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Categories: 1999

For the song, see 1999 (song)

Years :	1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002
Centuries:	19th century · 20th century · 21st century
Decades:	1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s 2010s 2020s
Years:	1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002

1999 by topic:
Arts
Architecture - Art - Film - Literature Music (Country, UK) - Television - Home video
Science and technology
Archaeology - Aviation - Birding/Ornithology Meteorology - Rail transport - Radio - Science
By country
Australia - Canada - France - Germany - India Ireland - Malaysia - Mexico - New Zealand - Pakistan Singapore - South Africa - UK - Wales - Zimbabwe
Other topics
Awards - Sport - Law - State leaders - Religious leaders - Video gaming
Birth and death categories
Births - Deaths
Establishments and disestablishments categories
Establishments - Disestablishments

**1999 in other calendars**
Gregorian calendar	1999 MCMXCIX
Ab urbe condita	2752
Armenian calendar	1448
Chinese calendar	4695 – 4696 戊寅 – 己卯
Hebrew calendar	5759 – 5760
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	2054 – 2055
- Shaka Samvat	1921 – 1922
- Kali Yuga	5100 – 5101
Iranian calendar	1377 – 1378
Islamic calendar	1420 – 1421
Japanese calendar	Heisei 11
Runic calendar	2249

1999 (MCMXCIX) was a common year starting on Friday, and was designated the International Year of Older Persons by the United Nations. 1999 was the year of Cancer, the Crab in traditional astrology. In the Chinese Calendar it is the Year of the Hare.

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Events

Kosovo War
Y2K preparation was a major event in 1999 both in actual events and in media over-reporting.
The human population of the world surpassed six billion. The United Nations Population Fund designated October 12 as the approximate date for this event.

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January

Euro banknotes

January 1 - Euro currency introduced.
January 1 - An avalanche destroys a school gymnasium during New Year celebrations in Kangiqsualujjuaq in far northern Quebec, killing nine.
January 2 - A brutal snowstorm smashes into the Midwestern USA, causing 14 inches (359 mm) of snow at Milwaukee, Wisconsin and 19 inches (487 mm) at Chicago, Illinois. In Chicago, temperatures plunge to -13°F (-25°C), and 68 deaths are reported.
January 4 - Gunmen open fire on Shiite Muslims worshipping in an Islamabad mosque killing 16 people and injuring 25.
January 5 - Apple Computer releases the Power Macintosh G3 (Blue & White).
January 12 - The remains of Christina Marie Williams were found three miles (5 km) from her home on the old Fort Ord military base.
January 12 Britney Spears debut album release.
January 13 - After thirteen years of playing NBA basketball, NBA superstar Michael Jordan announces his second retirement from basketball.
January 20 - The China News Service announces new government restrictions on Internet use aimed especially at Internet cafes.
January 21 - War on Drugs: In one of the largest drug busts in American history, the United States Coast Guard intercepts a ship with over 9,500 pounds (4.3 t) of cocaine aboard. The ship was headed for Houston, Texas.
January 25 - A 6.0 Richter scale earthquake hits western Colombia killing at least 1,000
January 31 - The Denver Broncos win their second consecutive Super Bowl, defeating the Atlanta Falcons, 34-19, in Super Bowl XXXIII.

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February

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Orbit of Pluto - polar view.

