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White House orders Horace Greeley Educational Fund to stop selling T-shirts with Presidential seal for their campaign to raise money for scholarships for Chappaqua, NY, high school seniors; Presidential seal is protected by government statute and unauthorized use is punishable by up to six months in jail (M)
Young single men are hiring interior decorators to do their apartments, a job that used to be left till they were older and married; having a professional do the job seems preferable to getting their girlfriends involved; photos (M)
Ottawa Senators defeat New York Rangers, 4-3; photo (M)
Former Senator Carol Mosely-Braun was confirmed as an ambassador as senators reached an agreement to approve dozens of nominees as envoys and judges. Page A16.
New Plan for Diversity In a move away from racial preferences, Gov. Jeb Bush proposed guaranteeing the top fifth of each Florida high school's graduating class a place at a state university. PAGE A18
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of November 10, 1999, covering November 11, 1999.
Santana
Master P
Lou Bega
Backstreet Boys
Britney Spears
1999X González, American activist[†]
X González is an American activist and advocate for gun control. In 2018, they survived the Stoneman Douglas High School shooting, the deadliest high school shooting in U.S. history, and, in response, co-founded the gun-control advocacy group Never Again MSD.
1999Mary Kay Bergman, American voice actress (born 1961)[†]
Mary Kay Bergman, also briefly credited as Shannen Cassidy, was an American voice actress and voice-over teacher. She was the official voice of the Disney character Snow White from 1989 to 1999 and the lead female voice actress on the adult animated television series South Park from the show's debut in 1997 until her death in 1999. She was also the voice actress of Claudette and Laurette in Beauty and the Beast, Dr. Blight in Captain Planet and the Planeteers, Katie in Family Dog, and Daphne Blake in the Scooby-Doo franchise from 1997 to 1999. Throughout her career, Bergman performed voice work for every aspect in media, including over 400 television commercials.
1999Jacobo Timerman, Argentinian journalist and author (born 1923)[†]
Jacobo Timerman was a Soviet-born Argentine publisher, journalist, and author, who is most noted for his confronting and reporting the atrocities of the Argentine military regime's Dirty War during a period of widespread repression in which an estimated 30,000 political prisoners were disappeared. He was persecuted, tortured and imprisoned by the Argentine junta in the late 1970s and was exiled in 1979 with his wife to Israel. He was widely honored for his work as a journalist and publisher.
1999The House of Lords Act is given Royal Assent, restricting membership of the British House of Lords by virtue of a hereditary peerage.[†]
The House of Lords Act 1999 is an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom that reformed the House of Lords, one of the chambers of Parliament. The Act was given royal assent on 11 November 1999. For centuries, the House of Lords had included several hundred members who inherited their seats ; the Act removed such a right. However, as part of a compromise, the Act allowed ninety-two hereditary peers to remain in the House. Another ten were created life peers to enable them to remain in the House.
In 1999, the world population was approximately 6,089,006,339 people[†]