| That was the year when...
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Manchester
United won a historic treble clinching, League, FA & European
honours |
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The Columbine high school
shootings leaves 15 students dead in Denver |
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Boris Yeltsin resigned
as Russian president, handing power to Vladimir Putin |
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Up to 350 million people
in Europe and Asia have witnessed the last total solar
eclipse of the century. |
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The Paddington Rail Crash
in London, leaves 31 people dead |
1999 brought to a close the end of another
century and with it the fear of impending doom as the world
was gripped by Y2K fever. The much touted Millenium bug
was supposed to bring down the entire infrastructure of
modern technology. Nothing happened.
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American Beauty (Best Film Oscar) |