Year 1999 in History - Important Historical Events of the year 1999

The year 1999 has a special significance of its own in India and world history. Let us know some such important events of the year 1999 such as: born famous people, death of famous people, war treaty, independence of a country, invention of new technology, change of power, important national and international day etc., knowing which your general Knowledge will increase.

Event__Date	Incident/Event
02 May	Mireya Elisa Moscoso Rodríguez de Arias is a Panaman politician who served as President of Panama from 1999 to 2004. She is the first woman President of the country.
23 May	Johannes Rau appointed the new President of Federal Germany.
29 May	Civil power was established in Nigeria.
31 May	Krishna Prasad Bhattarai was sworn in as Prime Minister of Nepal. He was the first Prime Minister of Nepal's first Parliament and the first Prime Minister of Nepal after the restoration of multi-party system.
02 June	Bhutan Broadcasting Service brought television transmission to the country for the first time.
16 June	Thambo Mbeki was elected the second President of South Africa.
26 June	Budapest Hungary) World Science Conference began.
05 July	The United States declares a ban on the Taliban.
12 July	Film artist Rajendra Kumar died in Mumbai at the age of 71.
24 July	The American spacecraft Columbia was successfully launched.
07 September	A 5.9 magnitude earthquake in Athens, the capital of Greece, killed 143 people and injured over 500 and left 50,000 people homeless.
21 September	The Chi-Chi earthquake in central Taiwan killed 2400 people.
03 October	The United States and Russia set up a Joint Crisis Center to prevent the movement of molecular substances and nuclear accidents.
27 October	In the terrorist attack on Amenia Parliament, PM Vazhagen Sargsyan and Speaker Karen Demirchan were killed.
27 November	Helen Clarke became the first female Prime Minister of New Zealand.
30 November	The world's largest meterwave radio telescope was inaugurated at Narayangaon near Pune.
02 August	China has test-fired a missile with a long range of 8000 km, capable of hitting from surface to surface.
04 August	China refused to allow regular flights of US Army aircraft to land in Hong Kong.
09 August	Russian President Boris Yeltsin sacked Prime Minister Sergei Stapshin and appointed Intelligence Service chief Vladimir Putin as acting Prime Minister.
17 August	An earthquake in Turkey killed about 45000 people.
26 August	Michael Johnson set a world record in the 400 meter race.
20 December	Portugal ceded the Macao region to China.
31 December	The then Russian President Boris Yeltsin resigned and Viladmir Putin became his successor.
18 January	Nobel Laureate Prof. Amarmeya Sen was nominated for Bharat Ratna.
25 January	An earthquake in Colombia in the last 16 years killed 300 people and injured a thousand people.
02 February	Hugo Chávez Frias took over as Venezuelan President.
07 February	Jordan's crown prince Abdullah succeeded the throne.
19 February	Danish scientist Doctor Len Vestergaard succeeded in slowing the speed of light in Washington.
21 February	The Lahore Manifesto was signed by former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee and former Prime Minister of Pakistan Nawaz Sharif.
26 February	Rap singer Lauryn Hill set a new record by winning five Grammy Awards.
09 March	British industrialist Swaraj Pal was awarded an honorary doctorate by Central Birmingham University.
13 March	Sheikh Hamaz bin Isa Al Khalifa became the new ruler of Bahrain.
15 March	Aldbjorg became the first female defense minister of Lower Norway.
20 March	Renowned British abstract painter Patrick Heron passed away.
28 March	Vince Williams won the Lipton Cup by defeating sister Serene. This was the first time in 115 years.
29 March	The earthquake in the foothills of the Himalayas killed at least 87 people.
29 March	The US stock index Dow Jones crossed the 10,000 mark for the first time.
01 April	Miraya Moskoso was appointed the first female President of Panama.
05 April	Announcement of ban on Viagra in Iraq, start of mass killing of 8 lakh 30 thousand pigs in Malaysia to protect against virus called 'Hendra'.
09 April	The assassination of Niger President Ibrahim Bare Mansara.
11 April	The Agni 2 missile was tested.
14 April	Malaysian deposed Deputy Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim was sentenced to six years in prison in a corruption case.
