WHAT ALL HAPPENED APRIL TO JULY 1999
Find out what all happened April to July 1999

In Alberta, Canada, 14-year-old Todd Cameron Smith fires upon three students, killing one and wounding another in the W. R. Myers High School shooting. (28. April 1999)

Falun Gong is banned in China, and a large scale crackdown of the practice is launched. (20. July 1999)

US President Bill Clinton is cited for contempt of court for giving "intentionally false statements" in a sexual harassment civil lawsuit. (12. April 1999)

In Guinea-Bissau, President João Bernardo Vieira is ousted in a military coup. (7. May 1999)

Wolverhampton, England is hit by storms, including a tornado. The area was hit again with severe storms on August 1. (5. July 1999)

Nunavut is established as a Canadian territory carved out of the eastern part of the Northwest Territories. (1. April 1999)

The German Bundestag returns to Berlin, the first German parliamentary body to meet there since the Reichstag was dissolved in 1933. (19. April 1999)

Crown Prince Mohammed Ben Al-Hassan is crowned King Mohammed VI of Morocco on the death of his father. (23. July 1999)

Kosovo War: Operation Joint Guardian begins when a NATO-led United Nations peacekeeping force (KFor) enters the province of Kosovo in Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. (12. June 1999)

Kosovo War: In Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, three Chinese citizens are killed and 20 wounded when a NATO aircraft bombs the Chinese embassy in Belgrade. (7. May 1999)

U.S. Army private Barry Winchell dies from baseball-bat injuries inflicted on him in his sleep the previous day by a fellow soldier, Calvin Glover, for his relationship with transgender showgirl and former Navy Corpsman Calpernia Addams. (6. July 1999)

Pope John Paul II travels to Romania becoming the first pope to visit a predominantly Eastern Orthodox country since the Great Schism in 1054. (7. May 1999)

U.S. President Bill Clinton imposes trade and economic sanctions against the Taliban regime in Afghanistan. (5. July 1999)

Panamanian election, 1999: Mireya Moscoso becomes the first woman to be elected President of Panama. (2. May 1999)

Haryana Gana Parishad, a political party in the Indian state of Haryana, merges with the Indian National Congress. (8. April 1999)

The Avala TV Tower near Belgrade is destroyed in the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia. (29. April 1999)

In Milan, Italy, after 22 years of restoration work, Leonardo da Vinci's masterpiece The Last Supper is put back on display. (28. May 1999)

NATO mistakenly bombs a convoy of ethnic Albanian refugees – Yugoslav officials say 75 people were killed. (14. April 1999)

The first elections to the devolved Scottish Parliament and Welsh Assembly are held. (6. May 1999)

The Bhutan Broadcasting Service brings television transmissions to the Kingdom for the first time. (2. June 1999)

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