About the day » Sunday July 18, 1999Calender converter

• Emil Dobber, Almere, Flevoland, Nederland
• Job Umplet Griffin, Jackson, Madison County, Tennessee

• Andries Johannes Capelle (73)
• Bregtus Thomaszn. Dijkstra (87)
• Abraham de Jong (85)
• August Jacobs (74), Valkenburg, Nederland
• Antoon van Dijk
• Amarentia Maria Vos (80)
• Agnes Johanna Sterkenburg (84), Amsterdam, Gemeente Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Christina de la Rie (92), Leiden
• Blondina Valerie De Jaeger (84), Herzele
• Albert VUYLSTEKE (72), Menen,8930,West Vlaanderen,Vlaams Gewest,Belgie,Belgie

• 1988 » Änis Ben-Hatira, German-Tunisian footballer
• 1989 » Jamie Benn, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1989 » Sebastian Mielitz, German footballer
• 1989 » Yohan Mollo, French footballer
• 1993 » Lee Tae-min, South Korean singer and actor
• 1993 » Michael Lichaa, Australian rugby league player
• 1994 » Nilo Soares, East Timorese footballer
• 1996 » Smriti Mandhana, Indian cricketer
• 1997 » Noah Lyles, American sprinter
• 2001 » Agustina Roth, Argentine BMX rider

• 1990 » Karl Menninger, American psychiatrist and author (b. 1896)
• 2001 » Mimi Fariña, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1945)
• 2002 » Metin Toker, Turkish journalist and author (b. 1924)
• 2004 » Émile Peynaud, French wine maker (b. 1912)
• 2004 » André Castelot, Belgian-French historian and author (b. 1911)
• 2005 » Amy Gillett, Australian cyclist and rower (b. 1976)
• 2005 » William Westmoreland, American general (b. 1914)
• 2006 » Henry Hewes, American theater writer (b. 1917)
• 2007 » Jerry Hadley, American tenor (b. 1952)
• 2007 » Kenji Miyamoto, Japanese politician (b. 1908)

• Koningin Beatrix (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from April 30, 1980 till April 30, 2013 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from Monday, August 3, 1998 to Monday, July 22, 2002 the cabinet Kok II, with W. Kok (PvdA) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 15.8 million citizens.
• 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).
• January 7 » The Senate trial in the impeachment of U.S. President Bill Clinton begins.
• January 22 » Australian missionary Graham Staines and his two sons are burned alive by radical Hindus while sleeping in their car in Eastern India.
• May 1 » SpongeBob SquarePants premieres on Nickelodeon.
• May 3 » The southwestern portion of Oklahoma City is devastated by an F5 tornado, killing forty-five people, injuring 665, and causing $1billion in damage. The tornado is one of 66 from the 1999 Oklahoma tornado outbreak. This tornado also produces the highest wind speed ever recorded, measured at 301 +/- 20mph (484 +/- 32km/h).
• July 23 » ANA Flight 61 is hijacked in Tokyo, Japan by Yuji Nishizawa.

The temperature on July 18, 1999 was between 12.1 °C and 29.2 °C and averaged 21.8 °C. There was 10.9 hours of sunshine (67%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east.