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* 1999 – Britain's House of Lords votes to end the right of hereditary peers to vote in Britain's upper chamber of Parliament.
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* 1999 – US President Bill Clinton is cited for contempt of court for giving " intentionally false statements " in a sexual harassment civil lawsuit.
* 1999 – Cambodia joins the Association of Southeast Asian Nations ( ASEAN ) bringing the number of members to 10.
A total of 10, 013 tourists visited in the 1998 – 1999 summer, up from the 9, 604 who visited the previous year.
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* Enever, Ted Britain's Best Kept Secret: Ultra's Base at Bletchley Park ( Sutton Publishing, Gloucestershire, 1999 ; ISBN 0-7509-2355-5 ) – A guided tour of the history and geography of the Park, written by one of the founder members of the Bletchley Park Trust
In October 1999, Callaghan told The Oldie Magazine that he would not be surprised to be considered as Britain's worst prime minister in 200 years.
The Astra was Britain's third best-selling car that year, while the Vectra and the Zafira ( a compact MPV launched in 1999 ) were just outside the top ten.
" After the war I wondered what I would do, as I was very disgusted with the dropping of two bombs on civilian centres in Japan ," he told Britain's Encounter radio programme in 1999.
He turned down the British Council's invitation to be Britain's representative at the 1999 Venice Biennale because " it didn't feel right ".
In 2007, it finally made the top 10 of Britain's car sales charts, being the nation's tenth most popular new car with over 50, 000 sales, outselling the Ford Mondeo for the first time since 1999.
Gatiss wrote and performed the comedy sketches The Web of Caves, The Kidnappers and The Pitch of Fear for the BBC's " Doctor Who Night " in 1999 with Little Britain's David Walliams, and played the Master in the Doctor Who Unbound play Sympathy for the Devil under the name " Sam Kisgart ", a pseudonym he later used for a column in Doctor Who Magazine.
In Great Britain's two key Davis Cup ties in the World Group knockout stage, Rusedski lost all four singles rubbers, despite home advantage ( against the USA in 1999 and Sweden in 2002 ).
In a poll conducted by Britain's Classic & Sports Car magazine and printed in their April 1999 edition, the Mercedes-Benz 6. 9 ranked fourth on their list of the " world's greatest saloons.
Rosamond Deborah McKitterick is one of Britain's foremost medieval historians, since 1999 Professor of Medieval History in Cambridge University where she is a Fellow of Sidney Sussex College.
Britain's 16 Air Assault Brigade was formed in 1999 following an amalgamation of elements of 5th Infantry Brigade ( 5 Airborne Brigade ) and 24 Airmobile Brigade, bringing together the agility and reach of airborne forces with the potency of the attack helicopter.
In 1999 a LaRouche publication said Britain's Secret Intelligence Service ( MI6 ) was threatening to assassinate him, probably with backing from the royal household.
* For the historical background see ' Britain's Contribution to the Development of Rugby Football in Japan 1874-1998 ' by Alison Nish, Chapter 27, Britain & Japan: Biographical Portraits, Volume III, Japan Library, 1999 ISBN 1-873410-89-1
Like the original Perdana, the Perdana V6 was not exported to Europe, although it was tested by Britain's Top Gear magazine in their April 1999 issue, as there were plans at the time to sell the V6 in Europe.
This discrepancy between Britain's definition of a British citizen and Ireland's definition was not resolved until 1999.
# Alison Weir, Britain's Royal Family: A Complete Genealogy ( London, U. K .: The Bodley Head, 1999 ), page 230.
* Alison Weir, Britain's Royal Family: A Complete Genealogy ( London, UK: The Bodley Head, 1999 ), page 150
The company was formed by a merger between Britain's Reckitt & Colman plc and the Dutch company Benckiser NV in December 1999.
Hayle Kimbro Pool hosted Britain's first Scarlet Dragonfly in 1995 and was also the first site at which breeding evidence for the Lesser Emperor was detected, in 1999
By the mid-1990s What's on TV was Britain's best-selling weekly magazine but in 2008 a rival publication, TV Choice ( launched in 1999 by Bauer Media Group ) achieved a higher circulation.
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