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In 1999, the world population was approximately 6,089,006,339 people[†]
1999Georgios Kalaitzakis, Greek basketball player[†]
Georgios Kalaitzakis is a Greek professional basketball player who recently played for Lietkabelis Panevėžys of Lithuanian Basketball League (LKL). He is a 2.01 m tall small forward. As a teenager, Kalaitzakis used to be regarded as one of the top young European prospects in his age range.
1999Fernando Tatís Jr., Dominican baseball player[†]
Fernando Gabriel Tatís Medina Jr., nicknamed "El Niño" and "Bebo", is a Dominican professional baseball right fielder and shortstop for the San Diego Padres of Major League Baseball (MLB). He is the son of former MLB player Fernando Tatís Sr.
1999Rolf Liebermann, Swiss-French composer and manager (born 1910)[†]
Rolf Liebermann, was a Swiss composer and music administrator. He served as the artistic director of the Hamburg State Opera from 1959 to 1973 and again from 1985 to 1988. He was also the artistic director of the Paris Opera from 1973 to 1980.
1999Sebastian Haffner, German journalist and author (born 1907)[†]
Raimund Pretzel, better known by his pseudonym Sebastian Haffner, was a German journalist and historian. As an émigré in Britain during World War II, Haffner argued that accommodation was impossible not only with Adolf Hitler but also with the German Reich with which Hitler had gambled. Peace could be secured only by rolling back "seventy-five years of German history" and restoring Germany to a network of smaller states.
1999Aaron Wiggins, American professional basketball player[†]
Aaron Daniel Wiggins is an American professional basketball player for the Oklahoma City Thunder of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played college basketball for the Maryland Terrapins and was selected by the Thunder in the second round of the 2021 NBA draft.
Overseas stocks rebounded sharply in the fourth quarter of 1998, both in developed and emerging markets. But in some emerging markets even 100 percent rallies were not enough to make up for the selloffs that pushed stocks to their lows just as the quarter began. Many of these markets still ended the year with declines. Consider Indonesia. Its stock market surged 120.6 percent in dollar terms in the fourth quarter, according to the emerging-market indexes of the International Finance Corporation, the private sector financing arm of the World Bank. But for the year, the stock market was down 29.3 percent.
Nen O'Gorman finds renewed satisfaction running a one-room Montessori-style preschool in Harlem six months after being ousted by trustees of Children's Storefront School, a Harlem academy he founded and had led since 1966; photo (M)
All United States financial markets, Government offices and banks were closed in observance of New Year's Day.
A day after 11 European countries christened the euro as their new currency, financial institutions across the Continent began the enormous job of reprogramming their electronic networks before markets reopen Monday. Although most institutions are bracing for technical glitches, financial executives say they are cautiously optimistic about a smooth start. And investment experts predict the euro will boost the popularity of European stocks and bonds. Article, page A5.
She knows it would make for a nice, romantic story, but Chamique Holdsclaw cannot tell a lie. She did not grow up dreaming about playing basketball in Madison Square Garden, did not go to Knicks games very often as a child and will not feel jitters, tingles or any other manifestation of awe when she steps onto the famed court for the first time in her career. Although she is excited about playing in the Garden, Holdsclaw has been too many places and done too many things to be overwhelmed by the setting. So the heralded senior from Astoria, Queens, said there will be no pressure to put on a show for the hometown crowd when Tennessee plays Rutgers tomorrow at 2 P.M.
Hooters restaurant in Manhattan files for bankruptcy, giving support to view that New York is not like the rest of America; Hooters waitresses wear sexy uniforms, and the restaurants have proved very popular elsewhere in the country; photo (M)
This weekend the American Football Conference playoffs are about quarterbacks: who will play, who won't, and who should have kept his mouth shut. Buffalo travels to Miami for the early game today, and New England is at Jacksonville tomorrow. It is the latter of those two matchups that the National Football League probably did not dream up on its playoff drawing board.
Really, truly, they are not the Anti-Clinton Party, say the conservatives who are meeting in this sunbaked desert city for their annual examination of who they are. But disgust with President Clinton is so pervasive, and the perception that he is ''winning'' the political and cultural wars despite his impeachment is so galling, that he seems to have replaced the Soviet Union as the bete noire around which conservatives can rally.
George E Pataki is sworn in to second term as Governor of New York, and he declares that his success in scaling back state's government has rekindled its spirit and created a model for rest of nation; upbeat inaugural speech suggests he is honing a theme he plans to expound while traveling the country: that his brand of Republicanism, which is fiscally conservative and does not push divisive social issues, has worked in New York and will work elsewhere; Mary O Donohue is sworn in as Lieutenant Governor, H Carl McCall as State Comptroller and Eliot L Spitzer as Attorney General; photos (M)
Even when his team was leading Texas A&M by 24-7 late in the third quarter tonight, Ohio State Coach John Cooper had the expression of a desperate man trying to climb out of a pit with its sides lined with sand. Many of the Ohio State fans among the 76,503 here at the Superdome could feel Cooper's pain. It was a pain that stemmed from Ohio State's getting shut out of the national championship game, the Fiesta Bowl, on Monday night. It was a game that Cooper, whose Buckeyes had held the No. 1 ranking for several weeks during the season, believed his team should be a part of.
I NEVER thought I'd see the day when a U.C.L.A. football team would view a trip to the Rose Bowl as settling for something. But the day has come. U.C.L.A.'s players are grousing about a mighty tumble that sent them from an undefeated season and a national championship showdown with Tennessee to a beauty pageant game yesterday against Wisconsin. After U.C.L.A.'s stunning loss to Miami last month, guard Andy Myers said: ''Oh well, we're still going to the Rose Bowl. Didn't that used to be the big one?'' Now the Rose is simply another one. And yesterday they lost that one, too, by 38-31.
In an angry statement, Prime Minister Hun Sen denied today that he opposed a trial for two high-ranking Khmer Rouge defectors and said he supported an investigation into the mass killings of the 1970's when the movement controlled Cambodia. Responding to criticism for his statement this week that the defectors should be met with bouquets rather than handcuffs, Mr. Hun Sen said his first priority had been to secure peace and that the question of trials was the next order of business.