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Clinton Guiding Talks Israeli and Palestinian officials said negotiators working under President Clinton's supervision were trying to draft a working agreement that would highlight points of accord and unresolved issues. PAGE A12
Paul Griffiths reviews pianist Peter Serkin and Boston Symphony under Seiji Ozawa performing work by Pieter Lieberson at Tanglewood, Lenox, Mass; photo (M)
Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater to alternate two programs in Lincoln Center Festival 2000 offerings; Philadanco to present new work in free outdoor performance at Rockefeller Park, New York City, as part of Hudson River Festival; Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and Andrew W Mellon Foundation are providing initial investment of $18 million for first two years of five-year commitment to support nation's nonprofit theaters; New Jersey Symphony Orchestra plans concerts in Newark and Princeton with soloist Vladimir Feltsman to conclude its Amadeus Festival 2000; photos (M)
Federal Judge William H Pauley III rejects Giuliani administration's efforts to move ahead with its sweeping welfare-to-work project, ruling that New York City cannot turn any more of its welfare centers into job centers, which discourage poor from seeking public assistance; rules that he found no reliable evidence that city had stopped illegally denying emergency food stamps, Medicaid and cash aid to eligible applicants (M)
New York Yankees defeat Baltimore Orioles, 4-3; photo (M)
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of July 19, 2000, covering July 25, 2000.
Eminem
Various Artists
Britney Spears
Nelly
*NSYNC
2000Meg Donnelly, American actress[†]
Meg Elizabeth Donnelly is an American actress. She played Taylor Otto in the ABC sitcom American Housewife (2016–2021), Addison Wells in the Disney Channel film series Zombies (2018–present), and Mary Campbell in the CW television series The Winchesters (2022–2023).
2000Zhang Hao, Chinese singer[†]
Zhang Hao is a Chinese singer based in South Korea and signed under Yuehua Entertainment. He finished first in the reality competition show Boys Planet and debuted as a member of the South Korean boy band Zerobaseone in July 2023. He is noted as the first foreigner in history to place first in a South Korean idol survival show.
2000Rudi Faßnacht, German footballer, coach, and manager (born 1934)[†]
Rudolf "Rudi" Faßnacht was a German football manager.
2000Concorde Air France Flight 4590 crashes outside of Paris shortly after taking off at Charles de Gaulle Airport, killing 113 people.[†]
Concorde is a retired Anglo-French supersonic airliner jointly developed and manufactured by Sud Aviation and the British Aircraft Corporation (BAC). Studies started in 1954, and France and the United Kingdom signed a treaty establishing the development project on 29 November 1962, as the programme cost was estimated at £70 million . Construction of the six prototypes began in February 1965, and the first flight took off from Toulouse on 2 March 1969. The market was predicted for 350 aircraft, and the manufacturers received up to 100 option orders from many major airlines. On 9 October 1975, it received its French certificate of airworthiness, and from the UK CAA on 5 December.
In 2000, the world population was approximately 6,171,702,993 people[†]