis in 1994 and ordered 19 schoolgirls expelled from the high school in Kibeho. The girls were killed.
(SFC, 4/15/99, p.C16)
1999 Apr 15, Erotica USA, a pornography trade show, opened a 4-day exhibit at the Javits Center in NYC.
(SFC, 4/16/99, p.A3)
1999 Apr 15, It was reported that astronomers, using the Hubble Space Telescope, detected a 13 Billion year-old galaxy, dubbed "Sharon." It was the oldest and most distant object yet detected.
(SFC, 4/15/99, p.A7)
1999 Apr 15, Astronomers announced that 3 planets had been detected orbiting the star Upsilon Andromedae some 44 light-years away.
(SFC, 4/16/99, p.A1,19)
1999 Apr 15, The US Pentagon planned to ask for 30,000 reservists and National Guard members for NATO support. Pres. Clinton was expected to ask for $5.9 billion in emergency spending to cover US costs in the Kosovo operation.
(SFC, 4/16/99, p.A16)
1999 Apr 15, In Salt Lake City, Utah, Sergei Babarin (70) entered the Mormon Church's Family History Library and opened fire. He killed 2 people, Patricia Frengs of Pleasant Hill, Ca. and security guard Donald Thomas (62). He wounded 4 others and was shot dead by police.
(SFC, 4/16/99, p.A3)(SFC, 4/17/99, p.A2)
1999 Apr 15, In Algeria elections were scheduled. Abdelaziz Bouteflika was left alone in the race after 6 competitors withdrew over allegations that the vote was rigged. A 60% turnout was reported. Bouteflika said he would turn down the post without a massive turnout and a large majority support.
(SFC, 2/13/99, p.A5)(SFC, 4/16/99, p.A18)
1999 Apr 15, Austria began accepting refugees from Kosovo as the Austrian Army and Red Cross built a camp for 5,000 refugees in Shkoder, Albania.
(SFC, 4/27/99, p.A8)
1999 Apr 15, In Colombia rebels released 3 more hostages as army units fought to free the remaining 32 captured in the hijacking of an Avianca plane.
(WSJ, 4/16/99, p.A1)
1999 Apr 15, In Israel Arieh Deri, leader of the ultra-Orthodox Shas party, was sentenced to 4 years in prison for taking bribes.
(SFC, 4/16/99, p.A18)
1999 Apr 15, A Korean Air cargo MD-11 crashed after takeoff from Shanghai and at least 5 people were killed. Explosives were suspect in the crash.
(WSJ, 4/16/99, p.A1)
1999 Apr 15, NATO bombed TV transmitters, military installations and bridges throughout Yugoslavia. Military targets in Montenegro were struck as was the city of Subotica, near the Hungarian border.
(SFC, 4/16/99, p.A19)
1999 Apr 15, In Pakistan a court convicted Benazir Bhutto in absentia of corruption and sentenced her to 5 years in prison.
(SFC, 4/16/99, p.A18)
1999 Apr 16, Wayne Gretzky, hockey star of the New York Rangers, announced his retirement.
(SFC, 4/17/99, p.A1)
1999 Apr 16, President Clinton defended NATO airstrikes against Serbian targets during visits to Michigan and Massachusetts, saying U.S. involvement in Kosovo was a moral imperative.
(AP, 4/16/00)
1999 Apr 16, In Algeria protests broke out in Algiers, Tizi Ouzou and Bejaia over the elections. Abdelmalek Sellal, the Interior Minister, said Bouteflika received over 7.4 million votes, 70% of the 10.5 million votes cast. Sellal said 60% of the eligible voters cast ballots, but others said the turnout was under 25%.
(SFC, 4/17/99, p.A10)
1999 Apr 16, It was reported that Albanian bandits were victimizing refugees and had robbed border monitors and foreign journalists at gunpoint.
(SFC, 4/16/99, p.A18)
1999 Apr 16, Thousands of refugees poured out of Kosovo as NATO blasted oil refineries, military barracks and airports around Yugoslavia. At least 5,000 refugees crossed into Macedonia, and 8,000 into Albania. Some 100,000 were believed to be enroute to Macedonia.
(SFC, 4/17/99, p.A1)
1999 Apr 16, NATO troops began to pull out of refugee camps in Macedonia. Management of the camps was turned over to Macedonian NGOs supervised by the UNHCR. Refugees were reported to be in fear of the Macedonian police.
