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This article covers breaking news and events in January 1999.

Daily events

Friday January 1, 1999

Cisalpino of SBB AG

Global key currencies: the euro replaces the ECU

• Bern / Switzerland : The SP politician Ruth Dreifuss takes up her post as Federal President .
• Bern / Switzerland : The Swiss Federal Railways are converted into a stock corporation under public law and are henceforth called "SBB AG". The federal government holds 100% of the shares.
• Bonn / Germany : The Federal Republic takes over the presidency of the Council of the European Union from Austria . The office of head of government of the EC is given to Gerhard Schröder .
• Frankfurt am Main / Germany : The third stage of the European Economic and Monetary Union with the euro as book money comes into effect in eleven of the 15 EU member states . Monetary sovereignty passes from the national central banks to the European Central Bank (ECB). The exchange rates of the national currencies to the euro were fixed in December 1998 on the basis of the currency unit ECU . The issue of euro cash is planned for January 2002 .
• New York / United States : Argentina , Canada , Malaysia , Namibia and the Netherlands are new non-permanent members of the Security Council of the United Nations .
• Sèvres / France : The International Bureau of Weights and Measures adds to 12:59 and 59  s Central European Time , a leap second in Coordinated Universal Time (UTC). Disruptive influences on the earth's orbit and rotation without UTC correction would mean that after 90 years the earth would only be at the point of a complete annual orbit of the sun with a delay of 60 s .
• Warsaw / Poland : As part of an administrative reform, the number of voivodships will be reduced from 49 to 16.

Saturday 2nd January 1999

• Vitoria-Gasteiz / Spain : Juan José Ibarretxe becomes Prime Minister of the Autonomous Community of the Basque Country .

Wednesday January 6, 1999

• Bischofshofen / Austria : Janne Ahonen from Finland wins the 47th Four Hills Tournament ahead of Noriaki Kasai from Japan .

Thursday January 7, 1999

Bill Clinton

• Jakarta / Indonesia : Over 100 people are killed in heavy rains and landslides.
• Ninawa / Iraq : In the course of Operation Northern Watch to enforce a no-fly zone in Iraq, a US F-16C / J with a HARM missile destroyed an Iraqi anti-aircraft missile system of the Roland type near Mosul .
• Washington, DC / United States : The impeachment proceedings against US President Bill Clinton begin before the Senate . He is charged with perjury and obstruction of justice in the course of the Lewinsky affair .

Friday January 8, 1999

• Burbank / United States : Media company Disney is recalling 3.4 million copies of the VHS version of Bernard and Bianca - The Mouse Police after being informed that a picture of a naked woman was added to two background images during post-production .

Saturday 9th January 1999

• Chemnitz / Germany : Stefanie Hertel wins the folk music crown . Marianne and Michael receive the anniversary crown for their 25th stage anniversary.

Sunday January 10, 1999

• Astana / Kazakhstan : In the presidential election , incumbent Nursultan Nazarbayev prevailed over three competitors with over 80% of the vote. The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) identified various democratic deficits in the election.

Monday January 11, 1999

• Ankara / Turkey : After the ruling coalition consisting of the Motherland Party , the Democratic Left Party (DSP) and the Democratic Society Party broke in November 1998, the former Deputy Prime Minister of Turkey Bülent Ecevit (DSP) is sworn in as the new head of government. He was Prime Minister of the country three times in the 1970s, at that time as a member of the Republican People's Party .
• Düsseldorf / Germany : Activists and those in charge of the traveling church asylum occupy the headquarters of the party Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen North Rhine-Westphalia and start a hunger strike. Most of the participants are Kurds from Turkey who are obliged to leave the country and who are demanding that their right to asylum be re-examined .
• Buckinghamshire / United Kingdom : The filming of James Bond 007 - The world is not enough begins. For the first time since 1987 they are taking place at Pinewood Studios .

Tuesday January 12, 1999

• Hamburg / Germany : Europe's first hydrogen filling station goes into operation. For this purpose, twelve municipal and private companies joined forces to form the “Hamburg Hydrogen Agency”.
• New York / United States : The Security Council of the United Nations called on the leadership of the Angolan resistance fighters UNITA on to participate in the search for survivors of plane crashes on 26 December 1998 and 2 January in Angola. UNITA units shot down the two aircraft chartered by the United Nations.

Thursday January 14, 1999

• Tokyo / Japan : Prime Minister Keizō Obuchi reshuffles the cabinet .

Friday January 15, 1999

• Brasília / Brazil : The central bank releases the real exchange rate again.
• Račak / Yugoslavia : At least 40 bodies are discovered in Kosovo , testifying to the Račak massacre .

Saturday January 16, 1999

Edmund Stoiber

• Munich / Germany : The delegates of the CSU party congress elect Edmund Stoiber to succeed Theo Waigel in the office of party chairman.

Monday January 18, 1999

• Harare / Zimbabwe : Canaan Banana , the country's first president, is sentenced to ten years in prison and removed from the priesthood on his return.
• Rome / Italy : Rai Tre is broadcasting the children's program Melevisione for the first time.
• Shangqiu / China : Hu Wanlin , an illegally practicing doctor and alternative practitioner , is arrested on suspicion of causing the deaths of around 150 people. The charge is not murder, only unauthorized practice of the medical profession.

