Youtube star Lee Carson

Events in 1999 and 10-2

Events in the world in the birth year of Lee Carson

• 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 Lee Carson (10-2) in history

• Day 10-2 year 1763: The Treaty of Paris was signed, ending the French and Indian War. France ceded Canada and all North American territories east of Mississippi to Great Britain.
• Day 10-2 year 1837: Russian poet Alexander Pushkin was killed in a duel.
• Day 10-2 year 1840: Queen Victoria married Prince Albert.
• Day 10-2 year 1942: Glenn Miller received the first ever gold record for selling a million copies of "Chattanooga Choo Choo."
• Day 10-2 year 1962: The Soviet Union exchanged captured American U-2 pilot Francis Gary Powers for Rudolph Abel, a Soviet spy held by the United States.
• Day 10-2 year 1967: The 25th Amendment was ratified, establishing presidential succession.
• Day 10-2 year 1996: IBM's computer, Deep Blue, beat the world chess champion, Garry Kasparov, in the first game of their match.
• Day 10-2 year 2005: Pulitzer Prize winning playwright Arthur Miller died.