Date: January 21, 1999
Outbreak of CIH computer virus. Date: April 26, 1999 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on April 26 📅 Events on this day in 1999 📅 On This Day (Today) More events from 1999Sydney Hailstorm Causes A$2.3 Billion Damage, Australia’s Costliest Disaster, April 14, 1999Honolulu Workplace Shooting Kills Seven, Injures One – November…
Unarmed West African immigrant Amadou Diallo is shot 19 times by four plainclothes New York City police officers on an unrelated stake-out, inflaming race relations in the city. Date: February 4, 1999 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on February 4 📅 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) More events from 1999Space Shuttle Discovery Launches STS-96, First ISS Docking – May 27, 1999American Airlines Flight 1420 Crash at Little…
The southwestern portion of Oklahoma City is devastated by an F5 tornado, killing forty-five people, injuring 665, and causing $1 billion in damage. The tornado is one of 66 from the 1999 Oklahoma tornado outbreak. This tornado also produces the highest wind speed ever recorded, measured at 484 ± 32 kilometres per hour (301 ± 20 mph). In meteorology, the term…
Kosovo War: An American Lockheed F-117A Nighthawk is shot down by a Yugoslav Army SAM, the first and only Nighthawk to be lost in combat. Date: March 27, 1999 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on March 27 📅 Events on this day in 1999 📅 On This Day (Today) More events from…
Pope John Paul II travels to Romania, becoming the first pope to visit a predominantly Eastern Orthodox country since the Great Schism in 1054. Date: May 7, 1999 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on May 7 📅 Events on this day in 1999 📅 On This Day (Today) More events from 1999Kargil…