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36 unusual facts about 1999


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However, Park Eunjoo of Hankook Ilbo cited an anonymous source, criticising her for using "too much sex-appeal" but Park also said that Uhm's performances were positively received by the public.

1989 FINA Men's Water Polo World Cup

Eight teams participated to decide the winner of what would be a bi-annual event until 1999.

1989–1999

1989–1999 is a compilation album released by New York alternative metal band Life of Agony in 1999 through Roadrunner Records (see 1999 in music).

1998 UCI Road World Championships – Women's time trial

The Women's Individual Time Trial at the 1999 World Cycling Championships was held on Wednesday October 7, 1998 from Maastricht to Vilt, within the commune of Valkenburg aan de Geul.

1999 Cotton Bowl Classic

The 1999 Southwestern Bell Cotton Bowl Classic was a post-season college football game played on January 1, 1999.

1999 New York Film Critics Circle Awards

The 65th New York Film Critics Circle Awards, honoring the best in film for 1999, were given in December 1999 by the New York Film Critics Circle.

1999 Rink Hockey World Championship

The 1999 Rink Hockey World Championship was the 34th edition of the Rink Hockey World Championship, held between 4 and 12 June 1999, in Reus, Catalonia, Spain.

2000 in Armenian football

Kasakh Ashtarak still keeps its name, logo, history and statistics, while Mika FC becomes a new club, established in 1999.

Alabama State Route 75

In 1999, work was completed widening SR-75 to four lanes into Oneonta.

Arthur Chesterfield-Evans

He was re-elected for an 8-year term in 1999 and was defeated at the 2007 election, achieving 1.8% of the primary vote, leaving the Democrats unrepresented in the NSW Parliament.

Brambleton, Virginia

Developing the Brambleton master-planned community began in earnest in the spring of 1999, immediately after Brambleton Group L.L.C. acquired the property.

By My Side Again

Cuando vuelvas a mi lado (English: By My Side Again) is a 1999 Spanish film directed by Gracia Querejeta.

Canadian Council of Natural Mothers

The Canadian Council of Natural Mothers (CCNM) is a Canadian lobby group for the rights of women who have placed children for adoption, founded in 1999.

Choice Cuts: The Capricorn Years 1991–1999

Song selections were taken from the albums Space Wrangler, Widespread Panic, Everyday, Ain't Life Grand, Bombs & Butterflies, 'Til the Medicine Takes, and the live album Light Fuse, Get Away.

Choice Cuts: The Capricorn Years 1991–1999 is a 14 song compilation by Athens, Georgia's Widespread Panic.

Crutchin Melton

Crutchin Melton also known as "Crutchen Melton" is a fictional character created by artists Byron Barnes and Logan Booker in 1999.

Danville 97s

The team completed its move to Myrtle Beach to become the Myrtle Beach Pelicans in time for the 1999 season.

Dariusz Baliszewski

In 1999, for his television creativity and professionalism in work, president Aleksander Kwaśniewski awarded him:

Deutscher Cricket Bund

Deutscher Cricket Bund is Germany's representative at the International Cricket Council and is an associate member since 1999, having previously been an affiliate member of the ICC from 1991.

Diana Anaid

"Perfect Family" rated #55 on the Triple J Hottest 100, 1999 and was a track on Triple J Hottest 100 Volume 7.

Flags Act 1953

The Flags Amendment Act was passed after the 1996 Australian federal election, during a period where the republican movement was influential, and both the government and opposition parties were committed to bringing the issue to a head as a matter of policy.

Glenn Druery

In the lead-up to the New South Wales state election, 1999, he initiated a strategy to deal with preferential voting systems by organising minor parties to be disciplined within a tight preference swapping arrangement, this became known as 'preference harvesting'.

Maldita Sea, Vol. 1: 1989–1999

1: 1989–1999 is a greatest hits album released by Maldita Vecindad y los Hijos del Quinto Patio.

Ross Clifford

At the time, the CDP was trying to rebuild itself after the 1999 election, when leader Fred Nile nearly lost his seat to the fledgling Registered Clubs Party.

