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Events on the year of 1999 in history

Events
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01 Jan 1999 The Euro currency is introduced in 11 countries - members of the European Union (with the exception of the United Kingdom, Denmark, Greece and Sweden).
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02 Jan 1999 A brutal snowstorm smashes into the Midwestern United States, causing 14 inches (359 mm) of snow in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and 19 inches (487 mm) in Chicago, where temperatures plunge to -13 °F (-25 °C); 68 deaths are reported.
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03 Jan 1999 Israel detains, and later expels, 14 members of Concerned Christians.
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03 Jan 1999 The Mars Polar Lander is launched.
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04 Jan 1999 Former professional wrestler Jesse Ventura is sworn in as governor of Minnesota.
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07 Jan 1999 The Senate trial in the impeachment of U.S. President Bill Clinton begins.
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10 Jan 1999 Sanjeev Nanda kills three policemen in New Delhi, India with his car, an act for which he was later acquitted, resulting in a sharp drop in public confidence in the Indian legal system.
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14 Jan 1999 Toronto Mayor Mel Lastman becomes the first mayor in Canada to call in the Army to help with emergency medical evacuations and snow removal after more than one meter of snow paralyzes the city.
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19 Jan 1999 British Aerospace agrees to acquire the defence subsidiary of the General Electric Company plc, forming BAE Systems in November 1999.
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20 Jan 1999 The China News Service announces new government restrictions on Internet use, aimed especially at Internet cafés.
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21 Jan 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.
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22 Jan 1999 Australian missionary Graham Staines and his two sons are burned alive by radical Hindus while sleeping in their car in Eastern India.
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31 Jan 1999 Super Bowl XXXIII Denver Broncos beat Atlanta Falcons in Miami; Super Bowl MVP John Elway, Denver, Quarterback
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04 Feb 1999 Unarmed West African immigrant Amadou Diallo is shot dead by four plainclothes New York City police officers on an unrelated stake-out, inflaming race relations in the city.
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07 Feb 1999 Crown Prince Abdullah becomes the King of Jordan on the death of his father, King Hussein.
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11 Feb 1999 Pluto is once again the farthest planet from the sun in our solar system
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12 Feb 1999 United States President Bill Clinton is acquitted by the United States Senate in his impeachment trial.
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15 Feb 1999 Abdullah Öcalan, leader of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), is arrested in Kenya.
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16 Feb 1999 Across Europe, Kurdish rebels take over embassies and hold hostages after Turkey arrests one of their rebel leaders, Abdullah Öcalan.
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16 Feb 1999 In Uzbekistan, a bomb explodes and gunfire is heard at the government headquarters in an apparent assassination attempt against President Islom Karimov.
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23 Feb 1999 An avalanche destroys the Austrian village of Galtür, killing 31.
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23 Feb 1999 Kurdish rebel leader Abdullah Öcalan is charged with treason in Ankara, Turkey.
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24 Feb 1999 The U.S. state of Arizona executes Karl LaGrand, a German national convicted of murder during a botched bank robbery, in spite of Germany's legal action to attempt to save him.
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01 Mar 1999 Ottawa Treaty enters into force.
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11 Mar 1999 Infosys becomes the first Indian company listed on the NASDAQ stock exchange.
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12 Mar 1999 Former Warsaw Pact members the Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland join NATO.
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15 Mar 1999 Pluto again becomes outermost planet
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20 Mar 1999 Legoland California, the first Legoland outside of Europe, opens in Carlsbad, California.
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21 Mar 1999 Bertrand Piccard and Brian Jones become the first to circumnavigate the Earth in a hot air balloon.
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23 Mar 1999 Gunmen assassinate Paraguay's Vice President Luis María Argaña.
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24 Mar 1999 Kosovo War: NATO commences aerial bombardment against Yugoslavia, marking the first time NATO has attacked a sovereign country.
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24 Mar 1999 Mont Blanc Tunnel fire kills 39 people.
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26 Mar 1999 A jury in Michigan finds Dr. Jack Kevorkian guilty of second-degree murder for administering a lethal injection to a terminally ill man.
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26 Mar 1999 The "Melissa worm" infects Microsoft word processing and e-mail systems around the world.
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27 Mar 1999 Kosovo War: Yugoslav SAM downed F-117A, the first and only kill of the stealth aircraft.
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28 Mar 1999 Kosovo War: Serb paramilitary and military forces kill 146 Kosovo Albanians in the Izbica massacre.
