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 )

* First release: June 23, 1999 ( K7 ), November 29, 1999 ( K75 )

Barbara was a frequent critic of the Bill Clinton administration and wrote a book about then First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton, Hell to Pay: The Unfolding Story of Hillary Rodham Clinton ( 1999 ).

* Borzoi can also been seen in cameo roles in the films Love at First Bite, Legends of the Fall (" Notchee Boy "), Excalibur, All Dogs Go to Heaven ( 1989 ), Bride of Frankenstein, Easter Parade, Wolfen, Ziegfeld Follies, Onegin ( 1999 ), Gangs of New York ( 2002 ), Chaplin, The Avengers ( TV series ), JAG, Maverick ( 1994 ), Sleepy Hollow, Last Action Hero, and A Knights Tale ( on the DVD deleted scenes ).

He led the Scottish Labour Party into the first ever Scottish parliamentary election in 1999, and was elected both as an MSP and as First Minister of Scotland at the head of a Labour-Liberal Democrat coalition.

When elections were held to the newly created Scottish Parliament in 1999, as leader of the Scottish Labour Party and through a coalition with the Liberal Democrats, Dewar became the inaugural holder of the First Minister of Scotland post.

The two men remained unreconciled, even though they later served in the same Cabinet from May 1997 until 1999, when Dewar left to become First Minister.

First launched by Ken Garland in 1964, it was re-published as the First Things First 2000 manifesto in 1999 in the magazine Emigre 51 stating " We propose a reversal of priorities in favor of more useful, lasting and democratic forms of communication-a mindshift away from product marketing and toward the exploration and production of a new kind of meaning.

European Powers in the First World War: An Encyclopedia ( 1999 )

* First Come, First Served ( 1999 )

These were followed by Gregory Benford's The Martian Race ( 1999 ), Geoffrey A. Landis's Mars Crossing ( 2000 ), and Robert Zubrin's First Landing ( 2002 ), which took as their starting points the smaller and more focussed expedition strategies evolved in the late 1990s, mostly building on the concepts of Mars Direct.

First published by Knopf Canada and Picador in December 1999, shortly after the 1999 WTO Ministerial Conference protests in Seattle had generated media attention around such issues, it became one of the most influential books about the alter-globalization movement and an international bestseller.

Critics of the textbook note the lack of detail about historical events such as the Siege of Leningrad ( 1941 – 44 ), the Gulag forced-labour camps, the Russo – Finnish Winter War ( 1939 – 40 ), the First Chechen War ( 1994 – 96 ), and the Second Chechen War ( 1999 – 2000 ), as serious factual inaccuracies ; most egregious, the critics propose, is the absence of the Holocaust ( 1933 – 45 ), and the glorification of the rule of Josef Stalin ( 1922 – 53 ).

During the First ( 1994 – 1996 ) and Second Chechen Wars ( 1999 – 2009 ), Chechen rebels used RPGs to attack Russian tanks from basements and high rooftops.

For example, Iocaine Powder, which won the First International RoShamBo Programming Competition in 1999, uses a heuristically designed compilation of strategies.

First Broadcast 16 April 1999

* Robert Lacey and Danny Danziger The Year 1000: What Life Was Like at the Turn of the First Millennium ( 1999 ) ISBN 0-316-55840-0

It has also been adapted to films, The Sacrifice ( 1909 ), Love's Surprises Are Futile ( 1916 ), The Gift of the Magi ( 1917 ), Dary magów ( Poland, 1972 ), part of O. Henry's Full House ( 1952 ), The Gift of Love ( 1978 ), The Gift of the Magi ( 1958 ), Christmas Eve on Sesame Street ( 1978 ), Mickey's Once Upon A Christmas gift ( 1999 ), The Gift of the Magi ( 2004 ) and the short film for the Irish band The Script in 2010 called For the First Time.

* Kaplan, Lawrence S. The Long Entanglement: NATO's First Fifty Years ( 1999 ) online edition

* Stardust – 7 February 1999 – First comet coma sample return – returned 15 January 2006