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 23 » Cuba leases Guantánamo Bay to the United States "in perpetuity".
March 2 » In New York City the Martha Washington Hotel opens, becoming the first hotel exclusively for women.
May 29 » In the May Coup, Alexander I, King of Serbia, and Queen Draga, are assassinated in Belgrade by the Black Hand (Crna Ruka) organization.
June 16 » The Ford Motor Company is incorporated.
November 17 » The Russian Social Democratic Labour Party splits into two groups: The Bolsheviks (Russian for "majority") and Mensheviks (Russian for "minority").
Day of death March 25, 1999
The temperature on March 25, 1999 was between 3.9 °C and 16.2 °C and averaged 10.6 °C. There was 0.3 mm of rain during 0.3 hours. There was 7.4 hours of sunshine (59%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south. Source: KNMI
February 13 » The last hockey game is played in Maple Leaf Gardens: the Toronto Maple Leafs lose 6–2 to the Chicago Blackhawks.
March 12 » Former Warsaw Pact members the Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland join NATO.
April 7 » The World Trade Organization rules in favor of the United States in its long-running trade dispute with the European Union over bananas.
April 20 » Columbine High School massacre: Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold kill 13 people and injure 24 others before committing suicide at Columbine High School in Columbine, Colorado.
July 26 » Kargil conflict officially comes to an end. The Indian Army announces the complete eviction of Pakistani intruders.
December 31 » The U.S. government hands control of the Panama Canal (as well all the adjacent land to the canal known as the Panama Canal Zone) to Panama. This act complied with the signing of the 1977 Torrijos–Carter Treaties.
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