Sham Shui Po Ferry Pier

There were a number of bus routes terminated at Sham Shui Po Ferry Pier Bus Terminus before it was closed in 1999.

Sri Lankan provincial council election, 2012

The 3rd Sri Lankan provincial council election was held in 1999 in seven provinces.

Sylvia Plischke

Her career high ranking was No. 27 in the world, achieved in 1999.

Synchro Nine Factor

They released their first full length album on Doogah Music in 1999, Right Wing Conspiracy, which has been remixed and re-released in 2009 in a special limited 10th Anniversary Edition on Doogah Music and Scared Records.

The Best of Laura Pausini: E ritorno da te

The track "One More Time" was originally present on the soundtrack of the 1999 motion picture "Message in a Bottle", where it played during the credits.

The Best of Mantronix 1985–1999

The album featured not only tracks from all five Mantronix albums, but two tracks from Kurtis Mantronik's solo album, 1999s I Sing the Body Electro.

The Black Crowes discography

In 2000, they released the compilation album Greatest Hits 1990–1999: A Tribute to a Work in Progress... and the live album Live at the Greek.

The Hangnail

The Hangnail is a 1999 animated short film made by Shane Acker for Spike and Mike's Sick and Twisted Festival of Animation.

The Sims Resource

It was formed in 1999 by a group of players who were tired of the limitations placed on them by the official EA Games Sims site.

Tipe-X

The first album titled SKA Phobia, released in 1999.

Tushinskaya

Tushinskaya is one of the Metro's busiest stations, serving about 111,000 passengers per day according to a 1999 study.

Vitali Safronov

In the summer of 1999 and moved from the "Wings" to the club First Division "Baltika" Kaliningrad, where he was offered a lucrative contract.


1999 IGA SuperThrift Classic

The 1999 IGA SuperThrift Classic was a women's tennis tournament played on indoor hard courts at The Greens Country Club in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma in the United States that was part of Tier III of the 1999 WTA Tour.

Automatic identification and data capture

The global association Auto-ID Center was founded in 1999 and is made up of 100 of the largest companies in the world such as Wal-Mart, Coca-Cola, Gillette, Johnson & Johnson, Pfizer, Procter & Gamble, Unilever, UPS, companies working in the sector of technology such as SAP, Aliens, Sun as well as five academic research centers.

Bartlett, Tennessee

The Bartlett Performing Arts & Conference Center, also known as BPACC, was finished in 1999 where it held its first show by Art Garfunkel.

Barzaz Breiz

In 1999, Editions du Layeur issued a reprint of the 1867 edition, by Yann-Fañch Kemener, singer and collector, plus the foreword to the 1845 edition.

Bowdoin prize

William Pannapacker, 1994, 1999, academic and journalist (graduate, English, American Civilization)

Bruce Chadwick

His first American Civil War book, Brother Again Brother: The Lost Civil War Diary of Lt. Edmund Halsey (Citadel Press, 1997), was followed by the dual biography of the Civil War’s leaders, Two American Presidents: Abraham Lincoln and Jefferson Davis, 1861 1865 (Citadel, 1999), a finalist for the Lincoln Prize.

Candiria

Drummer Ken Schalk, bassist Mike MacIvor, and guitarist John Lamacchia have been involved in a free-jazz side project named Ghosts of the Canal, who have thus far released two full-length albums, Sessions from the Flats (1999) and Five Episodes from the Subconscious (2002), as well as two non-album tracks which appeared on the bonus disc of Candiria's The C.O.M.A. Imprint.

Chad Bratzke

His 12 sacks in 1999 stands as one of seven double-digit individual sack seasons in franchise history (13.0, Dwight Freeney, 2002; 11.5, LB-Johnie Cooks, 1984; 11.0, LB-Vernon Maxwell, 1983; 10.0, DE-Jon Hand, 1989; 10.5, DE-Tony Bennett, 1995; 10.5, DE-Dan Footman, 1997).

