WHAT ALL HAPPENED APRIL TO DECEMBER 1999
Find out what all happened April to December 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)

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)

The body of British climber George Mallory is found on Mount Everest, 75 years after his disappearance in 1924. (1. May 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)

Two Libyans suspected of bringing down Pan Am flight 103 in 1988 are handed over for eventual trial in the Netherlands. (5. April 1999)

Torrential rains cause flash floods in Vargas, Venezuela, resulting in tens of thousands of deaths, the destruction of thousands of homes, and the complete collapse of the state's infrastructure. (14. December 1999)

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

Kiribati, Nauru and Tonga join the United Nations. (14. September 1999)

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

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

The Scottish Parliament is officially opened by Elizabeth II on the day that legislative powers are officially transferred from the old Scottish Office in London to the new devolved Scottish Executive in Edinburgh. (1. July 1999)

NASA launches into orbit the Terra platform carrying five Earth Observation instruments, including ASTER, CERES, MISR, MODIS and MOPITT. (18. December 1999)

A 7.4-magnitude earthquake strikes İzmit, Turkey, killing more than 17,000 and injuring 44,000. (17. August 1999)

Chi-Chi earthquake occurs in central Taiwan, leaving about 2,400 people dead. (21. September 1999)

The Chechnya-based Islamic International Brigade invades the neighboring Russian Dagestan. (7. August 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 United Nations establishes the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women to commemorate the murder of three Mirabal sisters for resistance against the Rafael Trujillo dictatorship in the Dominican Republic. (25. November 1999)

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