Iraqi President Saddam Hussein was tried for his crimes against humanity.
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A bill to recognize Martin Luther King Jr's birthday as a national holiday passed the US Senate.
Cher's 'Believe' was released and became the Billboard 1999 Song of the Year.
German professor Martin Luther became a doctor when he was awarded his Doctor of Theology from the University of Wittenberg, Germany.
Germany's oldest university, and one of the world's oldest surviving universities, The Universität Heidelberg, held a lecture for the first time.
NASA launched its IBEX satellite from the Stargazer mother ship launch pad above the Marshall Islands.
