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Ben Brantley reviews Playwrights Horizons presentation of Goodnight Children Everywhere, play written and directed by Richard Nelson, at Wilder Theater; photo (M)
Western officials say international tribunal in The Hague has decided to indict Yugoslav Pres Slobodan Milosevic for war crimes and will formally announce action on May 27; say Louise Arbour, chief prosecutor of tribunal, began investigation into responsibility for war crimes in Kosovo last year, and has intensified her inquiry in recent weeks; indictment of Milosevic, whose almost 12 years in power have coincided with wave after wave of violence in Balkans, is certain to pose added difficulties for diplomatic quest to end war in Kosovo; Milosevic remains sole interlocutor in Belgrade for Russian-led efforts that have been broadly supported by US and its allies to end war; his photo (M)
Leonardo da Vinci's Last Supper will be again displayed to public in refectory of Santa Maria delle Grazie in Milan after 20-year restoration; has regained light and clarity, as well as details that had long been forgotten, but remains mottled with large beige patches that signal just how much of original art work has been lost; photos (M)
Article discusses importance of New York Knickerbockers forward Marcus Camby to team's chances of winning Eastern Championship series against Indiana Pacers; photo (M)
New $37 million Massachusetts Museum of Contemporry Art opens in North Adams, Mass; facility, made up of collection of 19th-century factory buildings, has been 13 years in making and is designed to give the economically depressed town more attention than it has drawn since its days as bustling manufacturing center in late 1700's; photos; map (M)
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of May 26, 1999, covering May 27, 1999.
Ricky Martin
Snoop Dogg
TLC
Tim McGraw
Shania Twain
1999Matheus Cunha, Brazilian footballer[†]
Matheus Santos Carneiro da Cunha is a Brazilian professional footballer who plays as a forward for Premier League club Manchester United and the Brazil national team.
1999Lily-Rose Depp, French-American actress and model[†]
Lily-Rose Melody Depp is a French and American actress. Born to actors Johnny Depp and Vanessa Paradis, she began her acting career in film with a minor role in Tusk (2014) and pursued a career as a fashion model. She appeared in the period dramas The Dancer (2016) and The King (2019), and the romantic comedy A Faithful Man (2018).
1999Space Shuttle Discovery is launched on STS-96, the first shuttle mission to dock with the International Space Station.[†]
Space Shuttle Discovery is a retired American Space Shuttle orbiter. The spaceplane was one of the orbiters from NASA's Space Shuttle program and the third of five fully operational orbiters to be built. Its first mission, STS-41-D, flew from August 30 to September 5, 1984. Over 27 years of service it launched and landed 39 times, aggregating more spaceflights than any other spacecraft as of December 2024. The Space Shuttle launch vehicle had three main components: the Space Shuttle orbiter, a single-use central fuel tank, and two reusable solid rocket boosters. Nearly 25,000 heat-resistant tiles cover the orbiter to protect it from high temperatures on re-entry.
In 1999, the world population was approximately 6,089,006,339 people[†]