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New Jersey's water conservation measures produce a mix of despair, resentment, resignation, indifference and boldness across the state; photo (M)
Thomas George Sports of The Times interview with Ozzie Newsome, who will be inducted into Pro Football Hall of Fame; Newsome comments on new challenge as Baltimore Ravens vice president; photo (M)
New York Mets defeat Los Angeles Dodgers, 2-1; photo (M)
Probers say Martin R Frankel, who allegedly milked assets of Southern insurance companies he controlled for nearly seven years, went on global expansion quest early last year in hopes of masking thefts; say he drew scores of new people into his dealings; note expansion kindled regulators' suspicions; cite his recent ties to stock fraud veteran Thomas F Quinn and detective Antonio Greco; photos (M)
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of August 4, 1999, covering August 7, 1999.
Backstreet Boys
Limp Bizkit
Ricky Martin
Britney Spears
Sarah McLachlan
1999Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone, American hurdler and sprinter[†]
Sydney Michelle McLaughlin-Levrone is an American hurdler and sprinter who competes in the 400 meters hurdles and is the world record holder in that event. She has won gold in the 2020 and 2024 Summer Olympics, as well as the 2022 World Athletics Championships. She set a world record time of 50.37 seconds at the 2024 Summer Olympics on August 8, 2024, breaking her own old world record of 50.65 seconds. She is the first track athlete to break four world records in the same event; setting four world records during 13 months, she was the first woman to break the 52-second and 51-second barriers in the 400 m hurdles. She won the silver medal at the 2019 World Championships. At all four competitions, she also took gold as part of a women's 4 × 400 m relay team.
1999The Chechnya-based Islamic International Brigade invades neighboring Dagestan.[†]
Chechnya, officially the Chechen Republic, is a republic of Russia. It is situated in the North Caucasus of Eastern Europe, between the Caspian Sea and Black Sea. The republic forms a part of the North Caucasian Federal District, and shares land borders with Georgia to its south; with the Russian republics of Dagestan, Ingushetia, and North Ossetia–Alania to its east, north, and west; and with Stavropol Krai to its northwest.
In 1999, the world population was approximately 6,089,006,339 people[†]