January 4 » Topsy, an elephant, is electrocuted by the owners of Luna Park, Coney Island. The Edison film company records the film Electrocuting an Elephant of Topsy's death.
February 14 » The United States Department of Commerce and Labor is established (later split into the Department of Commerce and the Department of Labor).
April 29 » A landslide kills 70 people in Frank, in the District of Alberta, Canada.
July 20 » The Ford Motor Company ships its first automobile.
August 3 » Macedonian rebels in Kruševo proclaim the Kruševo Republic, which exists for only ten days before Ottoman Turks lay waste to the town.
November 18 » The Hay–Bunau-Varilla Treaty is signed by the United States and Panama, giving the United States exclusive rights over the Panama Canal Zone.
Day of death June 19, 1999
The temperature on June 19, 1999 was between 4.7 °C and 23.1 °C and averaged 15.9 °C. There was 15.0 hours of sunshine (90%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
January 7 » The Senate trial in the impeachment of U.S. President Bill Clinton begins.
May 2 » Panamanian general election, 1999: Mireya Moscoso becomes the first woman to be elected President of Panama.
August 31 » The first of a series of bombings in Moscow kills one person and wounds 40 others.
December 2 » The United Kingdom devolves political power in Northern Ireland to the Northern Ireland Executive following the Good Friday Agreement.
December 3 » NASA loses radio contact with the Mars Polar Lander moments before the spacecraft enters the Martian atmosphere.
December 6 » A&M Records, Inc. v. Napster, Inc.: The Recording Industry Association of America sues the peer-to-peer file-sharing service Napster, alleging copyright infringement.
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