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1999 Calendar

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•  February 16, 1999 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Earth Rabbit in Chinese astrology.
•  February 24, 1999 – A China Southern Airlines Tupolev TU-154 airliner crashes on approach to Wenzhou airport in eastern the People’s Republic of China, killing 61.
•  May 7, 1999 – In Guinea-Bissau, President João Bernardo Vieira is ousted in a military coup.
•  June 2, 1999 – The Bhutan Broadcasting Service brings television transmissions to the Kingdom for the first time.
•  June 9, 1999 – Kosovo War: the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and NATO sign a peace treaty.
•  June 10, 1999 – Kosovo War: NATO suspends its air strikes after Slobodan Milošević agrees to withdraw Serbian forces from Kosovo.
•  July 23, 1999 – ANA Flight 61 is hijacked in Tokyo, Japan by Yuji Nishizawa.
•  August 9, 1999 – Russian President Boris Yeltsin fires his Prime Minister, Sergei Stepashin, and for the fourth time fires his entire cabinet.
•  October 12, 1999 – The Day of Six Billion: The proclaimed 6 billionth living human in the world is born.
•  November 19, 1999 – Shenzhou 1: The People’s Republic of China launches its first Shenzhou spacecraft.

•  January 18, 1999 – Karan Brar, American actor
•  March 19, 1999 – Tatum McCann, American actress
•  May 5, 1999 – Nathan Chen, American figure skater
•  July 20, 1999 – Princess Alexandra of Hanover
•  August 22, 1999 – Dakota Goyo, Canadian Actor
•  August 28, 1999 – Prince Nikolai of Denmark, Danish royalty
•  September 4, 1999 – Kali Majors, American actress
•  September 22, 1999 – Tallan Latz, American blues guitarist
•  September 29, 1999 – Juan Valentín Urdangarín y de Borbón, Spanish royal
•  October 15, 1999 – Bailee Madison, American child actress