January 13 » Émile Zola's J'accuse…! exposes the Dreyfus affair.
February 27 » King George I of Greece survives an assassination attempt.
June 13 » Yukon Territory is formed, with Dawson chosen as its capital.
August 23 » The Southern Cross Expedition, the first British venture of the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration, departs from London.
September 10 » Empress Elisabeth of Austria is assassinated by Luigi Lucheni.
December 10 » Spanish–American War: The Treaty of Paris is signed, officially ending the conflict.
Day of death August 27, 1999
The temperature on August 27, 1999 was between 13.4 °C and 21.2 °C and averaged 17.3 °C. There was 2.6 hours of sunshine (19%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. Source: KNMI
January 1 » Euro currency is introduced in 11 member nations of the European Union (with the exception of the United Kingdom, Denmark, Greece and Sweden; Greece later adopts the euro).
April 19 » The German Bundestag returns to Berlin.
May 7 » In Guinea-Bissau, President João Bernardo Vieira is ousted in a military coup.
July 23 » Space Shuttle Columbia launches on STS-93, with Eileen Collins becoming the first female space shuttle commander. The shuttle also carried and deployed the Chandra X-ray Observatory.
December 3 » NASA loses radio contact with the Mars Polar Lander moments before the spacecraft enters the Martian atmosphere.
December 21 » The Spanish Civil Guard intercepts a van loaded with 950kg of explosives that ETA intended to use to blow up Torre Picasso in Madrid, Spain.
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