Youtube star Miss Pink Mermaid

Events in 1999 and 16-1

Events in US in the birth year of Miss Pink Mermaid

• 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 Miss Pink Mermaid (16-1) in history

• Day 16-1 year 1547: Tyrant Ivan IV Vasilyevich has crowned the first tsar of Russia.
• Day 16-1 year 1883: The U.S. Civil Service Commission established.
• Day 16-1 year 1920: A year after it was ratified, the 18th Amendment to the Constitution, prohibiting the sale of alcoholic beverages, went into effect.
• Day 16-1 year 1942: Actress Carole Lombard, the wife of actor Clark Gable, died in a plane crash.
• Day 16-1 year 1991: Operation Desert Storm was announced by the White House.
• Day 16-1 year 1992: The El Salvador government signed a peace treaty with guerrilla forces, formally ending 12 years of civil war.
• Day 16-1 year 2001: Laurent Kabila, president of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, was assassinated.
• Day 16-1 year 2003: Space shuttle Columbia blasted off on what would be its final mission. The craft broke up on its descent on Feb. 1, killing all on board.