(SFC, 4/16/99, p.A17)
1999 Apr 16, In Siera Leone rebel troops fled Songo and killed over 100 men, women and children as the ECOMOG West African and loyalist militia entered the town.
(SFC, 4/22/99, p.D12)
1999 Apr 17, The US launched the 505-foot Navy destroyer Winston S. Churchill at the Bath Iron Works in Maine.
(SFEC, 4/18/99, p.A2)
1999 Apr 17, NATO forces launched the 25th night of bombing against Yugoslavia in the strongest attacks thus far. Gen. Wesley Clark, NATO's commander, warned Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic to change his policies in Kosovo or see his military machine destroyed.
(SFEC, 4/18/99, p.A1)(AP, 4/16/00)
1999 Apr 17, In London, England, [39] 48 people were injured by a nail bomb in a racially mixed neighborhood near Brixton Rd. and Electric Ave. This was the first of three bombs to explode in London within a two-week period.
(SFEC, 4/18/99, p.A18)(SFC, 4/29/99, p.D3)(AP, 4/16/00)
1999 Apr 17, In India the Hindu nationalist government lost a vote of confidence by one vote. Prime Minister Vajpayee gave his resignation to Pres. Narayanan but agreed to stay on until a new government was formed. Sonia Gandhi of the opposition Congress Party was to form the new government. Jayaram Jayalalitha of the All-India Anna Dravida Munetra Kazagham Party broke the coalition headed by the Bharatiya Janata Party.
(SFEC, 4/18/99, p.A1,19)
1999 Apr 17, In Iraq US fighter planes bombed anti-aircraft sites in the northern no-fly zone.
(SFEC, 4/18/99, p.A23)
1999 Apr 18, NATO requested from Bulgaria the use of its airspace.
(WSJ, 4/19/99, p.A1)
1999 Apr 18, Pres. Kabila of Congo and Ugandan Pres. Museweni signed a cease-fire agreement that was mediated by Libyan leader Moammar Khadafy. Rwanda and Congolese rebels rejected the deal.
(SFC, 5/29/99, p.A11)
1999 Apr 18, Yugoslav troops crossed into Montenegro and opened fire on a column of ethnic Albanian refugees near Rozaje. At least 6 people were killed.
(SFC, 4/21/99, p.A1)
1999 Apr 18, In East Timor weekend violence left as many as 30 people dead, as pro-Indonesia militia rampaged through Dili.
(WSJ, 4/19/99, p.A1)
1999 Apr 18, In Turkey National election were held. Voters in early results gave 22% of the vote to Democratic Left Party of Bulent Ecevit, 16% to the Islamic Virtue Party and 18% to the Nationalist Action Party (MHP) led by Devlet Bahceli. The Motherland Party won 13% and the True Path won 12%. The People's Republican Party received less than 9%.
(SFC, 4/19/99, p.A9)(SFC, 4/20/99, p.A8)
1999 Apr 18, In Yugoslavia NATO bombers hit refineries, bridges and other targets in the heaviest strikes to date. 70% of fuel storage capability was now destroyed and Yugoslavia no longer had the ability to refine oil. In Pancevo a refinery, fertilizer plant and American-built petrochemical complex were destroyed and a dense toxic cloud was released with potential long term consequences.
(SFC, 4/19/99, p.A1,8)(SFC, 7/6/99, p.A8)
1999 Apr 18, During a speech on the 19th anniversary of independence Pres. Mugabe said that over 1200 Zimbabweans were dying each week from AIDS.
(SFC, 4/19/99, p.A10)
1999 Apr 19, The 103rd Boston Maratho was one by Joseph Chebet of Kenya in 2h:9m:52s. Fatuma Roba of Ethiopia won the women's category in 2:23:25.
(WSJ, 4/20/99, A1)
1999 Apr 19, The annual Goldman Environmental Prize went to: Ka Hsaw Wa of Burma for reporting on the plight of indigenous people and environmental abuses on a gas pipeline across Thailand and Burma; Bernard Martin, a Canadian fisherman, for his work opposing large factory trawlers; Jacqui Katona and Yvonne Margarula, Australian aboriginal women, who have led a fight against the mining of a uranium deposit by Kakadu National Park on lands owned by the Mirrar people; Samuel Nguiffo, a Cameroon lawyer, for his work in protecting rain forests and opposition to the slaughter of chimpanzees and other rare wildlife; Jorge Varela, a Honduran conservationist, for fighting the destructive shrimp farming practices in the Gulf of Fonseca; and Michal Kravcik, a Slovakian hydrologist, who successfully fought a government plan to dam the Upper Torysa River in 1996.
