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40 unusual facts about 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).

1999 Cotton Bowl Classic

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

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.

1999 UCI Road World Championships – Men's time trial

The Men's Individual Time Trial at the 1999 World Cycling Championships was held on Thursday October 7, 1999 in Treviso, Italy, over a total distance of 50.8 kilometres.

1999: The New Master

The track called "Rosario" featured actress Rosario Dawson performing a political spoken word over the chords of "Little Red Corvette".

2001–02 Washington Wizards season

After retiring from the Chicago Bulls in early 1999, Michael Jordan became the Washington Wizards’ president of basketball operations as well as a minority owner in January 2000.

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.

ASEAN–Australia Development Cooperation Program

Planning for the new agency initially began on 1999 while its operations were scheduled to begin on 2005.

Banks Broadcasting

Banks Broadcasting was the owner of former WB Network and current The CW Television Network affiliate KSCW-TV in Wichita, Kansas from its launch in 1999 (as KWCV) until July 20, 2007 when it was officially sold to Schurz Communications, the owner of that market's CBS affiliate KWCH-TV.

Belgacom Fund

The Belgacom Fund, is a Belgian fund created within the King Baudouin Foundation in 1999 for a period of three years, which promotes dialogue between citizens and local authorities.

Bids for the 2006 Winter Olympics

In the wake of the Salt Lake City bid scandal, a new bidding procedure was instituted in 1999 to elect the 2006 Winter Olympics host city.

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.

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.

Class of '99

The "Another Brick in the Wall (Part 2)" video was directed by Jim Shea, and aired for the first time in January 1999.

Classic ABC: The Universal Masters Collection

Classic ABC: The Universal Masters Collection is a compilation album released by Universal Music in 1999.

Coin of Connaught

Coincraft's Standard Catalogue of the coins of Scotland, Ireland, Channel Islands & Isle of Man by Coincraft, 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:

I.E.M. 1996–1999

It is a remastered collection of music recorded between 1996–99, and includes the whole of the first album I.E.M., the An Escalator to Christmas EP together with bonus material.

Leighton Andrews

In 2002 Leighton Andrews was selected to fight Rhondda for Labour, after the party's shock defeat to Plaid Cymru's Geraint Davies at the 1999 Assembly election.

Mito Kakizawa

He resigned to work on his father's campaign in the 1999 gubernatorial election in Tokyo.

Reprise 1990–1999

Reprise 1990–1999 is a compilation album by Vangelis, released in 1999.

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.

Single-issue politics

For instance, in the New South Wales state election, 1999, candidate Malcolm Jones received just 0.2% of the primary vote, but achieved the quota of 4.5% required to win a Legislative Council seat after receiving preferences from a wide range of minor parties (including both the 'Gun Owners and Sporting Hunters Rights Party' and the 'Animal Liberation Party'); MLC Lee Rhiannon accused many of these parties of being nothing more than fronts.

Sultan Mahmud Bridge

Toll collection for the bridge was abolished in 1999 by the then PAS state government following an election promise.

Svein Enok Nørstebø

He became awarded Gullpucken in 1999 an honor which is awarded to the best ice hockey player on both club and national teams.

Swarm Development Group

It was formed in 1999 by a group of multidisciplinary scientists, researchers, and software developers, led by Chris Langton.

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 Great Olivia Newton-John

The Great Olivia Newton-John is a greatest hits album by Olivia Newton-John that was released in 1999, the album consists of three discs.

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.

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.

Wright Eclipse

The Eclipse and its sister design the Solar were named for a solar eclipse which was visible in the UK in 1999, the year of its introduction.

You Wanted More

"You Wanted More" is a 1999 song by the Los Angeles band Tonic that originally appeared in the 1999 film, American Pie.

Youth Against AIDS

Youth Against AIDS (YAA) was an international youth network founded in 1999 to raise visibility around the impact of HIV/AIDS on youth.


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.

Abdul Subhan Qureshi

Police sources told The Hindu that he participated in the October,1999 SIMI conference where Sheikh Yasin, the head of the Hamas and the Pakistan Jamaat-e-Islami chief Qazi Hussain Ahmad, were among those who delivered speeches through a telephone network.

Alexander Zamolodchikov

1999 Dannie Heineman Prize for Mathematical Physics with Barry M. McCoy and Tai Tsun Wu for "their groundbreaking and penetrating work on classical statistical mechanics, integrable models and conformal field theories."

Ali Baba's Tahini

Engelmann left the band in 1999 and was replaced by Kahlil Smylie for the album Limbo Boots.

Andreas Gryphius Prize

1999 Stefan Chwin for his complete works, especially for the novel Tod in Danzig Death in Danzig

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.

Bilabial trill

In addition, the Knorkator song "Buchstabe" (the actual title is a glyph) on the 1999 album Hasenchartbreaker uses a similar sound to replace "br" in a number of German words (e.g. ˈʙaːtkaʁˌtɔfəln for Bratkartoffeln).

