| Current events of May 1, 1999 (1999-05-01) (Saturday) |
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- Three spectators were killed and eight others were injured at Lowe's Motor Speedway during an IRL race when a tire went into the grandstand.
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| Current events of May 2, 1999 (1999-05-02) (Sunday) |
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- Norman J. Sirnic and Karen Sirnic are murdered by Angel Maturino Resendiz in a parsonage in Weimar, Texas. They were his fourth and fifth victims in his fourth incident.
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| Current events of May 3, 1999 (1999-05-03) (Monday) |
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- Photo driver licences and banknotes made out of polymer substrate are introduced to New Zealand.
- An F5 tornado slams in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma killing 38 people. This was the second strongest tornado ever recorded in United States history. (See 1999 Oklahoma tornado outbreak). A possible tornado outbreak that has a similar force to it will take place sometime in the next 250-500 years.
- The Dow Jones Industrial Average closes above 11,000 for the first time. It closes at 11,014.70.
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| Current events of May 5, 1999 (1999-05-05) (Wednesday) |
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- Microsoft releases Windows 98 Second Edition.
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| Current events of May 6, 1999 (1999-05-06) (Thursday) |
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| Current events of May 7, 1999 (1999-05-07) (Friday) |
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- A jury finds The Jenny Jones Show and Warner Bros. liable in the shooting death of Scott Amedure after the show purposely deceived Jonathan Schmitz to appear on a secret same-sex crush episode.
- Kosovo War: In Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, three Chinese embassy workers are killed and 20 wounded when a NATO aircraft mistakenly bombs the Chinese embassy in Belgrade
- In Guinea-Bissau, President João Bernardo Vieira is ousted in a military coup
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| Current events of May 8, 1999 (1999-05-08) (Saturday) |
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| Current events of May 11, 1999 (1999-05-11) (Tuesday) |
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- Starting late on May 10 and continuing through the early hours of May 12, NASA's ACE and Wind spacecraft each observed that the density of the solar wind dropped by more than 98%[1]
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| Current events of May 13, 1999 (1999-05-13) (Thursday) |
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| Current events of May 17, 1999 (1999-05-17) (Monday) |
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| Current events of May 19, 1999 (1999-05-19) (Wednesday) |
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- Star Wars: The Phantom Menace is released in theaters.
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| Current events of May 23, 1999 (1999-05-23) (Sunday) |
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| Current events of May 26, 1999 (1999-05-26) (Wednesday) |
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| Current events of May 28, 1999 (1999-05-28) (Friday) |
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- In Milan, Italy, after 22 years of restoration work, Leonardo da Vinci's newly-restored masterpiece The Last Supper is put back on display. Cameron Boyce, an American actor and dancer best known for his roles in the feature films Mirrors, Eagle Eye, Grown Ups, and Grown Ups 2, as well as for his co-starring role as "Luke Ross" on the Disney Channel comedy series, Jessie, is born.
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