(SFC, 4/19/99, p.A2)
1999 Apr 19, In Florida the Everglades fire charred had 130,000 acres and continued to rage.
(SFC, 4/20/99, p.A3)
1999 Apr 19, In Canada a Toronto transit strike forced 800,000 commuters to seek alternate transportation.
(WSJ, 4/20/99, A1)
1999 Apr 19, India and Bangladesh border guards had a shootout that left 6 people dead and 60 wounded.
(WSJ, 4/20/99, A1)
1999 Apr 19, In Hallac, Kosovo, 20 Albanian men were killed by Serb paramilitaries. 11 were shot in a vacant lot and 9 were killed in their homes. They were buried in a mass grave and later reburied individually just before NATO forces moved into Kosovo.
(SFC, 6/14/99, p.A12)
1999 Apr 19, In Puerto Rico two US Marine jets in training dropped bombs over the island of Vieques and missed their targets. One civilian, David Sanes Rodriguez, was killed and 4 people were injured.
(SFC, 4/20/99, p.A3)(SFC, 7/26/99, p.A3)
1999 Apr 19, Yugoslav authorities shut down the Morini border crossing to Albania. NATO bombing continued and a Serb government headquarters building in Novi Sad was badly damaged. An estimated 500,000 to 850,000 ethnic Albanians remained were still inside Kosovo.
(SFC, 4/20/99, p.A1)(WSJ, 4/20/99, A1)
1999 Apr 19, In the Congo Kabila in 1997 set this date for presidential and legislative elections.
(SFC, 5/30/97, p.A15)
1999 Apr 20, Jay Scott Ballinger (36), arrested in Feb., was indicted on charges of burning 10 churches in Indiana and Georgia.
(SFC, 4/21/99, p.A7)
1999 Apr 20, In New Jersey Attorney Gen'l. Peter Verniero acknowledged that state troopers had engaged in racial profiling to target minority motorists.
(SFC, 4/21/99, p.A7)
1999 Apr 20, In Littleton, Colo., 2 Columbine High School students, students Eric Harris (18) and Dylan Klebold (17), used guns and explosives to randomly kill 12 other students and one teacher before killing themselves. They wounded 28 other students and were part of a small clique that identified themselves as the "Trench Coat Mafia." 30 homemade bombs attributed to Harris and Klebold were found at the school. Harris and Klebold had both worked at the Blackjack Pizza No. 2025. Klebold and Harris recorded 5 videos prior to the shooting in which they spoke of a bloodbath with hundreds killed.
(SFC, 4/21/99, p.A1)(WSJ, 4/21/99, A1)(SFC, 4/22/99, p.A1)(WSJ, 6/23/99, p.A1)(SFC, 12/13/99, p.A3)
1999 Apr 20, NATO bombing continued in Yugoslavia. The UN refugee agency in Macedonia declared its camps full beyond capacity and left 2,000 to 3,000 refugees at the border. Another few thousand crossed the border to the hamlet of Milana. The border with Albania was again opened but only a few crossed over.
(SFC, 4/21/99, p.A1,10)
1999 Apr 20, Bulgaria and Romania offered to let NATO use their airspace to bomb Yugoslavia.
(WSJ, 4/21/99, A22)
1999 Apr 20, Students at the National Univ. in Mexico City (UNAM) went on strike to protest a proposed increase in the cost of education from 2 cents to $200 per year. The majority of students did not support the strike but radical students forced the closure of classes and increased their demands with a call for the return of an 'Automatic promotion" rule that would give Univ. access regardless of academic performance.
(WSJ, 6/11/99, p.A19)
1999 Apr 20, Russia defaulted on $1.3 billion Ministry of Finance bonds.
(SFC, 4/21/99, p.A13)
