3. октобар 1999. је био недеља под знаком звездице ♎. Био је 275 дан у години. Председник Сједињених Држава је био William J. (Bill) Clinton.
Ако сте рођени на данашњи дан, имате 26 година. Ваш последњи рођендан је био петак, 3. октобар 2025., пре 256 дана. Ваш следећи рођендан је субота, 3. октобар 2026., за 108 дана. Живели сте 9.753 дана, или око 234.087 сати, или око 14.045.223 минута, или око 842.713.380 секунди.
Date: 04 October 1999
Robert Rivard declines offer to become executive editor of Miami Herald, saying he will stay on as editor and senior vice president of The San Antonio Express-News, noting its parent, Hearst, promised infusion of several million new dollars into paper's payroll and expense budget (M)
Date: 04 October 1999
By Bill Carter
Bill Carter
Lou Dobbs, financial news anchor and executive, makes deal with NBC for joint venture that would create both financial newsletter and radio program and would enable him to appear periodically on NBC and CNBC programs; these appearances will be deemed guest visits, avoiding conflict with clause in Dobbs's severance agreement with Cable News Network which prevents him from taking job with any other television entity for three years; Dobbs's deal with NBC also sets up their potential future relationship, once Dobbs is legally able to work on television again; Dobbs was president of CNN's financial news cable channel, CNNfn, until his departure last June; Dobbs says details about newsletter and radio program are still being worked out; photo (M)
Date: 03 October 1999
Donald Nawi letter on September 19 item on jailing of activists for disrupting Common Council meeting in Peekskill, NY; holds Times' reporting was completely nonobjective (S)
Date: 03 October 1999
INTERNATIONAL 3-19 Pinochet Arrest Spurs Chile to Look Back The arrest of Gen. Augusto Pinochet in London a year ago has opened a quiet and long-postponed reckoning in Chile over its years of dictatorship. Former military officers are finally being brought to task for the deaths or disappearances of thousands of political opponents. 1
Date: 04 October 1999
INTERNATIONAL A3-12 Russia and U.S. Consider Ways to Monitor Test Ban Top Russian and American nuclear officials said they have begun considering new ways to prevent cheating on a landmark treaty banning nuclear weapons tests, as the White House and Senate Republicans prepare for a bruising battle over the treaty. Energy Secretary Bill Richardson said that he had proposed several measures to strengthen monitoring of the pact, and Russia's Minister of Atomic Energy said he was willing to open talks on the proposals. A1 Russia Raids Chechen Villages Russian missile strikes hit villagers and farmhouses in the Chechen villages of Dargo and Benoy. Russian officials have hinted that they intend to continue the assaults, and even send ground troops, until they can create a buffer along the border with Dagestan, to protect it from militants who want set up an independent Islamic state. A1
Date: 04 October 1999
Mortimer B Zuckerman says he delivered news that he was selling Atlantic Monthly to magazine's writers and editors over speakerphone after he learned that news was about to be published elsewhere, before he could get to Boston to deliver news personally (S)
Date: 03 October 1999
By Bill Scheft
Bill Scheft
Bill Scheft humorous article on future predictions of success to be made by New York Jets coach Bill Parcells; photo (M)
Date: 04 October 1999
Unidentified woman is crushed to death in Queens when her car rolls backward and pins her against concrete column (S)
Date: 04 October 1999
Yonkers cancels classes as mediator enters dispute between city and striking teachers (S)
Date: 03 October 1999
Alexandra Constantinople, a daughter of Dr. and Mrs. Nicholas Lely Constantinople of Washington, was married yesterday to Jordan Jon Hoffner, a son of Mr. and Mrs. Larry Stuart Hoffner of New York. Rabbi Arthur Blecher performed the ceremony with the Rev. Luis Leon, an Episcopal priest, at St. John's Episcopal Church in Washington. The couple, both 29, work for NBC, the bride as the vice president for communications at NBC News in New York and the bridegroom as the broadcast producer for ''The News with Brian Williams'' on MSNBC, the cable network, in Secaucus, N.J.