WHAT HAPPENED IN 1999.
Look what happened the 1999.

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

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)

Indonesia announces it will allow international peace-keepers into East Timor. (12. September 1999)

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

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

Celebrate Bisexuality Day was first observed in the United States. (23. September 1999)

NASA announces that it has lost contact with the Mars Climate Orbiter. (23. September 1999)

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

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

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

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

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

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)

Gunmen open fire in the Armenian Parliament, killing Prime Minister Vazgen Sargsyan, Parliament Chairman Karen Demirchyan, and 6 other members. (27. October 1999)

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