1999 Apr 20, In South Africa the police beating of 4 carjacking suspects was broadcast over TV. One suspect died from the beating and the officers were suspended and put under criminal investigation.
(SFC, 4/21/99, p.A13)
1999 Apr 21, The National Rifle Association scaled back its annual meeting in Denver from 3 days to one in response to the Littleton killings.
(SFC, 4/22/99, p.A6)
1999 Apr 21, Vice Pres. Al Gore announced that 20,000 Kosovo refugees would be brought to the US mainland rather than the Guantanamo base in Cuba.
(SFC, 4/22/99, p.A12)
1999 Apr 21, NATO and the US agreed to renew planning for ground troops in Kosovo as leaders converged on Washington to begin summit talks.
(SFC, 4/22/99, p.A1)
1999 Apr 21, The EU prepared an oil embargo against Yugoslavia.
(WSJ, 4/22/99, A1)
1999 Apr 21, NATO warplanes hit a Serbian refugee camp near Djakovica. 4 Serbs were reported killed in the camp where 200-300 Serb refugees from the Krajina region lived. A NATO spokesman said NATO planes were not operating in that area. NATO bombs hit transmitters for radio and TV along with other business and party offices of people close to Milosevic.
(SFC, 4/22/99, p.A14)
1999 Apr 21, In Benin police arrested Yacoubou Adam Fassassi, the Benin ambassador to the UN, for alleged involvement in drug trafficking.
(SFC, 4/22/99, p.A15)
1999 Apr 21, In Colombia retired Col. Bernardo Ruiz was arrested for arranging the 1995 murder of opposition politician Alvaro Gomez.
(SFC, 4/22/99, p.D12)(WSJ, 4/22/99, A1)
1999 Apr 21, In Jamaica at least 6 people were killed and 2 dozen injured in Kingston during protests against new tax increases.
(SFC, 4/22/99, p.D12)(WSJ, 4/22/99, A1)
1999 Apr 21, Macedonia allowed another 3,000 Kosovo refugees to enter from the frontier.
(SFC, 4/22/99, p.A14)
1999 Apr 21, Romania and the IMF reached a preliminary agreement for a $500 million loan.
(SFC, 4/22/99, p.A15)
1999 Apr 21, In East Timor the warring factions signed an agreement to end violence.
(SFC, 4/22/99, p.D3)
1999 Apr 22, Earth Day. TV Turnoff Week began.
(SFC, 4/22/99, p.A17)(SFC, 4/23/99, p.C7)
1999 Apr 22, In Louisiana a 14-year-old boy opened fire at a middle school in Scotlandville, a suburb of Baton Rouge, and a 14-yar-old girl was hit in the cheek.
(SFC, 4/23/99, p.A3)
1999 Apr 22, In Kentucky an Army Black Hawk helicopter crashed during training at Fort Campbell and 7 people were killed and 4 injured.
(SFC, 4/23/99, p.A3)
1999 Apr 22, The NATO summit began in Washington.
(USAT, 3/24/99, p.5A)
1999 Apr 22, An early morning missile hit the home of Pres. Milosevic at 15 Uzicke St. in Belgrade. NATO bombs also hit the Serbian TV station in Belgrade and killed 15 people. Russian envoy Viktor Chernomyrdin after meeting with Pres. Milosevic in Belgrade said Milosevic would accept an int'l. presence in Kosovo.
(SFC, 4/23/99, p.A1,18)(USAT, 4/23/99, p.1A)
1999 Apr 22, In eastern India upper-caste landlords, members of the Ranbir Sena militia, killed 12 Dalits (oppressed ones) in the village of Sindani. It was believed to be a retaliation for the Mar 18 massacre in Bihar.
(SFC, 4/23/99, p.D3)
1999 Apr 22, In Iran the Parliament began proceedings to impeach culture minister Ayatollah Mohajerani for excessive media freedom.
(SFC, 4/23/99, p.D3)
1999 Apr 23, The Whitney Museum In NYC opened its mammoth "The American Century" show.
(WSJ, 4/13/99, p.A16)
1999 Apr 23, NATO marked its 50th anniversary with a focus on the challenges faced in Kosovo.
(SFC, 4/24/99, p.A1)
1999 Apr 23, NATO forces bombed Nis and a broad swath of Yugoslavia on the 31st day of attacks.
(SFC, 4/24/99, p.A11)
1999 Apr 23, In China it was reported that a bus collided with a truck and causing an explosion that killed at least 30 people in Xiangshui county, 300 miles northwest of Shanghai.
(SFC, 4/24/99, p.A15)
