* 1999 – The southwestern portion of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma is devastated by an F5 tornado, killing forty-five people, injuring 665, and causing $ 1 billion in damage.

The tornado is one of 66 from the 1999 Oklahoma tornado outbreak.

* 1999 – The Supreme Court of the United States upholds the murder convictions of Timothy McVeigh for the Oklahoma City bombing.

* The most prominent natural disasters of the decade include: Hurricane Andrew striking South Florida in August 1992, the crippling super storm of March 1993 along the Eastern Seaboard, the devastating 1994 Northridge earthquake in Los Angeles, the Great Hanshin earthquake in Kobe, Japan in January 1995, the Blizzard of 1996 in the eastern U. S., the US drought of 1999, the deadly Hurricane Mitch which struck Central America in October 1998, and the destructive Oklahoma tornado outbreak in May 1999, the August 1999 İzmit earthquake in Turkey, and the September 1999 Chi-Chi earthquake in Taiwan.

Indeed, in the 1999 Oklahoma tornado outbreak of May 3, 1999, three highway overpasses were directly struck by tornadoes, and at all three locations there was a fatality, along with many life-threatening injuries.

On May 3, 1999 parts of southern Oklahoma City and nearby communities suffered one of the most powerful tornadoes on record.

* 1999 Oklahoma Hall of Fame inductee

Particularly destructive tornadoes have struck the Wichita area several times in the course of its history: in September 1965, during the Andover, Kansas Tornado Outbreak of April 1991, and during the Oklahoma tornado outbreak of May 1999.

Later, on May 3, 1999, it lost its record as most destructive tornado in history to the Moore, Oklahoma Tornado.

* Jay Mauck, 1999 NAIA Basketball Player of the Year, Oklahoma Christian

The tornado, which occurred during the 1999 Oklahoma tornado outbreak, had an approximate recorded wind speed of, the highest speed on the first F-Scale, left a swath of destruction over wide at times, and long.

The 1999 Oklahoma tornado outbreak struck parts of Newcastle, resulting in the destruction of several homes in the city limits, however much greater destruction occurred in Bridge Creek, Oklahoma and Moore, Oklahoma.

The " Red Rock Tornado " held the record for the highest recorded wind speed of 257-268 mph until the Moore, Oklahoma tornado of May 3, 1999 in the 1999 Oklahoma Tornado Outbreak which had a wind gust of 318 mph.

Portions of Midwest City particularly northwest of Tinker Air Force Base sustained extreme damage from a violent tornado that swept through the southern and eastern areas of the Oklahoma City Metro on May 3, 1999.

On August 27, 1999, representatives of the far-flung Wyandot bands of Quebec, Kansas, Oklahoma and Michigan gathered at their historic homeland in Midland, Ontario.

* 1999 – Wolverhampton, England is hit by storms which include a tornado.

The 1999 Salt Lake City tornado disproved several misconceptions, including the idea that tornadoes cannot occur in areas like Utah or in cities.

However, an F2 tornado did hit downtown on August 11, 1999, killing 1 person, injuring 60, and causing $ 170 million in damage.

Significant additions have been made to the campus since January 1999, when a powerful tornado destroyed nearly complete new school buildings and historic residential areas surrounding the downtown area.

The Atlanta tornado was the 13th EF4 tornado of the year in the United States, the most since 1999.

On July 3, 1999 at approximately 7: 20 PM, an F3 tornado passed right through the center of Comins.

On April 9, 1999, Blue Ash experienced an F4 tornado that caused four deaths.

On October 13, 1999, an F-3 tornado hit the city.

The May 3, 1999 tornado that hit Moore was rated an F5 on the Fujita scale, and was one of the strongest and most destructive tornadoes in history.

On May 3, 1999, Moore experienced the most violent tornado ever recorded.

A tornado in May 1999, destroyed about one-third of the town, killing one.

Except in an outbreak in 1999 in Bolivia, this urban cycle no longer exists in South America and is only present in Africa.

An example of this is the outbreak of Nipah virus in peninsular Malaysia in 1999, when intensive pig farming intruded into the natural habitat of fruit bats carrying the virus.

In 1999, what is believed to be the largest outbreak of waterborne E. coli O157: H7 illness in United States history occurred at the Washington County, New York fair.

