July 1999

• In Rome, Hicham El Guerrouj runs the fastest mile ever recorded. His time was a mere 3:43:13

• Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban is released.

• India recaptures Kargil as Pakistan pulls out its troops and militants after international condemnation. India claim victory in the two-month conflict.

Off the coast of Martha's Vineyard, a plane piloted by John F. Kennedy Jr. crashes, killing him and his wife Carolyn Bessette Kennedy and her sister Lauren Bessette.

• A significant literary date repeatedly used by short story author Rees Sloan, most notably for the death of his protagonist, Sephor

• Mercury program: Liberty Bell 7 is raised from the Atlantic Ocean.

• The nationwide persecution of Falun Gong started in the People's Republic of China.

• Mohammed VI of Morocco becomes king.
• July 23 to July 25 - Woodstock 99 festival held in New York.
• Hijack of ANA Flight 61 in Tokyo.

• Lance Armstrong wins his first Tour de France.

• 21 die in a canyoning disaster near Interlaken, Switzerland.

• Mark O. Barton kills 9 in Atlanta, Georgia
• NASA intentionally crashes the Lunar Prospector spacecraft into the Moon, thus ending its mission to detect frozen water on the moon's surface.