What Happened In March 1999 In History

Historical Events for March, 1999

• 1st » Ottawa Treaty enters into force.
• 11th » Infosys becomes the first Indian company listed on the NASDAQ stock exchange.
• 12th » Former Warsaw Pact members the Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland join NATO.
• 20th » Legoland California, the first Legoland outside of Europe, opens in Carlsbad, California.
• 21st » Bertrand Piccard and Brian Jones (aeronaut) called Brian Jones become the first to circumnavigate the Earth in a hot air balloon.
• 24th » Mont Blanc Tunnel fire kills 39 people.
• 24th » Kosovo War: NATO commences 1999 NATO bombing of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia e.g aerial bombardment against Federal Republic of Yugoslavia or Yugoslavia, marking the first time NATO has attacked a sovereign country.
• 26th » The "Melissa worm" infects Microsoft word processing and e-mail systems around the world.
• 26th » A jury in Michigan finds Dr. Jack Kevorkian guilty of second-degree murder for administering a lethal injection to a terminally ill man.
• 27th » Kosovo War: Yugoslav SAM downed F117A, the first and only kill of the stealth aircraft.
• 28th » Kosovo War: Serb paramilitary and military forces kill 146 Kosovo Albanians in the Izbica massacre.
• 29th » The Dow Jones Industrial Average closes above the 10,000 mark (10,006.78) for the first time, during the height of the internet boom.
• 29th » A 1999 Chamoli earthquake named magnitude 6.8 earthquake strikes the Chamoli district in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, killing 103.

Famous Birthdays on March in 1999

• 5th » Madison Beer, American singer
• 12th » Sakura Oda, Japanese singer (Morning Musume)
• 13th » Wiktoria Gąsiewska, Polish actress
• 16th » Bailie Key, American gymnast
• 27th » Natasha Calis, Canadian actress
• 31st » Chae Sang-woo, South Korean actor

Famous Deaths for March 1999

• 1st » Christine Glanville, English puppeteer (b. 1924)
• 2nd » David Ackles, American singer-songwriter and actor (b. 1937)
• 2nd » Dusty Springfield, English singer (The Lana Sisters and The Springfields) (b. 1939)
• 3rd » Gerhard Herzberg, German-Canadian chemist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry named Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1904)
• 4th » Harry Blackmun, American jurist (b. 1908)
• 4th » Del Close, American actor (b. 1934)
• 4th » Eddie Dean (singer) called Eddie Dean, American singer and actor (b. 1907)
• 4th » Fritz Honegger, Swiss politician (b. 1917)
• 4th » Miłosz Magin, Polish pianist and composer (b. 1929)
• 4th » Teddy McRae, American saxophonist (b. 1908)
• 4th » Joseph Regenstein, Jr., American businessman and philanthropist (b. 1923)
• 4th » Karel van het Reve, Dutch historian and author (b. 1921)
• 5th » Richard Kiley, American actor (b. 1922)
• 6th » Isa bin Salman Al Khalifa, Bahrain king (b. 1933)
• 7th » Sidney Gottlieb, American chemist (b. 1918)
• 7th » Stanley Kubrick, American director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1928)
• 8th » Adolfo Bioy Casares, Argentinian journalist and author (b. 1914)
• 8th » Peggy Cass, American actress (b. 1924)
• 8th » Joe DiMaggio, American baseball player and coach (b. 1914)
• 8th » William Wrigley III, American businessman (b. 1933)
• 9th » Harry Somers, Canadian composer (b. 1925)
• 10th » Oswaldo Guayasamín, Ecuadorian painter and sculptor (b. 1919)
• 10th » Valentino Mazzia, American anesthesiologist (b. 1922)
• 11th » Herbert Jasper, Canadian psychologist, anatomist, and neurologist (b. 1906)
• 11th » Camille Laurin, Canadian psychiatrist and politician (b. 1922)
• 12th » Yehudi Menuhin, American-Swiss violinist and conductor (b. 1916)
• 13th » Lee Falk, American cartoonist, director, and producer (b. 1911)
• 13th » Garson Kanin, American director and screenwriter (b. 1912)
• 13th » Anton Raadik, Estonian boxer (b. 1917)
• 13th » Bidu Sayão, Brazilian-American soprano (b. 1902)
• 14th » Kirk Alyn, American actor (b. 1910)
• 14th » John Broome (writer) named John Broome, American author (b. 1913)
• 16th » Gratien Gélinas, Canadian actor, director, and playwright (b. 1909)
• 17th » Ernest Gold (composer) known as Ernest Gold, Austrian composer (b. 1921)
• 17th » Rod Hull, English comedian and actor (b. 1936)
• 17th » Jean Pierre-Bloch, French activist (b. 1905)
• 18th » Elizabeth Huckaby, American educator (b. 1905)
• 19th » Tofilau Eti Alesana, Samoan politician, 5th Prime Minister of Samoa (b. 1924)
• 19th » Jaime Sabines, Mexican poet (b. 1926)
• 21st » Jean Guitton, French philosopher and author (b. 1905)
• 21st » Ernie Wise, English comedian and actor (b. 1925)
• 22nd » Max Beloff, Baron Beloff, English historian and academic (b. 1913)
• 22nd » David Strickland, American actor (b. 1969)
• 23rd » Luis María Argaña, Paraguayan judge and politician, Vice President of Paraguay (b. 1932)
• 23rd » Osmond Borradaile, Canadian cinematographer (b. 1898)
• 24th » Gertrud Scholtz-Klink, German politician (b. 1902)
• 24th » Birdie Tebbetts, American baseball player and manager (b. 1912)
• 24th » Pierlucio Tinazzi, Italian security guard (b. 1962)
• 25th » Cal Ripken, Sr., American baseball player, coach, and manager (b. 1936)
• 29th » Joe Williams (jazz singer) or Joe Williams, American singer (b. 1918)
• 29th » Gyula Zsengellér, Hungarian footballer (b. 1915)
• 30th » Gary Morton, American actor and producer (b. 1924)
• 31st » Yuri Knorozov, Russian linguist (b. 1922)

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