The town has been subject to several orders of natural disaster: floods and mudslides in 1994 and 2008, and landslides in 1996 and 1999.

* 1999 Taungdwingyi – Magway 83 · 8 New branch to serve town on Ayeyarwady River

In 1999, Casta was ranked first in a national survey ordered by the French Mayors Association to decide who should be the new model for the bust of Marianne, an allegorical symbol of the French Republic, which stands inside every French town hall.

* In 1999, the town of Merredin, Western Australia officially made it into the Guinness Book of Records, when Marleys Transport made a successful attempt on the record for the world's longest road train.

Horror writer and film journalist Kim Newman was educated at Dr Morgan's school in Bridgwater, and set his 1999 experimental novel Life's Lottery in a fictionalised version of the town ( Sedgwater ).

Therefore, these mountains are a popular winter sports area, with resorts such as Zakopane, called also " winter capital of Poland ", Poprad and the town Vysoké Tatry ( The Town of High Tatras ) in Slovakia created in 1999, including former separate resorts: Štrbské Pleso, Starý Smokovec, and Tatranská Lomnica.

Other noteworthy buildings in the square shared by the Cathedral ( Plaza Cardenal Belluga ) are the colorful Bishop's Palace ( 18th century ) and a controversial extension to the town hall by Rafael Moneo ( built in 1999 ).

* Union City, a fictional town used as the setting for the 1999 video game Urban Chaos.

A campaign group with the slogan Teruel existe (" Teruel exists ") was founded in 1999 to press for greater recognition and investment in the town and the province.

The city, which was granted a town charter in 1354, has been the capital of the Subcarpathian Voivodeship since 1999, and is also the seat of Rzeszów County.

The town was on the main path of totality for Solar eclipse of August 11, 1999.

The town had a fast growing population of 19, 107 inhabitants at the 1999 census.

Near the town is the home of world show jumping champion Ian Millar and Millar Brooke Farm where his great horse Big Ben ( 1976 – 1999 ) is buried.

It is the capital of Tczew County in Pomeranian Voivodeship since 1999, and was previously a town in Gdańsk Voivodeship ( 1975 – 1998 ).

In 1999, Witherspoon starred alongside Alessandro Nivola in the drama thriller Best Laid Plans ; she played Lissa, a woman who schemes with her lover Nick to escape a small, dead-end town.

Following the arrival of the Jubilee line in 1999 ( giving quick connections to the West End and to Canary Wharf ) and the London Overground in 2010 ( providing a quick route to the City of London ), the rest of Rotherhithe is now a rapidly gentrifying residential and commuter area, with current regeneration progressing most quickly around Canada Water, where a new town centre with restaurant and retail units as well as new residential developments is emerging around the existing freshwater lake and transport hub.

Guy Portelli's sculpture " English Lavender " ( 1999 ) in Wallington town centre

* In 1999, officer Thomas Goodwin became Goshen's first, and to date, only police officer killed in the line of duty, at a shooting in the northwest part of town.

* Boyd B. Durr ( 1926-2010 ), Ajax native, United States Army Air Corps service in World War II, law-enforcement officer from 1946-2000, Natchitoches town marshal, Democratic sheriff of Natchitoches Parish during the 1990s until unseated in the 1999 nonpartisan blanket primary by Victor E. Jones, Jr.

* The town gained attention in 1999 when Phenix City National Little League advanced to the final of the Little League World Series.

* Our small town: a brief history of Middletown, Lake County, California community treasures ( 1999 ).

The town is also home to the Big Bear Lake International Film Festival, in operation since 1999.

* Izzy Stradlin's 1999 album Ride On includes a track entitled " Needles " about his love of visiting the town.

The 7. 1 magnitude Hector Mine earthquake on October 16, 1999 had an epicenter north of town.

The previous industry in town was the Baltic Textile Mill, which burned down in 1999.

In March 2000, ANSI adopted the ISO / IEC 9899: 1999 standard.

Acknowledging the lack of progress in relation to bilateral relations and the internal situation following the position adopted in 1997, the EU adopted a step-by-step approach in 1999, whereby sanctions would be gradually lifted upon fulfillment of the four benchmarks set by the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe.

On 1 January 1999 the ICD-10 ( without clinical extensions ) was adopted for reporting mortality, but ICD-9-CM was still used for morbidity.

The IEC's system has been adopted by other standards, such as EN 60617-12: 1999 in Europe and BS EN 60617-12: 1999 in the United Kingdom.

It was created on 1 January 1999 out of the former Kraków, Tarnów, Nowy Sącz and parts of Bielsko-Biała, Katowice, Kielce and Krosno Voivodeships, pursuant to the Polish local government reforms adopted in 1998.

Italy adopted in 1999 a Linguistic Minorities Protection Law, or " Law 482 ", which includes Occitan ; however, Italian is the dominant language.

Opole Voivodeship, or Opole Province ( Polish: województwo opolskie ; ), is a Polish voivodeship, or province, created on January 1, 1999, out of the former Opole Voivodeship and parts of Częstochowa Voivodeship, pursuant to the Polish local government reforms adopted in 1998.

It was created on January 1, 1999, out of the former Katowice, Częstochowa and Bielsko-Biała Voivodeships, pursuant to the Polish local government reforms adopted in 1998.

* The Euro is adopted by the European Union on 1 January 1999, which begins a process of phasing out national currencies of EU countries.

In 1999, the NPC adopted an amendment to the Chinese Constitution, incorporating both concepts in Article 5.

It was created on 1 January 1999 out of the former Poznań, Kalisz, Konin, Piła and Leszno Voivodeships, pursuant to the Polish local government reforms adopted in 1998.

The Polish local government reforms adopted in 1998, which went into effect on 1 January 1999, created sixteen new voivodeships.

The province was created on January 1, 1999, out of the former Warsaw, Płock, Ciechanów, Ostrołęka, Siedlce and Radom Voivodeships, pursuant to the Polish local government reforms adopted in 1998.

The EJB specification was originally developed in 1997 by IBM and later adopted by Sun Microsystems ( EJB 1. 0 and 1. 1 ) in 1999 and enhanced under the Java Community Process as JSR 19 ( EJB 2. 0 ), JSR 153 ( EJB 2. 1 ), JSR 220 ( EJB 3. 0 ) and JSR 318 ( EJB 3. 1 ).

With the appearance of XML as an alternative to SGML, XML's associated stylesheet language XSL was also widely and rapidly adopted, from around 1999.

When Indonesia occupied East Timor between 1975 and 1999, declaring it " the Republic's 27th Province ", the use of Portuguese was banned, and Indonesian was declared the sole official language, but the Roman Catholic Church adopted Tetum as its liturgical language, making it a focus for cultural and national identity.

It was created in 1994 and was adopted for statistics from 1999.

Forced or compulsory recruitment of anyone under the age of 18 for use in armed conflict, is one of the predefined worst forms of child labour, deemed a form of slavery, in terms of the International Labour Organisation's Worst Forms of Child Labour Convention, 1999, adopted in 1999.

Formerly known as Conseco Fieldhouse, the arena officially opened on November 6, 1999 and adopted its current name on December 22, 2011.

A heavily fictionalized version of Livia appears as Xena's daughter in season 5 ( 1999 / 2000 ) of the television series Xena: Warrior Princess where she was adopted and raised by Octavius into an skillfull Roman commander with a lust for blood.

It was created on January 1, 1999, out of the former Gorzów Wielkopolski and Zielona Góra Voivodeships, pursuant to the Polish local government reforms adopted in 1998.

After completion of a process that began late in 1999, the county adopted an ordinance on August 11, 2005 which defined hamlets and villages.