July 1999 in History

Events in History

Jul 1 The Scottish Parliament is officially opened by Queen Elizabeth on the day powers are transferred from the old Scottish Office in London to the new devolved Scottish Executive in Edinburgh
Jul 6 U.S. Army private Barry Winchell dies from baseball-bat injuries inflicted in his sleep the previous day by fellow soldiers for his relationship with transgendered showgirl and former Navy combat medic, Calpernia Addams

Historic Publication

Jul 8 "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban" the 3rd book of the series by J. K. Rowling is published by Bloomsbury in the UK

Jul 8 Allen Lee Davis is executed by electrocution by the state of Florida, the last use of the electric chair for capital punishment in Florida
Jul 9 Days of student protests begin after Iranian police and hardliners attack a student dormitory at the University of Tehran
Jul 15 Scientists uncover possible reason for SS Waratah's disappearance 100 years later; The SS Waratah was a luxury steamer which did not reach its destination in 1909, and no trace of the wreckage was ever found

Plane Crash

Jul 16 John F. Kennedy Jr., his wife Carolyn Bessette Kennedy and sister-in-law Lauren Bessette are killed in a plane crash off the coast of Martha's Vineyard. The Piper Saratoga aircraft was piloted by Kennedy.

Jul 20 Falun Gong is banned in the People's Republic of China, and a large scale crackdown of the practice is launched
Jul 23 ANA Flight 61 is hijacked in Tokyo, Japan.
Jul 23 Crown Prince Mohammed Ben Al-Hassan is crowned King Mohammed VI of Morocco on the death of his father
Jul 26 Fighting ceases between India and Pakistan in the Kargil War, Kashmir, after two months of fighting
Jul 31 Discovery Program: Lunar Prospector - NASA intentionally crashes the spacecraft into the Moon, thus ending its mission to detect frozen water on the moon's surface

Birthdays in History

Jul 20 Princess Alexandra of Hanover, daughter of Princess Caroline of Monaco

Weddings in History

Jul 9 Princess Alexia of Greece and Denmark (33) weds architect and yachtsman Carlos Morales Quintana (28) at St. Sophia Cathedral in London, England

Deaths in History

Jul 1 Forrest Mars Sr., American candy magnate (Mars, Inc.), dies at 95
Jul 1 Joshua Nkomo, Zimbabwean revolutionary (ZAPU), and Matabeleland politician (Vice-President of Zimbabwe, 1990-99), dies of prostate cancer at 82

Mario Puzo (1920-1999)

Jul 2 American novelist (The Godfather, Cotton Club, Earthquake), dies at 78

Jul 4 Leo Garel, American artist and cartoonist (b.1917)
Jul 6 Barry Winchell, American soldier murdered in his sleep by a fellow soldier at 21
Jul 6 Carl Gunter Jr, American politician (b. 1938)
Jul 7 Captain Vikram Batra, Indian Army officer, awarded Param Vir Chakra (September 9,1974)
Jul 8 Pete Conrad, American astronaut (b. 1930)
Jul 9 Robert de Cotret, Canadian politician (b. 1944)
Jul 15 George Brown Jr, American politician (Rep-D-CA, 1963-71, 73-99), dies at 79
Jul 16 Carolyn Bessette Kennedy, wife of John F. Kennedy, Jr. (b. 1966)

John F. Kennedy Jr. (1960-1999)

Jul 16 American magazine publisher (George), lawyer and son of JFK, dies in a plane crash at 38

Jul 21 David Ogilvy 'Father of Advertising', English advertising whiz (founded Ogilvy & Mathers), dies at 88
Jul 23 Alex Gordon, Welsh architect (RIBA President), dies at 82
Jul 23 Hassan II [Mawlāy al-Ḥasan Muḥammad ibn Yūsuf], King of Morocco (1961-99), dies of natural causes at 70
Jul 27 Aleksandr Danilovich Aleksandrov, Russian mathematician, physicist, philosopher, and mountaineer, dies at 86
Jul 28 Trygve Haavelmo, Norwegian economist and 1989 Nobel laureate for his contributions to econometrics, dies at 87