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Date	Event
January 1, 1999	Euro currency is introduced in 11 member nations of the European Union (with the exception of the United Kingdom, Denmark, Greece and Sweden; Greece adopts the euro two years later).
January 3, 1999	The Mars Polar Lander is launched by NASA.
January 4, 1999	Former professional wrestler Jesse Ventura is sworn in as governor of Minnesota, United States.
January 7, 1999	The Senate trial in the impeachment of U.S. President Bill Clinton begins.
January 19, 1999	British Aerospace agrees to acquire the defence subsidiary of the General Electric Company plc, forming BAE Systems in November 1999.
January 21, 1999	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 kilograms (9,500 lb) of cocaine on board.
January 22, 1999	Australian missionary Graham Staines and his two sons are burned alive by radical Hindus while sleeping in their car in Eastern India.
January 25, 1999	A 6.0 magnitude earthquake hits western Colombia killing at least 1,000.
February 4, 1999	Unarmed West African immigrant Amadou Diallo is shot 41 times by four plainclothes New York City police officers on an unrelated stake-out, inflaming race relations in the city.
February 7, 1999	Crown Prince Abdullah becomes the King of Jordan on the death of his father, King Hussein.
February 11, 1999	Pluto crosses Neptune's orbit, ending a nearly 20-year period when it was closer to the Sun than the gas giant; Pluto is not expected to interact with Neptune's orbit again until 2231.
February 12, 1999	United States President Bill Clinton is acquitted by the United States Senate in his impeachment trial.
February 23, 1999	Kurdish rebel leader Abdullah Öcalan is charged with treason in Ankara, Turkey.
February 23, 1999	An avalanche buries the town of Galtür, Austria, killing 31.[13]
February 24, 1999	China Southwest Airlines Flight 4509, a Tupolev Tu-154 aircraft, crashes on approach to Wenzhou Longwan International Airport in Wenzhou, Zhejiang, China. All 61 people on board are killed.
March 12, 1999	Former Warsaw Pact members the Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland join NATO.
March 20, 1999	Legoland California, the first Legoland outside of Europe, opens in Carlsbad, California, US.
March 21, 1999	Bertrand Piccard and Brian Jones become the first to circumnavigate the Earth in a hot air balloon.
March 23, 1999	Gunmen assassinate Paraguay's Vice President Luis María Argaña.
March 24, 1999	Kosovo War: NATO began attacks on Yugoslavia without United Nations Security Council (UNSC) approval, marking the first time NATO has attacked a sovereign country.[71]
March 24, 1999	A lorry carrying margarine and flour catches fire inside the Mont Blanc Tunnel, creating an inferno that kills 38 people.
March 27, 1999	Kosovo War: An American Lockheed F-117A Nighthawk is shot down by a Yugoslav Army SAM, the first and only Nighthawk to be lost in combat.
March 28, 1999	Kosovo War: Serb paramilitary and military forces kill at least 130 Kosovo Albanians in Izbica.
March 29, 1999	The Dow Jones Industrial Average closes above the 10,000 mark (10,006.78) for the first time, during the height of the dot-com bubble.
March 29, 1999	A magnitude 6.8 earthquake in India strikes the Chamoli district in Uttar Pradesh, killing 103.
April 1, 1999	Nunavut is established as a Canadian territory carved out of the eastern part of the Northwest Territories.
April 5, 1999	Two Libyans suspected of bringing down Pan Am Flight 103 in 1988 are handed over for eventual trial in the Netherlands.
April 12, 1999	United States President Bill Clinton is cited for contempt of court for giving "intentionally false statements" in a civil lawsuit; he is later fined and disbarred.
April 19, 1999	The German Bundestag returns to Berlin.
April 20, 1999	Columbine High School massacre: Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold kill 13 people and injure 24 others before committing suicide at Columbine High School in Columbine, Colorado.
April 23, 1999	NATO bombs the headquarters of Radio Television of Serbia, as part of their aerial campaign against the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
April 30, 1999	Neo-Nazi David Copeland carries out the last of his three nail bombings in London at the Admiral Duncan gay pub, killing three people and injuring 79 others.
