* On December 10, 1999, Laffit Pincay, Jr. surpassed Bill Shoemaker's all-time record for race wins by a jockey.

Arbor Day reached its height of popularity on its 125th anniversary in 1997, when David J. Wright, noticed that a Nebraska nonprofit organization called the National Arbor Day Foundation had taken the name of the holiday and commercialized it for their own use as a trademark for their publication " Arbor Day ," so he countered their efforts, launched a website, and trademarked it for " public use celebrations " and defended the matter in a federal district court in the United States to ensure it was judged as property of the public domain, the case was settled in October 1999.

The presidency passed to the sitting vice president, Festus Mogae, who was elected in his own right in 1999

Among the pieces he played was his own first composition, written two years previously: a short piece called " The Course of the Danube " ( de Toth 1999 ).

In 1999, Cygnus offered Cygwin 1. 0 as a commercial product of interest in its own right although subsequent versions have not been released, instead relying on continued open source releases.

Next, Lynch created his own television series with Mark Frost, the highly popular murder mystery Twin Peaks ( 1990 – 1991 ); he also created a cinematic prequel, Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me ( 1992 ), a road movie, Wild at Heart ( 1990 ), and a family film, The Straight Story ( 1999 ) in the same period.

However, not all EU member states have conformed to the 1999 Bologna declaration in favour of their own historic customs.

In 1999, Marrow starred in the HBO movie Stealth Fighter as a United States Naval Aviator who fakes his own death, steals a F-117 stealth fighter, and threatens to destroy United States military bases.

Following the Liberation the PCF were infuriated by Sartre's philosophy, which appeared to lure young French men and women away from the ideology of communism and into Sartre ’ s own existentialism ( Scriven 1999: 13 ).

However, the 1997 Asian Financial Crisis, coupled with the Lao government's own mismanagement of the economy, resulted in spiraling inflation and a steep depreciation of the kip, which lost 87 % of its value from June 1997 to June 1999.

The Mets broke their own record five times before the Yankees took it back in 1999.

It appears through a LiVid posting dated 6 October 1999 that Derek Fawcus on this date read through the DeCSS source code and compared it with his own.

In 1999 Cartoon Network Studios acquired its own facility located at 300 N 3rd St in Burbank, California.

In 1997, Nature created its own website, www. nature. com, and in 1999 Nature Publishing Group began its series of Nature Reviews.

Before the start of the new 1999 – 2000 season, Ajax were beaten in their own stadium when Feyenoord won their second Dutch Super Cup title, after a free kick by Patrick Paauwe, which secured a 3 – 2 win.

Nonetheless Portugal's Armed Forces have conducted peace-enforcing and humanitarian missions on their own in Guinea-Bissau ( 1990, 1998, and 1999 ) and Angola ( 1992 ).

In 1999, two performance artists, Yuan Chai and Jian Jun Xi, jumped on Tracey Emin's installation My Bed, a work consisting of the artist's own unmade bed, at the Tate Gallery's Turner Prize, in an unauthorised art intervention.

Blood and Smoke ( 1999 ) is an audio book where Stephen King reads three of his own short stories.

When Brazil, as its largest neighbor and trading partner, devalued its own currency in 1999, the Argentinian peg to the US dollar prevented it from matching ever part of that devaluation, leaving its tradeable goods to be less competitive with Brazilian exports.

* The cartoon " Mickey's Airplane Kit " ( 1999 ) from the series Mickey Mouse Works and House of Mouse featured a similar premise in which Mickey built his own airplane to impress Minnie.

Hill also formed his own band, The Conrods, which was active between 1999 and 2003 and played cover versions of well known songs from The Rolling Stones, The Beatles and The Kinks.

The issue introduces Hell's Hierarchy ( as their entry is titled in Who's Who in the DC Universe ), headed by Lucifer ( who would spin off into his own series in 1999 ), Beelzebub ( later adversary to Kid Eternity ), and Azazel, whom Dream defeated later in the run.

" Writing for The Guardian in December 1999, journalist Will Hodgkinson offered his own version of the eventual demise of Wilson's most ambitious project:

The school won an appealed to the high court 1999 after it was threatened with closure after which the joint statement confirmed that: " The minister recognised the school had a right to its own philosophy and that any inspection should take into account its aims as an international ' free ' school ... both sides went on record as agreeing that the pupils ' voice should be fully represented in any evaluation of the quality of education at Summerhill and that inspections must consider the full breadth of learning at the school – learning was not confined to lessons ".