15 April	Former Prime Minister of Pakistan Benazir Bhutto and her husband Asif Ali Zardari were sentenced to five years in prison for alleged kickbacks in government contracts.
16 April	The largest size bacterium, known as the New Microve, was discovered in the US.
18 April	Britain's leading novelist, biographer and editor Mary Bullins died at the age of 90.
20 April	Helmut Cole, former German Chancellor, was awarded the American highest civilian honor, the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
26 April	Former Prime Minister of Nepal and Nepali Communist Party President Manmohan Adhikari passed away.
27 April	UNESCO announces a new award in the name of a Korean folk singer.
04 January	Gunmen opened fire on Shia Muslims worshiping in a mosque in Islamabad, Pakistan, killing 16 people and injuring 25.
07 February	King Hussein of Jordan died of cancer and his son Abdullah II inherited the throne.
02 March	The new Mandalay Bay Hotel and Casino opened in Las Vegas.
09 April	Niger president Ibrahim Bar Mensara was assassinated.
13 May	Carlo Ezello Simai was elected President of Italy.
14 June	Thabo Mbeki was elected President of South Africa.
22 July	The first version of MSN Messenger was released by Microsoft.
22 August	Airlines Flight 642 crashed in the Mandarin city of Hong Kong.
14 September	Kiribati, Nauru and Tonga joined the United States.
13 October	The United States Senate rejected the approval of the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT).
20 November	The People's Republic of China launched the first Shenzhen spacecraft.
31 December	Boris Yeltsin resigned as President of Russia, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin was appointed as acting president.
07 January	Newt Gingrich was narrowly re-elected as the speaker of the house.
25 January	Colombia is hit by Earthquake. It has been reported that 1,185 were killed in Armenia.
04 February	Amadou Diallo, a 23-year-old immigrant from Guinea, was shot and killed by four New York City Police Department plain-clothes officer, prompting outrage both within and without New York City.
04 February	The Panamanian-flagged freighter New Carissa ran aground near Coos Bay, Oregon, causing one of the worst oil spills in Oregon history.
07 February	Abdullah II became the reigning King of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan following the death of his father King Hussein.
12 February	Senate acquits the President Clinton who was lying under an oath and obstruction of justice in the Lewinsky case.
15 February	Abdullah Öcalan, one of the founding members of the militantorganization the Kurdistan Workers' Party, was arrested by Turkishsecurity forces in Nairobi, Kenya.
05 March	Paul Okalik was elected as the first Premier of the Canadianterritory of Nunavut.
15 March	On this year Pluto again became the outermost planet. Before some year it was discarded. But this year it was again included.
21 March	at the 71st Academy Awards Oscar ceremony hosted by Whoopi Goldberg; Shakespeare in Love won Best Picture, with Roberto Benigni and Gwyneth Paltrow taking home lead acting awards among others.
26 March	Jack-Kevorian, an American attorney and practitioner of physician-assisted suicide, was found guilty of manslaughter in the death of a terminally ill patient.
28 March	NCAA Women's Basketball Tournament in San Jose.
28 March	Serbian police and special forces killed at least 89 Kosovo Albanians in the village of Izbica in the Drenica region of central Kosovo.
29 March	The 17th NCAA Women's Basketball Championship held at the Thunder Dome St. Petersburg.
29 March	The most powerful earthquake to hit the Himalayan foothills in more than ninety years killed 103 people.
09 April	Nigerian President Ibrahim Bar Maunsara was killed in the curse.
14 April	A storm dropped an estimated 500,000 tonne Ollasidney and, along the east coast of the New South Wales, due to a $ 2.3 billion loss, the most expensive natural disaster in Australia's history.
20 April	Two unaffected students brought guns to their high school in Colorado, Colorado and killed twelve students, a teacher and then killed themselves.
02 May	Miraya Moskso became the first woman of Panama, who became President.
08 May	The Nancy Mess became the first female cadet to graduate from The Cittal Military College in South Carolina on 8 May 1999. He obtained a degree in business administration with Magna cum Lod honor.
24 May	Former Sarbia President Slobodan Milosivich Kosovo was convicted for war crime and crimes against humanity.
30 May	Space Shuttle Discovery completed the first docking with the International Space Station. Space shuttle is one of the orbiters from Discovery NASA's Space Shuttle Program and is produced five. It was launched 39 times in 27 years of service and landed, assembled more astronauts than any other spacecraft.
