Editing 1999 (section)

===July===
* [[July 1]] &ndash; [[Europol]] (short for European Police Office) the [[European Union]]'s [[criminal intelligence]] agency becomes fully operational.
*[[July 7]] &ndash; In Rome, [[Hicham El Guerrouj]] runs the [[Mile run world record progression|fastest mile ever recorded]], at 3:43.13.
* [[July 10]] &ndash; American soccer player [[Brandi Chastain]] scores the game winning penalty kick against China in the [[1999 FIFA Women's World Cup Final|final of the FIFA Women's World Cup]].
* [[July 11]] &ndash; India recaptures [[Kargil district|Kargil]], forcing the [[Pakistan]]i army to retreat. India announces victory, ending the 2-month conflict.
* [[July 15]] &ndash; [[T-Mobile Park]] (formerly known as Safeco Field) opens for the first time.
* [[July 16]] &ndash; [[John F. Kennedy Jr.]] dies in a plane crash off [[Martha's Vineyard]].
* [[July 18]] &ndash; MLB Pitcher [[David Cone]] of the [[New York Yankees]], throws the 16th [[Perfect game (baseball)|perfect game]] in Major League Baseball history.
* [[July 20]]
** [[Project Mercury|Mercury program]]: [[Mercury-Redstone 4|Liberty Bell 7]] – piloted by [[Gus Grissom]] in [[1961]] – is raised from the Atlantic Ocean.
** [[Falun Gong]] is banned in the People's Republic of China under [[Jiang Zemin]].
* [[July 22]]&ndash;[[July 25|25]] &ndash; [[Woodstock '99]] was held in [[Rome, New York]] at former [[Griffiss Air Force Base]], which was marred with difficult environmental conditions, poor sanitation, overpriced food and water, looting, violence, rapes, riots and several deaths.
* [[July 23]]
** NASA's [[Chandra X-ray Observatory]] is launched.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Chandra :: About Chandra :: Chandra Mission |url=https://chandra.harvard.edu/about/axaf_mission.html#:~:text=NASA's%20Chandra%20X-ray%20Observatory,ray%20observatory%20built%20to%20date. |access-date=2025-03-11 |website=chandra.harvard.edu}}</ref>
** [[Mohammed VI of Morocco]] becomes king upon the death of his father [[Hassan II of Morocco|Hassan II]].
**Fourteen [[Serbs|Kosovar Serb]] villagers are [[Staro Gracko massacre|killed]] by ethnic Albanian gunmen in the village of Staro Gračko.
* [[July 27]] &ndash; Twenty-one people die in a [[canyoning]] disaster at the [[Saxetenbach Gorge]] near [[Interlaken]], Switzerland.
* [[July 31]] &ndash; [[NASA]] intentionally crashes the [[Lunar Prospector]] [[spacecraft]] into the [[Moon]], thus ending its mission to detect frozen water on the lunar surface.