01|President Slobodan Milosevic of Yugoslavia releases three captive U.S. soldiers through the efforts of the Rev. Jesse Jackson, who led an interfaith delegation to Yugoslavia to plead for their release.|
01|The Liberty Bell 7 Mercury space capsule, lost in the Atlantic Ocean on July 21, 1961, is discovered by an underwater salvage team in 5-kilometre-deep waters approximately 480 kilometres off the Florida coast. The capsule sank during splashdown after astronaut Gus Grissom successfully completed a 15-minute space flight.|
01|The body of George Mallory is found 75 years after he and fellow Englishman Andrew Irvine disappeared during an attempt to climb Mount Everest. A team of eight climbers led by Eric Simonson, find his body less than a hundred metres from the summit. Simonson's expedition is hoping to find Mallory's camera and thus establish whether Mallory and Irvine actually reached their goal.|
02|Mireya Moscoso is elected Panama's first woman president with 44 per cent of the vote. She defeats Martin Torrijos, the son of the late General Omar Torrijos, who deposed Arnulf Arias as president in 1968. Moscoso is the widow of Arnulfo Arias.|
02|In Rome, Pope John Paul II beatifies Padre Pio, an Italian monk who died in 1968 at the age of 81. Beatification is the next-to-final step in the process of sainthood. Padre Pio was known both for his piety and for phenomenal acts, which the Pope refers to as Padre Pio's "special gifts." The Padre bore Christ-like wounds on his hands and feet on and off for more than 50 years and is credited with triggering a number of supernatural occurrences.|
03|Mexican journalist Jesus Blancornelas, is awarded this year's World Press Freedom Prize. Blancornelas, 63, chief editor and co-founder of the Tijuana weekly newspaper Zeta, investigates Mexican drug trafficking. He dedicates the award to Chilean newspaper publisher Guillermo Cano who was murdered by Medellin cocaine cartel gunmen in 1986. Blancornelas survived an assassination attempt in November, 1997, and is now constantly guarded by soldiers.|
03|A new U.S. weapon shuts down electricity in much of Yugoslavia, including the capital, Belgrade. The weapon, a warhead so new it has not yet been named, dusts power cables with graphite filaments that short circuit switching stations, causing power grids to break down.|
04|In Canada, at least 700 people are made homeless as forest fires continue to spread through Manitoba. Although wet weather today helps to contain the fires, lightning and strong winds hamper rescue crews. It is thought that 65 fires are still burning. The worst blaze is almost 40 kilometres wide, on the eastern shore of Lake Winnipeg.|
04|The Sudanese parliament is told that the meningitis outbreak in the east of the country has now claimed nearly 1,500 lives. About 200,000 people have contracted the illness since last December. The British Red Cross recently warned that more than 1 million Sudanese are at risk of infection.|
04|Marburg virus, a haemorrhagic fever, has killed 63 people in northeastern Congo (Kinshasa), reports Marc Biot, a researcher with Doctors Without Borders. Haemorrhagic fevers are viral diseases characterized by high fevers and massive internal bleeding. Doctors Without Borders is a charitable organization with a research team stationed in Durba, a gold mining town where most of the deaths occurred. Biot reports that the physician who treated the miners also died. The virus, for which there is no known cure, is spread by contact with blood or other bodily fluids of an infected person.|
05|Election Commissioner M. S. Gil announces that India's third general election in three years is to be held in September. About 615 million people are expected to vote in the election. Voting will probably be staggered over several days, and the new government must be in place by October 21.|
05|Indonesian Foreign Minister Ali Alatas, and Portuguese Foreign Minister Jaime Gama sign an agreement outlining Indonesia's proposal for autonomy for the former Portuguese colony of East Timor. The agreement also covers provisions for the UN-supervised August 8 referendum on whether the Timorese prefer to remain part of Indonesia or seek independence. Both parties call for disarmament and an end to violence between East Timor and Indonesia. Kofi Annan, secretary-general of the UN, witnesses the signing.|
06|Voters in Scotland and Wales elect representatives to new legislative bodies, the Scottish Parliament and the National Assembly of Wales. Although Labour Party candidates win the largest number of seats in both legislatures, candidates from nationalist parties favouring independence come in a strong second.|
06|Seventy-seven prisoners escape from Penitentiary No. 5., 16 kilometres east of San Cristobal de las Casas, in southern Mexico. The jailbreak happens when nearly 250 prisoners riot over plans to move a number of inmates to another prison. One prisoner is killed, and four prisoners and a guard are injured. Five escapees are quickly recaptured.|
