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 AMD Athlon processor launched on June 23, 1999, with general availability by August ' 99.

The service was launched in 1999 as BBC Text.

BBC Text originally launched on digital terrestrial services in 1999, and was later introduced on satellite and cable platforms.

A digital text service had been available since the launch of digital terrestrial television in November 1998, but the BBC Text service was not publicly launched until November 1999, due to a lack of availability of compatible set-top boxes.

The Deep Space series was continued by the Deep Space 2 probes, which were launched in January 1999 on Mars Polar Lander and were intended to strike the surface of Mars.

EverQuest launched with modest expectations from Sony on 16 March 1999 under its Verant Interactive brand and quickly became successful.

Fantasy Football Weekly was launched in 1992 ( later becoming Fanball. com ) and had $ 2 million in revenue by 1999.

Other entries during this era included Fanball. com, launched in 1999 by the parent company of Fantasy Football Weekly.

Takashi Miike launched a prolific career with titles such as Audition ( 1999 ), Dead or Alive ( 1999 ) and The Bird People in China ( 1998 ).

Former documentary filmmaker Hirokazu Koreeda launched an acclaimed feature career with Maborosi ( 1996 ) and After Life ( 1999 ).

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.

* 1999 – The Mars Polar Lander is launched.

In 1999, Malaysia launched a worldwide marketing campaign called “ Malaysia, Truly Asia ” which was largely successful in bringing in over 7. 4 million tourists.

In August 1999, a separatist Lozi faction in the Caprivi Strip launched a coup attempt ( see Caprivi conflict ) which was summarily put down by the Namibian Defence Force.

Neopets ( originally NeoPets ) is a virtual pet website that was launched by Adam Powell and Donna Williams on November 15, 1999.

They launched it on 15 November 1999 from offices in Portsmouth Road, Guildford, a location still commemorated on the site.

In February 1999 the company launched a bond issue which caused a significant fall in Railtrack's share price.

The Harvard University Herbaria and the Australian National Herbarium co-operate with Kew in the IPNI database, a project which was launched in 1999 to produce an authoritative source of information on botanical nomenclature including publication details.

SETI @ home was conceived by David Gedye along with Craig Kasnoff and is a popular volunteer distributed computing project that was launched by the University of California, Berkeley in May 1999.

STS-93, launched on July 23, 1999, was commanded by Lt. Col. Eileen Collins, the first female Commander of a U. S. spacecraft.

Sputnik 41 was launched a year later, and Sputnik 99 was deployed in February 1999.

UEFA launched the UEFA Regions ' Cup, for semi-professional teams representing their local region, in 1999.

Windows 2000 was released to manufacturing on December 15, 1999 and launched to retail on February 17, 2000.

* 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.

* 1999 – The first of a series of bombings in Moscow kills one person and wounds 40 others.

The Falcons 78, 000 square foot headquarters and training facilities or located on a 50-acre site in Flowery Branch, Ga., the complex which was one of the first of its kind was completed in 1999.

AIX Version 4, introduced in 1994, added symmetric multiprocessing with the introduction of the first RS / 6000 SMP servers and continued to evolve through the 1990s, culminating with AIX 4. 3. 3 in 1999.

In their first five seasons of existence, the Diamondbacks won three division titles ( 1999, 2001, 2002 ) a National League pennant ( 2001 ) and a World Series championship ( 2001 ).

* In the episode " 11: 59 " of Star Trek: Voyager's fifth season ( original air date: May 5, 1999 ), Earth's first self-contained ecosystem known as " The Millennium Gate " is referenced and described as one kilometer tall and having begun construction in 2001.

* 1999 – The German Bundestag returns to Berlin, the first German parliamentary body to meet there since the Reichstag was dissolved in 1945.

Linux support for AGP enhanced fast data transfers was first added in 1999 with the implementation of the AGPgart kernel module.

One of the first international anti-globalization protests was organized in dozens of cities around the world on June 18, 1999, with those in London and Eugene, Oregon most often noted.

Active Directory was previewed in 1999, released first with Windows NT server.

Some people even believe that this was the biblical event of Noah's flood, but despite their historical significance, the first spectacular images of these submarine channels were obtained in 1999 ( Di Iorio, et al., 1999 ) in the frame of a NATO SACLANT Undersea Research project using jointly the NATO RV Alliance, and the Turkish Navy survey ship Çubuklu.

The one-off test in 1999 between England and Australia that was played to commemorate Australia's first test against Reverend Matthew Mullineux's British side saw England wear an updated version of this jersey.

Lara captained the West Indies from 1998 to 1999, when West Indies suffered their first whitewash at the hands of South Africa.

In 1999, the University of Pittsburgh's Center for Biomedical Informatics deployed the first automated bioterrorism detection system, called RODS ( Real-Time Outbreak Disease Surveillance ).

Over two-thirds of the members, and all the serving MPs, of the Liberal Party joined this party, led first jointly by Steel and the SDP leader Robert Maclennan, and later by Paddy Ashdown ( 1988 – 99 ), Charles Kennedy ( 1999 – 2006 ), Sir Menzies Campbell ( 2006 – 07 ) and Nick Clegg ( incumbent ).

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 the series came first place in a BBC poll selecting the nation's favourite children's show.

The World Crokinole Championship ( WCC ) tournament has been held annually since 1999 on the first Saturday of June in Tavistock, Ontario.

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

In an early 1999 interview, Love said about the Venus: " I wanted a guitar that sounded really warm and pop, but which required just one box to go dirty (...) And something that could also be your first band guitar.

In 1999, the country fell into its first recession since the Great Depression.

This goal was rapidly met with great success, as the nation joined NATO in 1999 and the European Union in 2004, and held the Presidency of the European Union during the first half of 2009.

In 1999, Anjouan had internal conflicts and on August 1 of that year, the 80-year-old first president Foundi Abdallah Ibrahim resigned, transferring power to a national coordinator, Said Abeid.

Conventional warhead versions were first fired in combat by the RN in 1999, during the Kosovo War.