Why YouNow Gabriel Mathis

Events in 1999 and 2-4

Events in US in the birth year of Gabriel Mathis

• US Senate opens impeachment trial of President Clinton (Jan. 7); Senate acquits Clinton and rejects censure move (Feb. 12). Background: A Short History of Impeachment.
• John William King, 24, a white supremacist, is convicted of murder and sentenced to death in case involving the dragging death of a black man, James Byrd, Jr. (Feb 23).
• Students Eric Harris, 18, and Dylan Klebold, 17, storm Columbine High School in Littleton , CO, killing twelve other students and a teacher, then themselves (April 20). Background: A Timeline of School Shootings and 1999 in Review.
• John F. Kennedy Jr., wife Carolyn Bessette Kennedy, and her sister Lauren G. Bessette are lost at sea when a plane he was piloting disappears near Martha's Vineyard, off Mass. coast (July 16). Background: John F. Kennedy, Jr. Remembered and Timeline of Kennedy tragedies.
• See also: 1999 Year in Review: News of the Nation

Birthday Gabriel Mathis (2-4) in history

• Day 2-4 year 1513: Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de Leon first set foot on the Florida land he named.
• Day 2-4 year 1792: Congress authorized the first U.S. mint, in Philadelphia.
• Day 2-4 year 1865: Confederate president Jefferson Davis and most of his cabinet fled the Confederate capital of Richmond, Va.
• Day 2-4 year 1870: Victoria Claflin Woodhull announced her candidacy for president of the United States.
• Day 2-4 year 1917: President Woodrow Wilson asked Congress to declare war against Germany.
• Day 2-4 year 1932: Charles Lindbergh paid a $50,000 ransom for the return of his kidnapped son.
• Day 2-4 year 1982: Argentina seized the Falkland Islands from Britain
• Day 2-4 year 2005: Pope John Paul II died.