WHAT ALL HAPPENED FEBRUARY TO DECEMBER 1999
Find out what all happened February to December 1999

The Bhutan Broadcasting Service brings television transmissions to the Kingdom for the first time. (2. June 1999)

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

Wolverhampton, England is hit by storms, including a tornado. The area was hit again with severe storms on August 1. (5. July 1999)

Shenzhou 1: The People's Republic of China launches its first Shenzhou spacecraft. (19. November 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. (25. May 1999)

Kosovo War: NATO suspends its air strikes after Slobodan Milošević agrees to withdraw Serbian forces from Kosovo. (10. June 1999)

The last flight of the SR-71. (9. October 1999)

The Ladbroke Grove rail crash in west London kills 31 people. (5. October 1999)

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

Australians vote to keep the Head of the Commonwealth as their head of state in the Australian republic referendum. (6. November 1999)

The United Kingdom devolves political power in Northern Ireland to the Northern Ireland Executive. (2. December 1999)

Crown Prince Mohammed Ben Al-Hassan is crowned King Mohammed VI of Morocco on the death of his father. (23. July 1999)

In Belgrade, Yugoslavia, tens of thousands of Serbians rally to demand the resignation of Federal Republic of Yugoslavia President Slobodan Milošević. (19. August 1999)

Abdullah Öcalan, leader of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), is arrested in Kenya. (15. February 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. (30. November 1999)

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

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. (31. December 1999)

The Dow Jones Industrial Average closes above the 10,000 mark (10,006.78) for the first time, during the height of the internet boom. (29. 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)

Pervez Musharraf takes power in Pakistan from Nawaz Sharif through a bloodless coup. (12. October 1999)