2 mei 1999 was een zondag onder het sterrenbeeld ♉. Het was de 121e dag van het jaar. President van de Verenigde Staten was William J. (Bill) Clinton.
Als je op deze dag bent geboren, ben je 27 jaar oud. Je laatste verjaardag was op zaterdag 2 mei 2026, 45 dagen geleden. Je volgende verjaardag is op zondag 2 mei 2027, in 319 dagen. Je hebt 9.907 dagen geleefd, of ongeveer 237.790 uur, of ongeveer 14.267.412 minuten, of ongeveer 856.044.720 seconden.
Date: 02 May 1999
By James Barron
James Barron
Daljit Dhaliwal discusses her new fame in America as anchor, or news reader, on BBC's World News for Public Television, interview in New York, where she is helping raise money for public television; photos (M)
Date: 03 May 1999
By Lawrie Mifflin
Lawrie Mifflin
Media column explores network television's fascination with shootings in Littleton, Colo; notes three major broadcast networks devoted far more time to massacre, on their regular newscasts and on prime-time news maganzines, than they ever allocated to any similar shooting rampage; photo (M)
Date: 03 May 1999
By Felicity Barringer
Felicity Barringer
Thomson Newspapers will open its own journalism school, Reader Inc Editorial Training Center, in Oshkosh, Wis; students, recruited by some of Thomson's 56 newspapers, will be committed to going back to work at those newspapers; aim is to rekindle interest in community journalism (M)
Date: 02 May 1999
By Steven Erlanger
Steven Erlanger
Tomislav Mitrovic, 60-year-old 'ordinary Serb' killed in NATO missile attack on Radio Television Serbia building in Belgrade, is buried; Mitrovic was a program director for Radio Television Serbia, state-run broadcaster that gives news much as Pres Slobodan Milosevic wants it given (M)
Date: 03 May 1999
By Alex Kuczynski
Alex Kuczynski
Annual White House Correspondents Assn Dinner, at which press corps honors President, described; tone of dinner has shifted in recent years from old-style correspondents' affair, when most famous faces belonged to Cabinet members, to one that increasingly displays movie stars and other social glitterati; photo (M)
Date: 03 May 1999
By Paul Zielbauer
Paul Zielbauer
Great Westchester Gun and Knife Show is held in White Plains, NY, with no advertising banners, no promotional brochures and as little media attention as its organizers could manage; photo (M)
Date: 03 May 1999
By Benjamin Weiser
Benjamin Weiser
Seymour M Hersh's testimony in criminal trial of Lawrence X Cusack 3d, man accused of fraud in sale of forged documents about Pres John F Kennedy, offers glimpse into how one of nation's most accomplished investigative reporters practices his craft; Hersh admits on cross-examination that he 'romanced' Cusack, even misled him a little, to get exclusive use of purported Kennedy papers for book he was writing; later came to question papers' authenticity and Cusack's credibility, and helped to unravel fraud scheme; photo (M)
Date: 02 May 1999
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
CMGI Inc chief executive David Wetherell says he expects about dozen of Internet-venture fund company's portfolio of 36 companies to go public in next 12 months; photo (S)
Date: 02 May 1999
Andrew L Shapiro letter on argument that Internet deserves neither more nor less free-speech protection than older media forms; says more challenging comparison wuold be to broadcast media, which have less protection than printed materials and live public speech
Date: 02 May 1999
INTERNATIONAL 3-22 Serb Agrees to Release G.I.'s After Jackson Talks The Yugoslav President, Slobodan Milosevic, agreed to free three captive American soldiers following a three-day lobbying effort by the Rev. Jesse L. Jackson. 1 Nuclear Theft Revelations A secret report to Clinton Administration officials in November warned that China posed an ''acute intelligence threat'' to nuclear weapons laboratories. Yet investigators waited until March to search the computer of a Los Alamos scientist. 1