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 )

* 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 )

Disputes-international: maritime boundary with Cambodia not defined ; involved in a complex dispute over the Spratly Islands with the People's Republic of China ( PRC ), Republic of China ( ROC ), Malaysia, Philippines, and possibly Brunei ; maritime boundary with Thailand resolved in August 1997 ; maritime boundary dispute with the PRC in the Gulf of Tonkin resolved in 2000 ; Paracel Islands occupied by the PRC but claimed by Vietnam and the ROC ; offshore islands and sections of boundary with Cambodia are in dispute ; agreement on land border with the People's Republic of China was signed in December 1999.

Vietnam joined in 1995, Laos and Myanmar in 1997 and Cambodia in 1999.

Most Chinese immigrants to Portugal came from the former Portuguese territory of Macau, when it was returned to Mainland Chinese control in 1999, while others from Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam.

In 1999, he was granted pardon by the King with Prime Minister Hun Sen's agreement and returned to Cambodia where he founded a private airline: Royal Phnom Penh Airways which operated until late 2005.

Nowadays the army concentrates on peace-keeping and peace-enforcing operations and has been involved in several operations ( in Lebanon between 1979 and 1985, and the former Yugoslavia ( Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia, Macedonia and Kosovo ) 1991-present, but also in Cambodia 1992 – 1994, Haiti 1995 – 1996, Cyprus 1998 – 1999, Eritrea and Ethiopia 2001, and most recent in Iraq 2003 – 2005, Afghanistan 2002 – 2010 and Chad 2008 – 2009 ).

The signing of surrender by Japanese diplomats and soldiers aboard an American battle ship at the end of World War II involved a strictly codified procession on and off the ship. 110px Processions play an important role in coronations, such as that of Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom in 1953, the Shah of Iran in 1967, Otumfuo Osei Tutu II of the Ashanti in 1999, and Norodom Sihamoni of Cambodia in 2004.

However, in 1999 several members of the group were captured in Cambodia with weapons, deported to Vietnam and charged.

In JLA # 27 ( March 1999 ) Buddy officially joins the League to battle a rampaging Amazo in the Florida Everglades ; however, since Amazo was able to mimic the powers of any and all members of the League, they were only able to defeat Amazo by disbanding the League.

During the 1999 DC Comics crossover event, Day of Judgment, Faust joins with other magical characters of the DC Universe to form the Sentinels of Magic.

In JLA # 27 ( March 1999 ), Bloodwynd officially joins an emergency expansion of the Justice League in order to battle a rampaging Amazo.

Elysabeth Grant joins the band as violist, but Rosenthal quickly discovers her vocal talents, and she is the singer for a 14 city tour of the album in February 1999, also featuring Lisa Feuer on flute and backing vocals.

In 1999, following the crash of the SDF-1, Claudia joins the military and quickly rises in the ranks of the newly formed United Earth Forces ( UEF ).

1998 – David D. French joins company as president and chief operating officer in June and becomes chief executive officer in February 1999.

Cuba joined the Latin American Integration Association becoming the tenth member ( out of 12 ) on 26 August 1999.

* 1999 – The Recording Industry Association of America files a lawsuit against the Napster file-sharing client alleging copyright infringement.

* IPA ( 1999 ), " Handbook of the International Phonetic Association ", Cambridge: CUP.

In 1999, the Performance Management Association merged with the Project Management Institute ( PMI ) to become PMI ’ s first college, the College of Performance Management.

The Fantasy Sports Trade Association was formed in 1999 to represent the growing industry.

* A. M. Turing Award, Association for Computing Machinery ( 1999 )

* The KLIC Association, home of the KLIC KL1 to C compiler-last update circa 1999.

The Mars Society French chapter was established in 1999 as " Association Planète Mars ", a non-profit organization with its headquarters in Paris.

In July of the same year, in Seoul, South Korea, the Member Churches of the World Methodist Council ( WMC ) voted to approve and sign a " Methodist Statement of Association " with the Joint Declaration on the Doctrine of Justification ( JDDJ ), the agreement which was reached and officially accepted in 1999 by the Catholic Church and the Lutheran World Federation and which proclaimed that " Together we confess: By grace alone, in faith in Christ ’ s saving work and not because of any merit on our part, we are accepted by God and receive the Holy Spirit, who renews our hearts while equipping and calling us to good works ... as sinners our new life is solely due to the forgiving and renewing mercy that God imparts as a gift and we receive in faith, and never can merit in any way ," affirming " fundamental doctrinal agreement " concerning justification between the Catholic Church, the LWF, and the World Methodist Council.

Albert continues to be the lead play-by-play announcer for National Basketball Association games on TNT, a position he assumed in 1999.

In May 1999, the New York Post reported that Lee made an inflammatory comment about Charlton Heston, president of the National Rifle Association.

In 1999, a study by the Kinsey Institute, published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, examined the definition of sex based on a 1991 random sample of 599 college students from 29 U. S. states ; it reported that 60 %

The following year, 1983, he was awarded fellowship into the American Association for the Advancement of Science, where he later served as president ( 1999 – 2001 ).

* She was named the 1999 Entertainer of the Year by both the Academy of Country Music and the Country Music Association ; Twain was the first non-US citizen to win the CMA award.

TNS had previously been commissioned by the Gaming Technologies Association to conduct the World Count of Gaming Machines in 1999, 2002, 2004, 2006 and 2008.

* Chair of the American Association for the Advancement of Science ’ s Section on Atmospheric and Hydrospheric Sciences ( 1999 – 2001 ).

Its stances on the already controversial subjects of human nature and individual welfare versus the common good earned it position 68 on the American Library Association ’ s list of the 100 most frequently challenged books of 1990 – 1999.

* Handbook of the International Phonetic Association, 1999.

In 1999, Zanzibar Judo Association ( Z. J. A.

In 1999, Casta was ranked first in a national survey ordered by the French Mayors Association to decide who should be the new model for the bust of Marianne, an allegorical symbol of the French Republic, which stands inside every French town hall.

Recipient of the 1999 W. W. Howells Book Prize in Biological Anthropology, presented by the Biological Anthropology Section of the American Anthropological Association

The Chicago Film Critics Association and the Broadcast Film Critics Association named the film the best of 1999, but although the New York Film Critics Circle, the National Society of Film Critics and the Los Angeles Film Critics Association recognized American Beauty, they gave their top awards to other films.