In October 1999 Rockdale county, and by extension the county seat of Conyers gained substantial notoriety when the Public Broadcasting Service aired a nationwide documentary entitled The Lost Children of Rockdale County detailing a syphilis outbreak among middle and high school aged teenagers within the county.

Stroud was devastated by the 1999 Oklahoma tornado outbreak, which destroyed the town's 53-store Tanger Outlet Center, as well as a distribution center owned by foodservice company Sygma.

The book was published in September 1999, which coincided with the 60th anniversary of the outbreak of World War II

A massive tornado outbreak of May 3, 1999 spawned a F5 Tornado in the area of Oklahoma City, OK, and also spawned over 66 tornadoes in Oklahoma alone.

* 1999 Oklahoma tornado outbreak

Nipah virus was identified in April 1999, when it caused an outbreak of neurological and respiratory disease on pig farms in peninsular Malaysia, resulting in 257 human cases, including 105 human deaths and the culling of one million pigs.

In March 1999 an outbreak of Legionnaires ' disease occurred during a flower exhibition in Bovenkarspel.

A map of the meteorological setup of the 1999 Oklahoma tornado outbreak.

Such was the case in many areas during the 1999 Oklahoma tornado outbreak, in which some people left the safety of their homes when the tornado warning was issued to take shelter under overpasses.

The widest tornado as measured by actual radar wind measurements was the Mulhall ( 1999 ) tornado in northern Oklahoma which occurred during the 1999 Oklahoma tornado outbreak.

It was nominated in the New Times 1998 " Best Latin Influenced " category, the BAM Magazine 1999 " Best Rock en Español " category, and the LA Weekly 1999 " Best Hip Hop " category.

For example Darrell Schweitzer writing to the New York Review of Science Fiction in 1999 quoted a passage from the original van Vogt novelette “ The Mixed Men ”, which he was then reading, and remarked:

The ASF was formed from the Apache Group and incorporated in Delaware, U. S., in June 1999.

The Act overturns a 1999 U. S. Supreme Court case that held that an employee was not disabled if the impairment could be corrected by mitigating measures ; it specifically provides that such impairment must be determined without considering such ameliorative measures.

* Homer Hickam, Jr .' s book Rocket Boys was adapted into the 1999 film October Sky.

* The current world record was set in 1999 at 100 picokelvins ( pK ), or 0. 000 000 000 1 of a kelvin, by cooling the nuclear spins in a piece of rhodium metal.

It was a four-time winner of the Charles Roberts / Origins Award, winning " Best Amateur Adventure Gaming Magazine " in 1984, " Best Amateur Game Magazine " in 1999, and " Best Amateur Game Periodical " in 2000 and 2001.

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 Falcons 78, 000 square foot headquarters and training facilities or located on a 50-acre site in Flowery Branch, Ga., the complex which was one of the first of its kind was completed in 1999.

AIX / ESA, while technically advanced, had little commercial success, partially because UNIX functionality was added as an option to the existing mainframe operating system, MVS, which became MVS / ESA OpenEdition in 1999.

* 1999 – The German Bundestag returns to Berlin, the first German parliamentary body to meet there since the Reichstag was dissolved in 1945.

The DB7 range was boosted by the addition of V12 Vantage models in 1999, and in 2001 the company introduced the V12-engined Aston Martin Vanquish.

Linux support for AGP enhanced fast data transfers was first added in 1999 with the implementation of the AGPgart kernel module.

Akio Morita ( 盛田 昭夫 Morita Akio, January 26, 1921, Nagoya, Aichi – October 3, 1999, Tokyo ) was a Japanese businessman and co-founder of Sony Corporation along with Masaru Ibuka.

He was posthumously awarded the Grand Cordon of the Order of the Rising Sun in 1999.

One of the first international anti-globalization protests was organized in dozens of cities around the world on June 18, 1999, with those in London and Eugene, Oregon most often noted.

In February 1999, Saron was made a Grade II Listed Building.

He was the co-host and co-creator of the television program The Man Show ( 1999 – 2004 ), and the co-creator and a regular performer on the television show Crank Yankers ( 2002 – 2007 ).

Active Directory was previewed in 1999, released first with Windows NT server.

Telstra deployed a CDMA network, which did not suffer this limitation, and while the AMPS network was closed down at the end of 1999 in the major cities, the closure deadline was extended until the end of 2000 in rural areas to ease the transition to CDMA.