Timeline
Discover what happened in this year with HISTORY’s summaries of major events, anniversaries, famous births and notable deaths.
Police stand outside the east entrance of Columbine High shool as bomb squads and SWAT teams secure students 20 April 1999 in Littleton, Colorado, after two masked teens on a "suicide mission" stormed the school and blasted fellow students with guns and explosives before turning the weapons on themselves. Police fear at least 25 people were killed. AFP PHOTO/Mark LEFFINGWELL (Photo by MARK LEFFINGWELL / AFP) (Photo by MARK LEFFINGWELL/AFP via Getty Images)
Flowers left outside the home of John F. Kennedy Jr. and Carolyn Bessette Kennedy on N. Moore St. in New York City.
Heather Donahue in a scene from the film 'The Blair Witch Project', 1999. (Photo by Lauren Film/Getty Images)
Centennial Bridge spanning the Panama Canal.
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