* 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.

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.

In 1999, his Australian tour was cut short when he had to be hospitalized in Darwin with viral meningitis.

* 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.

The Senate finished a twenty-one-day trial on February 12, 1999, with the vote ( 55 Not Guilty / 45 Guilty ) on both counts falling short of the Constitutional two-thirds majority requirement to convict and remove an officeholder.

On 22 November 2007, the Nigerian Senate rejected the transfer, since the Green Tree Agreement ceding the area to Cameroon was contrary to Section 12 ( 1 ) of the 1999 Constitution.

* 1999 – President Bill Clinton is acquitted by the United States Senate in his impeachment trial.

In January 1999, Préval dismissed legislators whose terms had expired – the entire Chamber of Deputies and all but nine members of the Senate, and Préval then ruled by decree.

President Clinton was acquitted by the Senate on February 12, 1999.

* 1999 – The Senate trial in the impeachment of U. S. President Bill Clinton begins.

In 1998, Ashcroft briefly considered running for U. S. President ; but on January 5, 1999, he announced that he would not seek the presidency and would instead defend his Senate seat in the 2000 election.

Two Chief Justices, Salmon P. Chase and William Rehnquist, have presided over the trial in the Senate that follows an impeachment of the President – Chase in 1868 over the proceedings against President Andrew Johnson and Rehnquist in 1999 over the proceedings against President Bill Clinton.

After the U. S. House of Representatives impeached Clinton on 19 December 1998 for perjury under oath, following an investigation by federal prosecutor Kenneth Starr, the Senate acquitted Clinton of the charges on 12 February 1999 and he finished his second term.

* April 18 – The U. S. Senate votes 68 – 32 to turn the Panama Canal over to Panamanian control on December 31, 1999.

In Germany, the last Senate of a State parliament, the Senate of Bavaria, was abolished in 1999.

However, in Bavaria, the Senate was a second legislative chamber until its abolition in 1999.

He stepped down as Chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee at the beginning of 1999, as he had pledged to do in late 1997.

As a member of the Democratic Party he was elected to represent Ohio in the U. S. Senate from 1974 to 1999.

After defeating Metzenbaum, Glenn defeated Ralph Perk, the Republican mayor of Cleveland, in the general election, beginning a Senate career that would continue until 1999.

Its presidential candidate in the 2006 general elections, Heloísa Helena is termed a Trotskyist who was a member of the Workers Party of Brazil ( PT ), a legislative deputy in Alagoas and in 1999 was elected to the Federal Senate.

at: 03 / 17 / 1999 shift :($ dx ,- 5 ) text :" March 16-17, 1999, The US Senate and House voted to commit the United States to deploy a national anti-missile defense system.

In the revision of 1999 a proposal to introduce an advisory referendum was rejected by the Senate.

He was in the United States Senate from 1989 to 1999, retired, and then returned in 2011.

Coats served in the Senate until January 1999, when Evan Bayh became the new Senator.

He was elected to the United States Senate from Kentucky in 1998 and served there from 1999 as the Republican junior U. S. Senator.

On December 1999, he resigned to his Senate seat due to the uncertainty and prolongation of his stay at the encampment.