* In 1999, after rowing for 81 days and 4, 767 kilometres ( 2, 962 mi ), Tori Murden became the first woman to cross the Atlantic Ocean by rowboat alone when she reached Guadeloupe from the Canary Islands.

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.

Born to the Quraish tribe of Saudi Arabia, Nami served as a muezzin at the Seqeley mosque after having reportedly become very religious sometime in early 1999.

In 1999 after a creation of the Ministry of Defence ( MoD ), the Aeronautic Ministry changed its designation to Aeronautic Command, but no big changes happened to the air force structure, it kept almost the same organization it had before.

Lord Aberdare was one of the ninety-two elected hereditary peers that were allowed to remain in the House of Lords after the passing of the House of Lords Act 1999. the title is held by his son, the fifth Baron, who succeeded in 2005 and was elected to the House of Lords in 2009.

When Red Hat's stock rose significantly after its initial public offering in 1999, they sold enough stock to recoup their initial investment, and retained some stocks.

The current Lord Luke is one of the 92 hereditary peers elected to remain in the House of Lords of the United Kingdom after its 1999 reform.

The Department of Defense investigated the award of the Bronze Star Medal ( BSM ) by the USAF to some 185 individuals after operations in Kosovo in 1999.

Unemployment hovered at 8 %- 10 % after the start of the economic slowdown in 1999, above the 7 % average for the 1990s.

After the dissolution of Czechoslovakia, the Czech Republic is completing a major reorganisation and reduction of the armed forces, which intensified after the Czech Republic joined NATO on 12 March 1999.

That paved the way for the formation of a reconstituted team that resumed play in 1999 after three years of suspended operations.

The Cubs retained many players who experienced career years in ' 98, and after a fast start in 1999, they collapsed again ( starting with being swept at the hands of the cross-town White Sox in mid-June ) and finished in the bottom of the division for the next two seasons.

Κόρινθος ), established in 1999 after the merger of Pankorinthian Football Club ( Παγκορινθιακός ) and Corinth Football Club ( Κόρινθος ).

In 1999, 88 years after his final major league appearance and 44 years after his death, editors at The Sporting News ranked Cy Young 14th on their list of " Baseball's 100 Greatest Players ".

In 1999 Lucian Freud painted and etched several copies after The Young Schoolmistress ( National Gallery, London ).

Examples include Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels ( 1998 ) ( wherein the slang is translated via subtitles in one scene ); The Limey ( 1999 ); Sexy Beast ( 2000 ); Snatch ( 2000 ); Ocean's Eleven ( 2001 ); and Austin Powers in Goldmember ( 2002 ); It's All Gone Pete Tong ( 2004 ), after BBC radio disc jockey Pete Tong whose name is used in this context as rhyming slang for " wrong "; Green Street Hooligans ( 2005 ).

In 1999, Pissarro's " Boulevard Montmartre, Spring, 1887 " turned up in the Israel Museum in Jerusalem after being donated, its donor having been unaware of its pre-war provenance.

It was ratified by the ELCA in 1999, the ECUSA in 2000, after the narrow failure of a previous agreement.

On April 17, 1999, just nine days after Compaq reported first-quarter profit being at half of what analysts had expected, the latest in a string of earnings disappointments, Pfeiffer was forced to resign as CEO in a coup led by board chairman Ben Rosen.

A parallel report into the criminal justice system by Lord Justice Auld, a past Senior Presiding Judge for England and Wales, had also commenced in 1999 and was published as the Auld Report six months after the Law Commission report.

Aptidon resigned as president 1999, at the age of 83, after being elected to a fifth term in 1997.

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.

In 1999, Duke Nukem 3D was banned in Brazil, along with Quake, Doom and several other violent first-person shooters after a violent rampage in and around a movie theater was allegedly inspired by the first level in the game.

* 1999 – Korean Air Cargo Flight 8509, a Boeing 747-200F crashes shortly after take-off from London Stansted Airport due to pilot error.

