August 1999
the éphéméride | All on August and 1999 ----
Monday August 2nd 1999
- India: railway catastrophe of Gaisal (Western Bengal): the collision of two express trains on a single track makes more than 400 dead.
Friday August 6th 1999
- Kosovo/Ex- Yugoslavia: The leader Albanian moderate Ibrahim Rugova agrees to take part, with UCK (armed with release of Kosovo), at the committee of transition to the Kosovo whose Bernard Kouchner is the instigator.
Wednesday August 11th 1999
- Europe, Eclipse of August 11th, 1999
Thursday August 12th 1999
- France, Disassembling of the Mac Donalds of Millau
Des farmers of the Aveyron, with the call of the Peasant confederation, “neutralized” the restaurant Mac Donald's in construction with Millau. It was a question for them of protesting in way symbolic system against the decision of the the United States of imposing a customs duty of 100% on a certain number of European agricultural produce.
Monday August 30th 1999
- Eastern Timor: A referendum supervised by the the United Nations results in a very broad victory of the freedom fighters (72%). Immediately, the militia Indonesia do not break out against the civil populations.
Death
- August 4th: Victor Mature, actor.
- August 14th: Pee Wee Reese, (Baseball, E. - U.), at 81 years.
- August 23rd: Georges Boulogne, (Football, France) at 81 years.
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