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1999 (
MCMXCIX ) was a
common year starting on Friday , and was designated the
International Year of Older Persons by the
United Nations .
Contents
1 Events of 1999
1.1 January 1.2 February 1.3 March 1.4 April 1.5 May 1.6 June 1.7 July 1.8 August 1.9 September 1.10 October 1.11 November 1.12 December
2 Unknown Dates 3 Births 4 Deaths
4.1 January 4.2 February 4.3 March 4.4 April 4.5 May 4.6 June 4.7 July 4.8 August 4.9 September 4.10 October 4.11 November 4.12 December
5 Nobel prizes 6 Templeton Prize 7 1999 in fiction and popular culture
7.1 Computer and video games 7.2 Film 7.3 Music 7.4 Television
Events of 1999 January January 1 - The Euro currency is introduced, locking the exchange rates of member nation currencies.
January 1 - An avalanche destroys a school gymnasium during New Year celebrations in Kangiqsualujjuaq, Quebec , killing 9.
January 2 - A brutal snowstorm smashes into the Midwestern United States , causing 14 inches (359 mm) of snow at Milwaukee, Wisconsin and 19 inches (487 mm) at Chicago, Illinois . In Chicago, temperatures plunge to -13°F (-25°C), and 68 deaths are reported.
January 4 - Gunmen open fire on Shiite Muslims worshipping in a mosque in Islamabad , Pakistan , killing 16 people and injuring 25.
January 5 - Apple Computer releases the Power Macintosh G3 (Blue & White) .
January 10 - A large piece of the chalk cliff at Beachy Head collapses into the sea.
January 12 - ...Baby One More Time was released by Britney Spears
January 13 - After 13 years of playing NBA basketball, superstar Michael Jordan announces his second retirement from basketball.
January 20 - The China News Service announces new government restrictions on Internet use aimed especially at Internet cafes .
January 21 - War on Drugs : In one of the largest drug busts in American history, the United States Coast Guard intercepts a ship with over 9,500 pounds (4.3 t) of cocaine aboard, headed for Houston, Texas .
January 25 - A 6.0 Richter scale earthquake hits western Colombia , killing at least 1,000.
January 31 - Super Bowl XXXIII : The Denver Broncos win their second consecutive Super Bowl , defeating the Atlanta Falcons 34-19.
February February 4 - Unarmed West African immigrant Amadou Diallo is shot dead by 4 plainclothes New York City police officers on an unrelated stake-out, inflaming race relations in the city.
February 5 - Mike Tyson is sentenced to a year's imprisonment, fined $5,000, and ordered to serve 2 years probation and perform 200 hours of community service for the August 31 , 1998 assault on 2 people after a car accident.
February 7 - King Hussein of Jordan dies from cancer , and his son Abdullah II inherits the throne.
February 10 - Avalanches in the French Alps near Geneva kill at least 10.
February 11 - Pluto , a dwarf planet with an eccentric orbit, moves further from the Sun than Neptune . It had been nearer than Neptune since 1979 , and will become again in 2231 .
February 12 - President of the United States Bill Clinton is acquitted by the United States Senate in his impeachment trial.
February 16 - In Uzbekistan , a bomb explodes and gunfire is heard at the government headquarters, in an apparent assassination attempt against President Islam Karimov .
February 16 - Across Europe, Kurdish rebels take over embassies and hold hostages after Turkey arrests one of their rebel leaders, Abdullah Öcalan .
February 16 - In Jasper, Texas , testimony begins in the trial of John William King who is accused of dragging African American James Byrd Jr. to death in an apparent hate crime . King is later convicted and sentenced to the death penalty .
February 21 - The Albertinkatu shootings in Helsinki , Finland : Three men are killed and 1 wounded at a shooting range.
February 22 - Moderate Iraqi Shiite cleric Mohammad Mohammad Sadeq al-Sadr is assassinated.
February 22 - Apple Computer and Abdul Traya begin the domain name dispute over appleimac.com.
February 23 - Kurdish rebel leader Abdullah Öcalan is charged with treason in Ankara , Turkey .
