December 1999

the éphéméride |All on December and 1999 ----

December 2nd: the first decoding of the genetic code of a human chromosome, the chromosome 22 by a team of scientists of Cambridge.
December 3rd:

With Seattle, failure of the ministerial meeting of the Member States of OMC. Europe refuses the abandonment of the system of export subsidy of their products required by the States-uniens, because the end of such a system would give total supremacy to the multinational firms.
exact parity enters the Euro and the American Dollar.

December 6th: SOEC publishes his report on the crimes committed by the Serb ones in Kosovo

9 and December 10th 1999: The Council euopéen of Helsinki establishes the institutional affairs necessary before the widening of the European Union. He specifies the military capacities necessary to the European Politique of safety and defense (PESD). December 10th, the Turkey becomes official candidate with adhesion with the European Union.
December 10th: first commercial flight of ARIANE 5, during which is put into orbit XMM, a space telescope of the European space agency.
December 11th: death of Franjo Tudjman, president of Croatia.
December 13rd: death of Philippe Piers de Raveschoot, Belgian Artist.
December 15th: an agreement signed between Albanian UNO and the three principal parties allows the installation of a provisional administration Kosovo
December 16th: Death of Roger Clipping-Rock, mountaineer and writer French.
December 18th: Death of Robert Bresson, French scenario writer.
December 19th:

the Portugal reassigns Macao with the China, after more than 400 years of occupation, the territory will profit, during 50 years of a particular status of special Autonomous region (RAS).
Death of Desmond the, actor

December 22nd: Torrential rains and mud avalanches make between 15.000 and 30.000 victims with the Venezuela and more than 300.000 without shelter.
December 24th:

the pope Jean-Paul II opens the holy Porte in the Basilique Saint-Pierre of Rome, and opens large the Jubilé of the year 2000.
Décès of Maurice Broods of Murville, French politician

26 and December 28th: the storms Lothar and Martin cause extensive damage. The first passed from the south of the England towards the Denmark while crossing the north of the France. The second crosses the north of the Spain, the center-south of France and the north of the Italy.

December 30th: The constitution of the Republic bolivarienne of the Venezuela is approved by Référendum.
December 31st:

restitution of the zone of the Panama Canal by the United States with the Panama.
Release of the hostages of the Airbus of Air India diverted on December 24th, following the relaxation of three separatist cachemiris.
surprised resignation of the Russian president Boris Ieltsine. The Prime Minister Vladimir Poutine takes the president's functions by interim while waiting for presidential elections in March 2000.
Death of Alain Gillot-Pétré, French presenter of television, born in 1950.

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