WHAT HAPPENED IN 1999.
Look what happened the 1999.

An avalanche destroys the Austrian village of Galtür, killing 31. (23. February 1999)

The State of Arizona executes Karl LaGrand, a German national convicted of murder during a botched bank robbery, in spite of Germany's legal action to attempt to save him. (24. February 1999)

Ottawa Treaty enters into force. (1. March 1999)

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

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

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

Bertrand Piccard and Brian Jones become the first to circumnavigate the Earth in a hot air balloon. (21. March 1999)

Gunmen assassinate Paraguay's Vice President Luis María Argaña. (23. March 1999)

Mont Blanc Tunnel fire kills 38 people. (24. March 1999)

Kosovo War: NATO commences aerial bombardment against Yugoslavia, marking the first time NATO has attacked a sovereign country. (24. March 1999)

The "Melissa worm" infects Microsoft word processing and e-mail systems around the world. (26. March 1999)

A jury in Michigan finds Dr. Jack Kevorkian guilty of second-degree murder for administering a lethal injection to a terminally ill man. (26. March 1999)

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

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

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

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)

Haryana Gana Parishad, a political party in the Indian state of Haryana, merges with the Indian National Congress. (8. April 1999)

US President Bill Clinton is cited for contempt of court for giving "intentionally false statements" in a sexual harassment civil lawsuit. (12. April 1999)