1999

1999 (MCMXCIX) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1999th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 999th year of the 2nd millennium, the 99th year of the 20th century, and the 10th and last year of the 1990s decade.

1999 was designated as the International Year of Older Persons.

Media related to 1999 at Wikimedia Commons

Clockwise from top-left: the funeral procession of King Hussein of Jordan in Amman ; an earthquake in İzmit kills over 17,000 people in Turkey ; the Columbine High School massacre , one of the first major school shootings in the United States; the year 2000 problem ("Y2K"), perceived as a major concern in the lead-up to the year 2000 ; the Millennium Dome (currently The O2 Arena ) opens in London ; online music downloading platform Napster is launched, soon a source of online piracy ; NASA loses both the Mars Climate Orbiter and the Mars Polar Lander ; a destroyed T-55 tank near Prizren during the Kosovo War .