February 4 - 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.
February 5 - Mike Tyson is sentenced to a year's imprisonment, fined $5,000, and ordered to serve 2 years probation and perform 200 hours of community service for the August 31, 1998 assault on two people after a car accident.
February 7 - King Hussein of Jordan dies from cancer, and his son Abdullah II inherits the throne.
February 10 - Avalanches in the French Alps near Geneva kill at least ten.
February 11 - Pluto, a planet with an eccentric orbit, changes from the eighth to ninth planet furthest from the Sun. It had been the eighth furthest since 1979, and will become again in 2231.
February 12 - President Bill Clinton is acquitted by the United States Senate in his impeachment trial
February 12 - John Myatt and John Drewe are sentenced for art forgery for one and six years, respectively.
February 15 - Rapper Big L, real name Lamont Coleman, is shot and killed with 7 bullets to the head and chest just blocks from his home in Harlem.
February 16 - In Uzbekistan a bomb explodes and gunfire is heard at the government headquarters in an apparent assassination attempt against President Islam Karimov.
February 16 - Across Europe, Kurdish rebels take over embassies and hold hostages after Turkey arrested one of their rebel leaders, Abdullah Öcalan.
February 16 - In Jasper, Texas, testimony begins in the trial of John William King who is accused of dragging African American James Byrd Jr. to death in an apparent hate crime. King was later convicted and sentenced to the death penalty.
February 21 - The Albertinkatu shootings in Helsinki, Finland: Three men are killed and one is wounded at a shooting range.
February 22 - Moderate Iraqi Shiite cleric Mohammad Sadeq al-Sadr is assassinated.
February 23 - Kurdish rebel leader Abdullah Öcalan is charged with treason in Ankara, Turkey.
February 23 - White supremacist John William King is found guilty of kidnapping and killing African American James Byrd Jr by dragging him behind a truck for two miles (3 km).
February 23 - An avalanche destroys the Austrian village of Galtür, killing 31.
February 24 - LaGrand Case: The State of Arizona executes Karl LaGrand, a German national involved in an armed robbery that led to a death. Karl's brother Walter is executed a week later, in spite of Germany's legal action in the International Court of Justice to attempt to save him.
February 27 - While trying to circumnavigate the world in a hot air balloon, Colin Prescot and Andy Elson set a new endurance record after being in a hot air balloon for 233 hours and 55 minutes.
February 27 - Olusegun Obasanjo becomes Nigeria's first elected president since mid-1983.

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March

March 1 - One of four bombs detonated in Lusaka, Zambia, destroys the Angolan Embassy.
March 1 - Rwandan Hutu rebels kill and hack to pieces eight foreign tourists at the Buhoma homestead, Uganda
March 1 - The Convention on the Prohibition of Anti-Personnel Mines comes into force.
March 3 - Bertrand Piccard and Brian Jones begin their attempt to circumnavigate the world in a hot air balloon without stopping. Their journey ended in success on March 21.
March 3 - Karl LaGrand is executed by means of gas chamber.
March 4 - Monica Lewinsky's book detailing her affair with Bill Clinton goes on sale in the United States
March 4 - In a military court, Captain Richard Ashby of the United States Marines is acquitted of the charge of reckless flying which resulted in the deaths of twenty skiers in the Italian Alps when his low-flying jet hit a gondola cable.
March 12 - Hungary, Poland and Czech Republic join NATO.
March 15 - The European Commission under the presidency of Jacques Santer resigns over allegations of corruption.
March 16 The game EverQuest was released.
March 17 - The Roth 401k is introduced by Sen Roth Jr., William V.
March 20 - Serbs launch an offensive in Kosovo
March 21 - Bertrand Piccard and Brian Jones become the first to circumnavigate the Earth in a hot air balloon.
March 22 - US pro-euthanasia doctor Jack Kevorkian goes on trial for murder in Pontiac, Michigan. He is later convicted of second-degree murder
March 23 - Gunmen assassinate Paraguay's Vice President Luis María Argaña
March 24 - NATO launches air strikes in Federal Republic of Yugoslavia which was refusing to sign a peace treaty. This marks the first time NATO attacked a sovereign country
March 24 - Fire in the Mont Blanc Tunnel kills thirty nine people, closing the tunnel for nearly three years.
March 26 - The Melissa worm attacks the Internet.
March 26 - A jury in Michigan finds Dr. Jack Kevorkian guilty of second-degree murder for administering a lethal injection to a terminally ill man (the incident was videotaped and aired on September 17, 1998 edition of 60 Minutes)
March 29 - For the first time, the Dow Jones Industrial Average closes above the 10000 mark at 10006.78.
March 31 - The Matrix, first episode of the Matrix trilogy movies, is released in theaters.

