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CCTV footage of theColumbine High School massacre , one of the deadliest school shootings in the history of theUnited States .Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold perpetrated the shooting and also planned a bombing, but it failed to detonate. 13 students, a teacher, and both perpetrators were shot and killed.Death and state funeral of Hussein of Jordan .1999 Jiji earthquake , the second-deadliest earthquake to strike centralTaiwan , with 2,415 deaths.TheIndian Army right after their victory in theKargil War . Satellite image ofCyclone Anatol . Members ofKosova Liberation Army during theKosovo War . EgyptAir Flight 990 , a deadlyBoeing 767 that crashed into theAtlantic Ocean about 60 miles south of Nantucket,Massachusetts killing all the passengers on board.The1999 Russian apartment bombings , a series of explosions hit four apartment blocks in the Russian cities ofBuynaksk ,Moscow , andVolgodonsk , that killed 307. Theyear 2000 problem , a computer bug caused by older systems using only two digits for years. Calendar year
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1999 (MCMXCIX ) was acommon year starting on Friday of theGregorian calendar , the 1999th year of theCommon Era (CE) andAnno Domini 2nd millennium , the 99th year of the20th century , and the 10th and last year of the1990s decade.
Calendar year
1999 was designated as theInternational Year of Older Persons .
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January
February
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April April 1 –Nunavut , anInuit homeland, is created from the eastern portion of theNorthwest Territories to become Canada's thirdterritory .April 5 April 7 –Kosovo War :Kosovo 's main border crossings are closed by Yugoslav forces to preventKosovo Albanians from leaving.April 9 –Ibrahim Baré Maïnassara , president ofNiger , is assassinated.April 14 –Kosovo War : NATO warplanes repeatedlybomb ethnic Albanian refugee convoys for 2 hours over a 12-mile stretch of road, after mistaking them for Yugoslav military trucks, betweenĐakovica andDečani in western Kosovo, killing at least 73 refugees.April 20 –Columbine High School massacre : TwoLittleton, Colorado , teenagers,Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold , open fire on their teachers and classmates, killing 13 students and 1 teacher, and then themselves.April 21 Explosions were heard in Belgrade, Niš, Novi Sad, and Subotica. Thousands of people were killed.April 24 –Namibian Economic Society is founded.April 26 April 30 –Cambodia joins theAssociation of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), bringing the total members to 10.
May
June June 1 June 2 – TheKing of Bhutan allowstelevision transmissions to commence inthe Kingdom for the first time, coinciding with the King's Silver Jubilee.June 5 – TheIslamic Salvation Army , the armed wing of theIslamic Salvation Front , agrees in principle to disband inAlgeria .June 8 – The government ofColombia announces it will include the estimated value of the country'sillegal drug crops, exceeding half a billion US dollars, in itsgross national product .June 9 –Kosovo War :Yugoslavia andNATO sign apeace treaty to end their hostilities.June 10 – Kosovo War:NATO suspends itsairstrikes afterSlobodan Milošević agrees to withdrawYugoslav forces fromKosovo .June 12 – Kosovo War:Operation Joint Guardian /Operation Agricola begins:NATO -ledUnited Nations peacekeeping forcesKFOR enterKosovo, Yugoslavia .[ 15] [ 16] [ 17] June 16 –Thabo Mbeki is inaugurated as the secondpresident of South Africa , marking the firstpeaceful transfer of executive power in the country's post-democratization history.[ 18] [importance? June 18 – TheJ18 international anti-globalization protests are organized in dozens of cities around the world, some of which led to riots.June 19 –Turin , Italy, is awarded the2006 Winter Olympics .June 20 -Australia defeatsPakistan by 8 wickets atLord's Cricket Ground inLondon in the1999 Cricket World Cup Final , securing their second World Cup title.June 24 – Kosovo War: NATO marines shoot three gunmen inKosovo, Yugoslavia after being attacked by the latter, killing one of them and injuring the other two.[ 15] [ 19] June 25 –Bosnia and Herzegovina gets anew national anthem .[ 20] June 30 – Twenty-three people die in a fire at theSealand Youth Training Center in South Korea.
