Page 3: Historical Events In 1999

Sep 18   In the year 1999 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.   

Sep 20   On this day in history 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   

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

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

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

Oct 17   On this day in history 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.)   

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 in the year 1999.   

Oct 26   "Pinocchio" becomes the first animated classic to make its way to DVD on this day in history.   

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

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

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   Clayton Moore, star of the 1950s TV show The Lone Ranger, dies in Los Angeles at age 85.dec29 in the year 1999.   

Dec 31   Control of Panama Canal reverts to Panama in the year 1999.   

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Jan 02   On this day in history death of sebastian Haffner, German journalist and author (b. 1907)   

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   On this day in history death of sir Edward Williams, Australian judge (b. 1921)   

Jan 11   Naomi Mitchison, Scottish novelist and poet (b. 1897) died on this day in history.   

Jan 12   Betty Lou Gerson, American voice actress (b. 1914) died on this day in history.   

Jan 14   On this day in history death of jerzy Grotowski, Polish theatre director (b. 1933)   

Jan 15   Betty Box, British film producer (b. 1915) died in the year 1999.