The April 9, 2000 was a Sunday under the star sign of ♈. It was the 99 day of the year. President of the United States was William J. (Bill) Clinton.
If you were born on this day, you are 26 years old. Your last birthday was on the Thursday, April 9, 2026, 71 days ago. Your next birthday is on Friday, April 9, 2027, in 293 days. You have lived for 9,567 days, or about 229,609 hours, or about 13,776,596 minutes, or about 826,595,760 seconds.
Date: 10 April 2000
By Jim Rutenberg
Jim Rutenberg
Moves by ABC News president David Westin stir controversy as he faces increasing pressure to make ABC news coverage distinctive; he says he spurs producers to try new techniques to hold and expand audience, and make it younger; holds standard journalistic lines should not be crossed; photos (M)
Date: 10 April 2000
By Randal C. Archibold
Randal Archibold
News media, including 20 television trucks, invade suburban neighborhood in Bethesda, Md, where Cuba's chief diplomat in United States lives; Juan Miguel Gonzalez has been staying there since arriving to claim his son, Elian (S)
Date: 10 April 2000
By Andrew Ross Sorkin
Andrew Sorkin
Mobile Internet access, still limited in Europe, is expected to be particularly popular there because of unified standards and large number of cellular phone users; newspapers and other data providers are rushing to format their content for mobile phones and to negotiate deals for placement on phones; Vodafone AirTouch PLC has long waiting list for new phones, having returned early model to Nokia because of glitch (M)
Date: 10 April 2000
By Felicity Barringer
Felicity Barringer
Wide range of news and information organizations are distributing wares on portable electronic devices; media groups involved, still trying to make Internet ventures profitable, are hesitant to predict how these services will pay for themselves; popularity of cellular phones and personal organizers is soaring just as new technologies arrive to transform them into mini-printing presses; table of companies in field; drawings; photos (M)
Date: 10 April 2000
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Association for Manufacturing Technology and American Machine Tool Distributors' Association report orders for machine tools fell to estimated $389 million, Feb, down 10.1 percent from revised Jan estimate of $432 million, but up 8.1 percent from estimated $360 million in Feb 1999 (S)
Date: 09 April 2000
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
United States Soccer Federation reports Carla Overbeck, US women's team captain, has Graves' disease, treatable condition caused by thyroid gland overactivity (S)2
Date: 10 April 2000
INTERNATIONAL A3-9 Koreas Plan First Meeting Of Their Leaders The South Korean government announced today that North Korea had agreed to a June summit meeting between the two countries. Officials said the meeting, which would be the first between heads of state of the two countries, would involve discussions of a wide range of issues separating the two Koreas, which have been left divided by a civil war since the 1950's. A1 Fujimori Faces Runoff President Alberto K. Fujimori of Peru appeared to fall short of winning a first-round re-election victory in a very close race with Alejandro Toledo, who was given no chance of winning just weeks ago. A1
Date: 09 April 2000
Correction of picture caption in Education Life section Apr 2, with article on choosing college
Date: 10 April 2000
Republican leaders in Bergen County, NJ, choose to give party line in primary for US Senate to Rep Bob Franks (S)
Date: 10 April 2000
Marlene Lefkowitz is critically injured in fire that authorities say was started by curling iron in her apartment in Sunnyside section of Queens (S)