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April

Map of the Nunavut

April 1 - Nunavut, an Inuit homeland, part of the Northwest Territories becomes Canada's third territory.
April 5 - Two Libyans suspected of bringing down Pan Am flight 103 in 1988 are handed over to Scottish authorities for eventual trial in the Netherlands. The United Nations suspends sanctions against Libya
April 5 - In Laramie, Wyoming, Russell Henderson pleads guilty to kidnapping and felony murder in order to avoid a possible death penalty conviction for the apparent hate crime killing of Matthew Shepard
April 7 - Kosovo War: Kosovo's main border crossings are closed by Serbian forces to prevent ethnic Albanians from leaving
April 7 - Bomb explodes in the Valley of the Fallen church in Spain - GRAPO claims responsibility
April 9 - Ibrahim Baré Maînassara, president of Niger, is assassinated
April 17 - A nail bomb explodes in the middle of a busy market in Brixton, South London
April 18 - "The Great One" Wayne Gretzky plays his final game in the NHL.
April 19 - MySpace.com was officially introduced to the Internet, though MySpace-beta had been around since 1998

Harris and Klebold caught on the high school's security cameras during the Columbine High School massacre

April 20 - Two Littleton, Colorado teenagers named Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold open fire on their teachers and fellow students. The teenagers killed twelve students and one teacher, and then killed themselves. See Columbine High School massacre.
April 25 - End of term for Tuanku Jaafar ibni Almarhum Tuanku Abdul Rahman as the tenth Yang di-Pertuan Agong of Malaysia.
April 26 - Sultan Salahuddin Abdul Aziz Shah ibni Almarhum Sultan Hisamuddin Alam Shah Al-Haj, Sultan of Selangor becomes the eleventh Yang di-Pertuan Agong of Malaysia.
April 28 - The first issue of one of the most popular webcomics, Sexy Losers which later reached one million users a month.
April 30 - Cambodia joins the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) bringing the total members to ten.
April 30 - A third nail bomb (see April 17) explodes in the Admiral Duncan pub in Old Compton Street, Soho, London, killing a pregnant woman and two friends and injuring seventy others, including her husband. This was part of a hate campaign against ethnic minorities and gay people by David Copeland

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May

May 1 -

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Oliver Reed in his role as Bill Sykes which launched him to International stardom

May 2 - Norman J. Sirnic and Karen Sirnic are murdered by Angel Maturino Resendiz in a parsonage in Weimar, Texas. They were his fourth and fifth victims in his fourth incident.
May 3 - Photo driver licences and banknotes made out of polymer substrate are introduced to New Zealand.
May 3 - A F5 tornado slams in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma killing 38 people. This was the second strongest tornado ever recorded in United States history. (See Oklahoma Tornado Outbreak). A possible tornado outbreak that has a similar force to it will take place sometimes in the next 250-500 years.
May 3 - The Dow Jones Industrial Average closes above 11,000 for the first time. It closes at 11,014.70.

Windows 98

May 5 - Microsoft releases Windows 98 Second Edition.
May 6 - Elections are held in Scotland and Wales for the new Scottish Parliament and National Assembly for Wales
May 7 - A jury finds The Jenny Jones Show and Warner Bros liable in the shooting death of Scott Amedure after the show purposely deceived Jonathan Schmitz to appear on a secret same-sex crush episode.
May 7 - Kosovo War: In Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, three Chinese embassy workers are killed and 20 wounded when a NATO aircraft mistakenly bombs the Chinese embassy in Belgrade
May 7 - In Guinea-Bissau, President João Bernardo Vieira is ousted in a military coup
May 8 - Goalkeeper Jimmy Glass saved Carlisle United from certain death when he scored last minuite goal against Plymouth Argyle and relegate Scarborough FC instead.
May 8 - Nancy Mace becomes the first female cadet to graduate from The Military College of South Carolina.
May 12 - David Steel becomes the first Presiding Officer (speaker) of the modern Scottish Parliament
May 13 - in Italy Carlo Azeglio Ciampi is elected President of the republic
May 17 - Ehud Barak is elected prime minister of Israel.

Qui-Gon Jinn and Obi-Wan Kenobi battle Darth Maul on Naboo.

