Timeline June 1999

Events in June 1999 8

• 1920 – 1999 DeForest Kelley (1920-1999) Died 11 June 1999, aged 79 DeForest Kelley played Dr. Leonard 'Bones' McCoy in the original Star Trek television series and its film sequels. His character became one of the franchise's most enduring figures. He died of stomach cancer in Woodland Hills, California.
• 1999 NATO Bombing of Yugoslavia Air campaign over the Kosovo War NATO conducted a 78-day bombing campaign against the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia to halt the ethnic cleansing of Kosovar Albanians. The operation was the alliance's first sustained combat action without UN Security Council authorization. It ended when Yugoslav forces withdrew from Kosovo and a peacekeeping force was deployed.
• 1999 Athlon — AMD beats Intel for the first time AMD introduces the Athlon processor in June 1999 — and for the first time in AMD's history, it has a processor that outperforms Intel's best offering (the Pentium III) across the majority of benchmarks. The Athlon is the first x86 processor to reach 1GHz (March 2000, beating Intel by one day in a race both companies publicly staged). The Athlon's out-of-order execution engine, large caches and floating-point performance make it the preferred processor for enthusiast PC builders and gaming machines. AMD's market share reaches 20%.
• 1999 French Open 1999 Men: Andre Agassi · Women: Steffi Graf Graf's final Grand Slam title, her last Roland Garros.
• 1999 Napster Launches Peer-to-peer file sharing service upends the music industry Shawn Fanning launched Napster in mid-1999, creating one of the first widely used peer-to-peer file-sharing networks. The service let users freely trade MP3 music files and rapidly gained tens of millions of users. It was shut down by court order in 2001 after lawsuits from record labels, but permanently altered the music industry's relationship with digital distribution.
• 1999 – present Wei Yi Chinese chess prodigy Wei Yi emerged as one of China's brightest chess talents and became known for spectacular tactical games.
• 1999 "Supernatural" Released Guest-collaboration album sparks massive comeback Released on June 15, 1999, and produced with Clive Davis, Supernatural paired Santana with a wide range of guest artists including Rob Thomas, Lauryn Hill, Eric Clapton, and Dave Matthews. The album sold more than 30 million copies worldwide and became one of the most successful comebacks in music history, introducing Santana's guitar playing to an entirely new generation. It reestablished him as a dominant commercial force three decades into his career.
• 1999 Thabo Mbeki Succeeds Nelson Mandela as South African President Peaceful transition after ANC election victory Thabo Mbeki was inaugurated as President of South Africa on June 16, 1999, succeeding Nelson Mandela after the African National Congress won a decisive election victory. The transition marked South Africa's first change of leadership under full democracy. Mbeki continued the post-apartheid reconstruction program while shifting focus toward economic policy.