WHAT ALL HAPPENED MARCH TO DECEMBER 1999
Find out what all happened March to December 1999

American Airlines Flight 1420 slides and crashes while landing at Little Rock National Airport, killing 11 people on a flight from Dallas to Little Rock. (1. June 1999)

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

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

The first of a series of bombings in Moscow kills one person and wounds 40 others. (31. August 1999)

EgyptAir Flight 990 crashes into the Atlantic Ocean killing all 217 people on board. (31. October 1999)

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

Kiribati, Nauru and Tonga join the United Nations. (14. September 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 House of Lords Act is given Royal Assent, restricting membership of the British House of Lords by virtue of a hereditary peerage. (11. November 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)

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

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

Tony Hawk lands the first 900 on a skateboard (2 and a half complete revolutions) at the fifth annual X Games in San Francisco, California. (27. July 1999)

Gunmen assassinate Paraguay's Vice President Luis María Argaña. (23. March 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)

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)

ANA Flight 61 is hijacked in Tokyo, Japan by Yuji Nishizawa. (23. July 1999)

The former Autonomous Soviet Republic of Abkhazia declares its independence from Georgia (12. October 1999)

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