WHAT HAPPENED IN 1999.
Look what happened the 1999.

Kosovo War: the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and NATO sign a peace treaty. (9. June 1999)

Kosovo War: NATO suspends its air strikes after Slobodan Milošević agrees to withdraw Serbian forces from Kosovo. (10. June 1999)

Kosovo War: Operation Joint Guardian begins when a NATO-led United Nations peacekeeping force (KFor) enters the province of Kosovo in Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. (12. June 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)

Wolverhampton, England is hit by storms, including a tornado. The area was hit again with severe storms on August 1. (5. July 1999)

U.S. President Bill Clinton imposes trade and economic sanctions against the Taliban regime in Afghanistan. (5. July 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)

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

John F. Kennedy, Jr., piloting a Piper Saratoga aircraft, dies when his plane crashes into the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Martha's Vineyard. His wife Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy and sister-in-law Lauren Bessette are also killed. (16. July 1999)

Falun Gong is banned in China, and a large scale crackdown of the practice is launched. (20. July 1999)

Crown Prince Mohammed Ben Al-Hassan is crowned King Mohammed VI of Morocco on the death of his father. (23. July 1999)

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

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 Chechnya-based Islamic International Brigade invades the neighboring Russian Dagestan. (7. 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 Salt Lake City Tornado tears through the downtown district of the city, killing one. (11. August 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)

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