July 1999 calendar

Events

• 01 Jul 1999 The Scottish Parliament is officially opened by Queen Elizabeth on the day that legislative powers are officially transferred from the old Scottish Office in London to the new devolved Scottish Executive in Edinburgh.
• 02 Jul 1999 Benjamin Nathaniel Smith begins a three-day killing spree targeting racial and ethnic minorities in Illinois and Indiana, USA.
• 03 Jul 1999 In Weirs Beach, New Hampshire, USA, over six hours Billy Mitchell plays a "perfect" game of the arcade game Pac-Man, achieving the highest score that the game allows: 3,333,360. This can only be accomplished by guiding Pac-Man to eat every dot, fruit, and ghost in all 256 levels without dying.
• 05 Jul 1999 U.S. Army Pfc. Barry Winchell is bludgeoned in his sleep at Fort Campbell, Kentucky by fellow soldiers; he dies the next day from his injuries.
• 06 Jul 1999 U.S. Army private Barry Winchell dies from baseball-bat injuries inflicted in his sleep the previous day by a fellow soldier, Calvin Glover, for his relationship with transgender showgirl and former Navy Corpsman Calpernia Addams.
• 08 Jul 1999 A major flash flood in Las Vegas swamps hundreds of cars, smashes mobile homes and kills 2 people.
• 09 Jul 1999 Days of student protests begin after Iranian police and hardliners attack a student dormitory at the University of Tehran.
• 10 Jul 1999 American soccer player Brandi Chastain scores the game winning penalty kick against China in the FIFA Women's World Cup.
• 11 Jul 1999 India recaptures Kargil as Pakistan pulls out its troops and militants after international condemnation. India claims victory in the two-month conflict.
• 16 Jul 1999 John F. Kennedy, Jr., piloting a Piper Saratoga aircraft, dies when his plane crashes into the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Martha's Vineyard. His wife Carolyn Bessette Kennedy and sister-in-law Lauren Bessette are also killed.
• 17 Jul 1999 The Pabok Regional County Municipality in Quebec, Canada is renamed to Le Rocher-Percé after the Percé Rock.
• 20 Jul 1999 Apple Computer introduces the iBook portable computer. It features 12.1-inch TFT display, 300 MHz G3 processor, 4 MB ATI Rage Mobility graphics chip, CD-ROM drive, 32 MB RAM, modem, USB and 10/100Base-T Ethernet ports, 3 GB hard drive, keyboard, Mac OS 8.6, V.90 modem, AppleWorks software, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Netscape Communicator, and comes in a translucent cover in tangerine or blueberry colors. Battery power lasts about six hours. Price is US$1599; weight is 6.6 pounds; size is 2 x
• 21 Jul 1999 Two divers die in the Deer Island Outfall Tunnel during a project to remove safety plugs inside risers leading from the tunnel to the bottom of Massachusetts Bay. (Associated Press)
• 22 Jul 1999 The first version of MSN Messenger is released by Microsoft.
• 23 Jul 1999 ANA Flight 61 is hijacked in Tokyo, Japan.
• 26 Jul 1999 The last Checker taxi cab is retired in New York City and auctioned off for approximately US$135,000.
• 29 Jul 1999 The Rock 'N' Roller Coaster attraction opens in the Disney-MGM Studios Theme Park at Walt Disney World in Florida.
• 31 Jul 1999 Mark O. Barton kills nine in Atlanta, Georgia.

Famous Birthday

• Princess Alexandra of Hanover
• Joey King

  American actress.

• Kaitlin De Guzman
• Wyatt Schiff

  American noted family, the first grandson of Vice President Al Gore; the son of his daughter Karenna Gore Schiff, 25, and her husband, Drew...

• Hugo Wentzel

  American noted family, the son of Amy Carter and her husband of three years, James Wentzel; the grandson of former President Jimmy Carter.

• Kolton Stewart

  TV Actor.

• Jack Avery

  Pop Singer.

• Meredith Mickelson

  Model.

• Sebastian Olzanski

  YouTube Star.

• Moa Kikuchi

  Pop Singer.

• Katherine SSG

  YouTube Star.

• Taylor Miner

  Vine Star.

• Lilah Burger

  YouTube Star.

• Claire Corlett

  Voice Actor.

• Lee Hinchcliffe

  YouTube Star.

• Alma Krantic

  YouNow Star.

• Sahil G

  YouNow Star.

• Brooke Sorenson

  TV Actress.

• Dawson Dunbar

  Movie Actor.

• Princess Alexandra

  of Hanover.

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Famous Deaths

• Pete Conrad

  American astronaut, one of four to fly four space missions and the third man to set foot on the moon.

• Mark Sandman

  American singer-songwriter guitarist and producer (Morphine and Treat Her Right) (d. 1999).

• Sylvia Sidney

  Bronx, New York -- Actress (WKRP, Sabotage, Beetlejuice, Demon).

• Gary M Heidnik

  American convicted rapist, murderer, and torturer (executed) (Born 1943).

• Edward Dmytryk

  Director (Carpetbaggers, Young Lions, Caine Mutiny).

• Guy Mitchell

  American popular singer (Born 1927).

• Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy

  American noted family after her 9/21/1996 marriage to John F. Kennedy, Jr.

• Gar Samuelson

  American drummer (Megadeth) (Born 1958).

• Robert de Cotret

  Canadian politician 56th Secretary of State for Canada (d. 1999).

• Hiromi Yanagihara

  Japanese singer and actress (Country Musume) (d. 1999).

• Forrest Mars Sr

  American candy magnate (Born 1904).

• Rajendra Kumar

  Pakistani-Indian actor and producer (d. 1999).

• Leo Garel

  American artist and cartoonist (Born 1917).

• King Hassan

  II of Morocco (Born 1929).

• Barry Winchell

  American soldier (Born 1977).

• Captain Vikram Batra

  Indian Army officer and Param Vir Chakra recipient (Born 1974).

• Sweets Edison

  American jazz trumpet player (Born 1915).

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Top #5 songs in the USA

1. Jennifer Lopez - If You Had My Love
2. Destiny's Child - Bills, Bills, Bills
3. Will Smith - Wild Wild West
4. Christina Aguilera - Genie In A Bottle
5. Ricky Martin - Livin' La Vida Loca

Top #5 songs in the UK

1. ATB - 9pm (Till I Come)
2. Westlife - If I Let You Go
3. Ricky Martin - Livin' La Vida Loca
4. DJ Jurgen Presents Alice Deejay - Better Off Alone
5. Whitney Houston - My Love Is Your Love