What happened in 1999

“Smooth”

Santana Featuring Rob Thomas · 10 weeks at #1 in 1999

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1. Jan 2I'm Your AngelR. Kelly & Celine Dion2 wks
2. Jan 16Have You Ever?Brandy2 wks
3. Jan 30...Baby One More TimeBritney Spears2 wks
4. Feb 13Angel Of MineMonica4 wks
5. Mar 13BelieveCher4 wks
6. Apr 10No ScrubsTLC4 wks
7. May 8Livin' La Vida LocaRicky Martin5 wks
8. Jun 12If You Had My LoveJennifer Lopez5 wks
9. Jul 17Bills, Bills, BillsDestiny's Child1 wk
10. Jul 24Wild Wild WestWill Smith Featuring Dru Hill & Kool Mo Dee1 wk
11. Jul 31Genie In A BottleChristina Aguilera5 wks
12. Sep 4BailamosEnrique Iglesias2 wks
13. Sep 18UnprettyTLC3 wks
14. Oct 9HeartbreakerMariah Carey Featuring Jay-Z2 wks
15. Oct 23SmoothSantana Featuring Rob Thomas10 wks

Dates are the first chart week at #1 in 1999; weeks count only those in 1999.Find the #1 song on your birthday →

1. Jan 1The Euro currency is introduced in 11 member nations of the European Union (with the exception of the United Kingdom, Denmark, Greece and Sweden).
2. Feb 4Four plain-clothes New York City police officers shot and killed Amadou Diallo, an unarmed 23-year-old immigrant from Guinea, prompting outrage both in and outside the city.
3. Feb 11Pluto 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 interact with Neptune's orbit again until 2231.
4. Mar 12Former Warsaw Pact members the Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland join NATO.
5. Mar 26A jury began deliberations in the trial of Jack Kevorkian, an American practitioner of physician-assisted suicide who was charged with murder in the death of a terminally ill patient.
6. Apr 1Nunavut is established as a Canadian territory carved out of the eastern part of the Northwest Territories.
7. Apr 20Students Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold carried out a massacre at Columbine High School, killing 13 people before committing suicide.
8. May 7Kosovo War: NATO bombing of Yugoslavia, the United States bombed the Chinese embassy in Belgrade.
9. May 28In Milan, Italy, after 22 years of restoration work, Leonardo da Vinci's masterpiece The Last Supper is put back on display.
10. Jun 1On landing at Little Rock National Airport in the U.S. state of Arkansas, American Airlines Flight 1420 overran the runway and crashed, resulting in 11 deaths.
11. Jul 26Kargil conflict officially comes to an end. The Indian Army announces the complete eviction of Pakistani intruders.
12. Sep 14Kiribati, Nauru and Tonga join the United Nations.
13. Nov 18Texas A&M University's Aggie Bonfire collapsed, killing 12 people and injuring 27 others, and causing the university to officially declare a hiatus on the 90-year-old annual event.
14. Dec 31In accordance with the Torrijos–Carter Treaties, Panama assumed full control of the Panama Canal Zone from the United States.

Event summaries from Wikipedia’s “On this day”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Each links to its article.

• U.S. President

  Bill Clinton

• UK Prime Minister

  Tony Blair

• Prime Minister of Canada

  Jean Chrétien

• German Chancellor

  Gerhard Schröder

• Prime Minister of Japan

  Keizō Obuchi

• President of Russia

  Boris Yeltsin → Vladimir Putin

Everyone who held the office at some point in 1999, from Wikidata.

A selection of the best-documented titles on Wikidata, by first release year; not a box-office ranking.

• Madison BeerAmerican singer-songwriter · Mar 5
• Mikey MadisonAmerican actress · Mar 25
• Tiffany StrattonAmerican wrestler · May 1
• Sabrina CarpenterAmerican singer and actress · May 11
• Lily-Rose DeppFrench-American actress and model · May 27
• Cameron BoyceAmerican actor (died 2019) · May 28
• TechnobladeAmerican YouTuber and streamer (died 2022) · Jun 1
• Joey KingAmerican actress · Jul 30
• Ja MorantAmerican basketball player · Aug 10
• Gracie AbramsAmerican singer-songwriter · Sep 7

From Wikipedia’s “On this day”, CC BY-SA 4.0.