Today we are going 9 years back in time. Here are some of the headlines February 1999:
* February 2 - Hugo Chávez becomes President of Venezuela.
* February 4 - Unarmed West African immigrant Amadou Diallo is shot dead by NYCpolice officers on an unrelated stake-out, inflaming race relations in the city.
* February 5 - Mike Tyson is sentenced to a year's imprisonment, fined $5,000, and ordered to serve 2 years probation and perform 200 hours of community service for the August 31, 1998 assault on 2 people after a car accident.
* February 7 - King Hussein of Jordan dies from cancer, and his son Abdullah II inherits the throne.
* February 10 - Avalanches in the French Alps near Geneva kill at least 10.
* February 11 - Pluto moves along its eccentric orbit further from the Sun than Neptune. It had been nearer than Neptune since 1979, and will become again in 2231.
* February 16 - In Uzbekistan, an apparent assassination attempt against President Islom Karimov takes place at government headquarters.
* February 16 - Across Europe, Kurdish rebels take over embassies and hold hostages after Turkey arrests one of their rebel leaders.
* February 16 - In Jasper, Texas, testimony begins in the trial of John William King who is accused of dragging African American James Byrd Jr. to death in an apparent hate crime. King is later convicted and sentenced to the death penalty.
* February 21 - The Albertinkatu shootings in Helsinki, Finland: Three men are killed and 1 wounded at a shooting range.
* February 22 - Moderate Iraqi Shiite cleric Mohammad Mohammad Sadeq al-Sadr is assassinated.
* February 23 - Kurdish rebel leader Abdullah Öcalan is charged with treason in Ankara, Turkey.
* February 23 - White supremacist John William King is found guilty of kidnapping and killing African American James Byrd Jr. by dragging him behind a truck for 2 miles (3 km).
* February 23 - An avalanche destroys the village of Galtür, Austria, killing 31.
* February 4 - Unarmed West African immigrant Amadou Diallo is shot dead by NYCpolice officers on an unrelated stake-out, inflaming race relations in the city.
* February 5 - Mike Tyson is sentenced to a year's imprisonment, fined $5,000, and ordered to serve 2 years probation and perform 200 hours of community service for the August 31, 1998 assault on 2 people after a car accident.
* February 7 - King Hussein of Jordan dies from cancer, and his son Abdullah II inherits the throne.
* February 10 - Avalanches in the French Alps near Geneva kill at least 10.
* February 11 - Pluto moves along its eccentric orbit further from the Sun than Neptune. It had been nearer than Neptune since 1979, and will become again in 2231.
* February 16 - In Uzbekistan, an apparent assassination attempt against President Islom Karimov takes place at government headquarters.
* February 16 - Across Europe, Kurdish rebels take over embassies and hold hostages after Turkey arrests one of their rebel leaders.
* February 16 - In Jasper, Texas, testimony begins in the trial of John William King who is accused of dragging African American James Byrd Jr. to death in an apparent hate crime. King is later convicted and sentenced to the death penalty.
* February 21 - The Albertinkatu shootings in Helsinki, Finland: Three men are killed and 1 wounded at a shooting range.
* February 22 - Moderate Iraqi Shiite cleric Mohammad Mohammad Sadeq al-Sadr is assassinated.
* February 23 - Kurdish rebel leader Abdullah Öcalan is charged with treason in Ankara, Turkey.
* February 23 - White supremacist John William King is found guilty of kidnapping and killing African American James Byrd Jr. by dragging him behind a truck for 2 miles (3 km).
* February 23 - An avalanche destroys the village of Galtür, Austria, killing 31.
Lets get to the chart, February 26th 1999 a woman we all know very well peaked on #3.
She started her career in the 1960`s. She is an American singer, actress, songwriter, author and entertainer. Among her many career accomplishments in music, television and film, she has won an Academy Award, a Grammy Award, an Emmy Award and three Golden Globe Awards among others. "Believe" peaked at number one in 23 countries worldwide. it reached number one in the Billboard Hot 100 too, making her the oldest female artist (at the age of 52) to perform this. It also was ranked as the number-one song of 1999 by Billboard, and became the biggest single in her entire career. In the UK, "Believe" spent seven weeks at number one and became the best selling single by a female artist there ever. Its Cher with "Belive".
"No Scrubs" is a song recorded by R&B girl group TLC for their album Fanmail. They peaked on #2 February 26th 1999. Released as the album's first single, "No Scrubs" became TLC's third number-one single on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100. TLC got their second Grammy nomination for Record of the Year but lost again. The single is generally considered to be one of the group's signature songs and was the 2nd biggest Hot 100 single of 1999, according to Billboard's Year End Charts. The song also won a Grammy Award in 1999 for Best R&B Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals. Enjoy!
On #1 was an R&B ballad written by Rhett Lawrence and Travon Potts for British R&B girl group Eternal's Greatest Hits album in 1997. The song was a number 4 hit in the UK and was successful in many European countries and other parts of the world. The song came to American fame when R&B singer Monica released the song as the third single from her second studio album The Boy Is Mine. The covered version peaked at number one on the Billboard Hot 100 in February 26th 1999. :)
Here is an update on what Monica is doing these days. In October 2007 Monica renewed her contract with J Records. For now, she is writing and putting songs together for her fifth studio album with the help from producers Missy Elliott, Bryan Michael Cox, and Ne-Yo. According to Metro Weekly, she stated that the album will see release far sooner than "her typical three-or-more year wait between albums," with a scheduled release for summer 2008.
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