WHAT ALL HAPPENED JULY TO NOVEMBER 1999
Find out what all happened July to November 1999

In Seattle, Washington, United States, demonstrations against a World Trade Organization meeting by anti-globalization protesters catch police unprepared and force the cancellation of opening ceremonies. (30. November 1999)

The Düzce earthquake strikes Turkey with a magnitude of 7.2 on the Richter scale. (12. November 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)

Russian President Boris Yeltsin fires his Prime Minister, Sergei Stepashin, and for the fourth time fires his entire cabinet. (9. August 1999)

The left-wing Labour Party takes control of the New Zealand government with leader Helen Clark becoming the first elected female Prime Minister in New Zealand's history. (27. November 1999)

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

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

Pervez Musharraf takes power in Pakistan from Nawaz Sharif through a bloodless coup. (12. October 1999)

Maurice Papon, an official in the Vichy France government during World War II, is jailed for crimes against humanity. (22. October 1999)

Russia begins the Second Chechen War in response to the Invasion of Dagestan by the Islamic International Peacekeeping Brigade. (26. August 1999)

Falun Gong is banned in China, and a large scale crackdown of the practice is launched. (20. July 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)

A 5.9 magnitude earthquake rocks Athens, rupturing a previously unknown fault, killing 143, injuring more than 500, and leaving 50,000 people homeless. (7. September 1999)

Days of student protests begin after Iranian police and hardliners attack a student dormitory at the University of Tehran. (9. July 1999)

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

Yachtsman Jesse Martin returns to Melbourne after 11 months of circumnavigating the world, solo, non-stop and unassisted. (31. October 1999)

Japan's second worst nuclear accident at a uranium reprocessing facility in Tōkai-mura, northeast of Tokyo. (30. September 1999)

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