Napoleon was forced to retreat from Germany after the Battle of Leipzig.
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Uganda Ministry of Health announced they were under an outbreak of a Marburg virus, a virus similar to Ebola.
Cher's 'Believe' was released and became the Billboard 1999 Song of the Year.
A bill to recognize Martin Luther King Jr's birthday as a national holiday passed the US Senate.
Researchers at Rutgers University in New Jersey, US, isolated Streptomycin, which became the first antibiotic remedy for tuberculosis (TB).
The American Revolutionary War hostiles ended after the British conceded at Yorktown.