Page 2: Historical Events In 1999

Feb 26   Ontario Southland commenced operation over the CP Port Burwell subdivision from Ingersoll to Tillsonburg, ON.   

Feb 27   Democratic rule returns to Nigeria as its citizens elect Olusegun Obasanjo as president   

Mar 02   Rock singer Dusty Springfield dies at her London area home at age 59.   

Mar 04   A military jury in North Carolina clears a Marine pilot of reckless endangerment charges when his jet severed a gondola cable in the Alps, sending 20 people to their deaths.   

Mar 04   Retired US Supreme Court Justice Harry A. Blackmun, author of a 1973 decision legalizing abortion, dies in Arlington, VA, at age 90   

Mar 05   Actor Richard Kiley dies in Warwick, NY, at age 76.   

Mar 06   Sheik Isa bin Salman Al Khalifa, emir of Bahrain, dies at age 65   

Mar 14   MGM hosts the world's inaugural online DVD event   

Mar 15   Pluto again is recorded as becoming outermost planet mar171916 Eight Curtiss "Jenny" planes of the inaugural Aero Squadron take off from Columbus, Mexico, in the inaugural combat air mission in U.S. history.   

Mar 22   RaiLink Ltd.takes over operation of the CN Coronado, Bonnyville, and Lac La Biche subdivisions, northeast of Edmonton. The line extends from St. Paul Junction, immediately north of Edmonton, to Boyle and northeast to Grande Centre and Elk Point. It also connects with RaiLink's existing Lakeland and Waterways line at Boyle   

Mar 28   In the Xizang-India Border Region a 5.5 earthquake occurred At least 61 people killed and 125 injured in the Chamoli district; 34 killed and 177 injured in the Rudraprayag district; 5 killed and 60 injured in the Tehri Garhwal district; 19 injured in the Bageshwar district; 13 injured in the Pauri Garhwal district, India.   

Mar 30   A jury in Portland, Oregon, orders Philip Morris to pay $US81 million to the family of a man who died of lung cancer after smoking Marlboros for four decades.   

Mar 31   Australian aid workers Steve Pratt and Peter Wallace are arrested by Serb authorities   

Apr 18   NATO launches its most active day of airstrikes in its assault on Yugoslavia,.   

Apr 20   "A bug's Life" is the inaugural DVD to be transfered directly from the digital source making it the inaugural 100 percent digital DVD.   

Apr 20   Victims and shooters of the Columbine High School massacre   

May 01   The body of British mountaineer George Mallory is are discovered on Mount Everest almost 75 years after he disappeared on a climbing expedition.   

May 02   Central Manitoba Railway takes over the operation of the former CN Pine Falls subdivisions.   

Jun 06   Central Manitoba Railway, a subsidiary of Cando Contracting, takes over the operation of the former CN Carman sub. from m. 0.13 to m. 50.50.   

Jun 09   Yugoslav and NATO generals sign a Kosovo peace pact, ending 78 days of NATO airstrikes.   

Jun 27   Alberta RailNet takes over the former CN Grande Cache (from Swan Landing to Grande Prairie, m. 1.80 to m. 232.90), Grande Prairie (from Rycroft to Hythe, m. 0 to m. 89.19) and Smoky (Tangent to Spirit River, m. 306.2 to m. 357.80) subdivisions in Alberta   

Jun 30   Southern Rails Cooperative (Red Coat Road and Rail) takes over operation of the 71.5 mile CP line from Pangman to Assiniboia in Saskatchewan   

Jul 11   In the Honduras a 7.0 quake resulted in 1 person killed and another person died from a heart attack; at least 40 people injured   

Jul 26   "Eagles Hell Freezers" Over is recorded as becoming the best selling music DVD   

Jul 26   "Eagles:Hell Freezers" Over is recorded as becoming the best selling music DVD   

Aug 17   Izmit earthquake in Turkey killing 17127 people   

Aug 19   Panasonic anounces the inaugural Progressive Scan DVD player   

Aug 23   Norman Wexler, American screenwriter (b.1926)   

Aug 31   A Boeing 737 jet crashes during takeoff from Buenos Aires, Argentina, killing 72 people   

Aug 31   Detroit area teachers begin a nine-day strike, postponing the inaugural day of school for 170000 students   

Sep 05   Candid Camera star Allen Funt dies in Pebble Beach, CA, at age 84.   

Sep 07   A magnitude 5.9 earthquake rocks Athens, Greece, killing 143 people.   

Sep 07   Viacom announces it is buying CBS for $36 billion, making it the largest media acquisition in history.   

Sep 09   Hall of Fame baseball pitcher Jim Catfish" Hunter dies in Hertford, NC, at age 53.   

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Jan 02   Sebastian haffner: German journalist and author (b. 1907)   

Jan 04   Iron eyes cody: American actor (b. 1904)   

Jan 06   French jazz piano virtuoso michel petrucciani: French jazz piano virtuoso michel petrucciani   

Jan 10   Sir edward williams: Australian judge (b. 1921)   

Jan 11   Naomi mitchison: Scottish novelist and poet (b. 1897)   

Jan 12   Betty lou gerson: American voice actress (b. 1914)   

Jan 14   Jerzy grotowski: Polish theatre director (b. 1933)   

Jan 15   Betty box: British film producer (b. 1915)