WHAT ALL HAPPENED FEBRUARY TO JUNE 1999
Find out what all happened February to June 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 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)

Space Shuttle Discovery completes the first docking with the International Space Station. (29. May 1999)

Nunavut is established as a Canadian territory carved out of the eastern part of the Northwest Territories. (1. April 1999)

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

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

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

Kosovo War: the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and NATO sign a peace treaty. (9. June 1999)

NATO mistakenly bombs a convoy of ethnic Albanian refugees – Yugoslav officials say 75 people were killed. (14. April 1999)

In Guinea-Bissau, President João Bernardo Vieira is ousted in a military coup. (7. May 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)

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

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)

Legoland California, the only Legoland outside of Europe, opens in Carlsbad, California. (20. March 1999)

The first elections to the devolved Scottish Parliament and Welsh Assembly are held. (6. May 1999)

Cambodia joins the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) bringing the number of members to 10. (30. April 1999)

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