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Month February 1999 Calendar

About Month of February Calendar

  • February is the second month of the year in the Julian and Gregorian calendars. It is the shortest month and the only month with fewer than 30 days. The month has 28 days in common years or 29 days in leap years.

    February symbols: Its birth flower is the violet (Viola) and the common primrose (Primula vulgaris). Its birthstone is the amethyst. It symbolizes piety, humility, spiritual wisdom, and sincerity. Its Zodiac signs are Aquarius (until February 18) and Pisces (February 19 onwards).

Historical Events for February, 1999

  • Day of Week 4th » Unarmed West African immigrant Amadou Diallo (shooting victim) e.g Amadou Diallo is shot dead by four plainclothes New York City police officers on an unrelated stake-out, inflaming race-relations in the city.
  • Day of Week 7th » Crown Prince Abdullah II of Jordan named Abdullah becomes the King of Jordan on the death of his father, King Hussein of Jordan known as Hussein.
  • Day of Week 12th » United States President Bill Clinton is acquitted by the United States Senate in his impeachment trial.
  • Day of Week 15th » Abdullah Öcalan, leader of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), is arrested in Kenya.
  • Day of Week 16th » In Uzbekistan, a bomb explodes and gunfire is heard at the government headquarters in an apparent assassination attempt against President Islam Karimov.
  • 16th » Across Europe, Kurdish rebels take over embassies and hold hostages after Turkey arrests one of their rebel leaders, Abdullah Öcalan.
  • Day of Week 23rd » Kurds called Kurdish rebel leader Abdullah Öcalan is charged with treason in Ankara, Turkey.
  • 23rd » An avalanche destroys the Austrian village of Galtür, killing 31.

Famous Birthdays on February in 1999

  • 10th » Tiffany Espensen, Chinese-American actress

Famous Deaths for February 1999

  • 1st » Paul Calvert (baseball) known as Paul Calvert, Canadian baseball player (b. 1917)
  • 1st » Paul Mellon, American philanthropist (b. 1907)
  • 2nd » David McComb, Australian singer-songwriter and guitarist (The Triffids and The Blackeyed Susans) (b. 1962)
  • 5th » Wassily Leontief, Russian economist, Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel named Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1906)
  • 6th » Danny Dayton, American actor (b. 1923)
  • 6th » Don Dunstan, Australian politician, 35th Premier of South Australia (b. 1926)
  • 6th » Jimmy Roberts (singer) or Jimmy Roberts, American tenor (b. 1924)
  • 7th » Hussein of Jordan (b. 1935)
  • 7th » José Silva (parapsychologist) e.g José Silva, American parapsychologist (b. 1914)
  • 7th » Bobby Troup, American actor, pianist, and composer (b. 1918)
  • 8th » Denise Leblanc-Bantey, Canadian politician (b. 1949)
  • 8th » Iris Murdoch, Irish author (b. 1919)
  • 9th » Bryan Mosley, English actor (b. 1931)
  • 12th » Toni Fisher, American singer (b. 1931)
  • 14th » John Ehrlichman, American lawyer, 12th White House Counsel (b. 1925)
  • 14th » Buddy Knox, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1933)
  • 15th » Henry Way Kendall, American physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics named Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1926)
  • 16th » Michael Larson, American game show contestant on 'Press Your Luck' (b. 1949)
  • 17th » Sunshine Parker, American actor (b. 1927)
  • 18th » Noam Pitlik, American actor and director (b. 1932)
  • 19th » Mohammad Mohammad Sadeq al-Sadr, Iraqi cleric (b. 1943)
  • 21st » Gertrude B. Elion, American biochemist and pharmacologist, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine or Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1918)
  • 21st » Ilmari Juutilainen, Finnish soldier and pilot (b. 1914)
  • 21st » Wilmer Mizell, American baseball player (b. 1930)
  • 22nd » William Bronk, American poet (b. 1918)
  • 22nd » Menno Oosting, Dutch tennis player (b. 1964)
  • 23rd » Carlos Hathcock, American sniper (b. 1942)
  • 23rd » Rick Wilson (wrestler) known as Rick Wilson, American wrestler (b. 1965)
  • 24th » Andre Dubus, American author (b. 1936)
  • 24th » David Eccles, 1st Viscount Eccles, English politician (b. 1904)
  • 24th » Frank Leslie Walcott, Barbadian politician (b. 1916)
  • 25th » Margaret Meagher, Canadian diplomat (b. 1911)
  • 25th » Glenn T. Seaborg, American chemist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry called Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1912)
  • 27th » Horace Tapscott American pianist and composer (b. 1934)

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