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28 Mar 1999 18th NCAA Women's Basketball Championship: Purdue beats Duke 62-45 in San Jose CA
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29 Mar 1999 A magnitude 6.8 earthquake strikes the Chamoli district in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, killing 103.
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29 Mar 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.
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29 Mar 1999 61st NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: at ThunderDome St Petersburg, UCONN beats Duke 77-74
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01 Apr 1999 Nunavut is established as a Canadian territory carved out of the eastern part of the Northwest Territories.
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05 Apr 1999 Two Libyans suspected of bringing down Pan Am Flight 103 in 1988 are handed over for eventual trial in the Netherlands.
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07 Apr 1999 The World Trade Organization rules in favor of the United States in its long-running trade dispute with the European Union over bananas.
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08 Apr 1999 Haryana Gana Parishad, a political party in the Indian state of Haryana, merges with the Indian National Congress.
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09 Apr 1999 Kosovo War: The Battle of Košare begins.
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11 Apr 1999 63rd Golf Masters Championship
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12 Apr 1999 US President Bill Clinton is cited for contempt of court for giving "intentionally false statements" in a sexual harassment civil lawsuit.
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14 Apr 1999 A severe hailstorm strikes Sydney, Australia causing A$2.3 billion in insured damages, the most costly natural disaster in Australian history.
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14 Apr 1999 NATO mistakenly bombs a convoy of ethnic Albanian refugees. Yugoslav officials say 75 people were killed.
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19 Apr 1999 The German Bundestag returns to Berlin, the first German parliamentary body to meet there since the Reichstag was dissolved in 1933.
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20 Apr 1999 Columbine High School massacre: Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold killed 13 people and injured 21 others before committing suicide at Columbine High School in Columbine, Colorado.
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20 Apr 1999 Deadliest school shooting in US history at Columbine High School, Littleton CO, 13 killed, 23 wounded
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29 Apr 1999 The Avala Tower near Belgrade is destroyed in the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia.
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01 May 1999 The body of British climber George Mallory is found on Mount Everest, 75 years after his disappearance in 1924.
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02 May 1999 Panamanian election, 1999: Mireya Moscoso becomes the first woman to be elected President of Panama.
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03 May 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).
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06 May 1999 The first elections to the devolved Scottish Parliament and Welsh Assembly are held.
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15 May 1999 125th Preakness: Chris Antley on Charismatic wins in 1:55.2
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24 May 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.
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25 May 1999 The United States House of Representatives releases the Cox Report which details the People's Republic of China's nuclear espionage against the U.S. over the prior two decades.
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28 May 1999 In Milan, Italy, after 22 years of restoration work, Leonardo da Vinci's masterpiece The Last Supper is put back on display.
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29 May 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.
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29 May 1999 Space Shuttle Discovery completes the first docking with the International Space Station.
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29 May 1999 Charlotte Perrelli representing Sweden wins Eurovision Song Contest 1999 in Jerusalem with the song Take Me to Your Heaven.
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01 Jun 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.
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02 Jun 1999 The Bhutan Broadcasting Service brings television transmissions to the Kingdom for the first time.
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09 Jun 1999 Kosovo War: the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and NATO sign a peace treaty.
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10 Jun 1999 Kosovo War: NATO suspends its air strikes after Slobodan Milošević agrees to withdraw Serbian forces from Kosovo.
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12 Jun 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.
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01 Jul 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.
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05 Jul 1999 Wolverhampton, England is hit by storms, including a tornado. The area was hit again with severe storms on August 1.
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05 Jul 1999 U.S. President Bill Clinton imposes trade and economic sanctions against the Taliban regime in Afghanistan.
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06 Jul 1999 U.S. Army private Barry Winchell dies from baseball-bat injuries inflicted on him in his sleep the previous day by a fellow soldier, Calvin Glover, for his relationship with transgender showgirl and former Navy Corpsman Calpernia Addams.
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09 Jul 1999 Days of student protests begin after Iranian police and hardliners attack a student dormitory at the University of Tehran.
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16 Jul 1999 John F. Kennedy, Jr., piloting a Piper Saratoga aircraft, dies when his plane crashes into the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Martha's Vineyard. His wife Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy and sister-in-law Lauren Bessette are also killed.
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20 Jul 1999 The Chinese Communist Party begins a persecution campaign against Falun Gong, arresting thousands nationwide.