06|Men who drink eleven 240-millilitre glasses of liquids a day run half the risk of men who drink five glasses per day of developing the two most common bladder cancers, according to the results of a study published in the New England Journal of Medicine. An estimated 310,000 people around the world die of bladder cancer annually. The study found no correlation between bladder cancer incidence and consumption of coffee or alcohol.|
07|Two earthquakes measuring 6.3 and 5.2 on the Richter scale destroy many villages in southern Iran, at about 4 a.m. local time. The earthquakes are followed by nearly 50 aftershocks. It is believed that 26 people have been killed and up to 100 others injured. Bulldozers and trucks are clearing rubble, and work has begun to mend ruptured water pipes and broken power lines. A more moderate earthquake damages parts of eastern Japan later in the day.|
07|A NATO jet drops three cluster bombs on the Chinese embassy in Belgrade, Yugoslavia, killing 3 people and wounding at least 20 others. A spokesperson for the Chinese government in Beijing characterizes the bombing as a "barbarian act" that violates the charter of the United Nations. Earlier in the day, the Chinese foreign ministry called on NATO to halt the bombing of Yugoslavia, claiming the attack was afflicting "great civilian casualties."|
08|A passenger ferry thought to have been carrying nearly 300 people capsizes in the Meghna River, 105 kilometres south of Dhaka, Bangladesh. About 100 survivors are rescued by local fishermen, or swim to the shore. Approximately 200 others are feared dead, trapped in the boat when the crew closed exits from the lower deck in a tragic attempt to control passenger panic when the boat first started to rock during a storm.|
08|Thousands of Chinese college students demonstrate before the U.S. embassy in Beijing, protesting against the May 7 bombing of the Chinese embassy in Yugoslavia. Watched by thousands of policemen, the students burn U.S. flags and pummel the embassy and the cars parked inside with rocks. U.S. State Department officials claim the demonstrations, the largest in Beijing since the 1989 student rallies in Tiananmen Square, are organized by the Chinese government, which appears to have transported thousands of students into the centre of the capital.|
08|At NATO headquarters in Brussels, officials call the May 7 NATO bombing of the Chinese Embassy an accident. The target was picked by U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) personnel, who believed the Belgrade building to be the headquarters of a Yugoslav arms agency. The maps used by the CIA may have been out of date, notes the NATO spokesperson.|
09|On the Hawaiian island of Oahu, a landslide in Sacred Falls State Park, 48 kilometres north of Honolulu, kills 8 people and injures more than 50 others. Tons of huge boulders crash 30 metres down a steep cliff, landing at the bottom of a waterfall amongst sunbathers.|
09|Americans inside the U.S. embassy in Beijing become the virtual hostages of a mob of Chinese demonstrators that has besieged the compound, protesting against the May 7 bombing by a NATO warplane of the Chinese embassy in Yugoslavia. For a second day, tens of thousands of college students and residents of Beijing vent their anger at the United States by pelting its embassy with eggs, paint-filled balloons, stones, and chunks of concrete.|
10|In the north-central region of Namibia, an outbreak of bubonic plague is now known to have killed three people and infected 70 others. The plague is believed to have spread after cattle herders came into contact with virus-carrying rats. The affected areas are being sprayed with pesticide to kill the rats.|
10|A U.S. scientist gave away top-secret information about space radar to China in 1997, report U.S. government intelligence experts. The radar, which went into operation in 1978, allows users to detect and track submarines from satellites and even commercial aeroplanes. The U.S. intelligence community claims the Chinese could use the radar technology to both detect and track U.S. submarines and cloak their own underwater vessels.|
10|The government of China announces it is breaking off all high-level military ties and suspending all on-going talks with the United States, in light of the May 7 U.S. bombing of the Chinese embassy in Belgrade, Yugoslavia. The on-going diplomatic talks dealt with various aspects of U.S.-Chinese relations, including human rights abuses.|
11|In London, the Queen Mother unveils a limestone memorial outside Saint Paul's Cathedral "to the memory of those brave Londoners who gave their lives and suffered so much in the 1939-45 war". The memorial was paid for by readers of the Evening Standard newspaper.|