May 18 - The Backstreet Boys release their album, Millennium.
May 19 - Star Wars: The Phantom Menace is released in theaters.
May 20 - Bluetooth announced.
May 23 - In Kansas City, Missouri, wrestler Owen Hart (Blue Blazer) falls 90 feet (30 m) to his death while being lowered into a World Wrestling Federation ring during WWF Over the Edge.
May 26 - Indian Air Force launches attack on intruding Pakistan backed militants in Kashmir sparking the Kargil War.
May 26 - Manchester United win the UEFA Champions League at the Nou Camp stadium, Barcelona, beating Bayern Munich to lift their third major trophy in their unprecedented Treble, after winning the English Premier League and FA Cup.
May 26 - Madejczyk Massacre Averted, Bridgman, Michigan school shooting plot
May 26 - First Welsh Assembly for over 600 years opens in Cardiff
May 27 - 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
May 28 - In Milan, Italy, after 22 years of restoration work, Leonardo de Vinci's newly-restored masterpiece "The Last Supper" is put back on display.
May 31 - Nigeria gets a democratic president in Olusegun Obasanjo

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June

Second version (revised 2001) of Napster logo: Cat wearing headphones.

June 1 - The initial release of Napster, arguably changing the face of the music industry forever.
June 1 - 'solid - the socialist youth is formed in Hannover, Germany
June 2 - After decades of fighting off outside technological influences like television, the King of Bhutan allows television transmissions to commence in the Kingdom for the first time, coinciding with the King's silver jubilee (see Bhutan Broadcasting Service).
June 5 - The AIS, the armed wing of FIS, agrees in principle to disband in Algeria.
June 6 - In Brazil, 345 prisoners escape from Putim prison through the front gate.
June 8 - The government of Colombia announces it will include the estimated value of the country's illegal drug crops, exceeding half a billion US dollars, in its gross national product.
June 9 - Kosovo War: Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and NATO sign a peace treaty.
June 10 - Kosovo War: NATO suspends its air strikes after Slobodan Milošević agrees to withdraw Serbian forces from Kosovo.
June 12 - Kosovo War: Operation Joint Guardian begins - NATO-led United Nations peacekeeping force KFOR enter the province of Kosovo in Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.

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the original iBook

June 12 - Texas Governor George W. Bush announces his intention to seek the Republican Party's nomination for President of the United States.
June 15 - George Morber Senior and Carolyn Frederick are murdered by Angel Maturino Resendiz in Gorham, Illinois. They are his eighth and ninth victims, in his seventh and final incident.
June 18 - The J18 international anti-globalization protests was organized in dozens of cities around the world, some of which led to riots.
June 19 - The Dallas Stars defeat the Buffalo Sabres in triple overtime of game 6 of the Stanley Cup Finals to win their first Stanley Cup. Brett Hull scores the controversial cup-winning goal to seal the victory.
June 19 - Stephen King was hit in a car accident on Route 5 in North Lovell, Maine by Bryan Smith.
June 21 - Apple Computer releases the first iBook

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July

NASA's Lunar Prospector

July 7 - In Rome, Hicham El Guerrouj runs the fastest mile ever recorded. His time was a mere 3:43:13
July 11 - India recaptures Kargil as Pakistan pulls out its troops and militants after international condemnation. India claim victory in the two-month conflict.
July 16 - Off the coast of Martha's Vineyard, a plane piloted by John F. Kennedy Jr. crashes, killing him and his wife Carolyn Bessette Kennedy and her sister Lauren Bessette.
July 20 - Mercury program: Liberty Bell 7 is raised from the Atlantic Ocean.
July 23 - Mohammed VI of Morocco becomes king.
July 23 to July 25 - Woodstock 99 festival held in New York.
July 23 - Hijack of ANA Flight 61 in Tokyo.
July 25 - Lance Armstrong wins first Tour de France.
July 27 - 21 die in a canyoning disaster near Interlaken, Switzerland.
July 31 - Mark O. Barton kills 9 in Atlanta, Georgia
July 31 - NASA intentionally crashes the Lunar Prospector spacecraft into the Moon, thus ending its mission to detect frozen water on the moon's surface.

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August

August 2 - M. Night Shyamalan's The Sixth Sense is released into theaters.

Logo from the UK version of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?.

