Year in a Minute: 1999

SBS celebrating 50 Years. This is a Year in a Minute 1999.

Exiled East Timor independence leader Jose Ramos Horta receives his ballot for the vote on independence of East Timor. (AP Photo/Rick Rycroft) Credit: AP

After an Independence vote in East Timor, Pro-Indonesian militia kill over a thousand.

Australia leads peacekeeping forces to restore order.

Bodies are found in a barrel in Snowtown near Adelaide.

As Roberto Benigni’s holocaust comedy told us ‘Life Is Beautiful.’

2001 creator Stanley Kubrick dies.

Bill Gates’ fortune tops 100 billion.

And after 442 years Macau goes from Portuguese Republic to People ’s Republic.

Do you believe in life after love….

Cher

Australia did not believe,

Voting ‘NO’ to a republic.

As world counted down towards the feared Y-2-K bug computer Armageddon.