Tuesday January 19, 1999

• Kassel / Germany : The Federal Labor Court made it clear in a landmark ruling that employers may prohibit their employees from smoking in the workplace .

Thursday January 21, 1999

• London / United Kingdom : The intelligence service Security Service publishes files according to which the Dutch dancer Mata Hari apparently did not reveal any essential secrets to the German Reich during the First World War .

Saturday January 23, 1999

• Arusha / Tanzania : The participants of the summit meeting of the East African heads of state agree to suspend the economic sanctions imposed on Burundi by neighboring countries .

Sunday January 24, 1999

• Louisville / United States : Doctors from the University of Louisville , the Kleinert, Kutz and Associates Hand Care Centers and the Jewish Hospitals & St. Mary's HealthCares succeed in the first hand transplant in medical history.
• Paris / France : The Mouvement national républicain (MNR), a right-wing extremist political party in France, is founded by Bruno Mégret as a split from Jean-Marie Le Pen's Front National party .

Monday January 25, 1999

Cayman Islands flag

• Amman / Jordan : With a decree planned by King Hussein for a long time, but surprising to the general public, his son Abdullah II bin al-Hussein is appointed heir to the throne. Previously, Hassan ibn Talal , the king's brother, held the position of heir to the throne for 34 years.
• Armenia / Colombia : An earthquake with a magnitude of 6.2  M _w kills around 2,000 people.
• Helsinki / Finland : The TV station MTV3 starts broadcasting the soap opera Salatut elämät ( German  Geheime Leben ).

Thursday January 28, 1999

• Dearborn / United States : Ford Motor Company acquires the passenger car division of the Swedish automobile manufacturer Volvo . The purchase price is 6.45 billion US dollars . Antitrust authorities and Volvo shareholders have yet to agree.

Sunday January 31, 1999

• Miami Gardens / United States : Super Bowl XXXIII in American football between the Denver Broncos and the Atlanta Falcons ends at 34:19.

See also

• Nekrolog January 1999 for deaths that month
• List of annually recurring commemorative and action days in January
• Category for commemorative days, holidays or action days in January

Web links

England in January 1999

Commons : January 1999  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ History of the Federal Presidium: Federal Presidents. In: admin.ch . Retrieved February 22, 2018 . 
2. ↑ Swiss Federal Railways. In: bahndaten.ch. Retrieved February 27, 2017 . 
3. ^ Presidency of the Council of the European Union. In: cvce.eu . July 28, 2016, accessed January 30, 2017 . 
4. ↑ Use of the euro. In: europa.eu . Retrieved June 21, 2017 . 
5. ^ Countries Elected Members of the Security Council. In: un.org . Retrieved February 25, 2018 . 
6. ↑ Whoever does not honor the second ... In: Spektrum.de . December 31, 1998, accessed September 28, 2019 . 
7. ^ Administrative system in Poland. In: gov.pl. Retrieved February 25, 2020 . 
8. ↑ Four Hills Tournament. In: ifosta.de, Jörg Thomas. Accessed December 31, 2016 . 
9. ↑ From the shutdown to the Lewinski affair. In: tageblatt.lu . October 1, 2013, accessed September 8, 2019 . 
10. ↑ The naked woman in "Bernard & Bianca". In: duckfilm.de, Richard Jebe. Retrieved May 9, 2017 . 
11. ↑ Türkiye Büyük Millet Meclisi (TBMM): Elections held in 1999. In: ipu.org . Retrieved September 11, 2018 . 
12. ↑ One year traveling church asylum. In: graswurzel.net . February 1, 1999, accessed August 9, 2019 . 
13. ↑ James Bond 007 - The world is not enough. In: imdb.com . Retrieved May 9, 2017 . 
14. ↑ Europe's first hydrogen filling station opened. In: br.de . January 12, 2016, accessed May 9, 2017 . 
15. ↑ Security Council reiterate rates demand did UNITA leader immediately cooperate in search for survivors of recent plane crashes. In: un.org . January 12, 1999, accessed June 21, 2019 . 
16. ↑ glypx.com: Executive summary on the work of the European Union Forensic Expert Team in Kosovo, the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, in 1998–2000 ( Memento from January 7, 2013 on WebCite ) (English)
17. ↑ 63rd CSU party conference on January 16, 1999 in Munich. In: deutsche-digitale-bibliothek.de . Retrieved October 10, 2017 . 
18. ↑ judteile-im-internet.de, Dr. Gregor Völtz: BAG 1 AZR 499/98 ( Memento from November 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
19. ↑ Jordan Country Study Guide . tape 1 . International Business Publications, Washington, DC 2013, ISBN 1-4387-7470-2 , pp. 106 .
20. ↑ Earthquake in Colombia. In: das-erdbeben.de, Jürgen Reschke. Retrieved November 4, 2016 . 
21. ↑ Salatut elämät: 1999. In: imdb.com . Retrieved May 5, 2017 . 
22. ↑ Ford takes over the wheel of Volvo's passenger car. In: tagesspiegel.de . January 28, 1999, accessed November 4, 2016 . 
23. ↑ Broncos defeated Falcons in Super Bowl XXXIII. In: usatoday.com . January 31, 2018, accessed September 8, 2019 .