Bill McGlaughlin

McGlaughlin has been the co-host of the nationally syndicated radio series Center Stage from Wolf Trap since its inception in 1999.

Bored!

Thomas briefly joined Magic Dirt and subsequently has enlisted various line-ups for reformed versions of Bored! in 1998, 1999 and 2000.

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.

Changer

Changer was founded in October 1999 in Akureyri, Iceland, by drummer Kristján B. Heiðarsson, as a one-man project.

Chong Tae-Hyon

In 1999, as a junior at Kyung Hee University, Chong was selected as a member of the South Korea national baseball team for the 1999 Intercontinental Cup in Sydney.

Ecocomposition

While a primary concern has been the relationship between the writing process and natural places, concepts of spatiality also apply to cyberspace and online writing—in MUDs, MOOs, Internet Relay Chat, Instant Messages, and e-mail (Syverson, 1999; Yagelski, 2002.

Electroactive polymers

In 1999, Yoseph Bar-Cohen, proposed the Armwrestling Match of EAP Robotic Arm Against Human Challenge.

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.

Estoy Aquí

In August 1999, Shakira sang "Estoy Aquí" during an episode of MTV Unplugged in New York City.

Fiona Nash

Between 1999 and 2004, she worked as staff member for National Party federal ministers, Mark Vaile, Larry Anthony, and De-Anne Kelly before her election to the Senate.

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.

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.

James Edward Zimmerman

James Edward Zimmerman (February 19, 1923 – August 4, 1999) was born in Lantry, South Dakota.

John Wieners

At the Guggenheim Museum in 1999, Wieners gave one of his last public readings, celebrating an exhibit by the painter Francesco Clemente.

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.

KHCV

KFFV, a television station (channel 44) licensed to serve Seattle, Washington, United States, which held the call sign KHCV from 1999 to 2009

Kwinana Freeway

In 1999, the state government announced that a two way bus transitway would be built in the Kwinana Freeway median, to link Perth's Esplanade Busport with the Murdoch station at South Street.

Leo Scullion

His first senior match was in the 1999 Challenge Tour, and officiated his first televised match in the 2001 Regal Scottish Masters, a tie between Stephen Lee and Patrick Wallace.

Loud Guitars, Big Suspicions

Two singles were taken from it: "True Friends" and "Playing with Fire," both of which charted in the U.S. Mainstream Rock Tracks chart, the former peaking at #27, in 1999, and the latter only reaching #37, in 2000.

Lutfi Haziri

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

Maldita Sea, Vol. 1: 1989–1999

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

Mexopolis

Mexopolis (also known as Mexopolis Animation Studio) is an American production company founded in 1999 by Jorge R. Gutierrez and Sandra Equihua.

Michael Mols

However, during a UEFA Champions League clash against FC Bayern Munich, he collided with opposing goalkeeper Oliver Kahn, which resulted in a serious knee injury – in the same competition, he previously helped his club crush PSV Eindhoven 4–1 at home by scoring twice, whilst in the league, he put four past former Ranger Andy Goram's Motherwell.

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.

Moorabbin Oval

Moorabbin Oval was the home of the Melbourne Reds in the former Australian Baseball League from 1994 to 1999.

Morgan Llywelyn

Her fiction has received several awards and has sold more than 40 million copies, and she herself is recipient of the 1999 Exceptional Celtic Woman of the Year Award from Celtic Women International.

National Whistleblowers Center

In 1999, former FBI special agent Jane Turner brought to the attention of her management team serious misconduct concerning failures to investigate and prosecute crimes against children in Indian Country and in the Minot, North Dakota community.

Nicole Tieri

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

Oldenburg

The Jade University of Applied Sciences (Jade-Hochschule) The former Fachhochschule Oldenburg (until 1999) was founded in 1971, a merger of the previous engineering academy with the nautical college in Elsfleth.

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.

Ratna Asmara

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

Regina Lewis

She first appeared on national TV in 1999 on the CBS Early Show, later assuming a full-time role as an expert commentator for several national network and cable programs, including Today, The View, ABC World News This Morning, Fox News Channel, and CNN Headline News.

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.

Richard A. Cosier

Richard A. Cosier (born May 18, 1947 in Jackson, Michigan) is the former Dean of the Krannert School of Management at Purdue University, having served August 1, 1999 through June 30, 2010.

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%.

The News of Texas

It was syndicated to 27 affiliate stations in the state by the San Antonio-based Texas Network (TXN) between 1999 and 2000.

Thrakattak

Track 2, "Fearless and Highly Thrakked", is also featured on the live album (2CD set) King Crimson on Broadway (1999) (disc 2, track 12), and an alternative version of the track entitled "Biker Babes of the Rio Grande" is featured on the live album (2CD set) Vrooom Vrooom (2001) (disc 1, track 11).

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.

Vidalia onion

The 1999 album Oh! The Grandeur, by American musician Andrew Bird, includes a song called 'Vidalia', an ode to the onion in question.

Vision Creation Newsun

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