1. Events Music TV Movies Miscellaneous

2.  Timothy McVey is convicted on all counts in the Oklahoma City bombing of 1995  Scientist clone Dolly the sheep  1 st cloned complex animal  Heaven’s Gate Cult commits mass suicide trying to catch a ride on the space traveling behind the comet Hale Bopp  August 31, 1997 Princess Diana dies after a car accident

3.  The Notorious B.I.G. is killed March 9, 1997  Last album is released on 3/25/1997  The Foo Fighters: Dave Grohl  The Colour & the Shape  “My Hero”  “Everlong”  Hanson:  The Middle of Nowhere  “MMMBop”  5 th best selling single of the year

4.  “I’ll Be Missing You” #1 song of 1997  Faith Evans & Puff Daddy  A tribute to Notorious B.I.G.  Aqua  “Barbie Girl” #2 song of 1997  The Notorious B.I.G  Life After Death  “Mo Money Mo Problems”  1 st song to reach #1 by a dead artist

6.  New Shows  “The Crocodile Hunter”  Steve & Terri Irwin  “Family Matters”  Reginald VelJohnson  Jaleel White  “Just Shoot Me”  Laura San Giacomo  David Spade  “Johnny Bravo”  Jeff Bennett  Brenda Vaccaro  Top 5 Shows 1. E.R. 2. Seinfeld 3. Suddenly Susan 4. Friends 5. Naked Truth

11.  Titanic: A boy & girl from different classes meet during the doomed voyage  Leonardo DiCaprio, Kate Winslet  Good Will Hunting: A janitor with a gift for math needs help finding direction  Robin Williams, Matt Damon  The Fifth Element: In the future a cab driver helps protect a cosmic weapon  Bruce Willis, Milla Jovovich, Gary Oldman  Con Air: A released ex-con & ranger is trapped on a plane controlled by criminals  Nicolas Cage, John Cusack, John Malkovich

16.  Toy of the Year  Teletubbies  Pre-School Toy of the Year  Tickle Me Elmo  Toy Innovation of the Year  Tamagotchi: the digital pet

17.  President Clinton is accused of having an affair with Monica Lewinski  Senator John Glenn becomes the oldest man ever to fly into space at 77 years old  Michael Jordan retires from the NBA, for the 1 st time

18.  The Dixie Chicks “Wide Open Space”  Breakthrough album  “Wide Open Spaces”  “There’s Your Trouble”  *NSYNC “*NSYNC”  Debut album for the boy band  “Tearing Up My Heart”  The Goo Goo Dolls “Dizzy Up the Girl”  Breakthrough album  “Slide”  “Iris”

19.  Biggest Hits  Celine Dion “My Heart Will Go On”  Cher “Believe”  Aerosmith “I Don’t Want to Miss a Thing”

20.  New Shows  “That 70s Show”  Topher Grace Mila Kunis Ashton Kutcher Danny Masterson  “The King of Queens”  Kevin James  Leah Remini  Jerry Stiller  “Will & Grace”  Eric McCormick  Debra Messing  Sean Hayes  Top 5 1. E.R. (NBC) 2. Friends (NBC) 3. Frasier (NBC) 4. Veronica's Closet (NBC) 5. Jesse (NBC)

24.  Saving Private Ryan: soldiers are sent on a mission to retrieve the last son of the Ryan family  Tom Hanks, Matt Damon, Tom Sizemore  Armageddon: A huge asteroid is headed for earth and a oil drilling team must help destroy it.  Bruce Willis, Ben Affleck, Billy Bob Thorton  There’s Something About Mary: Several men chase after who they believe is the idea woman  Ben Stiller, Matt Dillion, Cameron Diaz  A Bug’s Life: A worker ant saves his colony  Kevin Spacey, Julia Louis-Dreyfus

29.  9/12/99: The Cleveland Browns return to the NFL after a 3 year absence with a 43-0 loss to the Steelers  Lance Armstrong wins his first Tour de France  The Barbie Doll turns 40  US Women win the FIFA World Cup  10/2/99: Mr. Swisher marries Mrs. Swisher

31.  Britney Spears: …Baby One More Time  Debut album; #2 selling album of the year  “…Baby One More Time” #1 hit of 1999  Christina Aguilera: Christina Aguilera  Debut album #9 selling album of the year  “What A Girl Wants”  Ricky Martin: Ricky Martin  #5 selling album  “Livin’ la Vida Loca”  #27 on the best 100 songs of the 90s

33.  Lou Bega: “Mambo #5” #2 hit of 1999  Blink 182: Enema of the State  Top pop punk album of the year  “All the Small Things”  “What My Age Again?”  Smash Mouth: Astro Lounge  “All Star” #4 song of the year  “Can’t Get Enough of You Baby”

35.  New Shows  “Family Guy”  Seth MacFarlane  Alex Borstein  SpongeBob SquarePants  The West Wing  Martin Sheen  Stockard Channing  Farscape  Ben Browder  Claudia Black  Top 5 Shows 1. 7 th Heaven 2. Touched By An Angel 3. Promise Land 4. Early Edition 5. Smart Guy

39.  Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace  Two Jedi knights uncover a wider plot after being sent to the planet Naboo  Ewan McGregor, Liam Neeson, Natalie Portman  The Sixth Sense: A boy communicates with spirits who don’t know they are dead  Bruce Willis, Haley Joel Osment  Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me: Dr. Evil is back and invents a time machine to steal Austin’s mojo  Michael Myers, Heather Graham, Michael York

43.  Pokemon: trading cards and Nintendo game  WWF Wrestlers  Alien Eggs  Action Man Silver Speeder