May 1, 1999	The body of British climber George Mallory is found on Mount Everest, 75 years after his disappearance in 1924.
May 2, 1999	Panamanian general election, 1999: Mireya Moscoso becomes the first woman to be elected President of Panama.
May 3, 1999	The southwestern portion of Oklahoma City is devastated by an F5 tornado, killing forty-five people, injuring 665, and causing $1 billion in damage. The tornado is one of 66 from the 1999 Oklahoma tornado outbreak. This tornado also produces the highest wind speed ever recorded, measured at 301 +/- 20 mph (484 +/- 32 km/h).
May 3, 1999	Infiltration of Pakistani soldiers on Indian side results in the Kargil War.
May 6, 1999	The first elections to the devolved Scottish Parliament and Welsh Assembly are held.
May 7, 1999	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 7, 1999	Kosovo War: Three Chinese citizens are killed and 20 wounded when a NATO aircraft inadvertently bombs the Chinese embassy in Belgrade, Serbia.
May 7, 1999	In Guinea-Bissau, President João Bernardo Vieira is ousted in a military coup.
May 24, 1999	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 25, 1999	The United States House of Representatives releases the Cox Report which details China's nuclear espionage against the U.S. over the prior two decades.
May 28, 1999	In Milan, Italy, after 22 years of restoration work, Leonardo da Vinci's masterpiece The Last Supper is put back on display.
May 29, 1999	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 29, 1999	Space Shuttle Discovery completes the first docking with the International Space Station.
June 1, 1999	American Airlines Flight 1420 slides and crashes while landing at Little Rock National Airport, killing 11 people on a flight from Dallas to Little Rock.
June 9, 1999	Kosovo War: The Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and NATO sign a peace treaty.
June 10, 1999	Kosovo War: NATO suspends its airstrikes after Slobodan Milošević agrees to withdraw Serbian forces from Kosovo.
June 12, 1999	Kosovo War: Operation Joint Guardian begins when a NATO-led United Nations peacekeeping force (KFor) enters the province of Kosovo in Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
June 13, 1999	BMW win the 24 Hours of Le Mans, with Toyota being a contention for the win until a puncture in the last hour relegated it to second, Toyota not participating in Le Mans again until 2012. The race was also remembered for the flipping incidents involving the Mercedes cars, the team withdrawing mid-race and Mercedes never entering Le Mans again.[15]
July 1, 1999	The Scottish Parliament is officially opened by Elizabeth II on the day that legislative powers are officially transferred from the old Scottish Office in London to the new devolved Scottish Executive in Edinburgh. In Wales, the powers of the Welsh Secretary are transferred to the National Assembly.
July 5, 1999	U.S. President Bill Clinton imposes trade and economic sanctions against the Taliban regime in Afghanistan.
July 9, 1999	Days of student protests begin after Iranian police and hardliners attack a student dormitory at the University of Tehran.
July 10, 1999	In women's association football, the United States defeated China in a penalty shoot-out at the Rose Bowl near Los Angeles to win the final match of the 1999 FIFA Women's World Cup. The final was watched by 90,185 spectators, which set a new world record for attendance at a women's sporting event.
July 16, 1999	John F. Kennedy Jr., his wife, Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy, and her sister, Lauren Bessette, die when the aircraft he is piloting crashes into the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Martha's Vineyard.
July 20, 1999	The Chinese Communist Party begins a persecution campaign against Falun Gong, arresting thousands nationwide.
July 23, 1999	ANA Flight 61 is hijacked in Tokyo, Japan by Yuji Nishizawa.
July 23, 1999	Space Shuttle Columbia launches on STS-93, with Eileen Collins becoming the first female space shuttle commander. The shuttle also carried and deployed the Chandra X-ray Observatory.
July 24, 1999	Air Fiji flight 121 crashes while en route to Nadi, Fiji, killing all 17 people on board.
July 26, 1999	Kargil conflict officially comes to an end. The Indian Army announces the complete eviction of Pakistani intruders.
July 31, 1999	Discovery Program: Lunar Prospector: NASA intentionally crashes the spacecraft into the Moon, thus ending its mission to detect frozen water on the Moon's surface.
August 2, 1999	The Gaisal train disaster claims 285 lives in Assam, India.
