" In the 1999 South Carolina Supreme Court case State v. Gaines, the Court held that Alford guilty pleas were to be held valid in the absence of a specific on-the-record ruling that the pleas were voluntary – provided that the sentencing judge acted appropriately in accordance with the rules for acceptance of a plea made voluntarily by the defendant.

In February 1999, Saron was made a Grade II Listed Building.

The Athlon made its debut on June 23, 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.

Altair was later observed to be flattened by infrared interferometric measurements made by the Palomar Testbed Interferometer in 1999 and 2000.

However, in September 1999 the European Commission ruled against a complaint made by Sky News that the publicly funded channel was unfair and illegal under EU law.

Since 1999 the results of the WMAP mission in 2006 made the empirical case for cosmic inflation very compelling.

But in 1999, the first full year of peace in 30 years, progress was made on economic reforms and growth resumed at 4 %.

The movie Office Space ( 1999 ), which lost money during its box office run, managed to turn significant profits when word-of-mouth made it a popular video rental and purchase.

However, fewer than 165, 000 passenger journeys were made in 1999, as compared with more than 5 million in 1972, and the figure was only 160, 130 in 2005.

On April 4, 1999, the Rockies made history as they played their Opening Day game against the defending National League champion San Diego Padres at Estadio de Beisbol Monterrey in Monterrey, Mexico – marking the first time Major League Baseball opened the regular season outside the United States or Canada.

This discovery was made public in a BBC TV programme in 1999, reviving debate about Soviet links to CND.

The current trophy was created for the 1999 championships, and was the first permanent prize in the tournament's history ; prior to this, different trophies were made for each World Cup.

In 1999, Pope John Paul II made her one of Europe's patron saints.

Two FRUD members were made cabinet members, and in the presidential elections of 1999 the FRUD campaigned in support of the RPP.

Two FRUD members were made cabinet members, and in the presidential elections of 1999 the FRUD campaigned in support of the RPP.

In 1999, Bowie was made a Commander of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French government.

However the start of the Eritrean-Ethiopian War led to Sudan and Ethiopia put this conflict between them and normalizing their relations by November 1999 when president Omar Hassan al-Bashir made a formal visit to Addis Ababa.

In 1999, a small sample of the blade underwent metallurgical analysis which confirmed that the blade was made in Moorish Córdoba in the eleventh century and contained amounts of Damascus steel.

In 1999, there were 910, 304 households, of which 18. 9 % had children under the age of 18 ; 47. 9 % of all households were made up of individuals.

By the time he made his career defining performance at Woodstock 1999 on July 24, 1999, he was double platinum.

Since 1999, the education laws have forbidden the public universities to instruct students in languages other than Latvian ( there are exclusions made for linguistics, some international projects and non-budget groups ).

Three of these films, Constance ( 1998 ), Pink Prison ( 1999 ) and the adult / mainstream crossover-feature All About Anna ( 2005 ), were made primarily for a female audience, and were extremely successful in Europe, with the first two being directly responsible for the March 2006 legalizing of pornography in Norway.

Lewinsky made a cameo appearance as herself in two sketches during the May 8, 1999, episode of NBC's Saturday Night Live, a program that had lampooned her relationship with Clinton over the prior 16 months.

* 1999 – In Alberta, Canada, 14-year-old Todd Cameron Smith fires upon three students, killing one and wounding another in the W. R. Myers High School shooting.

In 2007, the Times printed another Editor ’ s Note after Hesser published a review of Vegetable Garden by Patricia Wells without disclosing that in 1999, Wells had contributed a jacket blurb for Hesser ’ s book The Cook and the Garden.

Despite several army mutinies and increasing civic concern both at his erratic style and arbitrary, corrupt method of governing he was re-elected for another 6-year term in September 1999.

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.

They have three children: Constanze ( 1971 ), Veronica ( 1977 ), Dominic ( 1980 ) and five grandchildren: Johannes ( 1999 ), Benedikt ( 2001 ), Theresa Marie ( 2005 ), Ferdinand ( 2009 ) and another grandson ( 2011 ).

He designed another gaming system called Lejendary Adventure, released in 1999.

President Abdurrahman Wahid took office in October 1999, and Indonesia and the IMF signed another EFF in January 2000.

In April 1999, Quayle announced his candidacy for the 2000 Republican presidential nomination, attacking front-runner George W. Bush by saying " we do not want another candidate who needs on-the-job training ".

In 1999 Freeman published another book, The Fateful Hoaxing of Margaret Mead: A Historical Analysis of Her Samoan Research, including previously unavailable material.

In 1999 Doohan had another accident, this time in a very wet qualifying session for the Spanish Grand Prix.

Following another coup in April 1999, in which Maïnassara was killed, the MNSD-Nassara's Tandja won the October 1999 presidential election.

According to the 1999 census, there are 610, 000 native speakers ( almost all of whom are also native French speakers ) and perhaps another million persons with some exposure to the language.

This was followed in 1999 by another graphic album titled A Cosmic Cornucopia, which includes extensive text by David Langford and two chapters dedicated to his work for Terry Pratchett's Discworld series.

Soderbergh followed up on the success of Out of Sight by making another crime caper, The Limey ( 1999 ), from an original screenplay by Lem Dobbs and starring veteran actors Terence Stamp and Peter Fonda.

In March 1999, when it became apparent that Labor was headed for another defeat under Brumby's leadership, Brumby resigned and Bracks was elected Opposition Leader.

The Rangers would finish the season with yet another sub -. 500 record ( 79 – 83 ), yet ended the season second in the West, the club's best finish since 1999.

* Plot of The Thirteenth Floor ( 1999 ) is based on two virtual reality simulations, one in another.

In a 1999 Hockey Hall of Fame Inductee press conference, Gretzky stated " Thank God I'm Polish " when another inductee made a joke about his Scottish kilt.

After the success of Cruyff, another Dutchman-Ajax manager Louis van Gaal-arrived at the Camp Nou, and with the talents of Luís Figo, Luis Enrique, and Rivaldo, Barcelona again won the title in 1998 and 1999.

The Survey of English Dialects took a recording from a long-time resident of Hackney, and the BBC made another recording in 1999 which showed how the accent had changed.

In sum, Morgan and Sorensen's ( 1999 ) study implies that social capital is contextualised, one kind of social capital may be positive in this setting but is not necessarily still positive in another setting.

In a conversation with Miranda, one character tells her that the nation-states of the world collapsed when electronic communications started using an untraceable relay system that made it impossible to enforce taxes on online transactions ( which was later used as a plot element in another of Stephenson's works, the 1999 novel Cryptonomicon ).

Susan Levy later joined with Donna Raley, the mother of another young woman who disappeared in 1999 from Modesto, to form " Wings of Protection ", a support group for people with missing loved ones.

In 1999, Janmaat was in the process of starting another party, the Conservative Democrats, however it did not get off the ground and did not participate in the 2002 election.