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23 Jul 1999 Mohammed VI becomes King of Morocco.
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31 Jul 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.
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07 Aug 1999 The Chechnya-based Islamic International Brigade invades the neighboring Russian Dagestan.
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09 Aug 1999 Russian President Boris Yeltsin fires his Prime Minister, Sergei Stepashin, and for the fourth time fires his entire cabinet.
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11 Aug 1999 The Salt Lake City Tornado tears through the downtown district of the city, killing one.
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15 Aug 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.
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30 Aug 1999 East Timor votes for independence from Indonesia in a referendum.
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31 Aug 1999 The first of a series of bombings in Moscow kills one person and wounds 40 others.
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31 Aug 1999 A LAPA Boeing 737-200 crashes during takeoff from Jorge Newbury Airport in Buenos Aires, killing 65, including two on the ground.
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07 Sep 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.
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09 Sep 1999 Sega releases the first 128-bit video game console, the Dreamcast.
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12 Sep 1999 Indonesia announces it will allow international peace-keepers into East Timor.
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14 Sep 1999 Kiribati, Nauru and Tonga join the United Nations.
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21 Sep 1999 Chi-Chi earthquake occurs in central Taiwan, leaving about 2,400 people dead.
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23 Sep 1999 Celebrate Bisexuality Day was first observed in the United States.
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23 Sep 1999 NASA announces that it has lost contact with the Mars Climate Orbiter.
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30 Sep 1999 Japan's second-worst nuclear accident at a uranium reprocessing facility in Tōkai-mura, northeast of Tokyo.
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05 Oct 1999 The Ladbroke Grove rail crash in west London kills 31 people.
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09 Oct 1999 The last flight of the SR-71.
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12 Oct 1999 Pervez Musharraf takes power in Pakistan from Nawaz Sharif through a bloodless coup.
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12 Oct 1999 The former Autonomous Soviet Republic of Abkhazia declares its independence from Georgia
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22 Oct 1999 Maurice Papon, an official in the Vichy France government during World War II, is jailed for crimes against humanity.
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26 Oct 1999 Britain's House of Lords votes to end the right of hereditary peers to vote in Britain's upper chamber of Parliament.
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27 Oct 1999 Gunmen open fire in the Armenian Parliament, killing Prime Minister Vazgen Sargsyan, Parliament Chairman Karen Demirchyan, and six other members.
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29 Oct 1999 A large cyclone devastates Odisha, India.
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31 Oct 1999 Yachtsman Jesse Martin returns to Melbourne after 11 months of circumnavigating the world, solo, non-stop and unassisted.
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31 Oct 1999 EgyptAir Flight 990 crashes into the Atlantic Ocean killing all 217 people on board.
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15 Nov 1999 Next transit of Mercury visible in North America
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27 Nov 1999 The left-wing 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.
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30 Nov 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.
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30 Nov 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.
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02 Dec 1999 Glenbrook rail accident: Seven passengers are killed when two trains collide near Sydney, New South Wales.
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02 Dec 1999 The United Kingdom devolves political power in Northern Ireland to the Northern Ireland Executive.
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03 Dec 1999 NASA loses radio contact with the Mars Polar Lander moments before the spacecraft enters the Martian atmosphere.
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03 Dec 1999 Six firefighters are killed in the Worcester Cold Storage and Warehouse fire in Worcester, Massachusetts.
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07 Dec 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.
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14 Dec 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.
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18 Dec 1999 NASA launches into orbit the Terra platform carrying five Earth Observation instruments, including ASTER, CERES, MISR, MODIS and MOPITT.
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20 Dec 1999 Macau is handed over to China by Portugal.
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20 Dec 1999 Portugal returns Macau to China
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21 Dec 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.
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22 Dec 1999 Korean Air Cargo Flight 8509, a Boeing 747-200F crashes shortly after take-off from London Stansted Airport due to pilot error. All 4 crew members are killed.
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24 Dec 1999 Indian Airlines Flight 814 hijacked in Indian airspace between Kathmandu, Nepal, and Delhi, India; aircraft eventually landed at Kandahar, Afghanistan. Ordeal ended on December 31 with the release of 190 survivors (one passenger killed).
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26 Dec 1999 The storm Lothar sweeps across Central Europe, killing 137 and causing US$1.3 billion in damage.
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31 Dec 1999 Control of Panam
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