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.

* 1999 – The World Trade Organization rules in favor of the United States in its long-running trade dispute with the European Union over bananas.

President Clinton speaks with Colonel ( United States ) | Col. Paul J. Fletcher | Paul Fletcher, United States Air Force | USAF, before boarding Air Force One, November 4, 1999.

With United Nations Security Council Resolution 1244, the bombing campaign ended on June 10, 1999.

Eight more VHS compilations were released between 1996 and 1999 in the United States, before the final volume, Butt-O-Ween, was issued in October 1999.

However, the series continued in Australia and the United Kingdom, with a further ten volumes being issued between 1999 and 2001.

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.

Also, by 1999, 38-40 % of the population of the Cayman Islands was of Jamaican origin and in 2004 / 2005 little over 50 % of the expatriates working in the Cayman Islands ( i. e. 8, 000 ) were Jamaicans ( with the next largest expatriate communities coming from the United States, United Kingdom and Canada ).

The largest numbers of expatriates living in the Cayman Islands ( as of the government's 1999 Census Report ) hail from Jamaica ( 8, 320 ), the United Kingdom ( 2, 392 ), the United States ( 2, 040 ), Canada ( 1, 562 ), and Honduras ( 873 ).

As of 1999, Health Canada announced a policy to defer individuals from donating blood if they have lived within the United Kingdom for one month or more from January 1, 1980, to December 31, 1996.

Other examples included Sleepless in Seattle ( 1993 ), Clueless ( 1995 ) and You've Got Mail ( 1998 ) from the United States, and Four Weddings and a Funeral ( 1994 ), Sliding Doors ( 1998 ) and Notting Hill ( 1999 ) from the United Kingdom.

When it started in 1970, the Universal Press Syndicate gave cartoonists a 50-percent share on the ownership of their works, while the Creators Syndicate ( founded in 1987 ) granted artists full rights to the strips, something that Universal Press did in 1990. followed by King Features in 1995, while before 1999 both the Tribune and United Feature services began granting rights to creators over their works ; however the latter three syndicates only applied this to new strips, or to ones popular enough.

On April 4, 1999, the Rockies made history as they played their Opening Day game against the defending National League champion San Diego Padres at Estadio de Beisbol Monterrey in Monterrey, Mexico – marking the first time Major League Baseball opened the regular season outside the United States or Canada.

Category: United States military transport aircraft 1990 – 1999

Kosovo, administrated by the United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo since 1999, declared independence in 2008.

The industrial sector contributed an estimated 32. 2 percent to the country's GDP in 1999, led by mining ( ferronickel, gold, and silver ) and the manufacture of goods for export to the United States.

In 1999, the United States Congress created the Dwight D. Eisenhower Memorial Commission, to create an enduring national memorial in Washington, D. C ..

* 1999 – The United Kingdom devolves political power in Northern Ireland to the Northern Ireland Executive.

In October 1999, the group was dropped form the United States ' list of terror organizations.

United States Department of State, April, 1999.

Membership in the Commonwealth of Independent States, as well as the 1996 treaty on the Union of Russia and Belarus and the Treaty of the Formation of a Union State in 1999, has confirmed a close partnership with Russia.

Longitude was dramatised for television by Charles Sturridge and Granada Film in 1999, and was shown in the United States by A & E.

In the United States, the series premiered in August 1999 on the Fox Television Network.

* On June 18, 1999, realization of the first digital cinema projection in United States with Texas Instruments DLP Cinema technology.

Total U. S. exports to El Salvador reached $ 2. 1 billion in 1999, while El Salvador exported $ 1. 6 billion to the United States.

The United States was the last country to retain a separate test and competitive structure for compulsory figures, but the last national-level figures championship was held in 1999.

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

The 1999 death of Jesse Gelsinger in a gene-therapy experiment resulted in a significant setback to gene therapy research in the United States.

With the exception of a single gray whale killed in 1999, the Makah people have been prevented from hunting by a series of legal challenges, culminating in a United States federal appeals court decision in December 2002 that required the National Marine Fisheries Service to prepare an Environmental Impact Statement.

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.

Robinson has also been honored by the United States Postal Service on three separate postage stamps, in 1982, 1999, and 2000.

On October 16, 1999, in the winner's circle at Keeneland Race Course in Lexington, the U. S. Postal Service honored Secretariat, unveiling a 33-cent postage stamp with his image.

" In addition to their enduring work, Rodgers and Hammerstein were also honored in 1999 with a United States Postal Service stamp commemorating their partnership.

In 1999, the United States Postal Service issued a Slinky postage stamp.

The United States Postal Service honored " Turey el Taino " and his creator in 1999, by presenting a cancelled postal stamp and renaming the postal station in " Plaza Las Americas " in Puerto Rico, the " Turey Postal Station ".

Mulla Abdul Baqi Mukhles, head of the central postal department, said the rise was linked to the steep fall of the afghani and the decisions of the 1999 International Postal Union congress in Beijing and the Crowning of Cordell Brown.

* Cutting Knife Handbook by United Postal Stationery Society, 1999.

In April 1999, in Texas the United States Postal Inspection Service received an internal complaint through postal inspector Robert Adams.

In early 1999, The United States Postal Inspection Service engaged the Dallas Police Department to further investigate whether the image from Indonesia could be prosecuted.

On August 26, 1999, the United States Postal Service issued the 33-cent All Aboard!

He served as Minister of State for E-Commerce and Competitiveness and Minister of State for Energy, E-Commerce and Postal Services at the Department of Trade and Industry ; Minister of State for School Standards at the Department for Education and Skills ; Minister of State for Pensions at the Department for Work and Pensions ; and served as Financial Secretary to the Treasury, from 1999 to 2001, September 2004 to May 2005 and October 2008 to May 2010.

In 1999, the U. S. Postal Service issued a 55 ¢ Great Americans series postage stamp of Morrill to honor his role in establishing the land grant colleges, the forerunners of many state universities.

In 1999 KPTC was split into the Communication Commission of Kenya ( CCK ), the Postal Corporation of Kenya ( POSTA ) and Telkom Kenya.

In addition to the above mentioned " Special Edition " Saturns ; there was also the 1999 ( and possibly 2000 ) Saturn SWP " Postal " Station Wagon that were produced ( 450 in 1999 ), intended to be marketed to rural route mail carriers.

* August 26, 1999: The United States Postal Service issues 33-cent All Aboard!

* August 26, 1999: The United States Postal Service issues 33-cent All Aboard!

The U. S. Postal Service honored " Turey el Taino " and his creator in 1999, by presenting a cancelled postal stamp and renaming the postal station in " Plaza Las Americas " in Puerto Rico, the " Turey Postal Station ".

It was formed in 1999 from the merger of Banco Bilbao Vizcaya and Argentaria, both of which in turn had previously amalgamated three important banks in Spain, namely Banco de Bilbao, Banco de Vizcaya, Banco Exterior de España and the state-owned Caja Postal de Ahorros, with other minor entities.

Based on their study of attempts to reform the Swiss Postal Service, Matthias Finger and Silvia Bűrgin Brand ( 1999 ) provide us with a useful listing of more important shortcomings of the learning organization concept.

In 1999 Stamps. com became the first organization to be licensed by the United States Postal Service to print valid postage from a traditional PC printer.

* During April 1999, the Indian Postal Service released a Rupee 3 stamp showing a ghurab of Kanhoji Angre's fleet as depicted in a c. 1700 AD painting.