INTERESTING EVENTS THAT HAPPENED IN 1999
Jan 1st - International Year of Elderly
Jan 1st - The Euro currency is introduced.
Jan 2nd - A brutal snowstorm smashes into the Midwestern United States, causing 14 inches (359 mm) of snow in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and 19 inches (487 mm) in Chicago, where temperatures plunge to -13°F (-25°C); 68 deaths are reported.
Jan 3rd - Israel detains, and later expels, 14 members of Concerned Christians.
Jan 3rd - The Mars Polar Lander was launched.
Jan 4th - Former professional wrestler Jesse Ventura is sworn in as governor of Minnesota.
Jan 4th - Gunmen open fire on Shiite Muslims worshipping in an Islamabad mosque, killing 16 people and injuring 25.
Jan 7th - President Bill Clinton begins his impeachment trial in the Senate.
Jan 10th - Fatboy Slim (Norman Cook) achieves his third UK No.1 single with 'Praise You'
Jan 13th - Basketball player Michael Jordan announces his retirement only to return in 2001
Jan 15th - The Racak incident: 45 Albanians in the Kosovo village of Racak are killed by Yugoslav security forces.
Jan 20th - The China News Service announces new government restrictions on Internet use aimed especially at Internet cafés.
Jan 21st - War on Drugs: In one of the largest drug busts in American history, the United States Coast Guard intercepts a ship with over 4,300 kg (9,500 lb) of cocaine on board.
Jan 22nd - Australian missionary Graham Staines and his two sons are burned alive by radical Hindus while sleeping in their car in Eastern India.
Jan 25th - A 6.0 Richter scale earthquake hits western Colombia killing at least 1,000.
Feb 3rd - In Jammu and Kashmir the political party Democratic Janata Dal (Jammu and Kashmir) is revived.
Feb 4th - The New Carissa runs aground near Coos Bay, Oregon.
Feb 4th - Unarmed West African immigrant Amadou Diallo is shot dead by four plainclothes New York City police officers on an unrelated stake-out, inflaming race-relations in the city.
Feb 7th - Crown Prince Abdullah becomes the King of Jordan on the death of his father, King Hussein.
Basketball Superstar Michael JordanFeb 12th - President Bill Clinton is acquitted by the United States Senate in his impeachment trial.
Feb 15th - Abdullah Öcalan, leader of the PKK (Kurdistan Workers Party, widely recognized as terrorist organization), was arrested in Kenya.
Feb 16th - O.J. Simpson's 1968 Heisman Trophy is sold for $230,000 to help settle a $33.5 million civil judgement against Simpson for the deaths of his ex-wife and her friend
Feb 16th - Across Europe, Kurdish rebels take over embassies and hold hostages after Turkey arrested one of their rebel leaders, Abdullah Öcalan.
Feb 23rd - Kurdish rebel leader Abdullah Öcalan is charged with treason in Ankara, Turkey.
Feb 23rd - An avalanche destroys the Austrian village of Galtür, killing 31.
Feb 24th - The State of Arizona executes Karl LaGrand, a German national involved in an armed robbery, in spite of Germany's legal action to attempt to save him.
Feb 24th - A China Southern Airlines Tupolev TU-154 airliner crashes on approach to Wenzhou airport in eastern the People's Republic of China, killing 61.
Feb 27th - Olusegun Obasanjo becomes Nigeria's first elected president since mid-1983.
Feb 27th - Korea International School is founded by Soon-Il Chung. It is currently directed by Ann Clapper.
Mar 5th - Paul Okalik is elected first Premier of Nunavut.
Mar 8th - The Supreme Court of the United States upholds the murder convictions of Timothy McVeigh for the Oklahoma City bombing.
Mar 11th - Infosys becomes the first Indian company listed on the NASDAQ stock exchange.
Mar 12th - Former Warsaw Pact members the Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland join NATO.
Mar 15th - Pluto again becomes outermost planet
Mar 20th - Legoland California, the first and only Legoland outside of Europe, opens in Carlsbad, California.
Mar 21st - Bertrand Piccard and Brian Jones become the first to circumnavigate the Earth in a hot air balloon.
Mar 23rd - Gunmen assassinate Paraguay's Vice President Luis María Argaña.
Mar 24th - Kosovo War: NATO commences air bombardment against Yugoslavia, marking the first time NATO has attacked a sovereign country.
Mar 24th - Mont Blanc Tunnel Fire: 39 people die when a Belgian transport truck carrying flour and margarine caught fire in the Mont Blanc Tunnel.
Mar 26th - The "Melissa worm" infects Microsoft word processing and e-mail systems around the world.
