Setthathirat, ruler of the Laotian kingdom of…

US emissary Richard Holbrooke publicly poses for pictures with leaders of the Kosovo Liberation Army (originally listed by the State Department as terrorists), effectively promoting the KLA to the post of Albanian leadership in Kosovo.

The militant Kosovar delegation to the Rambouillet talks, led by twenty-nine year old guerilla leader Hashim “the Snake” Thaçi, replaces Ibrahim Rugova and the older, more pacific generation of Kosovar leaders.

Negotiations quickly convene in Rambouillet, France, to resolve the crisis, but break down …

… after US envoy Richard C. A. Holbrooke, architect of the Dayton Accords, tries unsuccessfully to persuade Milosevic to sign onto a US-sponsored peace plan (March 10, 1999).