Medical Hypotheses, April 1999 ; 53 ( 4 ): 338 – 344.

* 1999 – Kwesi Boakye, American actor

* 1999 – US President Bill Clinton is cited for contempt of court for giving " intentionally false statements " in a sexual harassment civil lawsuit.

* 1917 – Helen Forrest, American singer ( d. 1999 )

* 1999 – Cambodia joins the Association of Southeast Asian Nations ( ASEAN ) bringing the number of members to 10.

* 1916 – Robert Shaw, American conductor ( d. 1999 )

* 1945 – Jan Sloot, Dutch inventor ( d. 1999 )

* 1910 – Charles Crichton, English director ( d. 1999 )

* 1926 – Norman Wexler, American screenwriter ( d. 1999 )

* 1925 – David A. Huffman, American computer scientist, developed the Huffman coding ( d. 1999 )

* 1904 – Charles " Buddy " Rogers, American actor and trombonist ( d. 1999 )

* 1930 – Wilmer Mizell, American baseball player ( d. 1999 )

* 1935 – Rod Hull, English comedian and actor ( d. 1999 )

* 1999 – Jesse Stone, American musician and songwriter ( b. 1901 )

* 1912 – Henry Jones, American actor ( d. 1999 )

* 1930 – Lionel Bart, English composer ( d. 1999 )

* 1918 – Sidney Gottlieb, American chemist ( d. 1999 )

* 1999 – Byron Farwell, American historian ( b. 1921 )

Antarctic fisheries in 1998 – 1999 ( July 1-June 30 ) reported landing 119, 898 tonnes.

A total of 10, 013 tourists visited in the 1998 – 1999 summer, up from the 9, 604 who visited the previous year.

* Josef Stanglmeier ( 1918 – 1999 ): builder and politician

* 1999 – The Chechnya-based Islamic International Brigade invades the neighboring Russian Dagestan.

* 1910 – Sylvia Sidney, American actress ( d. 1999 )

* 1922 – Rory Calhoun, American actor ( d. 1999 )

* 1939 – Dusty Springfield, English singer ( The Lana Sisters and The Springfields ) ( d. 1999 )

Satellite measurements made in 1999 with the Wide Field Infrared Explorer showed that the brightness of Altair fluctuates slightly, varying by less than a thousandth of a magnitude.

Another adjunct, the varying speed of light model has also been theorized by Jean-Pierre Petit in 1988, John Moffat in 1992 as well Andreas Albrecht and João Magueijo in 1999, instead of superluminal expansion the speed of light was 60 orders of magnitude faster than its current value solving the horizon and homogeneity problems in the early universe.

* 1999 – The Düzce earthquake strikes Turkey with a magnitude of 7. 2 on the Richter scale.

* 1999 – A 5. 9 magnitude earthquake rocks Athens, rupturing a previously unknown fault, killing 143, injuring more than 500, and leaving 50, 000 people homeless.

The 7. 1 magnitude Hector Mine earthquake on October 16, 1999 had an epicenter north of town.

The earthquake of August 17, 1999 ( magnitude 7. 4 ) devastated the region, killing more than 19, 000 people and leaving half a million homeless.

Romke Jan Bernhard Sloot ( 27 August 1945, Groningen — 11 July 1999, Nieuwegein ) was a Dutch electronics technician, who claimed to have developed a revolutionary data compression technique, the Sloot Digital Coding System, which could compress a complete movie down to 8 kilobytes of data — this is orders of magnitude greater compression than the best currently available technology.

Since the 1999 eruption, it has maintained seismic activity, typically having very low-magnitude volcanic earthquakes ( most are below magnitude 1 ) every 1 – 2 minutes.

Genreith ( 1999 ) has sketched out a fractal cosmology in which the smallest mass, which he identified as a neutrino, is about 120 orders of magnitude smaller than the mass of the universe ( note: this ' neutrino ' approximates in scale to the hypothetical particle m < sub > H </ sub > mentioned above in the context of Weyl's work in 1919 ).

On 16 February 1999, a rare annular solar eclipse of magnitude 0. 9906 was visible from the area.

6 June 1999.

Between 1990 and 1999 the town's annual mean population growth was-0. 6 %, though between 1999 and 2007 this increased to an average of-0. 1 %.

It merged with the Dutch steel producer Koninklijke Hoogovens to form Corus Group on 6 October 1999.

After 6. 2 % growth in 1997, GDP grew a substantial 8. 3 % in 1999, led by exports.

Czech can also be used in all official proceedings in Slovakia as granted by Article 6 of Slovak Minority Language Act 184 / 1999 Zb.

Gailey led the team to two playoff appearances with a 10 – 6 record in 1998 and an NFC East championship, but the Cowboys were defeated in the playoffs by the Arizona Cardinals 20-7 ; after an 8 – 8 season in 1999 ( during which Irvin suffered a career-ending spinal injury in a loss to the Philadelphia Eagles ) ending in another playoff loss ( this time to the Minnesota Vikings 27-10 ), he was fired and became the first Cowboys coach who did not take the team to a Super Bowl.

The first elections to the Scottish Parliament were held on 6 May 1999, with Dewar leading the Scottish Labour Party against their main opponents, the SNP under Alex Salmond.

Remittances are increasing at an annual rate of 6. 5 %, and an estimated $ 1. 35 billion will enter the national economy during 1999.

Total U. S. exports to El Salvador reached $ 2. 1 billion in 1999, while El Salvador exported $ 1. 6 billion to the United States.

The first survey of the fantasy sports market in the U. S. in 1999 showed 29. 6 million people age 18 and older played fantasy games.

total: 6 ships ( or over ) totaling / ( 1999 est.

Where the first day of the month starts on a Monday and the last day ends on a Sunday, this was observed in 2010 and can be traced back 11 years to 1999, 6 years back to 1993, 11 years back to 1982, 11 years back to 1971 and 6 years back to 1965 ; and so on twice 11 years consecutively and once six years either forward into the future or back into the past.

Brooks and Mahl separated in March 1999, announcing their plans to divorce on October 9, 2000, and filing for divorce on November 6, 2000.

1999 Jun ; 88 ( 6 ): 1422-3.

On 29 January 1999, the Court of Final Appeal, the highest judicial authority in Hong Kong interpreted several Articles of the Basic Law, in such a way that the Government estimated would allow 1. 6 million Mainland China immigrants to enter Hong Kong within ten years.

* Hedwig, code name of Red Hat Linux version 6. 0 released April 19, 1999.

The 2000 and 2001 Colts teams were considerably less successful compared to the 1999 team and pressure began to mount on team administration and the coaching staff following a 6 – 10 season in 2001.

Jamaican agriculture, along with forestry and fishing accounts for about 6. 6 % of GDP in 1999.

* 1999 – A 6. 0 Richter scale earthquake hits western Colombia killing at least 1, 000.

The 2009 population estimate is 6. 8 % higher than the population reported in the last census from January 1999 ( slightly less than 15 million ).

GDP grew 9. 6 % in 2000, up from 1. 7 % in 1999.

Kenyan population was reported as 38. 6 million in 2009, compared to in 28. 7 million in 1999, 21. 4 million in 1989 and 15. 3 million 1979, an increase by a factor of 2. 5 over 30 years, or an average growth of more than 3 % per year.