WHAT ALL HAPPENED FEBRUARY TO MAY 1999
Find out what all happened February to May 1999

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

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

Kurdish rebel leader Abdullah Öcalan is charged with treason in Ankara, Turkey. (23. February 1999)

In Milan, Italy, after 22 years of restoration work, Leonardo da Vinci's masterpiece The Last Supper is put back on display. (28. May 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)

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)

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)

Two Libyans suspected of bringing down Pan Am flight 103 in 1988 are handed over for eventual trial in the Netherlands. (5. April 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)

An avalanche destroys the Austrian village of Galtür, killing 31. (23. February 1999)

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

Pope John Paul II travels to Romania becoming the first pope to visit a predominantly Eastern Orthodox country since the Great Schism in 1054. (7. May 1999)

The Avala TV Tower near Belgrade is destroyed in the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia. (29. April 1999)

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

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

Kosovo War: In Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, three Chinese citizens are killed and 20 wounded when a NATO aircraft bombs the Chinese embassy in Belgrade. (7. May 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)

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

Columbine High School massacre: Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold kill 13 people and injure 24 others before committing suicide at Columbine High School in Columbine, Colorado. (20. April 1999)