Co-operative Retail Services

In 1999, the society sold ten of these properties to Kingfisher, for conversion into Big W (Woolworth) and B&Q stores.

College of Staten Island High School for International Studies

In 1999, she became assistant principal of social studies at Edward R. Murrow High School in Brooklyn before taking the job as the founding principal of CSIHSIS.

Colossus computer

Neal Stephenson's novel Cryptonomicon (1999) also contains a fictional treatment of the historical role played by Turing and Bletchley Park.

Come with Us

The band had a worldwide tour for Surrender beginning in 1999, continuing until summer 2000 when they played festivals including legendary performances at Glastonbury Festival and Creamfields.

David Lim

He returned to mountaineering, and since 1999, has led more than 15 expeditions, including the first all-Singapore ascent of Argentina's Aconcagua (6962m), and the world's third solo of Ojos del Salado, the highest volcano in the world (6893m).

Energy Regulators Regional Association

They were then supported from 1999 to 2008 by the US National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners (NARUC), which, with the participation of USAID, arranged technical forums, meetings and study tours for mutual training and development.

Foner

Jack D. Foner (1910-1999), American historian; brother of Moe Foner and twin brother of Philip S. Foner; father of Eric Foner

Fuckland

The picture was recorded illegally in the Falkland Islands in 1999, and was made without the permission of the local government.

Giya Kancheli

He composed an opera Music for the Living, in collaboration with Rustaveli director Robert Sturua, and in December 1999, the opera was restaged for the Deutsches National Theater in Weimar.

Great Hallingbury

On 22 December 1999, Korean Air Cargo Flight 8509 crashed into Hatfield Forest near Great Hallingbury shortly after take-off from nearby London Stansted Airport.

Greater Jakarta

Jabodetabek, Depok was carved out of Bogor Regency in 1999, leading to the new name (but covering the same area as Jabotabek) Similarly, South Tangerang was carved out of Tangerang Regency, without a name change or area change.

Hriday Lani

He has written dialogues for commercially successful films like Agni Sakshi (1996), Yeshwant (1997), Yugpurush (1998), Sarfarosh (1999).

Indi Script Records

Indi Script Records is an independent record label founded in 1999 by Mateus Kotok, a singer, songwriter, composer, producer, multi-instrumentalist, and painter born in Ogden, Utah, in 1971.

Jack Marx

In 1999, he became editor of Australian Style, causing controversy when he assigned accused anti-Semite author Helen Darville to interview British Holocaust denier David Irving.

Janice Erlbaum

In 1996, she was hired at noted dot com art factory Pseudo.com (subject of the documentary We Live in Public), and rose to the position of Executive Producer before departing in 1999.

Jonathan Gould

During 1999–2000 Gould generally remained the first-choice goalkeeper at Parkhead despite the arrival of Dmitri Kharine, and picked up another Scottish League Cup winner's medal when Celtic defeated Aberdeen 2-0 in the final on 19 March 2000.

Josh Braun

From 1991 to 1999 Braun worked with Fremantle Media as Senior Vice President and head of sales, where he was responsible for the sales, production, and acquisitions of such programs as Baywatch, All My Children, Third Rock from the Sun, South Park, The Price Is Right, and many others.

Lindsay-Hogg baronets

Their only child, Michael, an actor and director, who succeeded in 1999; his biological father, however, was the director and actor Orson Welles.

Lutfi Haziri

Haziri was part of the students' leadership structures within the University of Pristina during the 1990s.

Matt Salter

He played for London Broncos in the European Super League, and was in the starting line-up (as a prop forward) for them in the 1999 Rugby League Challenge Cup Final, led out by the club backer at the time, Richard Branson.

Mike Whitney

On 8 March 2009 Mike Whitney was inducted as a life member by the South Sydney Rabbitohs for his contribution in being a Director on the Football Club Board in the critical period during the Club’s battle for reinstatement to the competition between 1999 and 2001.

