* 1999 – A severe hailstorm strikes Sydney, Australia causing A $ 2. 3 billion in insured damages, the most costly natural disaster in Australian history.

* 1910 – Ivan Goff, Australian screenwriter ( d. 1999 )

Action from a 1999 Australian football match in Australian rules football in Nauru | Nauru at the Linkbelt Oval

In 1999, she volunteered to be monitored closely by the Australian television program 60 Minutes for one week without eating to demonstrate her methods.

For example, Australian left-wing " true believers " levelled it at supporters of the failed republic referendum of 1999 ( where the vote was split not along conventional party lines but very much along socio-economic divides, with the rich overwhelmingly supporting the change while the less well-off were opposed – a superficially bizarre pattern for a non-economic issue ).

Australian Rules Football has had a presence in the city since 1999 and there are now three clubs in the Capital ; the Dublin Demons, the South Dublin Swans and the West Dublin Saints.

In 1999 the Australian Senate Joint Standing Committee on Treaties was told by Professor Desmond Ball that the Pine Gap facility was used as a ground station for a satellite-based interception network.

Films such as Audition ( 1999 ), Wrong Turn ( 2003 ), and the Australian film Wolf Creek ( 2005 ), took their cues from The Last House on the Left ( 1972 ), The Texas Chain Saw Massacre ( 1974 ), and The Hills Have Eyes ( 1977 ).

The company changed throughout the 1990s, increasing its Australian market share from 21 percent in 1991 to 28. 2 percent in 1999.

* Frank John Ford ( born 1949 ), Australian theatre director, playwright and festival administrator, long associated with Adelaide ; Order of Australia 1999 ; Centenary Medal 2001

* 1922 – Sir Eric Willis, Australian politician ( d. 1999 )

* 1917 – Jack Moroney, Australian cricketer ( d. 1999 )

* 1919 – Robert Marsden Hope, Australian jurist ( d. 1999 )

* 1999 – Australian missionary Graham Staines and his two sons are burned alive by radical Hindus while sleeping in their car in Eastern India.

* 1999 – Jim McClelland, Australian solicitor and politician ( b. 1915 )

* 1999 – Sir Edward Williams, Australian judge ( b. 1921 )

Hewitt was only the third defending Grand Slam champion in the open era to lose in the first round, after Boris Becker at the 1997 Australian Open and Patrick Rafter at the 1999 US Open.

* 1999 – Australians vote to keep the Head of the Commonwealth as their head of state in the Australian republic referendum.

* 1964 – Mark Taylor, Australian test cricket captain ( 1994 – 1999 )

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.

* 1999 – Ivan Goff, Australian screenwriter ( b. 1910 )

A portrayal entitled The Taking of the Children on the 1999 Great Australian Clock, Queen Victoria Building, Sydney, by artist Chris Cook.

He first won the electoral district of Williamstown in 1994 for the Australian Labor Party and was party leader and premier from 1999 to 2007.

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

* Enever, Ted Britain's Best Kept Secret: Ultra's Base at Bletchley Park ( Sutton Publishing, Gloucestershire, 1999 ; ISBN 0-7509-2355-5 ) – A guided tour of the history and geography of the Park, written by one of the founder members of the Bletchley Park Trust

* Designed the stage for Mylène Farmer's 1999 " Mylenium " tour.

He released Come By Me, his first album of big band music in eight years in 1999, and embarked on a world tour visiting the United States, Europe, Japan and Australia.

The group formally disbanded in 1991 but, largely due to the persistent efforts of Freda, reunited briefly in late 1999, performing a few shows in 1999 and 2000 and embarking on one last U. S. tour in 2001.

However, The Band continued to tour and record albums until the death of Rick Danko in 1999, when the group broke up for good.

The tour began on August 18, 1999 in Fort Lauderdale, Florida and ended on December 9, 1999 in Denver, including 46 concerts.

; American Doll Posse World Tour: This was Amos's first tour with a full band since her 1999 Five and a Half Weeks Tour, accompanied by long-time band mates Jon Evans and Matt Chamberlain, with guitarist Dan Phelps rounding out Amos's new band.

In 1999, a live US tour video of " Hey Boy, Hey Girl " was shown, even though the song was not in the top 40 at the time, and also released other singles before then at the time.

The single and the tour were followed by their third LP Supergrass ( 1999 ).

The performance at the House of Blues in Las Vegas on the 1999 – 2000 tour was filmed and recorded for the DVD and live album release, House of Yes: Live from House of Blues.

In 1999, Hughes did a short tribute tour to Tommy Bolin in Texas, with Tommy's brother Johnny ( of Black Oak Arkansas ) on drums.

In 1999 Blof embarked on a Doe Maar-covers-only tour as part of the successful Marlboro Flashback-series.

He played the role of Billy Flynn on Broadway in 2000, and also was in the North American tour of the musical, in 1999 and in 2000.

In 1999, Simon embarked on a North American tour with Bob Dylan where each alternated as headline act with a " middle " section where they performed together, starting on the first of June and ending September 18.

Jill Jones, a backing singer, was also part of The Revolution line up for the 1999 album and tour.

The pay-per-view concert, Rave Un2 the Year 2000, was broadcast on December 31, 1999 and consisted of footage from the December 17 and December 18 concerts of his 1999 tour.

Development started in early 1998 and development stages were presented at ECTS 1999, 2000 and 2001, E < sup > 3 </ sup > 2000, 2001 and 2002 and on a tour where Bill Roper visited video game magazines.

In January 1999, just days before a planned tour, Chris Difford suddenly announced that he was taking a ' hiatus ' from Squeeze.

" The first actual full-band Squeeze show since 1999 took place less than a week later at their old haunt, " The Albany " ( Deptford ) on Thursday 12 July which was actually billed as a " warm up " gig prior to the upcoming US tour, this was then followed by GuilFest 2007.

Fantasia 2000 premiered at Carnegie Hall on December 17, 1999 as part of a five-city live concert tour, followed by a four-month engagement in IMAX cinemas and a wide release in regular theatres, in 2000.