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Allan Kozinn reviews Glimmerglass Opera's world premiere of Central Park, trilogy by three young composers and three noted playwrights; they are The Festival of Regrets, by Deborah Drattell and Wendy Wasserstein; Strawberry Fields, by Michael Torke and A R Gurney, and The Food of Love, by Robert Beaser and Terrence McNally (M)
Mostly Mozart Festival will begin its 33d season at Avery Fisher Hall with gala featuring flutist James Galway and mezzo-soprano Frederica von Stade; photo; Commonwealth Shakespeare Co will offer series of free performances of William Shakespeare's Julius Caesar on Boston Common; Ralph Fiennes, Joseph Fiennes and Sophie Fiennes will pay tribute to their mother, Jennifer Lash, with reading from her novel, Blood Ties; Lash died in 1993; photo; British actress Sarah Siddons, who died in 1831, is subject of two museum exhibitions in California, at J Paul Getty Museum and at Huntington Library (M)
Anna Kisselgoff reviews Merce Cunningham Dance Co performing as part of Lincoln Center Festival '99; photo (M)
Lance Armstrong, capping a remarkable comeback from cancer, became the second American bicycle racer to win the Tour de France. SportsMonday, page D1. (Tom Able-Green/Allsport)
John Tierney The Big City column discusses how New York City's rental laws work against both tenant and landlord; cites case of Robert Dabrowski, tenant, and Pari Dulac, landlord; Dulac has attempted to oust Dabrowski from Greenwich Village apartment for last ten years; Dabrowski, citing numerous violations, has refused to pay rent over that period of time; legal dispute remains unsolved and has caused both parties considerable amount of money (M)
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of July 21, 1999, covering July 26, 1999.
Limp Bizkit
Backstreet Boys
Ricky Martin
Britney Spears
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1999Walter Jackson Bate, American author and critic (born 1918)[†]
Walter Jackson Bate was an American literary critic and biographer. He is known for Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography-winning biographies of Samuel Johnson (1978) and John Keats (1964). Samuel Johnson also won the 1978 U.S. National Book Award in Biography.
1999Phaedon Gizikis, Greek general and politician, President of Greece (born 1917)[†]
Phaedon Gizikis was a Greek army general who was the last President of Greece under the junta from 1973 to 1974.
1999Kargil conflict officially comes to an end. The Indian Army announces the complete eviction of Pakistani intruders.[†]
The Kargil War, was fought between India and Pakistan from May to July 1999 in the Kargil district of Ladakh, then part of the Indian-administered state of Jammu and Kashmir and along the Line of Control (LoC). In India, the conflict is also referred to as Operation Vijay, which was the codename of the Indian military operation in the region. The Indian Air Force acted jointly with the Indian Army to flush out the Pakistan Army and paramilitary troops from vacated Indian positions along the LoC, in what was designated as Operation Safed Sagar.
In 1999, the world population was approximately 6,089,006,339 people[†]