Mar 28th - 18th NCAA Women's Basketball Championship: at San Jose
Mar 29th - 61st NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: at ThunderDome St Petersburg
Mar 29th - The Dow Jones Industrial Average closes at 10006.78 - above the 10,000 mark for the first time ever.
Apr 1st - Nunavut is established as a Canadian territory carved out of the eastern part of the Northwest Territories.
Apr 5th - Two Libyans suspected of bringing down Pan Am flight 103 in 1988 are handed over for eventual trial in the Netherlands.
Apr 7th - The World Trade Organisation rules in favor of the United States in its long-running trade dispute with the European Union over bananas.
Apr 8th - Haryana Gana Parishad, a political party in the Indian state of Haryana, merges with the Indian National Congress.
Apr 9th - Ibrahim Baré Maïnassara, President of Niger, is assassinated.
Apr 12th - US President Bill Clinton is cited for contempt of court for giving "intentionally false statements" in a sexual harassment civil lawsuit.
Apr 14th - NATO mistakenly bombs a convoy of ethnic Albanian refugees - Yugoslav officials say 75 people are killed.
Apr 14th - A severe hailstorm strikes Sydney, Australia causing A$1.7 billion in insured damages, the most costly natural disaster in Australian history.
Apr 19th - The German Bundestag returns to Berlin.
Apr 20th - Columbine High School massacre: Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold kill 13 people and injure 24 others before committing suicide at Columbine High School located in Jefferson County, Colorado.
Apr 29th - Avala TV Tower near Belgrade is destroyed in NATO bombing of Yugoslavia.
Apr 30th - Cambodia joins the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) bringing the total members to 10.
May 2nd - Panamanian election, 1999: Mireya Moscoso becomes the first woman to be elected President of Panama.
May 3rd - Oklahoma City, Oklahoma is slammed by an F5 tornado killing forty-two people, injuring 665, and causing $1 billion in damage. The tornado was one of 66 from the 1999 Oklahoma tornado outbreak.
May 3rd - The Dow Jones Industrial Average closes above 11,000 for the first time in its history at 11,014.70.
May 3rd - Stephen Hendry defeats Mark Williams 18-11 to win the World Snooker Championship for a record seventh time.
May 7th - Kosovo War: In Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, three Chinese citizens are killed and 20 wounded when a NATO aircraft bombs the Chinese embassy in Belgrade.
May 7th - In Guinea-Bissau, President João Bernardo Vieira is ousted in a military coup.
264th Pope John Paul IIMay 7th - Pope John Paul II travels to Romania becoming the first pope to visit a predominantly Eastern Orthodox country since the Great Schism in 1054.
May 7th - A jury finds The Jenny Jones Show and Warner Bros. liable in the shooting death of Scott Amedure, after the show purposely deceived Jonathan Schmitz to appear on a secret same-sex crush episode. Schmitz later killed Amedure and the jury awarded Amedure's family $25 million USD.
May 8th - Nancy Mace becomes the first female cadet to graduate from The Citadel military college.
May 12th - David Steel becomes the first Presiding Officer (speaker) of the modern Scottish Parliament.
May 21st - All My Children star Susan Lucci finally wins a Daytime Emmy after being nominated 19 times, the longest period of unsuccessful nominations in television history
May 24th - Venezuela enters the Antarctic Treaty System.
May 25th - The United States House of Representatives releases the Cox Report which details the People's Republic of China's nuclear espionage against the U.S. over the prior two decades.
May 27th - The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in The Hague, Netherlands indicts Slobodan Milošević and four others for war crimes and crimes against humanity committed in Kosovo.
May 28th - In Milan, Italy, after 22 years of restoration work, Leonardo da Vinci's masterpiece "The Last Supper" is put back on display.
May 28th - Two Swedish police officers are murdered with their own fire arms by the bank robbers Jackie Arklöv and Tony Olsson after a dramatic car chase.
May 29th - Olusegun Obasanjo takes office as President of Nigeria, the first elected and civilian head of state in Nigeria after 16 years of military rule.
May 29th - Space Shuttle Discovery completes the first docking with the International Space Station.
Jun 2nd - The Bhutan Broadcasting Service brings television transmissions to the Kingdom for the first time.
jun 4- ZOE PRICE WAS BORN !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Jun 6th - In Australian Rules Football, Tony Lockett breaks the record for career goals, previously 1299 by Gordon Coventry and which had stood since 1937.
Jun 6th - At the Putim maximum security prison in Brazil, 345 prisoners run from the main gate in the largest jailbreak in Brazilian history, marking the 10th escape for the three-year-old facility. In the ensuing manhunt, two fugitives are killed and five innocent bystanders are accidentally jailed.
