World Events of 1999
South African President Nelson Mandela resigned and was replaced by Thabo Mbeki.
President milosevic of Yugoslavia declared war on ethnic Albanians in Kosovo massacring and deporting many before NATO troops intervened.
An earthquake measuring 7.4 on the Richter scale caused widespread l;oss of life and destruction in Turkey.
East Timor voted for independence from Indonesia causing pro-Indonesian forces to massacre many East Timorese.
Pakistan and India resumed an age-old fight over ownership of Kashmir.
Computer owners around the world expected major problems when the Y2K bug was expected to be released at midnight on Dec 31.
Presdient Clinton survived the impeachment trial claiming he had never had sex in the 'biblical' sense with Monica Lewinsky.
Two disgruntled Colombine High ( US ) students stormed their school killing 15 including themselves.
John F Kennedy, his wife and her sister were killed when a plane he was piloting crashed into the Atlantic Ocean.
The main movies were The Blair Witch Project, American Beauty and Star Wars Episode 1 - the Phantom Menace.
Doctors in the US performed the world's first human hand transplant.
American baseball star and former husband of Marilyn Monroe, Joe DiMaggio, died.
Film director Stanley Kubrick died
President milosevic of Yugoslavia declared war on ethnic Albanians in Kosovo massacring and deporting many before NATO troops intervened.
An earthquake measuring 7.4 on the Richter scale caused widespread l;oss of life and destruction in Turkey.
East Timor voted for independence from Indonesia causing pro-Indonesian forces to massacre many East Timorese.
Pakistan and India resumed an age-old fight over ownership of Kashmir.
Computer owners around the world expected major problems when the Y2K bug was expected to be released at midnight on Dec 31.
Presdient Clinton survived the impeachment trial claiming he had never had sex in the 'biblical' sense with Monica Lewinsky.
Two disgruntled Colombine High ( US ) students stormed their school killing 15 including themselves.
John F Kennedy, his wife and her sister were killed when a plane he was piloting crashed into the Atlantic Ocean.
The main movies were The Blair Witch Project, American Beauty and Star Wars Episode 1 - the Phantom Menace.
Doctors in the US performed the world's first human hand transplant.
American baseball star and former husband of Marilyn Monroe, Joe DiMaggio, died.
Film director Stanley Kubrick died
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