11|In India, the Supreme Court commutes 22 of the 26 death sentences passed on members of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam who were convicted of the 1991 assassination of former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi. (The Tigers are a guerrilla group that continues to fight for an independent Tamil homeland in Sri Lanka.) Two people are acquitted, 17 others will be released because their sentences are less than time they have already spent in prison, and three of the defendants are given life sentences. The court also orders that four others must face capital punishment. The four have two months to ask for a review of their cases or to appeal for clemency from President Narayanan.|
11|AIDS is the world's most deadly infectious disease, according to statistics released by the World Health Organization in Geneva, Switzerland. In 1998, AIDS killed approximately 2.28 million people world-wide. Heart disease, which killed more than 7 million people world-wide in 1998, is the most common cause of death, followed by strokes, acute respiratory infections, and AIDS.|
12|The 800-year-old Lalibella cross, one of Ethiopia's missing national treasures, has been recovered by Belgian customs officials. The cross, named after a 12th century king, was stolen from Saint Saviour Church, 800 kilometres north of Addis Ababa, in March 1997. It was later sold by an antiques dealer in Addis Ababa. The five-kilogram gold cross is discovered in luggage belonging to a Belgian art collector who was returning from Ethiopia to Belgium.|
12|Russian President Boris Yeltsin fires a prime minister for the third time in 15 months. Yeltsin dismisses Yevgeny Primakov a day before the Duma launches impeachment charges against the 68-year-old president. The Duma is Russia's lower house of parliament. Yeltsin nominates Sergei Stepashin, interior minister and veteran of the Russian security apparatus, to replace Primakov. While Stepashin's views on economic reform are unknown, his loyalty to Yeltsin and dedication to democratic ideals remain unquestioned. Primakov, who presided over a cabinet with a number of Communist ministers, enjoyed the support of the Communist-dominated Duma. Political experts believe Yeltsin distrusted Primakov for his growing popularity and for his ties to the very politicians attempting to wrench control from the physically and politically weakened president.|
13|Sheik Abdul-Aziz bin Baz, Saudi Arabia's top cleric and head of the Council of Senior Islamic Scholars dies in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. He was in his eighties and had been suffering from cancer for some time.|
13|The Italian parliament elects Carlo Azeglio Ciampi president of Italy on the first round of voting, an unusual display of consensus. Ciampi was the treasury minister before being elected president and a former prime minister with an unblemished reputation. He succeeds President Scalfaro to a seven-year term of office. Italian presidents do not make policy, but have the power to dissolve parliament and appoint new prime ministers.|
13|UK Prime Minister Tony Blair wins the Charlemagne Prize for European achievement in recognition of his personal commitment to peace in Northern Ireland, and his work toward European Unity. The presentation is made in the 14th century Town Hall in Aachen, Germany. The prize, awarded annually since 1949 to a leader who has fostered mutual understanding among European peoples, is part of Germany's commitment to a harmonious post-war Europe. Previous recipients include Jean Monet, Sir Winston Churchill, George Marshall, Henry Kissinger, and Sir Edward Heath.|
13|Russia's lower house of parliament, the Communist-dominated Duma, launches impeachment proceedings against President Boris Yeltsin. He is charged with five counts of treason, including instigating the 1991 collapse of the Soviet Union.|
14|In Scotland, the Labour Party and the Liberal Democrats agree to form a coalition government for the new Scottish Parliament. They refer their major difference, a dispute over the tuition fees charged to university students, to an investigative commission.|
14|More than 80 ethnic Albanian villagers are killed and dozens more are wounded when NATO F-16 bombers attack a Kosovo village 64 kilometres southwest of Pristina the provincial capital, during a bombing raid on a Yugoslav military command post. Officials in Belgrade, the Yugoslav capital, claim the Kosovo village was crowded with more than 500 refugees who had stopped there for the night. A NATO spokesperson suggests that Serbian forces are herding Kosovar refugees into areas around likely NATO targets.|
15|In southern China, at least 13 people die and more than 50 others are injured when a tornado strikes a rural area in Guangdong. Crops are ruined, 178 houses are destroyed, and nearly 500 others are damaged.|
