Historical Events for September 1999

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7th - A 5.9 magnitude earthquake rocks Athens, rupturing a previously unknown fault, killing 143, injuring more than 500, and leaving 50,000 people homeless.
8th - United States Attorney General Janet Reno names former Senator John Danforth to head an independent investigation of the 1993 fire at the Branch Davidian church near Waco, Texas in response to revelations in the film Waco: The Rules of Engagement contradicting the official government stories.
12th - Indonesia announces it will allow international peace-keepers into East Timor.
13th - Bomb explodes in Moscow, Russia. At least 119 people are killed.
14th - Kiribati, Nauru and Tonga join the United Nations.
21st - Chi-Chi earthquake occurs in central Taiwan, leaving about 2,400 people dead.
23rd - NASA announces that it has lost contact with the Mars Climate Orbiter.
23rd - Qantas Flight 1 overruns the runway in Bangkok during a storm. While some passengers only received minor injuries, it is still the worst crash in Qantas's history to date.
30th - Japan's worst nuclear accident at a uranium reprocessing facility in Tōkai-mura, northeast of Tokyo.


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