Unix Timestamp: 919641600
Monday, February 22. 1999, 12:00:00 AM UTC

Moderate Iraqi Shiite cleric Mohammad Mohammad Sadeq al-Sadr is assassinated.

Kurdish rebel leader Abdullah Öcalan is charged with treason in Ankara, Turkey.

White supremacistJohn William King is found guilty of kidnapping and killing African AmericanJames Byrd Jr. by dragging him behind a truck for 2 miles (3 km).