<figure class="wp-caption aligncenter" id="attachment_5403" style="width: 497px;"><figcaption class="wp-caption-text" id="caption-attachment-5403">Payne Stewart – One of the more colorful figures in Golf.</figcaption></figure>

News for this day in 1999 had a lot to do with a Columbine High School-type plot uncovered in Cleveland, where a group of High School students were planning on staging a mass killing spree around the upcoming holidays. Arrests were made and expressions of shock were registered.

Today also included a memorial for famed Golfer Payne Stewart, whose life was cut tragically short at 41 from an airplane crash earlier in the week.

The Learjet carrying champion golfer Payne Stewart and at least four other people flew a ghostly journey halfway across the country, its windows iced over and its occupants apparently incapacitated, before nosediving into a grassy field. Everyone aboard was killed. The flight plan stated two crew members and three passengers were on the jet, but there were reports a sixth person boarded the plane just before it took off from Orlando. The chartered, twin-engine Lear 35 might have lost cabin pressure soon after taking off for Dallas, government officials said.

Air traffic controllers couldn’t get anyone on the plane to respond to radio calls.

Tributes poured in all over the world.

The day was also filled with news about the looming chaos predicted over Y2K, particularly in Russia and the Ukraine, where it was expected to be the scene of much widespread panic – as it was just about everywhere else.

And that was just some of what went on this October 29th in 1999, via The CBS World News Roundup Late Edition.

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