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The year 1999 was designated the International Year of Older Persons by the United Nations. The year 1999 was proclaimed the International Year of Older Persons by the United Nations. ... UN and U.N. redirect here. ...

[edit] Events of 1999

[edit] January

• January 2 - A snowstorm leaves 14 inches (359 mm) of snow in Milwaukee, Wisconsin and 19 inches (487 mm) in Chicago, Illinois, killing 68.
• January 4 - Gunmen open fire on Shiite Muslims worshiping in a mosque in Islamabad, Pakistan, killing 16 people and injuring 25.
• January 5 - Apple Computer releases the Power Macintosh G3 (Blue & White).
• January 6 - Dennis Hastert becomes Speaker of the United States House of Representatives.
• January 10 - A large piece of the chalk cliff at Beachy Head collapses into the sea.
• 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 - 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 tons) 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 - The Denver Broncos win their second Super Bowl in a row, defeating the Atlanta Falcons 34-19 in Super Bowl XXXIII at Pro Player Stadium, in Miami, Florida. It is also John Elway's final game.

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[edit] February

Orbit of Pluto - polar view.

• February 2 - Hugo Chávez becomes President of Venezuela.
• February 4 - Unarmed West African immigrant Amadou Diallo is shot dead by NYC 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 moves along its eccentric orbit further from the Sun than Neptune. It had been nearer than Neptune since 1979, and will become again in 2231.
• February 16 - In Uzbekistan, an apparent assassination attempt against President Islom Karimov takes place at government headquarters.
• February 16 - Across Europe, Kurdish rebels take over embassies and hold hostages after Turkey arrests one of their rebel leaders.
• 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 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 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 aloft for 233 hours and 55 minutes.

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[edit] March

• March 1 - One of 4 bombs detonated in Lusaka, Zambia, destroys the Angolan Embassy.
• March 1 - Rwandan Hutu rebels kill and dismember 8 foreign tourists at the Buhoma homestead, Uganda.
• March 1 - The Convention on the Prohibition of Anti-Personnel Mines comes into force.
• 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 21 - The 71st Academy Awards are held at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles, California with Shakespeare in Love winning Best Picture.
• 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.
• 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.

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[edit] April

Map of Nunavut

• April 1 - Nunavut, an Inuit homeland, is created from the eastern portion of the 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 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 - 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.

Columbine High School massacre

• 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.

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[edit] 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 - 1999 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 5 - Microsoft releases Windows 98 Second Edition.
• 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 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.
• 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 23 - WWF wrestler, Owen Hart dies after his harness snaps while descending from the arena ceiling, falling over 30 feet into the ring turnbuckle at the WWF Over The Edge pay-per-view event.
• 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 major trophy of the season, after winning the English Premier League and FA Cup, an unprecedented feat for a single season.
• 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 - The Swedish police officers Robert Karlström and Olov Borén gets wounded by three bank robbers armed with automatic weapons and later executed with their own service pistols by shots in the head from close distance on the scene in Malexander.
• May 28 - After 22 years of restoration work, Leonardo de Vinci’s "The Last Supper" is placed back on display in Milan, Italy.
• May 29 - Cathy O'Dowd, a South African mountaineer, becomes the first woman to summit Mount 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.

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