
30, 1999), which causes pro-Indonesian forces to massacre and uproot thousands of East Timorese. East Timor population votes for independence from Indonesia (Aug.Magnitude 7.4 earthquake kills more than 15,600 and leaves 600,000 homeless in Turkey (Aug.Background: Timeline: The Splintering of Kosovo and Timeline: NATO in Kosovo.
NATO begins Operation Allied Force on March 24, 1999, launching air strikes against Belgrade for 78 consecutive days until Milosevic relents.
War erupts in Kosovo after Yugoslavia's president Slobodan Milosevic clamps down on the province, massacring and deporting ethnic Albanians. Nelson Mandela, first black president of South Africa, steps down (June 16), and Thabo Mbeki takes over. 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. Events in 1999 and 30-1 Events in the world in the birth year of Faisal Khan