The Mars Polar Lander is launched by NASA. The Mars Polar Lander (MPL) was a NASA spacecraft designed to study the polar regions of Mars….
Tag: 1999
15 February 1999
Pluto crosses Neptune’s orbit, ending a nearly 20-year period when it was closer to the Sun than the gas giant; Pluto is not expected to…
31 August 1999
The first of a series of bombings in Moscow kills one person and wounds 40 others.
28 May 1999
In Milan, Italy, after 22 years of restoration work, Leonardo da Vinci’s masterpiece The Last Supper is put back on display.
10 June 1999
Kosovo War: NATO suspends its airstrikes after Slobodan Miloševi? agrees to withdraw Serbian forces from Kosovo.
23 April 1999
NATO bombs the headquarters of Radio Television of Serbia, as part of their aerial campaign against the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
21 September 1999
The Chi-Chi earthquake occurs in central Taiwan, leaving about 2,400 people dead.
16 July 1999
John F. Kennedy Jr., his wife, Carolyn, and her sister, Lauren Bessette, died when the Piper Saratoga PA-32R aircraft he was piloting crashed into the…