1999 Apr 23, From Colombia it was reported that Marxist rebels and right-wing death squads had killed at least 371 civilians in the 1st 3 months of this year. 171 were killed by guerrillas and 179 by paramilitary gangs.
(SFC, 4/24/99, p.C1)
1999 Apr 23, In Mexico a truck with 55 passengers plunged into a ravine killing 46 people, 28 of them children from the hamlet of Chiquixvil in Chiapas.
(SFEC, 4/25/99, p.A9)
1999 Apr 23, The foreign ministers of Indonesia and Portugal completed an agreement for the people of East Timor to vote on their future.
(SFC, 4/24/99, p.A14)
1999 Apr 23, Yugoslav Foreign Minister Zivadin Jovanovic ruled out allowing armed foreign soldiers to enforce a peace agreement in Kosovo.
(SFC, 4/24/99, p.A12)
1999 Apr 24, It was reported that the details of US sorties flown in Yugoslavia were not being shared with NATO allies in order to prevent leaks from compromising the missions.
(SFC, 4/24/99, p.A13)
1999 Apr 24, NATO approved a new strategic concept in Washington that allowed the use of military force to prevent the abuse of human rights anywhere in Europe. NATO also announced plans for an around-the-clock war along with Yugoslavia and an effort to choke off oil supplies from the Adriatic. Damage to Yugoslavia was estimated to have reached $100 billion.
(SFEC, 4/25/99, p.A1,21,28)
1999 Apr 24, A 2nd nail bomb exploded in London, one week following a blast that injured 39 people. Police attributed the bombs to a splinter group of Combat 18 (named from the position of Hitler's initials in the alphabet) called White Wolves.
(SFC, 4/29/99, p.D3)(SFEC, 5/2/99, p.A25)
1999 Apr 24, In India high temperatures over the past week in several states killed at least 40 people with 28 dead in Orissa.
(SFC, 4/26/99, p.A15)
1999 Apr 25, NATO ended its summit in Washington. Pres. Yeltsin called Pres. Clinton to search for a solution to Kosovo.
(SFC, 4/26/99, p.A1)
1999 Apr 25, NATO airstrikes in Yugoslavia destroyed the last bridge in Novi Sad along with other targets in northern and central Serbia. The KLA staged a new conference in Kukes and pleaded anew for a battlefield alliance with NATO.
(SFC, 4/26/99, p.A12)
1999 Apr 25, In Angola UNITA rebels claimed to control 70% of the country.
(SFC, 4/29/99, p.D8)
1999 Apr 25, In China some 10,000 people protested in Beijing on behalf of the right to practice Falun Dafa (law wheel great way), a brand of meditation and exercise. Adherents to the practice, founded by Li Hongzhi, was estimated at 70-100 million.
(SFC, 4/26/99, p.A13)(WSJ, 4/26/99, A1,6)
1999 Apr 25, Pro-Indonesian militias were reported to have killed over 150 people in East Timor.
(WSJ, 4/26/99, p.A1)
1999 Apr 25, In Iraq US warplanes struck air defense sites in the northern nofly zone after being threatened by radar.
(SFC, 4/26/99, p.A14)
1999 Apr 25, In Uganda police reported that a bomb killed 5 people and injured 15 in a poor neighborhood of Kampala.
(WSJ, 4/26/99, p.A1)
1999 Apr 25, In Venezuela voters overwhelmingly endorsed the formation of an assembly to rewrite the constitution. The abstention rate was 60%.
(SFC, 4/26/99, p.A13)
1999 Apr 26, The Clinton administration urged a one-year extension of the Oslo peace process and pressured Pres. Arafat not to declare an independent state on May 4.
(SFC, 4/27/99, p.A8)
1999 Apr 26, Detroit and Wayne County filed suits for over $800 million against 35 manufacturers, distributors and sellers of firearms.
(SFC, 4/27/99, p.A3)
1999 Apr 26, The FDA approved an obesity drug, Xenical from Roche Holdings, that works by absorbing body fat.
(WSJ, 4/27/99, p.A1)
1999 Apr 26, Angola blamed Unita for an attack on a truck convoy that killed at least 25 people. Aid workers questioned whether the rebels were responsible.
(WSJ, 4/27/99, p.A1)
1999 Apr 26, In London, England, Jill Dando (37), a BBC anchorwoman, was shot dead on the steps of her home in Fulham.
