Editing 1999 (section)

===May===
* [[May 1]] –The television series ''[[SpongeBob SquarePants]]'' premiered on [[Nickelodeon]].
* [[May 3]] &ndash; [[1999 Oklahoma tornado outbreak]]: a [[1999 Bridge Creek–Moore tornado|devastating tornado]], rated F5 on the [[Fujita scale]], hits southern and eastern [[Oklahoma City metropolitan area]], killing 36 people (and 5 indirectly) and producing the highest winds recorded on Earth: {{convert|301|±|20|mph|km/h|abbr=on}}.<ref>{{Cite web |title=May 3, 1999 Oklahoma/Kansas Tornado Outbreak |url=https://www.nssl.noaa.gov/about/history/may3rd/ |access-date=2025-03-11 |website=NOAA National Severe Storms Laboratory |language=EN-US}}</ref>
* [[May 7]]
** [[Kosovo War]]: in the [[Serbia and Montenegro|Federal Republic of Yugoslavia]], [[United States bombing of the Chinese embassy in Belgrade|three Chinese embassy workers are killed and 20 others wounded]] when a [[NATO]] [[Northrop B-2 Spirit|B-2 aircraft]] bombs the Chinese Embassy in [[Belgrade]].
** In [[Guinea-Bissau]], President [[João Bernardo Vieira]] is ousted in a military [[coup]].
* [[May 12]] &ndash; [[David Steel]] becomes the first Presiding Officer (Speaker) of the modern [[Scottish Parliament]].
* [[May 13]] &ndash; [[Carlo Azeglio Ciampi]] is elected President of Italy.
* [[May 14]]–[[June 20]] – The [[1999 Cricket World Cup]] is held in England, (some matches in Scotland, Ireland, Wales and the Netherlands), with Australia defeating Pakistan in the final.
* [[May 17]] &ndash; [[Ehud Barak]] is [[1999 Israeli general election|elected]] prime minister of [[Israel]].
* [[May 26]]
** [[Kargil War]]: The [[Indian Air Force]] launches an attack on intruding [[Pakistan]] Army troops and [[mujahideen]] militants in [[Kashmir]].
** The [[1999 UEFA Champions League final]] takes place at the [[Camp Nou]] Stadium, [[Barcelona]], in which the English side [[Manchester United F.C.|Manchester United]] defeats the German side [[FC Bayern Munich|Bayern Munich]] 2–1.
* [[May 27]] 
** The [[International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia]] in [[The Hague|The Hague, Netherlands]] indicts [[Slobodan Milošević]] and four others for [[war crime]]s and [[crimes against humanity]] committed in [[Kosovo]].
** [[Space Shuttle Discovery|Space Shuttle ''Discovery'']] is launched on [[STS-96]], the first shuttle mission to dock with the [[International Space Station]].<ref name="mission page">{{Cite web |last=Warnock |first=Lynda |title=STS-96 |url=https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/shuttle/shuttlemissions/archives/sts-96.html |access-date=2020-06-15 |website=nasa.gov |publisher=NASA}}</ref>
* [[May 28]]
** Two Swedish police officers are wounded by bank robbers armed with automatic firearms, and [[Malexander murders|later executed with their own service pistols]] in [[Malexander]], [[Sweden]].
** After 22 years of restoration work, [[Leonardo da Vinci]]'s ''[[The Last Supper (Leonardo)|The Last Supper]]'' is placed back on display in [[Milan]], Italy.
* [[May 29]] &ndash; [[Nigeria]] terminates military rule, and the [[Fourth Nigerian Republic]] is established with [[Olusegun Obasanjo]] as [[President of Nigeria|president]].