February 23 - White supremacist John William King is found guilty of kidnapping and killing African American James Byrd Jr. by dragging him behind a truck for 2 miles (3 km).
February 23 - An avalanche destroys the village of Galtür, Austria , killing 31.
February 23 - The first episode of the groundbreaking U.K. drama Queer as Folk Channel 4 .
February 24 - LaGrand Case : The State of Arizona executes Karl LaGrand , a German national involved in an armed robbery that led to a death. Karl's brother Walter is executed a week later, in spite of Germany 's legal action in the International Court of Justice to attempt to save him.
February 27 - While trying to circumnavigate the world in a hot air balloon , Colin Prescot and Andy Elson set a new endurance record after being in a hot air balloon for 233 hours and 55 minutes.
February 27 - Olusegun Obasanjo becomes Nigeria 's first elected president since mid-1983 .
March March 1 - One of 4 bombs detonated in Lusaka , Zambia , destroys the Angolan Embassy .
March 1 - Rwandan Hutu rebels kill and hack to pieces 8 foreign tourists at the Buhoma homestead, Uganda .
March 1 - The Convention on the Prohibition of Anti-Personnel Mines comes into force.
March 3 - Bertrand Piccard and Brian Jones begin their attempt to circumnavigate the world in a hot air balloon without stopping.
March 3 - Walter LaGrand is executed in the gas chamber .
March 4 - In a military court, United States Marine Corps Captain Richard Ashby is acquitted of the charge of reckless flying which resulted in the deaths of 20 skiers in the Italian Alps , when his low-flying jet hit a gondola cable.
March 12 - Hungary , Poland and the Czech Republic join NATO .
March 15 - In Brussels, Belgium , the Santer Commission resigns over allegations of corruption.
March 17 - The Roth IRA is introduced by U.S. Senator William V. Roth, Jr.
March 20 - Serbs launch an offensive in Kosovo .
March 21 - Bertrand Piccard and Brian Jones become the first to circumnavigate the Earth in a hot air balloon .
March 22 - U.S. pro-euthanasia doctor Jack Kevorkian goes on trial for murder in Pontiac, Michigan .
March 23 - Gunmen assassinate Paraguay 's Vice President Luis María Argaña .
March 24 - NATO launches air strikes against the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia , which refused to sign a peace treaty. This marks the first time NATO attacked a sovereign country.
March 24 - Fire in the Mont Blanc Tunnel kills 39 people, closing the tunnel for nearly three years.
March 25 - Enron energy traders allegedly route 2,900 megawatts of electricity destined for California to the town of Silver Peak, Nevada , population 200.
March 26 - The Melissa worm attacks the Internet .
March 26 - A Michigan jury finds Dr. Jack Kevorkian guilty of second-degree murder for administering a lethal injection to a terminally ill man (an incident videotaped and aired on the September 17 , 1998 edition of 60 Minutes March 27 - Kosovo War : A U.S. F-117 Nighthawk is shot down by Serbian forces.
March 29 - For the first time, the Dow Jones Industrial Average closes above the 10,000 mark, at 10,006.78.
March 29 - UConn defeats Duke , despite overwhelming predictions to the contrary, for the NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship .
March 31 - The Matrix April April 1 - Nunavut , an Inuit homeland, is created from the eastern portion of Northwest Territories to become Canada 's third, and final territory .
April 5 - Two Libyans suspected of bringing down Pan Am flight 103 in 1988 are handed over to Scottish authorities for eventual trial in the Netherlands . The United Nations suspends sanctions against Libya .
April 5 - In Laramie, Wyoming , Russell Henderson pleads guilty to kidnapping and felony murder, in order to avoid a possible death penalty conviction for the apparent hate crime killing of Matthew Shepard .
April 7 - Kosovo War : Kosovo 's main border crossings are closed by Serbian forces to prevent ethnic Albanians from leaving.
April 7 - A bomb explodes at the Valley of the Fallen Church in Spain ; GRAPO claims responsibility.