15|In Fiji, Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka concedes defeat as voting in the national election, begun May 8, comes to an end. Rabuka seized power in a bloodless military coup 12 years ago. He is likely to be succeeded by a coalition government led by the Labour Party. (See May 18.)|
15|More than 100 members of the Duma, the lower house of the Russian parliament, fail to attend a scheduled house session, thwarting the Communist Party's attempt to impeach President Boris Yeltsin on charges of treason.|
16|The director of Tai Fung Bank, Edmund Ho is elected as Macao's first leader. Ho, 44, will become chief executive of Macao, a Portuguese territory on the southeast coast of China, on December 20. The territory consists of the city of Macao, which occupies a peninsula, and three small islands. His appointment will end 442 years of colonial rule by Portugal.|
16|German racing driver Michael Schumacher wins the Monaco Grand Prix, ahead of team-mate Eddie Irvine and reigning world champion Mika Hakkinen. Schumacher now leads this year's race for the championship. His triumph today earns him a record sixteenth Grand Prix win while driving for Ferrari. The previous holder was Austrian Niki Lauda who achieved 15 successes.|
17|In Israel, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu concedes defeat in the national election to his opponent Ehud Barak. Netanyahu also resigns as leader of the Likud Party. Barak, 57, is a war hero and political moderate who heads the Labour Party. He promises to resume peace talks with Palestinian leader Yasir Arafat, to withdraw Israeli troops from Lebanon, and does not rule out creating an independent Palestinian state. Barak must now form a coalition and submit it to the Knesset within the next 45 days.|
17|Italian-born Sonia Gandhi, a contender for the post of India's prime minister, resigns as president of the Congress party in India. Her action follows objections by several party leaders who believe that India should have a native-born leader. Members of the Congress Working Committee beg her to reconsider. Sonia Gandhi is the widow of former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi, assassinated in 1991.|
18|In Fiji, Labour Party leader Mahendra Chaudhry is sworn in as the country's first ethnic Indian prime minister. With its two official coalition allies, Labour has control of 52 seats. Chaudhry is quick to dismiss fears of protests by ethnic Fijians against an Indian-dominated government. (See May 15.)|
18|Elections have taken place in the British Virgin Islands. The British Virgin Islands Party, who have been in power for the past 13 years, win 7 of 13 legislative seats.|
18|Pope John Paul II celebrates his 79th birthday. In Wadowice, Poland, where the pope was born, thanksgiving services are held in the basilica where he was baptized. The pope spends his day in meetings with German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder, hoping to help bring an end to the fighting in Kosovo.|
18|An earthquake registering 6.3 on the Richter scale is felt in both islands of New Zealand. However, because the centre of the quake was about 340 kilometres underground, seismologists are expecting very little damage to be reported.|
19|In Algeria, a bomb explodes near a cinema in the district of Bab El Oued district of Algiers, injuring 17 people. No one claims responsibility for the outrage.|
19|Forty years ago today, work started on the Ho Chi Minh trail, a supply route from North Vietnam to the Viet Cong in South Vietnam, through Laos and Cambodia. Nearly 6,000 Vietnamese come from all over northern Vietnam to reunion celebrations at a new museum outside Hanoi.|
19|It is announced that Nigeria will be allowed to rejoin the Commonwealth after the new president, General Olusegun Obasanjo, take offices on May 29. Nigeria was suspended from the Commonwealth in 1995, during the harsh regime of the late General Sani Abacha.|
19|The Duma, the lower house of the Russian parliament, overwhelmingly confirms Sergei Stepashin, President Boris Yeltsin's hand-picked candidate, as prime minister. Stepashin is the fourth person to hold the office in 14 months. Stepashin, who is a loyal Yeltsin lieutenant, has held posts as Russia's interior minister, justice minister, and chief of the Federal Security Bureau.|
20|Robbie Knievel, 37-year-old son of motorbike daredevil Evel Knievel, beats his own world record for jumping a motorbike over a gorge of the Grand Canyon, in the U.S.A. Today's jump measures 65.6 metres, beating the American's previous record of 64.2 metres. The jump is televized live, and a crowd approximately 500 people watch at the site. Knievel suffers two cracked ribs and a sprained ankle in the attempt.|
20|A 15-year-old student, armed with two guns, opens fire in Heritage High School in Conyers, a suburb east of Atlanta, Georgia. He wounds six of his fellow students before being disarmed by teacher who talks him out of committing suicide. The shooting is the sixth random assault in a U.S. public school in the past 20 months.|
