Youtube star Megan Stitz

Events in 1999 and 31-8

Events in US in the birth year of Megan Stitz

• 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 Megan Stitz (31-8) in history

• Day 31-8 year 1887: Thomas Edison received a patent for his "Kinetoscope," and moving pictures were born.
• Day 31-8 year 1888: Mary Ann Nicholls, considered to be Jack the Ripper's first victim, was found murdered in London.
• Day 31-8 year 1962: Trinidad and Tobago gained independence from Great Britain.
• Day 31-8 year 1980: Poland's Solidarity labor movement had its beginnings when an agreement ending a 17-day strike was signed in Gdansk.
• Day 31-8 year 1994: Russia officially ended its military presence in the former East Germany and the Baltic states.
• Day 31-8 year 1997: Princess Diana and her companion Dodi al-Fayed were killed in a car accident in Paris.
• Day 31-8 year 2012: Armenia severed diplomatic relations with Hungary, after the pardoning of Ramil Safarov. In 2004, Safarov was convicted of killing an Armenian soldier.