WHAT ALL HAPPENED JANUARY TO MARCH 1999
Find out what all happened January to March 1999

Across Europe, Kurdish rebels take over embassies and hold hostages after Turkey arrests one of their rebel leaders, Abdullah Öcalan. (16. February 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. (4. February 1999)

A 6.0 Richter scale earthquake hits western Colombia killing at least 1,000. (25. January 1999)

Crown Prince Abdullah becomes the King of Jordan on the death of his father, King Hussein. (7. February 1999)

Former professional wrestler Jesse Ventura is sworn in as governor of Minnesota. (4. January 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. (10. January 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. (14. January 1999)

Kosovo War: Serb paramilitary and military forces kill 146 Kosovo Albanians in the Izbica massacre. (28. March 1999)

Israel detains, and later expels, 14 members of Concerned Christians. (3. January 1999)

Ottawa Treaty enters into force. (1. March 1999)

A magnitude 6.8 earthquake strikes the Chamoli district in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, killing 103. (29. March 1999)

United States President Bill Clinton is acquitted by the United States Senate in his impeachment trial. (12. February 1999)

In Uzbekistan, a bomb explodes and gunfire is heard at the government headquarters in an apparent assassination attempt against President Islam Karimov. (16. February 1999)

The "Melissa worm" infects Microsoft word processing and e-mail systems around the world. (26. March 1999)

Former Warsaw Pact members the Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland join NATO. (12. March 1999)

The 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. (24. February 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, Illinois, where temperatures plunge to -13 °F (-25 °C); 68 deaths are reported. (2. January 1999)

British Aerospace agrees to acquire the defence subsidiary of the General Electric Company plc, forming BAE Systems in November 1999. (19. January 1999)

Infosys becomes the first Indian company listed on the NASDAQ stock exchange. (11. March 1999)

A jury in Michigan finds Dr. Jack Kevorkian guilty of second-degree murder for administering a lethal injection to a terminally ill man. (26. March 1999)