August 8 - ABC's Who wants to be a Millionaire premieres hosted by Regis Philbin and give the contestants a chance at $1,000,000
August 8 - The first edition of the Callatis Festival, the largest music &culture festival in Romania.
August 9 - Russian President Boris Yeltsin fires his Prime Minister, Sergei Stepashin, and for the fourth time fires his entire cabinet
August 10 - Buford O. Furrow, Jr. attempts a mass murder in Los Angeles
August 10 - Atlantique Incident occurs as an intruding Pakistan Navy plane is shot down in India. The incident sparks tensions between the two nations, coming just a month after the end of the Kargil War.
August 11 - Total solar eclipse in Europe and Asia
August 11 - An F-2 tornado rips through downtown Salt Lake City, Utah, killing one person and injuring over 100.
August 17 - A 7.4-magnitude earthquake strikes Istanbul and northwestern Turkey, killing more than 17,000 and injuring 44,000. This earthquake was the first of a long series of unrelated but frequent earthquakes throughout the world during the years 1999 and 2000. Some connected the earthquake to the fact that the Umbra of the solar eclipse of August 11, was right above Istanbul.
August 19 - In Belgrade, tens of thousands of Serbians rally to demand the resignation of Yugoslav President Slobodan Milošević
August 22 - Mandarin Airlines Flight 642 crashed in Hong Kong
August 26 - Michael Johnson captures the 400 M. world record.

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September

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Sega Dreamcast

September 7 - A powerful, magnitude 5.9 earthquake hits Athens, killing 143 people and injuring more than 2,000.
September 8 - first of a series of Russian apartment bombings. Subsequent bombings occurred on September 1 and 16, while a bombing on September 22 failed.
September 9 - Sega released the Dreamcast video game console worldwide (on 9/9/99), breaking video game and entertainment sales records in the first 24 hours of sales.
September 14 - Kiribati, Nauru and Tonga join the United Nations.
September 21 - Chi-Chi earthquake in central Taiwan kills about 2,400 people.

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October

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Mars Climate Orbiter during tests

October - NASA loses one of its probes, the Mars Climate Orbiter
October 5 - Thirty-one people die in the Ladbroke Grove rail crash, west of London, England.
October 12 - Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif attempts to dismiss Army Chief General Pervez Musharraf and install ISI director Khwaja Ziauddin in his place. Senior Army generals refuse to accept the dismissal. Musharraf, who was out of the country, attempts to return in a commercial airliner. Sharif orders the Karachi airport to not allow the plane to land. The generals lead a coup, ousting Sharif's administration and taking over the airport. The plane lands with only a few minutes of fuel to spare, and Musharraf takes control of the government.
October 12 - The 6 billionth person in the world, according to the UN is born in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
October 13 - The United States Senate rejects ratification of the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT)
October 15 - National Geographic Society reveals the fossil of Archaeoraptor in a press conference (the fossil is later found to be a forgery)
October 18 ? Michael Pawluk Michigan attorney sails solo-single-handed over 2,500 nautical miles (4600 km) on a 30 foot (10 m) boat when his wife demands "some space".
October 25 - Golfer Payne Stewart, 42, dies in an aircraft accident.
October 27 - Gunmen open fire in the Armenian parliament killing Prime Minister Vazgen Sarkisian, Parliament Chairman Karen Demirchian and 6 other members.
October 27 - The New York Yankees complete a 4 game sweep of the Atlanta Braves to win their second consecutive World Series.
October 31 - EgyptAir Flight 990 traveling from New York City to Cairo crashes off the coast of Nantucket, Massachusetts, killing all 217 on-board
October 31 - Roman Catholic Church and Lutheran Church leaders sign the Joint Declaration on the Doctrine of Justification, ending a centuries-old doctrinal dispute over the nature of faith and salvation.
October 31 - Nerf Arena Blast is released by Atari, Inc. and Visionary Media, Inc.

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November

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Helen Clark

November 5 - United States v. Microsoft: US District Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson issues a preliminary ruling that the software company Microsoft had "monopoly power" (on April 3, 2000 Jackson found that Microsoft violated the Sherman Anti-Trust Act).
November 6 - Australians vote to keep the British queen as their head of state.
November 9 - TAESA Flight 725, went down a few minutes after leaving the Uruapan airport en-route to Mexico City. 18 people were killed in the accident
November 12 - A 7.2-magnitude earthquake strikes Duzce and northwestern Turkey, killing 845 and injuring 4948.
November 18 - In College Station, Texas, 12 are killed and 28 injured at Texas A&M University when a huge bonfire under construction collapses.
November 19 - In Istanbul, the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) ends a two-day summit by calling for a political settlement in Chechnya and adopting a Charter for European Security
November 20 - The People's Republic of China launches the first Shenzhou spacecraft.
November 20 - John Carpenter becomes the 1st Millionaire on any quiz show thanks to Who Wants to be a Millionaire.
November 22 - Wayne Gretzky is inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame, his number 99 permanently retired by the NHL.
November 26 - Earthquake and Tsunami in Vanuatu
November 27 - Labour Party elected in New Zealand general election. Helen Clark first Elected Woman Prime Minster in New Zealand History.
November 28 - A man wielding a samurai sword enters St Andrews Catholic Church in Thornton Heath and injures 11
November 28 - Jorge Batlle for the Colorado Party is elected president of Uruguay
November 30 - In Seattle, Washington, the first major mobilization of the anti-globalization movement catches police unprepared and forces the cancellation of the opening ceremonies of the WTO Meeting of 1999 (protests end on December 3).
Gary Glitter jailed for sexual offences.

