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This article covers breaking news and events in March 1999.

Daily events

Monday March 1, 1999

Bertrand Piccard

• Château-d'Oex / Switzerland : Bertrand Piccard and Brian Jones begin the third attempt to circumnavigate the world in a hot air balloon .
• Kampala / Uganda : Eight foreign tourists kidnapped by Hutu rebels are killed in a rescue operation.
• Lusaka / Zambia : A bomb destroys the Angolan embassy .
• The international agreement on the prohibition of the use, storage, production and transfer of anti-personnel mines and their destruction comes into force.

Wednesday March 3, 1999

• Florence / United States : The German bank robber Walter Bernhard LaGrand is executed in the gas chamber by the state of Florida .

Thursday March 4, 1999

• Amman / Jordan : Abdelraouf al-Rawabdeh replaces Fayez al-Tarawneh as Prime Minister of Jordan .

Friday March 5, 1999

• Hamburg / Germany : In the eighth presentation of the music award Echo is rock - band Rammstein awarded "national artists abroad most successful" in the category.

Saturday March 6, 1999

• Cambodia : Ta Mok , the last leader of the Khmer Rouge , arrested near the border with Vietnam .

Sunday March 7, 1999

• Innsbruck / Austria : The election to the Tyrolean state parliament ends for the Tyrolean People's Party (part of the ÖVP ) with the historically low mark of 47.2% of the vote, while the SPÖ can gain an election for the first time since 1970 and is now 21, Receives 8% of the vote. With the smaller parties, the FPÖ wins an additional mandate, while the Greens lose one.
• Klagenfurt / Austria : The SPÖ loses its majority of the seats in the state parliament in the election in Carinthia , while the FPÖ with top candidate Jörg Haider , an avowed nationalist , wins the state election for the first time. The ÖVP is faced since its inception with a vote share of about 20.7% with the worst result.
• Malabo / Equatorial Guinea : In the parliamentary elections , the Partido Democrático de Guinea Ecuatorial wins 75 of the 80 parliamentary seats.
• Salzburg / Austria : In the state elections in Salzburg , the ÖVP becomes the strongest political force for the twelfth time in a row. The SPÖ recorded the highest increase in votes, increasing by 5.3% to 32.3%. FPÖ and Greens each lose one mandate.

Monday March 8, 1999

Logo of TV total

• Cologne / Germany : The television show TV total, produced by Brainpool , celebrates its premiere in the Theater am Rudolfplatz with presenter Stefan Raab . It is broadcast by the TV station ProSieben .

Tuesday March 9, 1999

• Saarbrücken / Germany : To the traveling exhibition “ War of Extermination. Crimes of the Wehrmacht 1941 to 1944. ”An explosives attack is carried out . At the time of the attack, there were no people nearby, but exhibits were damaged by splinters.

Thursday March 11, 1999

• Bonn / Germany : Oskar Lafontaine resigns from the office of the Federal Minister of Finance and from the office of SPD chairman after disputes within the government . He is also resigning from his Bundestag mandate.

Friday March 12, 1999

NATO expansion to the east

• Bonn / Germany : On the day after Oskar Lafontaine's retirement from the SPD party chairmanship, the Social Democrats' presidium agrees on Chancellor Gerhard Schröder as his acting successor at the head of the party.
• Brussels / Belgium : As part of the first enlargement of NATO enter Poland , the Czech Republic and Hungary to the military alliance at. During the Cold War they belonged to the Warsaw Pact military alliance , which NATO saw as its potential opponent.
• Königshain / Germany : The 3,281 m long Königshainer Berge motorway tunnel is opened. The Bundesautobahn 4 between Dresden and Bautzen has now been completely expanded to four lanes after more than 60 years of planning and construction.

Sunday March 14, 1999

• Andalusia / Spain : In the overall standings of the men's competitions of the Alpine World Cup 1998/99 is the Norwegian Lasse Kjus after the last race in the Sierra Nevada Place first in the women wins Alexandra Meissnitzer of Austria the overall World Cup.
• Mammern / Switzerland : With the burial of a personal friend, Ueli Sauter opens the first funeral forest , also known as “Friedwald”, the modern age. Sauter has the idea patented as intellectual property .

Tuesday March 16, 1999

• Brussels / Belgium : Following allegations of corruption against the Commissioner for Science, Research and Development of the European Union Édith Cresson , the European Commission and its Luxembourg President Jacques Santer are resigning . The Spaniard Manuel Marín is temporarily moving to the office of President of the Commission.

Wednesday March 17, 1999

• Essen / Germany The ThyssenKrupp AG is entered in the commercial register. Germany's largest steel and armaments company emerges from the merger of the steel groups Thyssen AG in Düsseldorf and Friedrich Krupp AG Hoesch- Krupp in Essen.

Sunday March 21, 1999

• Los Angeles / United States : At the 71st Academy Awards for the film industry, Shakespeare in Love by director John Madden is honored as best film. The work received a total of seven Oscars. To Steven Spielberg's film Saving Private Ryan go five awards, u. a. for the best director and the best camera .

Tuesday March 23, 1999

• Asunción / Paraguay : The Paraguayan Vice President Luis María Argaña is murdered in an attack.