Mukaiyama Taxol total synthesis

The Mukaiyama taxol total synthesis published by the group of Teruaki Mukaiyama of the Tokyo University of Science between 1997 and 1999 was the 6th successful taxol total synthesis.

National Indoor Football League

The league started operations in 2001, with many teams coming from Indoor Football League being bought the previous year and folding operations.

Nicole Tieri

Tieri is a native of Hudsonville, Michigan but moved to New York City in 1999 after graduating from Unity Christian High School.

Nikolaus Geyrhalter

He also filmed Pripyat (1999), a black-and-white look at residents who live near the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone in Ukraine.

Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards

The second Commissioner was Elizabeth Filkin (1999–2002), whose first case involved Peter Mandelson and a large loan which he had failed to declare in the Register of Members' Interests.

Peta-Gaye Dowdie

As a member of the Jamaican sprint relay team she won a bronze medal at the 1999 World Championships and gold medals at the 2006 Commonwealth Games and 2007 Pan American Games.

Phénoménal

Phénoménal is a mixtape by French musician Lord Kossity, released in 1999 on the label Killko Records.

Ratna Asmara

The earliest in this generation are Mira Lesmana and Nan Achnas, who collaborated with several other directors in Kuldesak (1999).

Reino Aventura

In March 1999, Premier Parks, the holding company for all the Six Flags theme parks, announced the purchase of Reino Aventura for an estimated $59 million.

Robert C. Smith

In January 1999, at Kingswood Regional High School in Wolfeboro, Smith announced that he was a candidate for the Republican nomination for President of the United States (at the time the front-runner was Texas Governor George W. Bush).

Roger Elkin

He has reviewed for Stand, Outposts and Envoi and his critical articles on Ted Hughes's poetry have appeared in collections of essays edited by Keith Sagar (1995) and Joanny Moulin (1999); and also on the "Earth-Moon, Ted Hughes" and the "Ted Hughes Society" websites.

Şanlıurfa Province

MHP, campaigning on Turkish-identity consciousness arguments, after having scored an exceptional 7,18% in 1999, has in 2004 ebbed back to a more usual 2,97%.

Simon Perry

Perry's major public commissions include Threaded Field, Docklands Stadium, Melbourne (1999-2000), On Tap, Caroline Springs, Melbourne (2007), and the much loved Public Purse (1994).

Social simulation

Nigel Gilbert published with Klaus G. Troitzsch the first textbook on Social Simulation: Simulation for the Social Scientist (1999) and established its most relevant journal: the Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation.

South African rand

A host of local and international events influenced the currency after that, most notably the 1994 democratic election which saw it weaken to over R 3,60 to the dollar, the election of Tito Mboweni as the new governor of the South African Reserve Bank, and the inauguration of President Thabo Mbeki in 1999 which saw it quickly slide to over R 6 to the dollar.

Susham Bedi

More recently in the United States she has appeared on such shows as "True Crime: New York City", "Third Watch", and "Law and Order: Special Victims Unit", and in movies such as "The Guru" (2002) and "ABCD" (1999).

The '90s Suck and So Do You

The '90s Suck and So Do You is an album by punk band Angry Samoans released in 1999 (see 1999 in music).

Velvet Acid Christ Vs Funker Vogt: The Remix Assault

"The Remix Assault" (aka "The Remix Wars Vol. 4" and "The Remix Wars: Strike 4 - Velvet Acid Christ vs. Funker Vogt") is an aggrotech maxi by Funker Vogt and Velvet Acid Christ, released in 1999.

Vision Creation Newsun

Vision Creation Newsun is a 1999 album by Boredoms released by WEA Japan.

William Swank

Following the release of his award-winning book, Echoes from Lane Field (1999), Swank has extensively explored the history of baseball in San Diego and helped honor many local players including Pete Coscarart, Johnny Ritchey, Floyd Robinson, Manuel Hernandez and Ted Williams.

Xenia Seeberg

Several of her songs including "Heartbeat" have appeared on several compilations such as Dance Fever (1996), Dancemania 4 (1997) and Absolute Music 20 (1999).