Sunday, October 13, 2019

#20YearsAgoOnAOLcom: Oct. 13, 1999 -- Airline Fare Drop; Wilt Chamberlain Dies; Test Ban Treaty Defeat

October 13, 1999: We started the morning with the usual Travel Airfare bargains, though as you see in the My News headlines, Pakistan was still dealing with the previous day's military coup, then...
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...for the PM update, we switched to a package on Wilt Chamberlain, who died at 63. Also, we see a headline about the US Senate rejecting the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty:
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[Series note: In the late 1990s, I programmed the content for the AOL.com home page, which relaunched with a new design on July 14, 1998. I printed screencaps and saved them. 20 years later, I'm scanning them in and posting them with a little commentary under the tag #20YearsAgoOnAOLcom.]

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