20|The U.S. Senate, in a bipartisan 75 to 23 vote, passes a juvenile-crime bill that includes a variety of gun-control measures, including placing restriction on the access that children under 18 have to automatic weapons. The bill mandates that every handgun sold by a licensed gun dealer be outfitted with a child safety device, and it bans the import of high-capacity ammunition clips. Earlier in the day, Vice President Al Gore, who presides over the Senate, cast a tie-breaking vote to pass a measure requiring background checks with the sale of firearms at gun shows.|
20|At least 400 Pakistanis are killed when a cyclone with winds of 274 kilometres per hour produces giant tidal waves that crash into a string of fishing villages approximately 40 kilometres east of Karachi, the capital. Thousands of homes are damaged or destroyed and many areas are still underwater.|
21|In South Korea, the government releases 1,240 prisoners to mark Buddha's birthday, tomorrow. Human rights activists protest that no political prisoners are to be released this year.|
21|The luxury cruise liner Sun Vista sinks in the Straight of Malacca off Malaysia's western coast after a fire in the engine room spreads through the ship. All 1,104 passengers and crew are rescued unhurt from the lifeboats and rafts to which they had been evacuated. The Bahamian-registered liner was on its way back to Singapore on the last stage of a six-day cruise.|
21|A bomb explodes outside a pub in west Belfast, Northern Ireland, injuring 4 people. No group claims responsibility, but Protestant extremists are suspected of causing the attack in the Catholic area. This incident contravenes the cease-fire rules agreed to in the Northern Ireland peace accord.|
22|English football team Manchester United wins the 118th F.A. Cup Final, at Wembley Stadium, London. Manchester United won the Premier League championship last week, so today's win gives them the League and Cup double. On May 26, the team will meet Germany's Bayern Munich in Barcelona in the final of the Champions Cup. (See May 26.)|
22|In Italy, the experiment to straighten the Leaning Tower of Pisa appears to be working. In February, when the work began, the tower leaned nearly six degrees, 3.7 metres off the perpendicular. After the removal of soil from under its base, the tower has straightened by nearly 0.5 centimetre.|
22|NATO bombers mistakenly strike an important military base that has been in the hands of Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) rebels for six weeks. Seven KLA members are reported killed and 25 others wounded. The base is situated near Kosare, a town in a mountainous region of Kosovo 9.7 kilometres from the Albanian border.|
23|In Italy, at least 4 people are killed when a train catches fire in a 10-kilometre tunnel near Salerno. The 13-carriage train was carrying soccer fans home to Salerno after a match in Piacenza, northern Italy. The fire, confined to a single carriage, is believed to have started after unruly fans pulled the emergency cord and then lit a smoke bomb.|
23|Following the sinking of a luxury liner off the west coast of Malaysia, a 56-kilometre-long oil slick is spreading in the Strait of Malacca. Maritime rescue officials are spraying the slick with chemicals in an attempt to dissolve it before ocean currents carry it to the beaches of Penang. It is thought that the liner was carrying more than 2,000 metric tons of fuel. (See May 21.) |
23|NATO officials in Brussels, Belgium, acknowledge that there is no sign that Yugoslav forces have been withdrawn from Kosovo and reveal that fresh Serbian troops are marching into the province to reinforce troops massed along the Albanian border. The officials note that the renewed massing of troops in Kosovo may suggest President Slobodan Milosevic's resolve to hold the province despite NATO's around-the-clock bombing campaign against Yugoslavia. Milosevic's troops have driven more than 1 million ethnic Albanians from Kosovo since the NATO bombings began on March 24.|
24|A methane gas explosion occurs 1,000 metres underground in the Zasiadka coal mine, in the Donetsk region of eastern Ukraine. At least 30 miners are killed and dozens more are injured. More than 20 others are still missing. Ukraine has the world's highest coal industry death rate, which some observers attribute to outmoded equipment and failure to comply with safety regulations on the part of the miners.|
24|After appeals asking her to reconsider, Sonia Gandhi withdraws her resignation as president of India's Congress Party. Three officials, who had earlier raised objections about the Italian-born politician, have been expelled from the party. (See May 17.)|
25|Five people die as heavy rains cause widespread flooding in southern Germany, Austria, and Switzerland. The Danube River reaches its highest level for 154 years, forcing to the evacuation of thousands of people from homes, hospitals, and prisons in its vicinity.|
