5 juli 1999 was een maandag onder het sterrenbeeld ♋. Het was de 185e dag van het jaar. President van de Verenigde Staten was William J. (Bill) Clinton.
Als je op deze dag bent geboren, ben je 26 jaar oud. Je laatste verjaardag was op zaterdag 5 juli 2025, 350 dagen geleden. Je volgende verjaardag is op zondag 5 juli 2026, in 14 dagen. Je hebt 9.847 dagen geleefd, of ongeveer 236.347 uur, of ongeveer 14.180.847 minuten, of ongeveer 850.850.820 seconden.
Date: 05 July 1999
By Bill Carter
Bill Carter
CNN/USA president Richard N Kaplan has survived year of both on-air and personal challenges, including Tailwind false reporting incident and departure of Moneyline anchor Lou Dobbs; Kaplan and CNN chairman Tom Johnson are planning revamp of Newsstand; photos; critics inside CNN say Kaplan still has not come up with overall plan to raise CNN's ratings during slower news periods (M)
Date: 05 July 1999
By Felicity Barringer
Felicity Barringer
Comment on major hoax of New York media by Honduran youth, Edwin Daniel Sabillon, who won hearts and headlines with fabricated story of journeying to New York to find his father; photos (M)
Date: 05 July 1999
By Seth Schiesel
Seth Schiesel
Two FCC commissioners, Gloria Tristani and Harold W Furchtgott-Roth, contradict media reports that FCC staff approval of SBC-Ameritech merger means deal will be approved by FCC (S)
Date: 06 July 1999
By Douglas Frantz
Douglas Frantz
Special report, Private Spies, on increasingly larger role being played by private investigators in public arena--digging up dirt on everyone, from regulators to elected national and small-town officials; new breed includes former police officers, former FBI agents, ex-CIA employees, former prosecutors and ex-journalists who can tap old news contacts to get negative information published; operating with little regulation or accountability, they spy on opponents by posing as reporters or by sending in operatives who work as volunteers in campaigns; many routinely obtain protected information, like telephone records and medical histories; track down ex-spouses and former associates and employees, often concealing intent; rummage through trash from offices, campaign headquarters and homes; while personal attacks have been part of political campaigns since nation's inception, unwritten rules kept 'opposition research' within bounds for most of century; typical investigator was campaign worker or occasionally moonlighting police officer, and inquiries focused on public information like voting records and court cases; rules vanished after accusations of marital infidelity drove former Sen Gary Hart out of 1988 Presidential campaign; Federal Govt has started probe of investigators' techniques in obtaining confidential information; recent landmark Federal Trade Commission suit against Colorado investigator over use of deceptions, known as pretexts, to obtain information about private bank accounts and his indictment by state for racketeering discussed; action being weighed by Congress to outlaw pretexts noted; photos (L)
Date: 06 July 1999
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Crude oil prices rise nearly 3 percent, to 19-month high, on continued signs that Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries is cutting output; brent crude for Aug delivery rises 52 cents, to $18.18 a barrel; oil-company shares rise; shares in London surge, with Financial Times Stock Exchange index rising 1.54 percent, to 6,592, third-highest closing level; Frankfurt's DAX index rises 1.93 percent, to record 5,625.62; Asian markets are also higher, with big gains in Japan and Hong Kong (M)
Date: 06 July 1999
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Computer Associates International Inc has dismissed Ernst & Young LLP and hired KPMG LLP as primary accountant; says it has no disputes with Ernst & Young on any accounting issues (S)
Date: 06 July 1999
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Rudy Tomjanovich, coach of Houston Rockets, is recovering from 'extreme physical exhaustion' and withdraws as coach of United States men's basketball team that will participate in Olympic qualifying tournament next month (S)
Date: 06 July 1999
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Royal Numico NV offers to buy General Nutrition Cos for $1.77 billion and assumption of $760 million in debt (M)
Date: 06 July 1999
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Two New Jersey companies, Millington Quarry Inc and Dell Contractors Inc, are bought by CRH PLC of Dublin, Europe's third-largest building materials company (S)
Date: 05 July 1999
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Punch Taverns Group is prepared to increase $4.5-billion offer for British pubs of Allied Domecq; rival bidder, Whitbread, has sweetened its proposal (S)