The 7.5 Mw Ambrym earthquake shakes Vanuatu and a destructive tsunami follows. Ten people were killed and forty were injured. Date: November 26, 1999 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on November 26 📅 Events on this day in 1999 📅 On This Day (Today)
A five-year-old Cuban boy, Elián González, is rescued by fishermen while floating in an inner tube off the Florida coast. Date: November 25, 1999 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on November 25 📅 Events on this day in 1999 📅 On This Day (Today)
John Carpenter becomes the first person to win the top prize in the TV game show Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? Date: November 19, 1999 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on November 19 📅 Events on this day in 1999 📅 On This Day (Today)
Shenzhou 1: The People's Republic of China launches its first Shenzhou spacecraft. Date: November 19, 1999 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on November 19 📅 Events on this day in 1999 📅 On This Day (Today)
At Texas A&M University, the Aggie Bonfire collapses killing 12 students and injuring 27 others. Date: November 18, 1999 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on November 18 📅 Events on this day in 1999 📅 On This Day (Today)
The 7.2 Mw Düzce earthquake shakes northwestern Turkey with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent). At least 845 people are killed and almost 5,000 are injured. Date: November 12, 1999 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on November 12 📅 Events on this day in 1999 📅 On This Day (Today)
The House of Lords Act is given Royal Assent, restricting membership of the British House of Lords by virtue of a hereditary peerage. Date: November 11, 1999 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on November 11 📅 Events on this day in 1999 📅 On This Day (Today)
World Anti-Doping Agency is formed in Lausanne. Date: November 10, 1999 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on November 10 📅 Events on this day in 1999 📅 On This Day (Today)
TAESA Flight 725 crashes after takeoff from Uruapan International Airport in Uruapan, Michoacán, Mexico, killing all 18 people on board. Date: November 9, 1999 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on November 9 📅 Events on this day in 1999 📅 On This Day (Today)
Bruce Miller is killed at his junkyard near Flint, Michigan. His wife Sharee Miller, who convinced her online lover Jerry Cassaday to kill him (before later killing himself) was convicted of the crime, in what became the world's first Internet murder. Date: November 8, 1999 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on November…