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Events in 1999 and 4-2

Events in the world in the birth year of Arnau Marin

• Russian president Boris Yeltsin survives impeachment hearings (May), reshuffles his cabinet twice (May, Aug.), and takes military action against Islamic separatists in Dagestan and Chechnya. Background: 1999 in Review.
• Nelson Mandela, first black president of South Africa, steps down (June 16), and Thabo Mbeki takes over.
• War erupts in Kosovo after Yugoslavia's president Slobodan Milosevic clamps down on the province, massacring and deporting ethnic Albanians. NATO begins Operation Allied Force on March 24, 1999, launching air strikes against Belgrade for 78 consecutive days until Milosevic relents. Background: Timeline: The Splintering of Kosovo and Timeline: NATO in Kosovo.
• Magnitude 7.4 earthquake kills more than 15,600 and leaves 600,000 homeless in Turkey (Aug. 17).
• East Timor population votes for independence from Indonesia (Aug. 30, 1999), which causes pro-Indonesian forces to massacre and uproot thousands of East Timorese.
• Pakistani government is overthrown in the midst of economic strife and intensified fighting with India over Kashmir (Oct. 12). Background: 1999 in Review.
• The world awaits the consequences of the Y2K bug, with more drastic millennial theorists warning of Armageddon.
• See also: 1999 Year in Review: News of the World

Birthday Arnau Marin (4-2) in history

• Day 4-2 year 1783: England proclaimed the formal end to the hostilities with the United States.
• Day 4-2 year 1787: The Massachusetts peasant's revolt, Shays, was defeated.
• Day 4-2 year 1789: George Washington and John Adams are elected the president and vice president of the United States.
• Day 4-2 year 1861: Delegates from six southern states met at Montgomery, Ala., to form the Confederate States of America.
• Day 4-2 year 1945: Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin met at the Yalta Conference.
• Day 4-2 year 1948: Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) gained independence from the United Kingdom.
• Day 4-2 year 1969: The Palestine National Congress appointed Yasir Arafat head of the Palestine Liberation Organization.
• Day 4-2 year 1974: Patricia Hearst, granddaughter of newspaper mogul William Randolph Hearst, was kidnapped by the Symbionese Liberation Army.
• Day 4-2 year 1976: Benjamin Britten, British composer, died.
• Day 4-2 year 2003: The country of Yugoslavia disappeared, to be replaced by the loose federation of Serbia and Montenegro.
• Day 4-2 year 2004: The Massachusetts Supreme Court declared that gays had the right to marry.