April 9 - Ibrahim Baré Maînassara , president of Niger , is assassinated.
April 13 - Tercentenary celebrations of the creation of the Sikh , Khalsa .
April 14 - Sydney hailstorms 1999
April 17 - A nail bomb explodes in the middle of a busy market in Brixton , South London .
April 18 - "The Great One" Wayne Gretzky plays his final National Hockey League game.
April 19
MySpace .com is officially introduced to the Internet, though MySpace-beta has been around since 1998 .
The US Navy kills a civilian guard in the Naval Base at Vieques, an island east of Puerto Rico which the Navy has used since 1943. The death of the civilian officer sparks off a civil disobedience campaign throughout the island of Puerto Rico to protest the presence of the Navy on the island.
April 20 - Columbine High School massacre : Two Littleton, Colorado teenagers, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold , open fire on their teachers and classmates, killing 12 students and 1 teacher, and then themselves.
April 25 - The term of Tuanku Jaafar ibni Almarhum Tuanku Abdul Rahman as the 10th Yang di-Pertuan Agong of Malaysia ends.
April 26 - Sultan Salahuddin Abdul Aziz Shah ibni Almarhum Sultan Hisamuddin Alam Shah Al-Haj , Sultan of Selangor , becomes the 11th Yang di-Pertuan Agong of Malaysia .
April 26 - British T.V presenter Jill Dando , 37, is shot dead on the doorstep of her home in Fulham , London .
April 30 - Cambodia joins the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), bringing the total members to 10.
April 30 - A third nail bomb (see April 17 ) explodes in the Admiral Duncan pub in Old Compton Street, Soho, London , killing a pregnant woman and two friends and injuring 70 others, including her husband. This is part of a hate campaign against ethnic minorities and gay people by David Copeland .
May May 2 - Norman J. Sirnic and Karen Sirnic are murdered by the serial killer Angel Maturino Resendiz in a parsonage in Weimar, Texas (his fourth and fifth victims in his fourth slaying incident).
May 3 - Oklahoma Tornado Outbreak : A F5 tornado slams into Moore, Oklahoma , killing 38 people - the second strongest tornado ever recorded in United States history.
May 3 - The Dow Jones Industrial Average closes above 11,000 for the first time, at 11,014.70.
May 6 - Elections are held in Scotland and Wales for the new Scottish Parliament and National Assembly for Wales .
May 7 - A jury finds The Jenny Jones Show 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.
May 7 - Kosovo War : In the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia , 3 Chinese embassy workers are killed and 20 wounded, when a NATO aircraft mistakenly bombs the Chinese Embassy in Belgrade .
May 7 - In Guinea-Bissau , President João Bernardo Vieira is ousted in a military coup .
May 8 - Nancy Mace becomes the first female cadet to graduate from The Military College of South Carolina .
May 8 - Jimmy Glass scores the goal that keeps Carlisle United in the Football League .
May 12 - David Steel becomes the first Presiding Officer (Speaker) of the modern Scottish Parliament .
May 13 - Carlo Azeglio Ciampi is elected President of Italy .
May 17 - Ehud Barak is elected prime minister of Israel .
May 19 - Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace , the first new Star Wars movie for 16 years, is released.
May 26 - The Indian Air Force launches an attack on intruding Pakistan Army troops and mujahadeen militants in Kashmir .
May 26 - The first Welsh Assembly in over 600 years opens in Cardiff .
May 26 - Manchester United wins the UEFA Champions League at the Nou Camp stadium, Barcelona , beating Bayern Munich to lift their third unprecedented major trophy, after winning the English Premier League and FA Cup .
May 27 - 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 28 - In Milan , Italy , after 22 years of restoration work, Leonardo de Vinci 's newly-restored masterpiece "The Last Supper " is placed back on display.
May 29 - Cathy O'Dowd a South African mountaineer, becomes the first woman to summit Everest from both the north and south sides.
May 29 - Nigeria terminates military rule, and the Nigerian Fourth Republic is established with Olusegun Obasanjo as president .
June
