The films below are listed with their production year, so the Oscar 2000 for best art direction went to a film from 1999.

A total of 10, 013 tourists visited in the 1998 – 1999 summer, up from the 9, 604 who visited the previous year.

Since independence, Botswana has had the highest average economic growth rate in the world, averaging about 9 % per year from 1966 to 1999.

Monarch populations in the USA during 1999 increased by 30 %, despite Bt corn accounting for 30 % of all corn grown in the USA that year.

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

The central government deficit decreased to 3. 2 % of GDP in 1999, down from 3. 3 % from the year before.

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.

For the 1999 season, Cleveland added relief pitcher Ricardo Rincón and second baseman Roberto Alomar, brother of catcher Sandy Alomar, Jr, and won the Central Division title for the fifth consecutive year.

According to a 1999 International Monetary Fund report, remittances from Dominican Americans, are estimated to be about $ 1. 5 billion per year.

Of the two, remittances far exceed foreign aid and are estimated to have reached US $ 400 million per year in 1999, the last year for which figures are available.

With fully developed internal economies, Lancaster schools provided a grammar-school education for a cost per student near $ 40 per year in 1999 U. S. dollars.

Scraping into the finals the year previous, Essendon's emergence in 1999 took the league by surprise, finishing atop of the premiership ladder and entering the finals as premiership favourites, having beaten fellow contenders North Melbourne twice during the regular season in convincing fashion.

There is an annual swim from Lobos Island to Fuerteventura, held every year since 1999.

Apparently, Battra had been waiting around for many years for a large meteorite that would hit the Earth in the year 1999, destroying it.

Intermittent fighting between Senegalese-backed government troops and a military junta destroyed much of the country's infrastructure and caused widespread damage to the economy in 1998 ; the civil war led to a 28 % drop in GDP that year, with partial recovery in 1999.

A handful of new servers are set up every year by hobbyists – over 50 have been set up and added to Floodgap's list since 1999.

After finishing second in their division in 1994 ( in a strike year ), 1995, and 1996, the Astros won consecutive division titles in 1997, 1998, and 1999.

They retained their seats in 1999 although the party lost 5 councillors in local elections held that year despite an increase in their vote.

The Jamaican economy suffered its fourth consecutive year of negative growth ( 0. 4 %) in 1999.

The label's strong relationship with Belle & Sebastian enabled them in 1999 to sign Stuart David's side-project Looper, and Isobel Campbell's solo project The Gentle Waves, releasing albums for each that same year, along with a string of EPs and singles for their entire roster.

In Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace ( 1999 ), Jedi Master Qui-Gon Jinn ( Liam Neeson ) discovers nine year old Anakin Skywalker ( Jake Lloyd ), whom he believes to be the " Chosen One " of Jedi prophecy who is destined to bring balance to the Force ; the boy is eventually paired with Qui-Gon's apprentice, the young Obi-Wan Kenobi ( Ewan McGregor ), who promises to train him.

Kenyan population was reported as 38. 6 million in 2009, compared to in 28. 7 million in 1999, 21. 4 million in 1989 and 15. 3 million 1979, an increase by a factor of 2. 5 over 30 years, or an average growth of more than 3 % per year.

Kenyanthropus platyops is a 3. 5 to 3. 2 million year old ( Pliocene ) hominin fossil that was discovered in Lake Turkana, Kenya in 1999 by Justus Erus, who was part of Meave Leakey's team .< ref >

* 1999 – The Chechnya-based Islamic International Brigade invades the neighboring Russian Dagestan.

* 1912 – Aleksandr Danilovich Aleksandrov, Russian mathematician and mountaineer ( d. 1999 )

The Government of the Russian Federation and the Government of the Republic of Botswana signed the Agreement on Cultural, Scientific and Educational Cooperation in September 1999.

* Lincoln, Bruce W. ( 1999 ) Red Victory: A History of the Russian Civil War.

* Cornwell, Neil ( 1999 (, The Gothic-Fantastic in Nineteenth-Century Russian Literature, Amsterdam ; Atlanta, GA: Rodopi, Studies in Slavic Literature and Poetics, volume 33.

Karel van het Reve ( 19 May 1921, Amsterdam – 4 March 1999, Amsterdam ) was a Dutch writer, translator and literary historian, teaching and writing on Russian literature.

Latvia's state budget was balanced in 1997 but the 1998 Russian financial crisis resulted in large deficits, which were reduced from 4 % of GDP in 1999 to 1. 8 % in 2003.

* Antonov-Ovseenko, Anton, Beria, Moscow, 1999 ( in Russian )

Stenographic Report of July's Plenary Meeting of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and Other Documents, International Democracy Foundation, Moscow, 1999 ( in Russian ).

In August and September 1999, the economy suffered from a temporary Russian ban on exports of oil and oil products.

* 1922 – Yuri Knorozov, Russian epigrapher ( d. 1999 )

During the First ( 1994 – 1996 ) and Second Chechen Wars ( 1999 – 2009 ), Chechen rebels used RPGs to attack Russian tanks from basements and high rooftops.

During a storm on December 29, 1999, the Russian oil tanker Volgoneft broke in two in the Sea of Marmara, and more than 1500 tonnes of oil were spilled into the water.

In late 1999, Jarrah, Mohamed Atta, Marwan al-Shehhi, Said Bahaji, and Ramzi bin al-Shibh decided to travel to Chechnya to fight Russian soldiers.

** The Second Chechen War ( 1999 – ongoing ) – the war was launched by the Russian Federation starting 26 August 1999, in response to the Invasion of Dagestan and the Russian apartment bombings which were blamed on the Chechens.

* The Second Chechen War ( 1999 – 2000 ) – the war was launched by the Russian Federation on August 26, 1999 in response to the Invasion of Dagestan and the Russian apartment bombings, which were blamed on the Chechens.

* November 19 – Yuri Knorozov, Russian linguist and epigrapher ( d. 1999 )

A Russian back-breeding program resulted in a wild herd of hybrid animals, which presently lives in the Caucasian Biosphere Reserve ( 550 individuals in 1999 ).