August 7, 1999	The Chechnya-based Islamic International Brigade invades neighboring Dagestan.
August 9, 1999	Russian President Boris Yeltsin fires his Prime Minister, Sergei Stepashin, and for the fourth time fires his entire cabinet.
August 10, 1999	Los Angeles Jewish Community Center shooting.[8][9][10]
August 15, 1999	Beni Ounif massacre in Algeria: Some 29 people are killed at a false roadblock near the Moroccan border, leading to temporary tensions with Morocco.
August 17, 1999	The 7.6 Mw  İzmit earthquake shakes northwestern Turkey with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent), leaving 17,118–17,127 dead and 43,953–50,000 injured.
August 19, 1999	In Belgrade, Yugoslavia, tens of thousands of Serbians rally to demand the resignation of Federal Republic of Yugoslavia President Slobodan Milošević.
August 22, 1999	China Airlines Flight 642 crashes at Hong Kong International Airport, killing three people and injuring 208 more.
August 26, 1999	Russia begins the Second Chechen War in response to the Invasion of Dagestan by the Islamic International Peacekeeping Brigade.
August 28, 1999	The Russian space mission Soyuz TM-29 reaches completion, ending nearly 10 years of continuous occupation on the space station Mir as it approaches the end of its life.
August 31, 1999	The first of a series of bombings in Moscow kills one person and wounds 40 others.
August 31, 1999	A LAPA Boeing 737-200 crashes during takeoff from Jorge Newbury Airport in Buenos Aires, killing 65, including two on the ground.
September 7, 1999	The 6.0 Mw  Athens earthquake affected the area with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent), killing 143, injuring 800–1,600, and leaving 50,000 homeless.
September 14, 1999	Kiribati, Nauru and Tonga join the United Nations.
September 21, 1999	The Chi-Chi earthquake occurs in central Taiwan, leaving about 2,400 people dead.
September 30, 1999	The Tokaimura nuclear accident causes the deaths of two technicians in Japan's second-worst nuclear accident.
October 5, 1999	The Ladbroke Grove rail crash in west London kills 31 people.
October 11, 1999	Air Botswana pilot Chris Phatswe steals an ATR 42 from Sir Seretse Khama International Airport and later crashes it into two other aircraft at the airport, killing himself.
October 12, 1999	Pervez Musharraf takes power in Pakistan from Nawaz Sharif through a bloodless coup.
October 12, 1999	The former Autonomous Soviet Republic of Abkhazia declares its independence from Georgia.
October 22, 1999	Maurice Papon, an official in the Vichy government during World War II, is jailed for crimes against humanity.
October 25, 1999	A Learjet 35 crashes in Mina near Aberdeen, South Dakota, killing all six people on board, including PGA golfer Payne Stewart.
October 26, 1999	The United Kingdom's House of Lords votes to end the right of most hereditary peers to vote in Britain's upper chamber of Parliament.
October 27, 1999	Gunmen open fire in the Armenian Parliament, killing the Prime Minister and seven others.
October 29, 1999	A large cyclone devastates Odisha, India.
October 31, 1999	Yachtsman Jesse Martin returns to Melbourne after 11 months of circumnavigating the world, solo, non-stop and unassisted.
October 31, 1999	EgyptAir Flight 990 crashes into the Atlantic Ocean near Nantucket, killing all 217 people on board.
November 2, 1999	Honolulu shootings: In the worst mass murder in the history of Hawaii, a gunman shoots at eight people in his workplace, killing seven.
November 8, 1999	Bruce Miller is killed at his junkyard near Flint, Michigan. His wife Sharee Miller, who convinced her online lover Jerry Cassaday to kill him (before later killing himself) was convicted of the crime, in what became the world's first Internet murder.
November 9, 1999	TAESA Flight 725 crashes after takeoff from Uruapan International Airport in Uruapan, Michoacán, Mexico, killing all 18 people on board.
November 11, 1999	The House of Lords Act is given Royal Assent, restricting membership of the British House of Lords by virtue of a hereditary peerage.
November 12, 1999	The 7.2 Mw  Düzce earthquake shakes northwestern Turkey with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent). At least 845 people are killed and almost 5,000 are injured.