(SFC, 4/27/99, p.A10)
1999 Apr 26, In India Pres. Narayanan dissolved the lower house of Parliament in order to call for new elections.
(SFC, 4/27/99, p.A10)
1999 Apr 26, Pres. Milosevic met with Red Cross Pres. Cornelio Sommuraga and said the Red Cross may return to Kosovo and "go anywhere." Sommuraga met briefly with the 3 captive Americans and said they were ok.
(SFC, 4/27/99, p.A1,6)
1999 Apr 26, In Macedonia over 2,000 ethnic Albanians arrived from Kosovo.
(SFC, 4/27/99, p.A8)
1999 Apr 26, Foday Sankoh, Sierra Leone rebel leader, offered a cease-fire following a meeting with his commanders in Togo.
(SFC, 4/27/99, p.A10)
1999 Apr 27, The US Pentagon announced a call for 33,102 reservists for active duty in Kosovo.
(SFC, 4/28/99, p.A1)
1999 Apr 27, A federal grand jury indicted ten top political figures in Arkansas for corruption. Nick Wilson, the senior state senator, was indicted as the ring leader of a group that diverted state money.
(SFC, 4/28/99, p.A3)
1999 Apr 27, In Florida Gov. Jeb Bush and the Legislature agreed on a plan to allow children in the lowest-rated schools to use state vouchers for private schools.
(SFC, 4/28/99, p.A3)
1999 Apr 27, Al Hirt, "The King of the Trumpet," died in New Orleans at age 76.
(SFC, 4/28/99, p.C4)
1999 Apr 27, In Indonesia Pres. Habibie announced plans for a ballot on independence on Aug 8. Anti-independence militiamen rejected the plans.
(SFC, 4/28/99, p.C2)
1999 Apr 27, A NATO bomb missed a targeted army barracks and killed at 20 people, half of them children, in a residential area of Surdulica, Serbia.
(SFC, 4/28/99, p.A10)(SFC, 4/28/99, p.A14)
1999 Apr 27, Up to 5,000 ethnic Albanians entered Macedonia and many more were said to be following. Another 2,000 entered at the Lojane border post.
(SFC, 4/28/99, p.A10)
1999 Apr 27, Near the town of Meja Yugoslav troops executed over 100 men from a caravan of fleeing refugees.
(SFC, 4/28/99, p.A14)
1999 Apr 28, The US House voted 249-180 that congressional approval would be required to send troops to Yugoslavia. A Democratic resolution supporting NATO air strikes tied 213-213.
(SFC, 4/29/99, p.A1)(WSJ, 4/29/99, p.A1)
1999 Apr 28, The US announced that it would allow US firms to sell food and medicine to Iran, Sudan and Libya.
(SFC, 4/29/99, p.A3)
1999 Apr 28, Rory Calhoun, Western film star, died at age 76. He starred in the 1950s TV series "The Texan."
(SFC, 4/29/99, p.D6)
1999 Apr 28, In Canada a 14-year-old boy shot 2 17-year-olds and killed one at W.R. Myers High School in Taber, Alberta. Jason Lang was killed and Shane Christmas was seriously wounded.
(SFC, 4/29/99, p.A16)(SFC, 4/29/99, p.D4)
1999 Apr 28, The IMF reached a preliminary agreement with Russia for a $4.5 billion, that would not go to Russia but work as an accounting measure to prevent default on money already owed.
(SFC, 4/29/99, p.C5)
1999 Apr 28, The 124-member Palestine Central Council decided not to declare a Palestinian state on May 4, and that deliberations would continue till after Israel's May 17 elections. In exchange Arafat won EU backing for a state within a year and the support of Pres. Clinton for self-determination.
(SFC, 4/29/99, p.C2)(WSJ, 4/30/99, p.A1)
1999 Apr 28, In Peru labor unions staged a nation-wide strike to protest stagnant living standards.
(WSJ, 4/29/99, p.A1)
1999 Apr 28, Pres. Milosevic fired Deputy Prime Minister Vuk Draskovic.
(SFC, 4/29/99, p.A14)
1999 Apr 28, In Korenica, Kosovo, Serb forces retaliated for an ambush and executed every man over 16 that they could find. 155 unarmed men, women and children were killed.
(SFC, 6/16/99, p.A12)
1999 Apr 28, In eastern Congo Gov. Kanyamuhanga Gafunzi ordered 100,000 Rwandan refugees in Kivu province to go home within 15 days for supporting Hutu rebels.

