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September 1999 News and Events
1999 News Month-By-Month World NATO and U.N. Agree on K.L.A. Role (Sept. 2): Part of Kosovo Liberation Army will be allowed to survive as lightly armed civilian emergency force. Middle East…January 2005
WorldRelief Pours into Asia (Jan. 2): Helicopters based on American aircraft carriers off the Indonesian coast begin dropping tons of supplies to survivors of the tsunami that devastated 11…November 2000 News and Events
WorldYugoslavia Joins United Nations (Nov. 1): General Assembly welcomes new democratic government. Yugoslavia had been ostracized from UN during Slobodan Milosevic's eight-year rule.…Brewer's: Stones
Aerolites, or stones which have fallen from heaven. J. Norman Lockyer says the number of meteors which fall daily to the earth “exceeds 21 millions.” (Nineteenth Century, Nov., 1880, p.…Nobel Prize for Peace
Below find every winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, from 1901 through 2016. For years not listed, no award was made. 1901Henri Dunant (Switzerland); Frederick Passy (France)1902Elie Ducommun…August 1998 News and Events
1998 News Month-By-MonthWorldArafat Reshuffles Cabinet (Aug. 5): Palestinian leader defies Legislative Council by retaining ministers it wanted ousted for alleged mismanagement.Iraq Ends…March 2002
WorldHundreds in India Die in Rioting (March 2): Hindu-Muslim clashes in western India claim almost 400, highest losses in nearly a decade. U.S. and Afghan Troops Launch Attack (March 2):…November 2003
WorldU.S. Helicopter Downed in Iraq (Nov. 2) In the single deadliest strike since the Iraq war began, guerrillas shoot down an American helicopter, killing 16 U.S. soldiers and injuring 21…January 1998 News and Events
1998 News Month-By-Month World Netanyahu Survives Parliamentary Test (Jan. 4): Israeli Prime Minister's majority threatened by resignation of Foreign Minister David Levy. (Jan. 5): Netanyahu…February 1998 News and Events
1998 News Month-By-MonthWorldAlbright Scolds Middle East Leaders (Feb. 1): Secretary of State rebukes Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian leader Yasir Arafat over delay…