02 June	Bhutan Broadcasting Service brings television broadcast to the Kingdom for the first time. Bhutan Broadcasting Service is the state -owned radio and television service in Bhutan. A public service corporation, it is fully funded by the state and is currently the only service offering both radio and television to the Kingdom, and the only television service broadcast from inside the Bhutanese border.
02 June	Bhutan ended its position as the world's sole top television country, when the state -run Bhutan Broadcasting Service traveled by air.
09 June	A peace treaty was signed by the federal republic of Yugoslavia and NATO during the Kosovo war. It was a war fought between the federal republics Yugoslavia and the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) forces with the aerial support of NATO. The war lasted from 28 February 1998 to 11 June 1999.
12 June	After the bombing of Yugoslavia and Kosovover, the NATO -led Kosovo force (a portrait of the German army's armored vehicle) entered Kosovo with the mandate of the installation of a safe environment in the inn area.
25 June	United Nations Security Council: Resolution 1248 and 1249 was adopted. Proposals 1248 and 1249 of the United Nations Security Council were adopted after examining applications from the Republic of Kiribati for membership in the United Nations and the Republic of Nauru.
01 July	The Legislative Administration of Scotland was transferred to the Scottish Parliament from the Scottish office in Westminster.
18 July	128th British Golf Open: In Cameways Scott.
20 July	The Chinese government launched a harassment campaign against Falun Gong, in which thousands of countrymen were arrested.
04 August	Bank News Network has found that the use of ATM machines has declined. Angry consumers are harassed by the service fee for ATM use, and ATM transactions decrease by 2.9%. On the other hand, debit card transactions have increased by 35%.
07 August	The Chechnya -based Islamic Militian Group Islamic International Internationalslagade invaded the separatist movement of the neighboring Russian Republic of Dagagan.
11 August	The total eclipse of the sun begins in Boston, a few hundred miles before the Atlantic, and is seen worldwide.
17 August	The 7.4 magnitude earthquake shakes the city of North-Western Turkey, one of the most populous areas in the country, killing more than 17,000 people and hundreds of thousands of people have been injured or homeless. It is the worst earthquake that has affected Turkey, and even the city of Istanbul which was more than 50 miles.
17 August	A 7.5 MW earthquake occurred in the northwest Turkey (damaging), killing more than 17,000 people and about half of Amilians became homeless.
31 August	A Boeing 737 Flight 3142 in Buenos Aires, which was associated with the Lions Aryce Prevadus Argentinas (LAPA), died immediately after flying.
07 September	Three weeks after an earthquake in the northwestern Turkey, a major earthquake occurred in Athens, causing Greece and Turkey to start "earthquake diplomacy".
21 September	The 7.6 MW earthquake killed Jiji, Nantau County, Taiwan, killing 2,416 people, injured more than 11,000 people and lost about $ 300 billion.
23 September	Mars Climate Orbiter reached Mars. After the passing of the spacecraft behind Mars, it never emerged or made radio contact. NASA believed that the Mars Climate Orbitter was at very low altitude and was destroyed by atmospheric stress and friction at this low height.
12 October	Pakistani General Pervez Musharraf led the military coup against Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif's government.
22 October	Vichy France official Maurice Papon was imprisoned for crimes against humanity during World War II.
31 October	All 217 people aboard the Egyptian AAR Flight 990 were killed in a sudden falling plane in the Atlantic Ocean from the coast of Massachusetts, the United States, Massachusetts.
11 November	The House of Lord's Act was given royal approval, removing most of the hereditary comrades from the British House of Lords.
24 November	Dasun catches fire during a severe thunderstorm at a ghat going to Dalian from Yalian, the port city of Shangdong province, China, and drowns in Yellow C from the coast of China, causing most passengers and people of the crew kill people. Went. It is believed to be more than 350 in total.
27 November	Helen Clarke, who represented the Center-Left New Zealand Labor Party, became the first elected woman in the history of New Zealand, who was commanding the coalition government of Labor and Alliance Party members.
27 November	The Labor Party defeated the Governing National Party in the New Zealand general election, leading to the first woman to win the post of Prime Minister in Labor's Helen Clarke election.