The ninety-two who remain have been elected from among their own number, following the House of Lords Act 1999 and, paradoxically, are the only elected members of the Lords.

The first completely " in-ear " binaural microphones using the recordist's own head were offered by Sound Professionals in 1999.

Aztlan Underground were signed to a Basque record label in 1999 which enabled them to tour Spain extensively and perform in France and Portugal.

* The current world record was set in 1999 at 100 picokelvins ( pK ), or 0. 000 000 000 1 of a kelvin, by cooling the nuclear spins in a piece of rhodium metal.

* Adrian Borland ( 1957 – 1999 ), English singer, songwriter, guitarist and record producer

Croatia has had an uneven record in these areas between 1996 and 1999 during the right-wing HDZ government, inhibiting its relations with the European Union and the U. S. Improvement in these areas severely hindered the advance of Croatia's prospects for further Euro-Atlantic integration.

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 Marlins finished the 1999 season with the worst record in baseball at 64 – 98, and traded World Series MVP Liván Hernández to the San Francisco Giants.

After posting the worst record in baseball for the 1999 season, the Marlins had the first overall pick in the 2000 first-year player draft and selected first baseman Adrian Gonzalez, a 16-year-old native of Bonita, California.

The rivalry would in the following years be virtually negated by very poor play of he Colts ; the Colts would win just 117 games in the twenty-one seasons ( 1978 – 98 ) that bracketed their 1977 playoff loss to the Oakland Raiders and the 1999 trade of star running back Marshall Faulk ; this included a 0 – 8 – 1 record during the NFL's strike shortened 1982 season.

Manning's Colts defeated the Chargers in 1998 and 1999, but in 2004 with Leaf long gone from the game the revamped Chargers behind Drew Brees erupted into playoff contention ; on December 26 with both teams at 11-3 the Colts hosted the Chargers with Manning close to matching Dan Marino's touchdown record ; the Chargers stormed to a 31-16 lead, but Dominic Rhodes ' kickoff return put the Colts within eight points, then with one minute remaining Manning rifled a 21-yard touchdown to Brandon Stokley, breaking Marino's record ; the two-point try succeeded, then after Brees was intercepted the game went to overtime and the Colts won 34-31 on a field goal.

In 1999, the Jaguars compiled a league best 14 – 2 regular season record, the best record in franchise history.

With a 12 – 4 record, the Jaguars earned a wild card and their first playoff appearance since 1999.

The Wizards would finish the 1999 season with a disastrous record of 8 – 24, which put them in last place in the Western Conference once again.

Indeed, the Royals set a franchise low with a. 398 winning percentage ( 64 – 97 record ) in 1999, and lost 97 games again in 2001.

After a winning season in 1992, the Twins fell into a years-long stretch of mediocrity, posting a losing record each year for the next eight years: 71 – 91 in 1993, 50 – 63 in 1994, 56 – 88 in 1995, 78 – 84 in 1996, 68 – 94 in 1997, 70 – 92 in 1998, 63 – 97 in 1999 and 69 – 93 in 2000.

It is also one of the snowiest places in the world ; in 1999, Mount Baker Ski Area, located to the northeast, set the world record for recorded snowfall in a single season —.

Between 2001 – 2010, the Patriots set a record for most wins in a decade ( 126, different from conventionally bounded decades, 2000 – 2009, 1990 – 1999, etc.

However, Ditka, most of his coaching staff, and general manager Bill Kuharich were fired at the end of the 1999 season due to the club's 3 – 13 record.

No team had ever had such a poor record in the prior year ( 3 – 13 ) and then gone on to a league or conference championship game since the 1999 St. Louis Rams who advanced to win their first Super Bowl after being 4 – 12 the season before.

Hess died in 1999 while the team, plagued by injuries, produced an eight win record, falling short of a playoff berth.

In 1999, the world auction record for a Melo pearl was US $ 488, 311 for a single pearl.

During the 1999 regular season, Clemens posted a 14 – 10 record with a 4. 60 ERA.

Clemens followed up 1999 with a strong 2000 season, in which he finished with a 13 – 8 record with a 3. 70 ERA for the regular season.