TV actor Mirko Trovato

Events in 1999 and 13-2

Events in the world in the birth year of Mirko Trovato

• 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 Mirko Trovato (13-2) in history

• Day 13-2 year 1866: The gang that included Jesse James and Cole Younger committed their first bank robbery in Liberty, Mo.
• Day 13-2 year 1867: Johann Strauss's Blue Danube waltz premiered in Vienna.
• Day 13-2 year 1935: Bruno Hauptmann was found guilty of murder in the Lindbergh kidnapping case.
• Day 13-2 year 1960: France exploded its first atomic bomb.
• Day 13-2 year 1974: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, who won the 1970 Nobel Prize for literature, was deported from the Soviet Union.
• Day 13-2 year 2002: The French judge was accused of throwing the pairs skating decision to the Russians at the Olympics.