Wednesday March 24, 1999

Logo of the Council of the European Union

Bombing of Novi Sad

• Berlin / Germany : The special meeting of the Council of the European Union (EU) ends with an agreement on the Italian Romano Prodi as the new President of the European Commission and an agreement to strengthen the Community's policy with regard to the planned "EU Enlargement" that the Presidency as “historic priority for the Union” in its conclusions.
• Bonn / Germany : In a televised speech to the German citizens, Federal Chancellor Gerhard Schröder ( SPD ) explains regarding the Kosovo war : “This evening NATO started air strikes against military targets in Yugoslavia . We do not wage war, but we are called to implement a peaceful solution [...] also by military means. ”These are the first acts of war by the German military since the Wehrmacht surrendered on May 7, 1945.
• Chamonix-Mont-Blanc / France , Courmayeur / Italy : 39 people are killed in a truck fire in the Mont-Blanc tunnel .
• London / United Kingdom : The Upper House of Parliament confirms the legitimacy of the appointment of the dictatorial former President of Chile, Augusto Pinochet , who traveled to London in September 1998 for back surgery and was arrested there in October 1998.
• Serbia / Yugoslavia : without UN mandate begins during the Kosovo war , the Operation Allied Force ( German  operation alliance force ) of the military alliance NATO . The air strikes against targets in Serbia, led by the United States and the United Kingdom also has Bundeswehr involved. It is NATO's first combat mission since the North Atlantic Treaty came into force in 1949. The defense-oriented statutes of the treaty legitimize combat missions only in the event of an alliance . In the case of Serbia this was not the case.

Thursday March 25, 1999

• Beirut / Lebanon , Berlin / Germany : The investment protection and promotion agreement between Lebanon and Germany comes into force.

Friday March 26, 1999

• Boulogne-Billancourt / France : The vehicle manufacturer Renault acquires 36.8% of the shares in the vehicle division of the Japanese company Nissan .
• The Melissa macro virus paralyzes companies' computers around the world, causing damage of around 80 million US dollars .

Sunday March 28, 1999

• Asunción / Paraguay : President Raúl Cubas Grau resigns after unrest broke out as a result of the assassination of Vice President Luis María Argaña. Luis Ángel González Macchi succeeds Cubas Graus.
• China , India : Around 100 people are killed in an earthquake measuring 6.6 M _w .

Monday March 29, 1999

• New York / United States : The Dow Jones Industrial Average share index is quoted above the 10,000 point mark for the first time.

Tuesday March 30, 1999

• San Francisco / United States : A US court sentenced the Philip Morris Companies to pay $ 81 million in damages to the survivors of a tobacco smoker .

See also

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

Web links

Italy in March 1999

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

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Prime Ministers of The Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan. In: kinghussein.gov.jo. Retrieved January 15, 2018 . 
2. ↑ Echo Facts. In: echopop.de . 2017, Retrieved April 19, 2018 . 
3. ↑ Defendants. In: berkeley.edu . Retrieved September 24, 2018 . 
4. ↑ Country result. In: tirol.gv.at . Retrieved September 28, 2017 . 
5. ↑ Carinthia election - results since 1945. In: vol.at . Retrieved May 17, 2017 . 
6. ^ Parliamentary elections in Equatorial Guinea. In: africanelections.tripod.com, African Elections Database. Retrieved March 2, 2013 . 
7. ↑ State elections 1999. In: stadt-salzburg.at . Retrieved October 5, 2017 . 
8. ↑ The day Lafontaine mixed up politics. In: Welt Online . September 1, 2015, accessed September 17, 2016 . 
9. ↑ A short circuit that changed the country. In: ksta.de . October 21, 2009, accessed October 10, 2017 . 
10. ↑ Time table Poland 1989-2011. In: deutsches-polen-institut.de . Retrieved January 14, 2019 . 
11. ^ Accession to NATO - CR. In: radio.cz . March 12, 1999, accessed January 14, 2019 . 
12. ↑ Herbert Küpper, Zsolt Lengyel, Hermann Scheuringer (eds.): Hungary 1989 −2014: A balance sheet after 25 years . Verlag Friedrich Pustet, Regensburg 2015, ISBN 978-3-7917-2742-4 , pp. 35 .
13. ↑ Tunnel released. In: Abendblatt.de . March 13, 1999, accessed May 9, 2017 . 
14. ^ Cup Standing Alpine Skiing World Cup 1999 Men. In: fis-ski.com . Retrieved March 22, 2018 . 
15. ^ Cup Standing Alpine Skiing World Cup 1999 Ladies. In: fis-ski.com . Retrieved March 22, 2018 . 
16. ↑ Last rest in the "Friedwald". In: postmortal.de, GfO Online-Marketing UG. Retrieved January 14, 2017 . 
17. ↑ Political quake shakes Europe. In: rp-online.de . March 15, 2004, accessed May 9, 2017 . 
18. ^ The 71st Academy Awards. In: oscars.org . Retrieved February 1, 2017 . 
19. ↑ Conclusions of the Presidency: European Council in Berlin. In: europa.eu . 1999, accessed January 31, 2018 . 
20. ^ Declaration by Federal Chancellor Gerhard Schröder on the situation in Kosovo. In: glasnost.de, Ingeborg Baum-Schönamsgruber, material from the Press and Information Office of the Federal Government . March 24, 1999, accessed August 21, 2018 . 
21. ↑ The "Pinochet Case" - a chronicle. In: Menschenrechte.org . October 29, 2000, accessed October 15, 2019 . 
22. ↑ sz-online.de : Important milestones in the history of the Bundeswehr ( Memento from December 22, 2017 in the Internet Archive )