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February 1999 was a month with twenty-eight days and no full moon.

The following events also occurred during the month:

4 February 1999 (Thursday)

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Unarmed West African immigrant Amadou Diallo is shot dead by four plainclothes New York City police officers on an unrelated stake-out, inflaming race-relations in the city.

5 February 1999 (Friday)

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Mike Tyson is sentenced to a year's imprisonment, fined $5,000, and ordered to serve 2 years probation and perform 200 hours of community service for the August 31, 1998 assault on two people after a car accident.

7 February 1999 (Sunday)

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King Hussein of Jordan dies from cancer, and his son Abdullah II inherits the throne.

10 February 1999 (Wednesday)

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Avalanches in the French Alps near Geneva kill at least ten.

11 February 1999 (Thursday)

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Pluto, a dwarf planet with an eccentric orbit, changes from the eighth to ninth planet furthest from the Sun. It had been the eighth furthest since 1979, and will become again in 2231.

12 February 1999 (Friday)

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President Bill Clinton is acquitted by the United States Senate in his impeachment trial
John Myatt and John Drewe are sentenced for art forgery for one and six years, respectively.

15 February 1999 (Monday)

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Rapper Big L, real name Lamont Coleman, is shot and killed with 7 bullets to the head and chest just blocks from his home in Harlem.

16 February 1999 (Tuesday)

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In Uzbekistan a bomb explodes and gunfire is heard at the government headquarters in an apparent assassination attempt against President Islom Karimov.
Across Europe, Kurdish rebels take over embassies and hold hostages after Turkey arrested one of their rebel leaders, Abdullah Öcalan.
In Jasper, Texas, testimony begins in the trial of John William King who is accused of dragging African American James Byrd Jr. to death in an apparent hate crime. King was later convicted and sentenced to the death penalty.

21 February 1999 (Sunday)

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The Albertinkatu shootings in Helsinki, Finland: Three men are killed and one is wounded at a shooting range.

22 February 1999 (Monday)

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Moderate Iraqi Shiite cleric Mohammad Sadeq al-Sadr is assassinated.

23 February 1999 (Tuesday)

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Kurdish rebel leader Abdullah Öcalan is charged with treason in Ankara, Turkey.
White supremacist John William King is found guilty of kidnapping and killing African American James Byrd Jr by dragging him behind a truck for two miles (3 km).
An avalanche destroys the Austrian village of Galtür, killing 31.

24 February 1999 (Wednesday)

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LaGrand Case: The State of Arizona executes Karl LaGrand, a German national involved in an armed robbery that led to a death. Karl's brother Walter is executed a week later, in spite of Germany's legal action in the International Court of Justice to attempt to save him.

27 February 1999 (Saturday)

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While trying to circumnavigate the world in a hot air balloon, Colin Prescot and Andy Elson set a new endurance record after being in a hot air balloon for 233 hours and 55 minutes.
Olusegun Obasanjo becomes Nigeria's first elected president since mid-1983.

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