1999 Apr 28, The UN Human Rights Commission voted in favor of a worldwide moratorium on executions over the objections of fewer than a dozen countries that included the US, China, Rwanda and Sudan.


1999 Apr 29, Rev. Jesse Jackson and a delegation of religious leaders arrived in Belgrade to talk with Pres. Milosevic concerning the release of 3 captured Americans.

1999 Apr 29, The US decided to sell an early-warning radar system to Taiwan.

1999 Apr 29, US planes bombed sites in the no-fly zone of northern Iraq after being attacked by missiles and anti-aircraft fire. Iraq said 20 civilians were injured in Mosul and 4 in separate attacks in the south.

1999 Apr 29, NATO jets struck Yugoslav army headquarters in Belgrade and the federal interior ministry. A telecommunications tower was hit and knocked Serbian TV off the air.

1999 Apr 29, In Bulgaria an errant NATO HARM missile hit a home in Gorna Banya on the outskirts of Sofia. There were no casualties.

1999 Apr 29, China announced that 1.6 million people would be allowed to move to Hong Kong over the next 10-13 years.

1999 Apr 29, In Colombia a 2,500 member group of the Embera-Katio Indians called for a safe haven in Europe due to the civil war in their homeland.

1999 Apr 29, In Macedonia another 6,500 refugees arrived. 3 refugees were killed by a mine as they attempted to cross the border northwest of Blace.

1999 Apr 29, In Japan Honda announced that its last EV Plus electric car was built in March.

1999 Apr 29, In Russia Pres. Yeltsin approved a plan for upgrading thousands of short-range or tactical nuclear weapons.


1999 Apr 30, The US State Dept. annual report on terrorism listed Cuba, Iran, Iraq, Libya, North Korea, Sudan and Syria as sponsoring terrorism groups.

1999 Apr 30, Cambodia was admitted as the 10th member of the Association of Asian Nations (ASEAN).

1999 Apr 30, In Guatemala some 600 peasants stormed a police station in Huehuetenango and freed 12 former paramilitary members who had just been sentenced to 25 years in prison for killing peasants in Colotenango in 1993.

1999 Apr 30, Tripoli, Libya has asked the United Nations Security Council to make the US hand over nine men suspected of involvement in the 1986 bombing raids against Libya. The request comes three weeks after Libya handed over two Libyans accused of the bombing of a PanAm jet over Lockerbie in Scotland, which killed 270 people. The Americans accused by Libya include: Marine Lieutenant-Colonel Oliver North, Former CIA director William Casey, Former National Security adviser John Poindexter.

1999 Apr 30, In Belgrade a 5.5 earthquake struck. Later in the day Jesse Jackson met with the 3 captured Americans and planned to meet with Pres. Milosevic for their release. In an interview Pres. Milosevic pronounced that his countrymen were willing to died to defend their rights.

1999 Apr 30, Ecuador reached an agreement with the IMF for a $900 million loan package.

1999 Apr 30, NATO undertook over 600 sorties and strikes in Montenegro and Kosovo reportedly killed 13 people.

1999 Apr 30, Serbian forces began a forced evacuation of Prizren and 10,000 people crossed the border to Albania.

1999 Apr 30, In London a bomb exploded at the Admiral Duncan pub, a gay bar in Soho. 2 people were killed and over 60 wounded.

1999 Apr, The book "Endgame" by Scott Ritter, former UN weapons inspector in Iraq, was to be published.

1999 Apr, Dioxin was discovered in Belgian animal feed. It was estimated to be some 4 months after the contamination began. Verkest, a firm that sold animal fats to feed mills, was implicated, but the dioxin source was not yet pinpointed.

1999 Apr, In Iran 13 members of the Jewish community in Fars province were detained on charges of spying for the US and Israel.


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