February 7 » A Chinese immigrant in San Francisco falls ill to bubonic plague in the first plague epidemic in the continental United States.
February 23 » Second Boer War: During the Battle of the Tugela Heights, the first British attempt to take Hart's Hill fails.
February 27 » Second Boer War: In South Africa, British military leaders receive an unconditional notice of surrender from Boer General Piet Cronjé at the Battle of Paardeberg.
February 28 » The Second Boer War: The 118-day "Siege of Ladysmith" is lifted.
June 5 » Second Boer War: British soldiers take Pretoria.
June 21 » Boxer Rebellion. China formally declares war on the United States, Britain, Germany, France and Japan, as an edict issued from the Empress Dowager Cixi.
Day of death November 18, 1999
The temperature on November 18, 1999 was between -0.2 °C and 6.0 °C and averaged 2.1 °C. There was 9.8 mm of rain during 6.7 hours. There was 2.6 hours of sunshine (30%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west. Source: KNMI
April 8 » Haryana Gana Parishad, a political party in the Indian state of Haryana, merges with the Indian National Congress.
May 1 » SpongeBob SquarePants premieres on Nickelodeon.
May 7 » Pope John Paul II travels to Romania, becoming the first pope to visit a predominantly Eastern Orthodox country since the Great Schism in 1054.
October 29 » A large cyclone devastates Odisha, India.
November 18 » At Texas A&M University, the Aggie Bonfire collapses killing 12 students and injuring 27 others.
November 30 » Exxon and Mobil sign a US$73.7 billion agreement to merge, thus creating ExxonMobil, the world's largest company.
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