25|The universe is approximately 12 billion years old, astronomers announce at a news conference in Washington, D.C. The team of 27 scientists, who participated in an eight-year research project funded by NASA, used measurements taken from the Hubble Space Telescope to calculate distances between Earth and 800 stars. These measurements were used to calculate the speed at which the galaxies of the universe are moving apart. This speed, known as the "Hubble Constant," is the critical factor in determining the age of the universe. According to the project leader Wendy Freedman of the Carnegie Institute in Washington, D.C., the Hubble Constant is 70 kilometres per second. The new figure for the Hubble Constant is challenged by astronomers who did not participate in the project.|
26|Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom presides over the opening of the National Assembly of Wales, the first national political assembly to meet in the Welsh capital of Cardiff in nearly 400 years. UK Prime Minister Tony Blair's Labour Party, which holds only 28 of 60 parliamentary seats, is unable to muster a majority without the cooperation of a Welsh nationalist party, Plaid Cymru, which holds 17 seats.|
26|India launches combat jets and helicopters to dislodge 500 to 600 Pakistani guerrillas entrenched along high ridges in the Himalaya in an area of Kashmir held by India. According to India, the guerrillas are Pakistan-sponsored Islamic militants. Pakistan denies knowledge of the group. The attack is the most serious incident between the two nations since India and Pakistan earned world condemnation in 1998 by conducting underground nuclear tests along each other's borders. India and Pakistan both claim sovereignty over the territory of Jammu and Kashmir, a dispute that has triggered three wars since the two nations gained independence from the United Kingdom in 1947.|
26|In Barcelona, English soccer team Manchester United snatch victory from Germany's Bayern Munich, scoring two goals in the dying seconds of the European Cup final. United's only previous European Cup victory was under their late manager Sir Matt Busby, in 1968. Today would have been Sir Matt's 90th birthday. The victory in this match followed the team winning the English FA cup on May 22.|
27|The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, a panel of prosecutors established by the United Nations (UN), issues a 42-page arrest warrant indicting Slobodan Milosevic, president of Yugoslavia, on charges of crimes against humanity in the Yugoslav province of Kosovo. The warrant, issued in all UN member nations, charges Milosevic with ordering the forced deportation of more than 740,000 ethnic Albanians and the murder of at least 340 Kosovars since Jan. 1, 1999. Four of Milosevic's associates are also indicted. The tribunal's chief prosecutor, Canadian judge Louise Arbour, notes that Milosevic's role in three previous Balkan wars--in Slovenia, Croatia, and Bosnia--and his role in the 1992 deportation of 750,000 Muslims in Bosnia, remains under investigation.|
28|Police remove more than 300 crosses from land adjacent to Auschwitz, a Nazi death camp in Poland. The crosses began appearing in 1998 after various Israeli and Jewish groups demanded the removal of a large cross erected at Auschwitz in 1979 to commemorate the 152 Polish Catholics who died in the camp. Jewish groups claimed the cross, which can be seen from inside the preserved concentration camp, insults the memory of the more than 1 million Jews who died there and at other nearby camps. The commemorative cross, which is 8 metres high, remains standing, despite the enactment of a new law banning religious symbols within 91 metres of former Nazi camps in Poland.|
29|Olusegun Obasanjo, a retired army general, is sworn in as president of Nigeria. He is Nigeria's first legitimately elected head of state since a military coup (overthrow) toppled the government in 1983. Obasanjo replaces General Abdulsalami Abubakar, who is the first Nigerian leader to voluntarily relinquish power since Obasanjo stepped down as dictator in 1979.|
30|Fifty teenagers and three police officers are killed when a crowd of young people attending a beer festival in Minsk, Belarus, stampede in the entrance to an underground railway station. The crowd dashed into the subway to stay dry during a storm.|
30|NATO bombs destroy a steel girder bridge in the Serbian market town of Varvarin, killing 11 civilians.|
31|NATO missiles, part of an intensifying air campaign, hit a hospital complex in Surdulica, Yugoslavia, killing at least 16 Serbian civilians and wounding more than 20 others. A strike in Novi Pazar, near Serbia's border with Kosovar, kills 10 people and wounds 20 more. Another attack knocks out all electrical power in Belgrade, the capital.|
