* In 1999, after rowing for 81 days and 4, 767 kilometres ( 2, 962 mi ), Tori Murden became the first woman to cross the Atlantic Ocean by rowboat alone when she reached Guadeloupe from the Canary Islands.

He held the title until 1999, when he resigned his title in protest against FIDE's new world championship rules.

He had wanted to be a commercial pilot for the Saudi national airline but was rejected when he applied to the civil aviation school in Jeddah in 1999.

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.

Arbor Day was celebrated from 1983 until 1999 in South Africa, when the national government extended it to National Arbor Week, which lasts from 1 – 7 September.

The second major mobilization of the movement, known as N30, occurred on November 30, 1999, when protesters blocked delegates ' entrance to WTO meetings in Seattle, Washington, USA.

Lara captained the West Indies from 1998 to 1999, when West Indies suffered their first whitewash at the hands of South Africa.

The case for dark energy was strengthened in 1999, when measurements demonstrated that the expansion of the universe has begun to gradually accelerate.

from July 1999 ( when Kabila advanced in the region bordering C. A. R .).

The movie Office Space ( 1999 ), which lost money during its box office run, managed to turn significant profits when word-of-mouth made it a popular video rental and purchase.

In May 1999 Crowded House issued a compilation of unreleased songs, Afterglow, which included the track " Recurring Dream ", recorded when the group were still called The Mullanes and included Craig Hooper on guitar.

The study framework, which came to be called the Collier-Hoeffler Model, examined 78 five-year increments when civil war occurred from 1960 to 1999, as well as 1, 167 five-year increments of " no civil war " for comparison, and subjected the data set to regression analysis to see the effect of various factors.

The January 2007 estimated population of the island was 281, 000, while the figure for the March 1999 census, when most of the studies – though not the linguistic survey work referenced in this article – were performed, was about 261, 000 ( see under Corsica ).

Carly Fiorina, initially seen as HP's savior when she was hired as CEO back in 1999, had seen the company's stock price drop to less than half since she assumed the position, and her job was said to be on shakey ground before the merger announcement.

In 1999, a political crisis occurred when both sides accused each other for supporting its enemies.

The two men remained unreconciled, even though they later served in the same Cabinet from May 1997 until 1999, when Dewar left to become First Minister.

However the start of the Eritrean-Ethiopian War led to Sudan and Ethiopia put this conflict between them and normalizing their relations by November 1999 when president Omar Hassan al-Bashir made a formal visit to Addis Ababa.

The only seasons in recent times when this pattern was not followed were 1999 – 2000, when most rounds were played a few weeks earlier than normal as an experiment, and 2010 – 2011 when the FA Cup Final was played before the Premier League season had finished, in order to allow the stadium to be ready for the UEFA Champions League final.

Following revelations at the Moriarty Tribunal on 16 February 1999, in relation to Charles Haughey and his relationship with AIB, former Taoiseach Garret Fitzgerald confirmed that AIB and Ansbacher wrote off debts of almost £ 200, 000 that he owed in 1993, when he was in financial difficulties because of the collapse of the aircraft leasing company, GPA, in which he was a shareholder.

The NNP maintained and affirmed its hold on power when it took all 15 parliamentary seats in the January 1999 elections.

The LGPL was revised in minor ways in the 2. 1 point release, published in 1999, when it was renamed the GNU Lesser General Public License to reflect the FSF's position that not all libraries should use it.

He was the permanent secretary of the Swedish Academy, i. e. its spokesman, from 1999 to June 2009, when he was succeeded by Swedish author and historian Peter Englund.

Pandeli Majko was then elected Prime Minister, and he served in this post until November 1999, when he was replaced by Ilir Meta.

** Betty Robinson, American athlete ( d. 1999 )

Elizabeth (" Betty ") Robinson ( August 23, 1911 – May 18, 1999 ), later Elizabeth R. Schwartz was an American athlete and winner of the first Olympic 100 m for women.

Barker ( 1918 – 2002 ); Betty Box ( 1915 – 1999 ) and her brother Sydney ( 1907 – 1983 ) were film producers.

