February 20, 1999
By the winter of 1999, Clinton was in the White House and the federal minimum wage stood at $5.15/hr — the United States was simultaneously navigating a fragile peace effort in Kosovo as international pressure mounted on Serbian forces to stand down. On television, Americans were tuning into "ER" for their weekly drama fix, while at bookstores, John Grisham's "The Testament" was the fiction title moving fastest off the shelves. On the sports side, the San Antonio Spurs had claimed the NBA championship over the New York Knicks, the same winter that NASA launched the Mars Polar Lander on January 3, sending a spacecraft on a direct course for the Martian south pole in one of the agency's most ambitious planetary missions to date.
On the cover
Magazine Covers — February 20, 1999
NY Times Headlines — Week of February 20, 1999
No 'Stonewalling' On Kosovo Peace, Milosevic Is Told
Deadline In Talks On Kosovo Accord Is Delayed 3 Days
India Promises, With Pakistan, To Seek Peace
Citing Security, U.S. Spurns China On Satellite Deal
World Events — February 1999
Time Person of the Year — 1999
On the radio
Billboard Charts — February 20, 1999
Grammy Awards
On the bookshelf
On the television
Nielsen Top 10 — 1998–99 Season
Emmy Winners — 1999
At the movies
Box Office & Oscar Winners — February 20, 1999
Ebert 4-Star Films — February 20, 1999
On the field
Sports Champions — February 20, 1999
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