What happened onFebruary 16, 1999Tuesday Week 7

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The World in 1999 the year everyone worried about Y2K

The Blair Witch Project cost about $60,000 to make and earned almost $250 million. Every dollar spent on it came back as roughly $4,000.

Life back then

The whole world was getting ready for the year 2000, and nobody was sure the computers would make it. Programmers raced to fix the Y2K bug, and some families stocked up on canned food just in case. Teens chatted on AOL Instant Messenger after school and traded Pokemon cards at lunch. Boy bands ruled the charts, SpongeBob SquarePants aired for the first time, and burning your own mix CD was the coolest new trick.

The year in 8 events

• 💶Jan 1 The euro launches as an electronic currency in 11 countries. Coins and bills come three years later.
• 🪖Mar 24 NATO begins bombing Yugoslavia over the war in Kosovo. The bombing lasts 78 days.
• 🗺️Apr 1 Nunavut becomes a new territory in northern Canada. Most of the people who live there are Inuit.
• 🕯️Apr 20 Two students kill 13 people at Columbine High School in Colorado.
• 🎵Jun 1 Napster launches. Free song swapping spreads fast and shakes the music business.
• 🕯️Aug 17 An earthquake near Izmit in Turkey kills more than 17,000 people as they sleep.
• 🌏Dec 20 Portugal hands Macau back to China. It was the last European colony in Asia.
• 🏛️Dec 31 Boris Yeltsin resigns and hands power in Russia to Vladimir Putin.

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