Betty Friedan: Her Life, Hardcover Edition, Random House 1999, ISBN 0-679-43203-5

In October 1999, Michael Wilson mounted another revival at the Hartford Stage, with a cast including James Colby ( Kilroy ), Helmar Augustus Cooper ( Gutman ), Rip Torn ( Casanova ), Betty Buckley ( Marguerite Gautier ), Novella Nelson ( Gypsy ), Lisa Leguillou ( Esmeralda ), John Feltch ( Baron de Charlus, Lord Byron and Don Quixote ), Natalie Brown ( Lady Mulligan ) and Nafe Katter ( Lord Mulligan ).

He has been the recipient of numerous honors and awards over the years, including the 1999 National Coalition for Cancer Research Lifetime Achievement Award, American Cancer Society ’ s 1992 Courage Award and the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation ’ s Betty Ford Award.

With a flawless mid-western American accent, Molina starred alongside Betty White in the US television series Ladies Man, which ran from 1999 – 2001.

In 1999, he appeared in Anthony Scarpa's documentary film Betty Blowtorch and Her Amazing True Life Adventures, which focuses on the all-female hard rock band Betty Blowtorch, whose debut EP Get Off McKagan produced the same year.

In 1999 In a fishbone church won the South East Asia and Pacific Region Prize in the Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best First Novel, a Betty Trask Prize for a first book ( UK ) and was included in the Orange Prize for Fiction ( UK ) longlist.

Amin Majaj, physician: born Ramallah, Palestine 21 March 1921 ; married 1947 Betty Dagher ( one son, three daughters ); died Jerusalem 2 January 1999.

Betty Edwards's major publications include: Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain, 1979 ( revised and reprinted in 1989, 1999, and 2012 ), Penguin Putnam ; Drawing on the Artist Within, 1986, Simon & Schuster ; Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain Workbook, 1998, Penguin Putnam ; and Color: Mastering the Art of Mixing Colors, 2004, Penguin Putnam.

Commenting on her casting in 1999, Driver said, " said, ' Betty, how would you like to pull pints for us on television?

In 1999, Betty celebrates 30 years of working at the Rovers Return with a party attended by all the regulars.

* TCM Remembers 1999: Iron Eyes Cody, Betty Lou Gerson, Huntz Hall, Susan Strasberg, film critic Gene Siskel, Richard Kiley, director Stanley Kubrick, Garson Kanin, composer Ernest Gold, Ellen Corby, Charles " Buddy " Rogers, Rory Calhoun, Dirk Bogarde, Oliver Reed, DeForest Kelley, Bobs Watson, director Allan Carr, Sylvia Sidney, screenwriter Mario Puzo, screenwriter Norman Wexler, Ruth Roman, director Edward Dmytryk, director Charles Crichton, Victor Mature, editor Harold F. Kress, George C. Scott, Ian Bannen, Mabel King, Madeline Kahn and Desmond Llewelyn.

Nevakshonoff was elected to the Manitoba legislature as a New Democrat in the provincial election of 1999, defeating Progressive Conservative Betty Green by 3809 votes to 3260 in the riding of Interlake.

* Betty Box ( 1915 – 1999 ), British film producer

In 1999, she won an Emmy Award for her coverage of the Elián González story and in 1998, she was nominated for an Emmy Award for her 20 / 20 investigation into the wrongful conviction of Betty Tyson.

* Dr. Betty Mitchell Theatre, Calgary, Alberta, Canada – 1999

Yo soy Betty, la fea (" I am Betty, the ugly ") is a telenovela filmed in Colombia, written by Fernando Gaitán and produced between 1999 through 2001 by the Colombian network RCN ( Radio Cadena Nacional ) in cooperation of Venezuelan network RCTV ( Radio Caracas Television ).

Betty Evelyn Box ( 25 September 1915-15 January 1999 ) was a prolific British film producer.

Betty Lou Gerson ( April 20, 1914 – January 12, 1999 ) was an American actress, predominantly in radio, but also in film and television, and as a voice actress.