Jan 1st - The Euro currency is introduced.
Jan 2nd - A brutal snowstorm smashes into the Midwestern United States, causing 14 inches (359 mm) of snow in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and 19 inches (487 mm) in Chicago, where temperatures plunge to -13°F (-25°C); 68 deaths are reported.
Jan 3rd - Israel detains, and later expels, 14 members of Concerned Christians.
Jan 3rd - The Mars Polar Lander was launched.
Jan 4th - Former professional wrestler Jesse Ventura is sworn in as governor of Minnesota.
Jan 4th - Gunmen open fire on Shiite Muslims worshipping in an Islamabad mosque, killing 16 people and injuring 25.
Jan 7th - President Bill Clinton begins his impeachment trial in the Senate.
Jan 10th - Fatboy Slim (Norman Cook) achieves his third UK No.1 single with 'Praise You'
Jan 13th - Basketball player Michael Jordan announces his retirement only to return in 2001
Jan 15th - The Racak incident: 45 Albanians in the Kosovo village of Racak are killed by Yugoslav security forces.
Jan 20th - The China News Service announces new government restrictions on Internet use aimed especially at Internet cafés.
Jan 21st - War on Drugs: In one of the largest drug busts in American history, the United States Coast Guard intercepts a ship with over 4,300 kg (9,500 lb) of cocaine on board.
Jan 22nd - Australian missionary Graham Staines and his two sons are burned alive by radical Hindus while sleeping in their car in Eastern India.
Jan 25th - A 6.0 Richter scale earthquake hits western Colombia killing at least 1,000.
Feb 3rd - In Jammu and Kashmir the political party Democratic Janata Dal (Jammu and Kashmir) is revived.
Feb 4th - The New Carissa runs aground near Coos Bay, Oregon.
Feb 4th - Unarmed West African immigrant Amadou Diallo is shot dead by four plainclothes New York City police officers on an unrelated stake-out, inflaming race-relations in the city.
Feb 7th - Crown Prince Abdullah becomes the King of Jordan on the death of his father, King Hussein.
Basketball Superstar Michael JordanFeb 12th - President Bill Clinton is acquitted by the United States Senate in his impeachment trial.
Feb 15th - Abdullah Öcalan, leader of the PKK (Kurdistan Workers Party, widely recognized as terrorist organization), was arrested in Kenya.
Feb 16th - O.J. Simpson's 1968 Heisman Trophy is sold for $230,000 to help settle a $33.5 million civil judgement against Simpson for the deaths of his ex-wife and her friend
Feb 16th - Across Europe, Kurdish rebels take over embassies and hold hostages after Turkey arrested one of their rebel leaders, Abdullah Öcalan.
Feb 23rd - Kurdish rebel leader Abdullah Öcalan is charged with treason in Ankara, Turkey.
Feb 23rd - An avalanche destroys the Austrian village of Galtür, killing 31.
Feb 24th - The State of Arizona executes Karl LaGrand, a German national involved in an armed robbery, in spite of Germany's legal action to attempt to save him.
Feb 24th - A China Southern Airlines Tupolev TU-154 airliner crashes on approach to Wenzhou airport in eastern the People's Republic of China, killing 61.
Feb 27th - Olusegun Obasanjo becomes Nigeria's first elected president since mid-1983.
Feb 27th - Korea International School is founded by Soon-Il Chung. It is currently directed by Ann Clapper.
Mar 5th - Paul Okalik is elected first Premier of Nunavut.
Mar 8th - The Supreme Court of the United States upholds the murder convictions of Timothy McVeigh for the Oklahoma City bombing.
Mar 11th - Infosys becomes the first Indian company listed on the NASDAQ stock exchange.
Mar 12th - Former Warsaw Pact members the Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland join NATO.
Mar 15th - Pluto again becomes outermost planet
Mar 20th - Legoland California, the first and only Legoland outside of Europe, opens in Carlsbad, California.
Mar 21st - Bertrand Piccard and Brian Jones become the first to circumnavigate the Earth in a hot air balloon.
Mar 23rd - Gunmen assassinate Paraguay's Vice President Luis María Argaña.
Mar 24th - Kosovo War: NATO commences air bombardment against Yugoslavia, marking the first time NATO has attacked a sovereign country.
Mar 24th - Mont Blanc Tunnel Fire: 39 people die when a Belgian transport truck carrying flour and margarine caught fire in the Mont Blanc Tunnel.
Mar 26th - The "Melissa worm" infects Microsoft word processing and e-mail systems around the world.
