29 May 1999

Saturday

1999-05-29

Events

 * The 44th Eurovision Song Contest is held in Jerusalem. Out of the 23 competing countries Sweden came first with the song Take Me To Your Heaven sung by Charlotte Nilsson. Iceland came second and Germany third with a song sung in German, Turkish, English and Hebrew. The UK came joint 12th (with Belgium) with Say It Again sung by Precious. Spain came last with just 1 point.
 * BBC One commentary by Terry Wogan.