NATO launches air campaign, with the goal of crippling the Serbian war machine in Kosovo and enforcing compliance with the international peace plan drawn up at Rambouillet, France. The first of a massive tide of refugees arrive in Albania. F-117 Nighthawk Stealth fighter is lost near Belgrade but the pilot is recovered. Three US soldiers are snatched by Serb forces after an incident on the Macedonian border.
Yugoslav forces mount a cross-border attack on a village in northern Albania.
Yugoslavia claims that rockets fired by allied jets killed 75 people in two separate refugee columns. NATO later admits accidentally hitting a civilian vehicle. Twenty-four US Apache attack helicopters arrive in Albania. Two NATO missiles smash into the headquarters of Yugoslavia's ruling Socialist Party. NATO raids destroy Milosevic's official Belgrade residence.