November 18, 1999	At Texas A&M University, the Aggie Bonfire collapses killing 12 students and injuring 27 others.
November 19, 1999	Shenzhou 1: The People's Republic of China launches its first Shenzhou spacecraft.
November 19, 1999	John Carpenter becomes the first person to win the top prize in the TV game show Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?.
November 25, 1999	A five-year-old Cuban boy, Elian Gonzalez, is rescued by fishermen while floating in an inner tube off the Florida coast.
November 26, 1999	The 7.5 Mw  Ambrym earthquake shakes Vanuatu and a destructive tsunami follows. Ten people were killed and forty were injured.
November 27, 1999	The centre-left Labour Party takes control of the New Zealand government with leader Helen Clark becoming the first elected female Prime Minister in New Zealand's history.
November 30, 1999	Exxon and Mobil sign a US$73.7 billion agreement to merge, thus creating ExxonMobil, the world's largest company.
November 30, 1999	In Seattle, United States, demonstrations against a World Trade Organization meeting by anti-globalization protesters catch police unprepared and force the cancellation of opening ceremonies.
November 30, 1999	British Aerospace and Marconi Electronic Systems merge to form BAE Systems, Europe's largest defense contractor and the fourth largest aerospace firm in the world.
December 2, 1999	The United Kingdom devolves political power in Northern Ireland to the Northern Ireland Executive following the Good Friday Agreement.
December 3, 1999	NASA loses radio contact with the Mars Polar Lander moments before the spacecraft enters the Martian atmosphere.
December 6, 1999	A&M Records, Inc. v. Napster, Inc.: The Recording Industry Association of America sues the peer-to-peer file-sharing service Napster, alleging copyright infringement.
December 10, 1999	Helen Clark is sworn in as Prime Minister of New Zealand, the second woman to hold the post and the first following an election.[9]
December 11, 1999	SATA Air Açores Flight 530M crashes into Pico da Esperança on São Jorge Island in the Azores, killing 35.
December 12, 1999	A magnitude 7.3 earthquake hits the Philippines's main island of Luzon, killing six people, injuring 40, and causing power outages that affected the capital Manila.
December 14, 1999	Torrential rains cause flash floods in Vargas, Venezuela, resulting in tens of thousands of deaths, the destruction of thousands of homes, and the complete collapse of the state's infrastructure.
December 18, 1999	NASA launches into orbit the Terra platform carrying five Earth Observation instruments, including ASTER, CERES, MISR, MODIS and MOPITT.
December 20, 1999	Macau is handed over to China by Portugal.
December 21, 1999	The Spanish Civil Guard intercepts a van loaded with 950 kg of explosives that ETA intended to use to blow up Torre Picasso in Madrid, Spain.
December 21, 1999	Cubana de Aviación Flight 1216 overshoots the runway at La Aurora International Airport, killing 18.
December 22, 1999	Just after taking off from London Stansted Airport, Korean Air Cargo Flight 8509 crashes into Hatfield Forest near Great Hallingbury, killing all four people on board.
December 24, 1999	Indian Airlines Flight 814 is hijacked in Indian airspace between Kathmandu, Nepal, and Delhi, India. The aircraft landed at Kandahar in Afghanistan. The incident ended on December 31 with the release of 190 survivors (one passenger is killed).
December 25, 1999	Cubana de Aviación Flight 310, a Yakovlev Yak-42, crashes near Bejuma, Carabobo State, Venezuela, killing 22 people.
December 26, 1999	The storm Lothar sweeps across Central Europe, killing 137 and causing US$1.3 billion in damage.
December 31, 1999	The first President of Russia, Boris Yeltsin, resigns from office, leaving Prime Minister Vladimir Putin as the acting President and successor.
December 31, 1999	The U.S. government hands control of the Panama Canal (as well all the adjacent land to the canal known as the Panama Canal Zone) to Panama. This act complied with the signing of the 1977 Torrijos–Carter Treaties.
December 31, 1999	Indian Airlines Flight 814 hijacking ends after seven days with the release of 190 survivors at Kandahar Airport, Afghanistan.