Mar 28th - 18th NCAA Women's Basketball Championship: at San Jose
Mar 29th - 61st NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: at ThunderDome St Petersburg
Mar 29th - The Dow Jones Industrial Average closes at 10006.78 - above the 10,000 mark for the first time ever.
Apr 1st - Nunavut is established as a Canadian territory carved out of the eastern part of the Northwest Territories.
Apr 5th - Two Libyans suspected of bringing down Pan Am flight 103 in 1988 are handed over for eventual trial in the Netherlands.
Apr 7th - The World Trade Organisation rules in favor of the United States in its long-running trade dispute with the European Union over bananas.
Apr 8th - Haryana Gana Parishad, a political party in the Indian state of Haryana, merges with the Indian National Congress.
Apr 9th - Ibrahim Baré Maïnassara, President of Niger, is assassinated.
Apr 12th - US President Bill Clinton is cited for contempt of court for giving "intentionally false statements" in a sexual harassment civil lawsuit.
Apr 14th - NATO mistakenly bombs a convoy of ethnic Albanian refugees - Yugoslav officials say 75 people are killed.
Apr 14th - A severe hailstorm strikes Sydney, Australia causing A$1.7 billion in insured damages, the most costly natural disaster in Australian history.
Apr 19th - The German Bundestag returns to Berlin.
Apr 20th - Columbine High School massacre: Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold kill 13 people and injure 24 others before committing suicide at Columbine High School located in Jefferson County, Colorado.
Apr 29th - Avala TV Tower near Belgrade is destroyed in NATO bombing of Yugoslavia.
Apr 30th - Cambodia joins the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) bringing the total members to 10.
May 2nd - Panamanian election, 1999: Mireya Moscoso becomes the first woman to be elected President of Panama.
May 3rd - Oklahoma City, Oklahoma is slammed by an F5 tornado killing forty-two people, injuring 665, and causing $1 billion in damage. The tornado was one of 66 from the 1999 Oklahoma tornado outbreak.
May 3rd - The Dow Jones Industrial Average closes above 11,000 for the first time in its history at 11,014.70.
May 3rd - Stephen Hendry defeats Mark Williams 18-11 to win the World Snooker Championship for a record seventh time.
May 7th - Kosovo War: In Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, three Chinese citizens are killed and 20 wounded when a NATO aircraft bombs the Chinese embassy in Belgrade.
May 7th - In Guinea-Bissau, President João Bernardo Vieira is ousted in a military coup.
264th Pope John Paul IIMay 7th - Pope John Paul II travels to Romania becoming the first pope to visit a predominantly Eastern Orthodox country since the Great Schism in 1054.
May 7th - A jury finds The Jenny Jones Show and Warner Bros. liable in the shooting death of Scott Amedure, after the show purposely deceived Jonathan Schmitz to appear on a secret same-sex crush episode. Schmitz later killed Amedure and the jury awarded Amedure's family $25 million USD.
May 8th - Nancy Mace becomes the first female cadet to graduate from The Citadel military college.
May 12th - David Steel becomes the first Presiding Officer (speaker) of the modern Scottish Parliament.
May 21st - All My Children star Susan Lucci finally wins a Daytime Emmy after being nominated 19 times, the longest period of unsuccessful nominations in television history
May 24th - Venezuela enters the Antarctic Treaty System.
May 25th - The United States House of Representatives releases the Cox Report which details the People's Republic of China's nuclear espionage against the U.S. over the prior two decades.
May 27th - The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in The Hague, Netherlands indicts Slobodan Milošević and four others for war crimes and crimes against humanity committed in Kosovo.
May 28th - In Milan, Italy, after 22 years of restoration work, Leonardo da Vinci's masterpiece "The Last Supper" is put back on display.
May 28th - Two Swedish police officers are murdered with their own fire arms by the bank robbers Jackie Arklöv and Tony Olsson after a dramatic car chase.
May 29th - Olusegun Obasanjo takes office as President of Nigeria, the first elected and civilian head of state in Nigeria after 16 years of military rule.
May 29th - Space Shuttle Discovery completes the first docking with the International Space Station.
Jun 2nd - The Bhutan Broadcasting Service brings television transmissions to the Kingdom for the first time.
jun 4- ZOE PRICE WAS BORN !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Jun 6th - In Australian Rules Football, Tony Lockett breaks the record for career goals, previously 1299 by Gordon Coventry and which had stood since 1937.
Jun 6th - At the Putim maximum security prison in Brazil, 345 prisoners run from the main gate in the largest jailbreak in Brazilian history, marking the 10th escape for the three-year-old facility. In the ensuing manhunt, two fugitives are killed and five innocent bystanders are accidentally jailed.