WHAT ALL HAPPENED MARCH TO OCTOBER 1999
Find out what all happened March to October 1999

East Timor voted for independence from Indonesia in a referendum. (30. August 1999)

A LAPA Boeing 737-200 crashes during takeoff from Jorge Newbury Airport in Buenos Aires, killing 65, including two on the ground. (31. August 1999)

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

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)

U.S. Army private Barry Winchell dies from baseball-bat injuries inflicted on him in his sleep the previous day by a fellow soldier, Calvin Glover, for his relationship with transgender showgirl and former Navy Corpsman Calpernia Addams. (6. July 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)

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

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

Britain's House of Lords votes to end the right of hereditary peers to vote in Britain's upper chamber of Parliament. (26. October 1999)

The Salt Lake City Tornado tears through the downtown district of the city, killing one. (11. August 1999)

A large cyclone devastates Odisha, India. (29. October 1999)

Beni Ounif massacre in Algeria; some 29 people are killed at a false roadblock near the Moroccan border, leading to temporary tensions with Morocco. (15. August 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)

Discovery Program: Lunar Prospector – NASA intentionally crashes the spacecraft into the Moon, thus ending its mission to detect frozen water on the moon's surface. (31. July 1999)

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

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

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