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36, professional basketball player, announced his retirement from the NBA—again—in January. (He also retired in 1993, only to return to the game in 1995, after a brief stint with the…Gwyneth Paltrow, 1999 News
27, actress, won praise and a truckload of awards, including a Best Actress Oscar, for her nuanced performance in Shakespeare in Love. Formerly best known as Brad Pitt's girlfriend, Paltrow…Ibrahim Rugova, 1999 News
55, Albanian leader of the Democratic League of Kosovo, was once considered the leader of Kosovo Albanians but lost power during the war in Yugoslavia. He fled to Italy six weeks into the…Alexandra Stevenson, 1999 News
18, professional tennis player, shocked the tennis world when she became the first qualifying player to advance to the semifinals at Wimbledon. But the real surprise came when basketball…Venus Williams, 1999 News
19, and Serena Williams, 18, professional tennis players, made history when they met in the finals of Florida's Lipton Championships in March, the first time in 115 years that sisters faced…Russell Henderson, 1999 0 News
21, drew two consecutive life sentences after pleading guilty in April in a Wyoming court to the 1998 kidnapping and murder of Matthew Shepard, a 21-year-old gay college student. The trial…NATO in Kosovo: 1998–1999
by Elissa HaneyKosovo FactsheetOctober 1998 January 1999 February 1999 March 1999 April 1999 May 1999 June 1999 October 1998 12 After repeated threats of NATO air strikes, Milosevic…Andre Agassi, 1999 News
29, professional tennis player, made the comeback of his life in June when he won the French Open. The win made him the first American in 61 years to win all four majors. He went on to…Amadou Diallo, 1999 News
22, West African immigrant, was shot 19 times in February in the vestibule of his Bronx apartment by four plainclothes police officers. Diallo, a street peddler, was unarmed. The officers,…Lauryn Hill, 1999 News
24, versatile singer and record producer, fused rap, soul, reggae, and R&B on her chart-topping, Grammy-winning solo debut The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill. In February, she walked away…Trending
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