Biggest Events of the Year 1999

The Top Ten

1 The Euro currency is introduced

One of the most powerful currency is introduced, the second largest reserve currency as well as the second most traded in the world

2 Y2K scare. Computers predicted to crash at the end of the year

3 NATO begins bombing Serbian forces in Kosovo. Mass explusion of Albanians from Kosovo

4 NATO mistakenly bombs a convoy of ethnic Albanian refugees - Yugoslav officials say 75 people are killed

5 Bertrand Piccard and Brian Jones become the first to circumnavigate the Earth in a hot air balloon

6 The German Bundestag returns to Berlin

7 Portugal transfers sovereignty of Macau to China

8 Ehud Bark elected Prime Minister of Israel

9 Columbine High School Massacre

10 USA President Bill Clinton acquitted in Senate impeachment trial

The Contenders

11 Russian President Boris Yeltsin fires his Prime Minister, Sergei Stepashin, and for the fourth time fires his entire cabinet

12 Owen Hart Falls to His Death at Over the Edge

13 Everyone thought an economy collapse would follow

14 Stanley Kubrick dies

15 The Legend Of The Titanic was released

The most offensive movie ever made by man. I'm not joking around. I'm being dead serious.

Don't believe me? Check it out for yourself and you'll see what I mean.

16 Julia first recorded by the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

17 Murder of Jesse Dirkhising

18 Blaming of Marilyn Manson for the Columbine massacre

19 Stephen King gets hit by a van

20 John F. Kennedy Jr. plane crash

21 1999 FIFA Women's World Cup, in USA

22 Star Wars: The Phantom Menace was released

23 1999 Cricket World Cup, in England, Scotland, Ireland, Netherlands, and Wales

24 1999 Rugby World Cup, in Wales

25 SpongeBob SquarePants premiers

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