1999 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1999?
- January 20, 1999 – The China News Service announces new government restrictions on Internet use, aimed especially at Internet cafés.
- 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 4300 kg of cocaine on board.
- February 4, 1999 – The New Carissa runs aground near Coos Bay, Oregon.
- February 16, 1999 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Earth Rabbit in Chinese astrology.
- February 23, 1999 – An avalanche destroys the Austrian village of Galtür, killing 31.
- March 26, 1999 – A jury in Michigan finds Dr. Jack Kevorkian guilty of second-degree murder for administering a lethal injection to a terminally ill man.
- 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 14, 1999 – A severe hailstorm strikes Sydney, Australia causing A$2.3 billion in insured damages, the most costly natural disaster in Australian history.
- May 29, 1999 – Space Shuttle Discovery completes the first docking with the International Space Station.
- August 9, 1999 – Russian President Boris Yeltsin fires his Prime Minister, Sergei Stepashin, and for the fourth time fires his entire cabinet.
- September 7, 1999 – A 5.9 magnitude earthquake rocks Athens, rupturing a previously unknown fault, killing 143, injuring more than 500, and leaving 50,000 people homeless.
- September 14, 1999 – Kiribati, Nauru and Tonga join the United Nations.
- September 30, 1999 – Japan’s second worst nuclear accident at a uranium reprocessing facility in Tōkai-mura, northeast of Tokyo.
- October 9, 1999 – The last flight of the SR-71.
- October 27, 1999 – Gunmen open fire in the Armenian Parliament, killing Prime Minister Vazgen Sargsyan, Parliament Chairman Karen Demirchyan, and 6 other members.
- October 31, 1999 – EgyptAir Flight 990 traveling from New York City to Cairo crashes off the coast of Nantucket, Massachusetts, killing all 217 on-board.
- December 3, 1999 – Six firefighters are killed in the Worcester Cold Storage Warehouse fire in Worcester, Massachusetts.
- December 14, 1999 – Kiribati, Nauru and Tonga join the United Nations.
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