Historical Events In 1999

Sep 18   Trillium Rail takes over operation of 41 miles of industrial trackage in Ontario's Niagara Peninsula comprising sections of the Cayuga sub. and the Thorold, Canal, Grantham, Fonthill, Town Line and West Welland spurs. The lines will be operated by a Trillium subsidiary, the Port Colborne Terminal Railway in the year 1999.   

Sep 20   In Taiwan a 7.7 quake resulted in at least 2,297 people killed, 8,700 injured, 600,000 people left homeless and about 82,000 housing units damaged by the earthquake and larger aftershocks on this day in history.   

Sep 21   A powerful earthquake shakes Taiwan, killing nearly 2500 people on this day in history.   

Sep 27   Detroit's Tiger Stadium closes after 87 years of hosting baseball and other sporting contests on this day in history.   

Oct 02   China and Russia hail 50 years of diplomatic ties with the two neighbours' first joint naval exercises on this day in history.   

Oct 17   Former US nurse Orville Lynn Majors is convicted of murdering six patients at a western Indiana hospital; the jury deadlocked on a seventh count. (Majors is serving a 360-year prison sentence.) in the year 1999.   

Oct 25   The dress that Marilyn Monroe wore to sing "Happy Birthday, Mr President" to President John F Kennedy is sold for $US1,267,500 -- a record for an item of clothing at auction on this day in history.   

Oct 26   In the year 1999 "Pinocchio" becomes the first animated classic to make its way to DVD   

Oct 26   Britain's House of Lords votes to end the right of hereditary peers to sit and vote in Britain's upper chamber of Parliament in the year 1999.   

Nov 02   "Saving Private Ryan" becomse the first major Spielberg movie to be released on DVD on this day in history.   

Dec 26   In the year 1999 r&B artist Curtis Mayfield dies in an Atlanta hospital at age 57. Mayfield, famous for the Superfly soundtrack, had been paralyzed since 1990 during an onstage accident.   

Dec 28   On this day in history clayton Moore, star of the 1950s TV show The Lone Ranger, dies in Los Angeles at age 85.dec29   

Dec 31   In the year 1999 control of Panama Canal reverts to Panama   

« Previous Page | 1 | 2 | 3 | Next Page »

Jan 02   Sebastian Haffner, German journalist and author (b. 1907) died in the year 1999.   

Jan 04   On this day in history death of iron Eyes Cody, American actor (b. 1904)   

Jan 06   On this day in history french Jazz piano virtuoso Michel Petrucciani dies in New York following a brief respiratory illness at age 36   

Jan 10   Sir Edward Williams, Australian judge (b. 1921) died on this day in history.   

Jan 11   On this day in history death of naomi Mitchison, Scottish novelist and poet (b. 1897)   

Jan 12   On this day in history death of betty Lou Gerson, American voice actress (b. 1914)   

Jan 14   Jerzy Grotowski, Polish theatre director (b. 1933) died in the year 1999.   

Jan 15   Betty Box, British film producer (b. 1915) died on this day in history.