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December

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The Millennium Dome opens in London.

December 2 - The United Kingdom devolves political power in Northern Ireland to the Northern Ireland Executive.
December 3 - After rowing for 81 days and 2,962 nautical miles (5486 km), Tori Murden becomes the first woman to cross the Atlantic Ocean by rowboat alone when she reaches Guadeloupe from the Canary Islands
December 3 - NASA loses radio contact with the Mars Polar Lander moments before the spacecraft enters the Martian atmosphere.
December 12 - President Lt. General Umar Hasan Ahmad al-Bashir of Sudan dismisses the National Assembly during an internal power struggle between him and speaker of the Parliament Hasan al-Turabi.
December 14 - Algerian Ahmed Ressam was arrested while crossing the United States-Canada border at Port Angeles, Washington when United States Customs found explosives in the trunk of his automobile. The arrest caused fears of a terrorist attack in the United States and was a major factor in the cancellation of a public New Year's celebration in Seattle. Ressam was later convicted in a plot to bomb Los Angeles International Airport on New Year's Eve.
December 15 - Torrential rains caused catastrophic floods and mudslides in the coastal regions of Venezuela, killing an estimated 25,000 people and leaving 100,000 others homeless.
December 17 - Iraq disarmament crisis: The United Nations Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Commission (Unmovic) is created to replace UNSCOM. The U.N. Security council once again orders Iraq to allow inspections teams immediate and unconditional access to any weapons sites and facilities. Iraq rejects the resolution.
December 18 - NASA launches into orbit the Terra platform carrying five Earth Observation instruments, including ASTER, CERES, MISR, MODIS and MOPITT.

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Vladimir Putin

December 20 - Macau is handed over to the People's Republic of China by Portugal. Vermont's Supreme Court orders the state to legalize same-sex unions.
December 21 and December 22 - The Spanish Civil Guard intercepts near Calatayud (Zaragoza) a Madrid-bound van driven by ETA and loaded with 950 kg of explosives. The next day, another van loaded with 750 kg is found not far from there. The incident is known as "la caravana de la muerte" (the caravan of death). Shortly after 9/11, ETA confirmed their plan had been to blow down Torre Picasso.
December 24 - Indian Airlines Flight 814, which was en route from Kathmandu, Nepal to Delhi, India was hijacked and taken to Kandahar, Afghanistan
December 29 - Former Beatle George Harrison is stabbed several times in the chest by Michael Anram, who had broken into his home. Harrison's wife wrestled the knife out of the assailant's hand before the police arrived. The man apparently believed that Harrison was the devil. He was later charged with attempted murder.
December 31 - Boris Yeltsin resigns as President of Russia, to be replaced by Vladimir Putin.
Five hijackers, who had been holding 155 hostages on an Indian Airlines plane, leave the plane with two Islamic clerics that they had demanded be freed.
Start of Millennium celebrations worldwide (technically the Millennium starts in 2001 not 2000).
HM Queen Elizabeth II opens the Millennium Dome at Greenwich, London.
Concerns of serious Y2K problems with computer systems.
The Panama Canal is transferred to Panamanian control.

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Unknown Dates

Honda Insight is the first hybrid-fuel automobile imported into the United States.
Naruto (manga) is created by Masashi Kishimoto.
Millennium cruises take place
The Finnish epic, Kalevala published for the fifth time in the English Language. This time by Keith Bosley.

List of Events by Month

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Births

July 1 - Charles Armstrong-Jones

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