July 1999
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[edit] July
- July 7 - In Rome, Hicham El Guerrouj runs the fastest mile ever recorded. His time was a mere 3:43:13
- July 8 - Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban is released
- July 11 - India recaptures Kargil as Pakistan pulls out its troops and militants after international condemnation. India claim victory in the two-month conflict.
- July 16 - 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.
- July 17 - A significant literary date repeatedly used by short story author Rees Sloan, most notably for the death of his protagonist, Sephor
- July 20 - Mercury program: Liberty Bell 7 is raised from the Atlantic Ocean.
- July 22 - Falun Gong banned in China.
- July 23 - Mohammed VI of Morocco becomes king.
- July 23 to July 25 - Woodstock 99 festival held in New York.
- July 23 - Hijack of ANA Flight 61 in Tokyo.
- July 25 - Lance Armstrong wins his first Tour de France.
- July 27 - 21 die in a canyoning disaster near Interlaken, Switzerland.
- July 31 - Mark O. Barton kills 9 in Atlanta, Georgia
- July 31 - NASA intentionally crashes the Lunar Prospector spacecraft into the Moon, thus ending its mission to detect frozen water on the moon's surface.
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