WHAT ALL HAPPENED JANUARY TO JULY 1999
Find out what all happened January to July 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. (21. January 1999)

A severe hailstorm strikes Sydney, Australia causing A$2.3 billion in insured damages, the most costly natural disaster in Australian history. (14. April 1999)

The China News Service announces new government restrictions on Internet use, aimed especially at Internet cafés. (20. January 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. (24. May 1999)

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

Nunavut is established as a Canadian territory carved out of the eastern part of the Northwest Territories. (1. April 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)

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

The Bhutan Broadcasting Service brings television transmissions to the Kingdom for the first time. (2. June 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)

The body of British climber George Mallory is found on Mount Everest, 75 years after his disappearance in 1924. (1. May 1999)

Days of student protests begin after Iranian police and hardliners attack a student dormitory at the University of Tehran. (9. July 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. (29. May 1999)

In Alberta, Canada, 14-year-old Todd Cameron Smith fires upon three students, killing one and wounding another in the W. R. Myers High School shooting. (28. April 1999)

Bertrand Piccard and Brian Jones become the first to circumnavigate the Earth in a hot air balloon. (21. March 1999)

The Senate trial in the impeachment of U.S. President Bill Clinton begins. (7. January 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. (12. June 1999)

The World Trade Organization rules in favor of the United States in its long-running trade dispute with the European Union over bananas. (7. April 1999)

Haryana Gana Parishad, a political party in the Indian state of Haryana, merges with the Indian National Congress. (8. April 1999)

The German Bundestag returns to Berlin, the first German parliamentary body to meet there since the Reichstag was dissolved in 1933. (19. April 1999)