July July 1 –Europol (short for European Police Office) theEuropean Union 'scriminal intelligence agency becomes fully operational.July 7 – In Rome,Hicham El Guerrouj runs thefastest mile ever recorded , at 3:43.13.July 10 – American soccer playerBrandi Chastain scores the game winning penalty kick against China in thefinal of the FIFA Women's World Cup .July 11 – India recapturesKargil , forcing thePakistani army to retreat. India announces victory, ending the 2-month conflict.July 14 – theBig Blue crane collapse happened during the construction ofMiller Park , killing three iron workers.July 15 –T-Mobile Park (formerly known as Safeco Field) opens for the first time.July 16 –John F. Kennedy Jr. dies in a plane crash offMartha's Vineyard .July 18 – MLB PitcherDavid Cone of theNew York Yankees , throws the 16thperfect game in Major League Baseball history.July 20 July 22 –25 –Woodstock '99 was held inRome, New York at formerGriffiss Air Force Base , which was marred with difficult environmental conditions, poor sanitation, overpriced food and water, looting, violence, rapes, riots and several deaths.July 23 July 27 – Twenty-one people die in acanyoning disaster at theSaxetenbach Gorge nearInterlaken , Switzerland.July 31 –NASA intentionally crashes theLunar Prospector spacecraft into theMoon , thus ending its mission to detect frozen water on the lunar surface.
August
September September 3 –1999 Ontario Highway 401 crash occurs, involving 87 vehicles and killing 8.September 7 – The 6.0 Mw Athens earthquake hits with a maximumMercalli intensity of IX (Violent ), killing 143, injuring 800–1,600, and leaving 50,000 homeless.September 8 – The first of a series ofRussian apartment bombings occurs. Subsequent bombings occur on September 13 and 16, while a bombing on September 22 fails.September 9 –Sega Releases theDreamcast , in North America.September 12 – Under international pressure to allow an international peacekeeping force, Indonesian president BJ Habibie announces that he will do so.September 14 –Kiribati ,Nauru andTonga join theUnited Nations .September 20 – Start of theGreek stock market crash of 1999 .September 21 – The 7.7 Mw 921 earthquake (also known as the Jiji earthquake) affects central Taiwan with a maximum Mercali intensity of X (Extreme ) leaving 2,400 people dead and more than 11,000 injured.
October October October 1 –Shanghai Pudong International Airport opens in China, taking over all international flights from Hongqiao.October 1 –November 6 – The1999 Rugby World Cup , the first World Cup in theprofessional era of rugby is held inWales and is won byAustralia who beatFrance inthe final .[ 25] October 5 – Thirty-one people die in theLadbroke Grove rail crash , west of London, England.October 12 October 25 –Telenovela Yo soy Betty, la fea RCN Televisión inColombia . It will give rise toUgly Betty [ 26] October 27 –Armenian parliament shooting : Gunmen open fire in theArmenian Parliament, killing Prime MinisterVazgen Sargsyan , Parliament ChairmanKaren Demirchyan , and six other members.October 29 –1999 Odisha cyclone : A super cyclonic storm impacts Orissa, India, killing approximately 10,000 people.October 30 –1999 Incheon bar fire [ko ] : A bar catches fire in Incheon, South Korea, killing 56 people.October 31
November
December December 3 December 5 –Bolivian municipal elections , the first election contested byEvo Morales 'Movimiento al Socialismo .December 18 – NASA launches the Terra platform into orbit, carrying five Earth Observation instruments, includingASTER ,CERES ,MISR ,MODIS andMOPITT .December 20 –Handover of Macau from thePortuguese Republic to the People's Republic of China after 442 years of Portuguese rule in the settlement.December 24 –Indian Airlines Flight 814 was hijacked on 24 December 1999 by five members ofHarkat-ul-Mujahideen in what was considered to be India's worst and last plane hijackingDecember 26 –Cyclone Lothar kills 140 people as it crosses France, southern Germany, and Switzerland.December 27 – A day after Cyclone Lothar,Cyclone Martin causes additional damage throughout France, Spain, Switzerland and Italy, including an emergency due toflooding at the Blayais Nuclear Power Plant .December 31 –Boris Yeltsin resigns aspresident of Russia , leavingPrime Minister Vladimir Putin as the acting president.
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