30 November	Protests by the anti -globalization activists against the WorldTRED Organization Ministerial Conference in Seattle canceled its inauguration ceremonies.
03 December	NASA had lost contact with the Marse Polar Lander (painter) before the Marsand environment disappeared.
08 December	The Recording Industry Association of America filed a lawsuit against the Peer-to-Pier File Sharem Network Napster, alleging that Threswork facilitated extensive copyright violations.
14 December	There was a flood due to torrential rains in Varagas, Venezuela, resulting in thousands of deaths, destruction of thousands of houses and the state's infrastructure completely collapsed.
20 December	Portugal transferred the sovereignty of Macau, which he had handed over to China from the mid -16th century.
31 December	Russia's first President Boris Yeltsin resigned and Vladimir Putin was nominated as the acting President.
31 December	Panama took control of the Panama Canal area from Unitedstates, according to the 1977 Torizos-Corporation treaties.

Event__Date	Incident/Event
19 May	Mahendra Chaudhary of Indian origin appointed Prime Minister of Fiji.
26 May	The Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) successfully orbited three satellites of India, Germany and South Korea.
13 October	Atal Bihari Vajpayee became the Prime Minister of India for the third time.
26 October	The Supreme Court of India fixed life imprisonment for 14 years.
29 October	About 150 people died and five lakh people were affected by the Mahatufan, which came at a speed of 250 km on the east coast of India.
27 August	Sonali Banerjee became India's first female Marine Engineer.
05 December	Indian beauty Yukta Mukhi was elected 'Miss World'.
28 January	The lamb was born from a protected embryo for the first time in India.
22 February	India's renowned economist Jagdish Bhagwati was appointed as the head of the Center for Indian Political Economy at Columbia University.
02 March	The news of a secret agreement with India to sign the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Treaty (CTBT) was denied by the United States.
11 March	Infosys is the first Indian company to figure in the Nasdaq International Stock Exchange list.
22 March	Best makeup award for Indian Shekhar Kapur's film 'Elizabeth'.
24 March	Pn Bhagwati India) elected vice-president of the United Nations Human Rights Committee for a second consecutive term.
25 March	Declaration of waiver in visa case by eight sections of Pakistani citizens by India.
03 April	India launched its first global telecom satellite INSAT 1E.
06 April	Announced to run Indian currency worth 500 rupees again in Nepal.
10 April	The two top industrial associations of India and Pakistan duly formed the India-Pakistan Chambers of Commerce.
27 May	The fifth Indian Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle Mission, PSLV-C2, flew, is an important milestone in the Indian Space Program. This is the first time an Indian launch vehicle fielded several satellites, a primary satellite IRS-P4, a 1036 kg Indian remote sensing satellite (IRS-P4) or Oceansat-1; And two auxiliary payloads in the 720 km polar sun-cinchronus orbit (SSO).
31 May	India rejected the United Nations offer to send special messengers to prevent Indo-Pak tension. The tension was increased due to the Kargil war. The Kargil War, also known as the Kargil conflict, was an armed struggle between India and Pakistan that took place somewhere else along the Kargil district of Kashmir and the Line of Control (LoC) in Kashmir between May and July 1999.
13 June	The Indian Army protects the strategic tolling peak in the Dras sector during the Kargil War. Putting the toololing complex paved the route for frequent attacks in the Tiger Hill Complex from several directions. Tiger Hill was again captured on 5 July 1999.
21 June	Leander Paes was placed at number one in the double rankings. This was his highest dual ranking. Leander Adrian Paes is an Indian professional tennis player who usually plays in doubles matches in the ATP Tour and Davis Cup. After winning eight couples and seven mixed doubles Grand Slam titles and many other Grand Slam finals as runners up, they are considered one of the world's greatest and most respected doubles and mixed doubles players.
02 July	During the Kargil War, the Indian Army launched a joint attack on Kargil. India was stable on the fall of Pakistan from the region. The reason for the war was Pakistani soldiers and Kashmiri terrorists infiltrated the positions on LoC from India, which serves as the actual border between the two states.

Birth	Name/Category/Country
21 January	Rubina Ali / Actress / India
29 October	Aditi Bhatia / Actress / India

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