About December 31, 1999
December 31, 1999 is the 365th day of the year 1999 in the Gregorian calendar. The day of the week is Friday.
You can browse the full year 1999 calendar in case you need it.
A person born on this day will be 24 years old today. (Assuming this person is still alive and kicking)
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Capricorn is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Turquoise is the modern birthstone for this month. Onyx is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
Rabbit is the mythical animal and Earth is the element for a person born on this day if we consider the very old art of Chinese astrology (or Chinese zodiac).
What Happened On December 31, 1999
- 1999 –Boris Yeltsin, the first president of Russia, resigns as President of Russia, leaving Prime Minister Vladimir Putin as the acting President.
- 1999 –Five hijackers, who had been holding 155 hostages on an Indian Airlines plane, leave the plane with two Islamic clerics that they had demanded be freed.
- 1999 –The United States Government hands control of the Panama Canal (as well all the adjacent land to the canal known as the Panama Canal Zone) to Panama. This act complied with the signing of the 1977 Torrijos-Carter Treaties.
Who Died On December 31, 1999?
- 1999 –Elliot Richardson, American politician (b. 1920)
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