April 1999
April 1999 :
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October -
November -
December*
April 1 -
Nunavut, an
Inuit homeland, part of the
Northwest Territories becomes
Canada's third territory.
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April 5 - Two
Libyans suspected of bringing down
Pan Am flight 103 in
1988 are handed over to Scottish authorities for eventual trial in the
Netherlands. The
United Nations suspends sanctions against
Libya*
April 5 - In
Laramie, Wyoming, Russell Henderson pleads guilty to
kidnapping and felony
murder in order to avoid a possible
death penalty conviction for the apparent
hate crime killing of
Matthew Shepard*
April 7 -
Kosovo War:
Kosovo's main border crossings are closed by
Serbian forces to prevent ethnic
Albanians from leaving
*
April 7 - Bomb explodes in the
Valley of the Fallen church in
Spain -
GRAPO claims responsibility
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April 9 -
Ibrahim Baré Maînassara, president of
Niger, is assassinated
*
April 17 - A nail bomb explodes in the middle of a busy market in
Brixton, South
London*
April 18 - "The Great One"
Wayne Gretzky plays his final game in the
NHL.
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April 19 -
MySpace.com was officially introduced to the Internet, though MySpace-beta had been around since
1998*
April 20 - Two
Littleton,
Colorado teenagers named
Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold open fire on their teachers and fellow students. The teenagers killed twelve students and one teacher, and then killed themselves. See
Columbine High School massacre.
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April 25 - End of term for
Tuanku Jaafar ibni Almarhum Tuanku Abdul Rahman as the tenth
Yang di-Pertuan Agong of
Malaysia.
*
April 26 -
Sultan Salahuddin Abdul Aziz Shah ibni Almarhum Sultan Hisamuddin Alam Shah Al-Haj,
Sultan of
Selangor becomes the eleventh
Yang di-Pertuan Agong of
Malaysia.
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April 28 - The first issue of one of the most popular
webcomics,
Sexy Losers which later reached one million users a month.
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April 30 -
Cambodia joins the
Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) bringing the total members to ten.
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April 30 - A third nail bomb (see
April 17) explodes in the
Admiral Duncan pub in Old Compton Street,
Soho, London, killing a pregnant woman and two friends and injuring seventy others, including her husband. This was part of a hate campaign against
ethnic minorities and
gay people by
David Copeland