SVG has been in development since 1999 by a group of companies within the W3C after the competing standards Precision Graphics Markup Language ( PGML ) – developed from Adobe's PostScript – and Vector Markup Language ( VML ) – developed from Microsoft's RTF – were submitted to W3C in 1998.

In late 1999, competing for Spain, he won a World Cup race for the first time.

Hyundai entered motorsport by competing in the F2 class of the World Rally Championship in 1998 and 1999.

* 1996: DAF started competing in the European Truck Race series, first not very successful, but by 1999 almost became champions.

The Star Alliance was founded in 1997 which forced competing airlines to form Oneworld in 1999 and SkyTeam in 2000.

The ICB noted Glass-Steagall had been “ undermined in part by the development of derivatives .” The ICB also argued that the development before 1999 of “ the world ’ s leading investment banks out of the US despite Glass-Steagall in place at the time ” should caution against assuming the “ activity restrictions ” it recommended in its “ ringfencing ” proposal would hinder UK investment banks from competing internationally.

The first ReplayTV model was introduced in January 1999 during the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, at the same time as a competing DVR model from rival company TiVo.

Despite this, Vauxhall was competing strongly in the sales charts, and by 1999, was closer to Ford in terms of sales figures than it had been in years.

Throughout 1999 – 2000, Sunderland were competing for a place in European competition but in the end missed out after finishing in seventh place, one of the highest finishes ever achieved by a Premier League team in the season after promotion.

The city is home to Inter Playa del Carmen, a football ( soccer ) club founded in 1999, currently competing in the south group of the Segunda División Profesional, third tier of Mexican football league system.

In 1999, after competing for 45 years in junior football ( Canadian Junior Football League ), the Regina Rams became a member of the Canada West Conference of the Canadian Intercollegiate Athletic Union ( CIAU ), now Canadian Interuniversity Sport ( CIS ).

The Haas brothers began competing for Combat Zone Wrestling ( CZW ) in November 1999, losing to The King Pinz at The War Begins on November 20, 1999.

In September 1999, Editorial Director Jon Phillips authored a product parody of an imaginary videocard called the Bitchinfast3D < sup > 2000 </ sup >, an absurdly long graphics card running five competing 3D chipsets.

However, in 1999, the provincial ridings of Nickel Belt and Sudbury East were merged for the 1999 provincial election, and Morin declined to run for the NDP nomination rather than competing against Sudbury East's popular incumbent Shelley Martel.

Milutinović never called Meola back to the U. S. team and it was not until January 1999 that Meola again played for the U. S. By that time, Kasey Keller and Brad Friedel were competing for the starting goalkeeper spot on the team and Meola never regained the first team place he had enjoyed in the early 1990s.

The Quakers compete in the Mid-Atlantic Athletic Conference for boys ' sports ( after previously competing in the Interstate Athletic Conference ( IAC ) until 1999 ) and the Independent School League ( ISL ) for girls ' sports.

Samizdats detractors also point to the fact that AdTI has been funded directly since 1999 by Microsoft, a company which publishes the competing proprietary operating system Microsoft Windows, and considers Linux one of its most important competitors ( see Halloween documents # Documents I and II ).

He and his brother Peter Foster continued competing and winning this event for another ten years, until 1999, making David a world champion 21 years straight.

She started competing again in May 1999 and reached top 20 again in 2001.

The theme of the game, borrowed from The Running Man, involves players competing in a violent game show, set in the then future year of 1999.

Winston made his debut in the Costa Rican Primera División in 1999 with only in 17 year-old, playing with his hometown team AD Limonense and scored his first goal back on 28 November of the same year, he played this season mostly as a substitute, because he was competing at that moment against some players that succeeded during the next few years, like Kurt Bernard, Andy Herron, Rayner Robinson and Ricardo Douglas for a place in the starting line-up.

The SPEC operated until May 1999, when internal disagreements over ideology and strategy, exacerbated by personal animosities among some members of the committee, led to the fracture of the SPEC into two competing factions.