What is 1999?
{{Year nav|1999}} {{Year in various calendars|1999}} '''1999''' ([[Roman numerals|MCMXCIX]]) was a [[common year starting on Friday]] in the [[Gregorian calendar]], the 1999th year of the [[Common Era]] (CE) and [[Anno Domini]] (AD) designations, {{Year article header/year number|1999}}. == Events == === January === <!--Link dates even if repeated, for date-format preferences. Preferred style is to repeat dates, shorter than sub-bullets, and helps search-engines to display the related dates. Also, the same dates can be repeated in ranges: May 7–9.--> {{Month3|1|4|0}} * [[January 1]] – [[Euro]] is established. * [[January 2]] – A [[snowstorm]] leaves 14&nbsp;inches (359&nbsp;mm) of snow in [[Milwaukee, Wisconsin]] and 21&nbsp;inches (533.4&nbsp;mm) in [[Chicago|Chicago, Illinois]], killing 68. * [[January 4]] – Gunmen open fire on [[Shia]] Muslims worshiping in a mosque in [[Islamabad]], [[Pakistan]], killing 16 and injuring 25. * [[January 6]] – [[Dennis Hastert]] becomes [[Speaker of the United States House of Representatives]]. * [[January 8]] – 3.4 million copies of the movie [[The Rescuers]] is recalled after a photo of a topless woman was discovered in two of the 110,000 slides in that scene of the movie. * [[January 10]] – A large piece of the chalk cliff at [[Beachy Head]] collapses into the sea. * [[January 11]] – [[Bülent Ecevit]], of [[Democratic Left Party (Turkey)|DSP]] forms the new government of [[Turkey]] (56th government, an interim government ) * [[January 20]] – The [[China News Service]] announces new government restrictions on [[Internet]] use aimed especially at [[Internet cafe]]s. * [[January 21]] – In one of the largest drug busts in American history, the [[United States Coast Guard]] intercepts a ship with over 9,500 pounds (4.3 tons) of [[cocaine]] aboard, headed for [[Houston, Texas]]. * [[January 25]] – A 6.1 [[Richter magnitude scale|Richter scale]] [[earthquake]] hits western [[Colombia]], killing at least 1,000. === February === [[File:Eurozone map-1999.svg|right|t