Page 3: Historical Events In 1999

Sep 18   On this day in history 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   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 in the year 1999.   

Sep 21   In the year 1999 a powerful earthquake shakes Taiwan, killing nearly 2500 people.   

Sep 27   In the year 1999 detroit's Tiger Stadium closes after 87 years of hosting baseball and other sporting contests.   

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   In the year 1999 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   In the year 1999 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.   

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

Dec 26   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 in the year 1999.   

Dec 28   In the year 1999 clayton Moore, star of the 1950s TV show The Lone Ranger, dies in Los Angeles at age 85.dec29   

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   In the year 1999 death of iron Eyes Cody, American actor (b. 1904)   

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

Jan 10   On this day in history death of sir Edward Williams, Australian judge (b. 1921)   

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

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   On this day in history death of betty Box, British film producer (b. 1915)