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John Tierney Big City column on Charles H Carter, owner of Shirley Plantation in Charles City, Va, who says he needs income from New York City trash to maintain his landmark mansion; notes that Carter, Waste Management Inc, operator of nearby landfill, and Charles City Government are seeking to overturn new Virginia law that bans shipping of garbage on James River (M)
Maurice Greene wins 100-meters race in world record 9.79 seconds at Grand Prix international meet in Athens, Greece; photo (M)
Sealed bids are increasingly being used to sell apartments and houses in New York City and surrounding communities; real estate agents encourage the practice, which reduces ill will among bidders; photo (M)
German authorities are investigating Deutsche Bank AG chief executive Rolf E Breuer and five other current and former senior executives on suspicion of helping clients evade taxes; move raises questions about executives' future and complicates recent merger with Bankers Trust Corp that made Deutsche world's largest bank; none of executives are accused of personally evading taxes; query stems from six-year-old probe by state authorities in Germany into whether German banks helped clients illegally shelter income to avoid taxes; investigation comes at time when Federal regulators in US have begun re-examining problems with unclaimed customer funds managed by Bankers Trust; photo (M)
Cary Hoffman, who sings in style of his idol, late Frank Sinatra, has been appearing at Red Blazer nightclub in Manhattan for last year; photo (M)
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of June 16, 1999, covering June 17, 1999.
Backstreet Boys
Ricky Martin
Ja Rule
Britney Spears
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1999Henri Jokiharju, Finnish ice hockey player[†]
Henri Jokiharju is a Finnish professional ice hockey defenceman for the Boston Bruins of the National Hockey League (NHL). Jokiharju was selected 29th overall by the Chicago Blackhawks in the first round of the 2017 NHL entry draft.
1999Elena Rybakina, Kazakhstani tennis player[†]
Elena Andreyevna Rybakina is a Russian-born Kazakhstani professional tennis player. She has been ranked world No. 3 in women's singles by the WTA, making her the first Kazakhstani to be ranked in the world's top 10 and the current Kazakhstani No. 1. Rybakina is the first player from Kazakhstan to win a major claiming the 2022 Wimbledon Championships. She has won nine WTA Tour-level singles titles, including two WTA 1000 events at the 2023 Indian Wells Open and the 2023 Italian Open.
1999Basil Hume, English cardinal (born 1923)[†]
George Basil Hume was an English Catholic prelate who served as Archbishop of Westminster from 1976 until his death in 1999. A member of the Benedictines, he was made a cardinal in 1977.
In 1999, the world population was approximately 6,089,006,339 people[†]