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Health of boxer Stephan Johnson prior to US Boxing Association junior middleweight championship bout against Paul Vaden is being questioned; Johnson remains in coma; Johnson had sustained similar knockout during fight against Fitz Vanderpool in Toronto last April, falling unconscious after series of light blows when he had dominated most of fight; he later blamed loss on dehydration; photo (M)
New York Giants cornerback Jason Sehorn, who has been struggling this season, comments on his play; says he is good cornerback, but he is just not special; photo (M)
Abortion has emerged as key issue in Senate race in New York, even though two presumed candidates, Mayor Rudolph W Giuliani and Hillary Rodham Clinton have same positions; Giuliani is under pressure from Conservative Party to drop his opposition to ban on form of late-term abortion; abortion rights leader Kelli Conlin says Giuliani's strong support would make it hard for National Abortion and Reproductive Rights Action League's NY affiliate to endorse Clinton; Kate Michelman, Naral's national president, holds Clinton deserves special consideration (M)
Chicago school district, seeking to prepare students for standardized tests, has supplied every teacher with virtual script, detailed, day-by-day outline of what they should be teaching and when; standardized lesson plans, drafted by committee of 100 teachers, are optional, but teachers are expected to draw on lessons in some way and many are doing so; chart (M)
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of November 24, 1999, covering November 26, 1999.
Faith Hill
Mariah Carey
Santana
Rage Against the Machine
Backstreet Boys
1999Jaycee Horn, American football player[†]
Jaycee Carrington Horn is an American professional football cornerback for the Carolina Panthers of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the South Carolina Gamecocks and was selected eighth overall by the Panthers in the 2021 NFL draft. His father, Joe Horn, played wide receiver in the NFL.
1999Olivia O'Brien, American singer-songwriter[†]
Olivia Gail O'Brien is an American singer and songwriter. She rose to fame in 2016 after collaborating with Gnash on the single "I Hate U, I Love U", which peaked at number 10 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in the United States and number one in Australia. The success resulted in a recording contract with Island Records, with whom she released two extended plays, three mixtapes, and her debut studio album Was It Even Real? (2019).
1999Jacob Shaffelburg, Canadian soccer player[†]
Jacob Everett Shaffelburg is a Canadian professional soccer player who plays as a winger for Major League Soccer club Nashville SC and the Canada national team.
1999The 7.5 Mw Ambrym earthquake shakes Vanuatu and a destructive tsunami follows. Ten people were killed and forty were injured.[†]
The 1999 Ambrym earthquake occurred on November 27 at 00:21:17 local time with a moment magnitude of 7.4 and a maximum Mercalli intensity of VII. The back arc thrust event occurred within the Vanuatu archipelago, just to the south of the volcanic island of Ambrym. Vanuatu, which was previously known as New Hebrides, is subject to volcanic and earthquake activity because it lies on an active and destructive plate boundary called the New Hebrides Subduction Zone. While the National Geophysical Data Center classified the total damage as moderate, a destructive local tsunami did result in some deaths, with at least five killed and up to 100 injured.
In 1999, the world population was approximately 6,089,006,339 people[†]