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| 1999 |
| | | The UN commits 6000 troops to a peace-keeping role in war-torn Sierra Leone | |
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| 1999 |
| | | A Pakistani general, Pervez Musharraf, takes power in a military coup | |
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| 1999 |
| | | The UN sends in KFOR (Kosovo Force) to supervise post-war recovery in Kosovo | |
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| 1999 |
| | | Britain's hereditary peers lose their rights in the House of Lords, apart from a few elected to serve for an interim period | |
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| 1999 |
| | | Floods and massive mudslides in the Vargas state of Venezuela kill an estimated 25,000 people | |
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| 1999 |
| | | The island of Macau reverts from Portuguese ownership to the People's Republic of China | |
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| 1999 |
| | | Boris Yeltsin announces his completely unexpected resignation on New Year's Eve and effectively hands power to Vladimir Putin as acting president | |
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| 1999 |
| | | The US relinquishes sovereignty over the canal zone to Panama on the last day of the century, as agreed in the 1977 treaty | |
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| 1999 |
| | | Chromosome 22 becomes the first human genome to be fully sequenced, at the Sanger Institute in Cambridge, England | |
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| c. 1999 |
| | | It is estimated that during this year the population of the world reached six billion | |
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