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.

Canada Day celebrations in Iqaluit, 1999

* Ahmed Ressam, an Islamist militant associated with Al-Qaeda is arrested when attempting to cross from Canada to the United States at the Canada-U. S. border on 14 December 1999 ; it is discovered that he intended to bomb Los Angeles International Airport during millennium celebrations.

* Worldwide New Year's Eve celebrations on 31 December 1999 welcoming the year 2000.

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A record in worldwide shipping of Champagne ( including domestic French consumption ) of 327 million bottles was set in 1999 in anticipation of end of millennium celebrations, and a new record was set in 2007 at 338. 7 million bottles.

Conrad died on July 8, 1999, less than three weeks before the celebrations of the 30th anniversary of the first moon landing.

* The 1999 film, " Onegin ", is an English adaptation of Pushkin's work, directed by Martha Fiennes, starring Ralph Fiennes as Onegin, Liv Tyler as Tatiana, and Toby Stephens as Lensky. The film compresses the events of the novel somewhat: for example, the Naming Day celebrations take place on the same day as Onegin's speech to Tatiana.

The community was stricken by an avalanche in the early morning of January 1, 1999, which destroyed the Satuumavik School gymnasium during New Year celebrations, killing nine.

The majority popular approach was to treat the end of 1999 as the end of a millennium, and to hold millennium celebrations at midnight between December 31, 1999 and January 1, 2000, as per viewpoint 2.

Some event organisers hedged their bets by calling their 1999 celebrations things like " Click " referring to the odometer-like rolling over of the nines to zeros.

" For the 2000 millennium celebrations, Europe was asked to do a concert in Stockholm on New Year's Eve 1999.

Although he would reprise his famous Rev I. M Jolly character one last time for a short skit on New Year's Eve 1999 as part of the " Millennium " celebrations.

The statue of a Maltmaker was unveiled in November 1999 outside St Mary's Church in time with the Millennium celebrations.

Badal had Tohra removed as SGPC chief on March 16, 1999, a few days before the commencement of tercentenary celebrations of the birth of the Khalsa at Anandpur Sahib.

Since 1976, NJSEA buildings have hosted many major events, including seven games of the 1994 World Cup, the 1996 Men's Final Four, NFL playoff games and Super Bowl championship celebrations, the 2002 and 2003 NBA Finals, the Stanley Cup Finals of 1995, 2000, 2001 and 2003, the 1999 Women ’ s World Cup, many other international soccer matches-including Pele's farewell game, a 1995 Papal Mass by Pope John Paul II and countless major concerts.

In 1999, he opened BBC 2000 Today, the BBC's coverage of the millennium celebrations, from Greenwich, England.

During 1999 Davies, together with Richard Tognetti and Christopher Gordon, composed The Ghost of Time as an expansion of " Great Southern Land " into a forty minute performance for Sydney's part of the worldwide millennial celebrations.

A prominent example was the song Moments of Magic, written by Hype Records CEO Ken Lim specially for Singapore's millennium celebrations towards the end of 1999.

On October 9, 1999 during jubilee celebrations devoted to 125th anniversary of N. K. Roerich ’ s birthday and 120th anniversary of H. I. Roerich ’ s demise a monument was established near the entrance of Museum named after N. Roerich.

They were also exhibited continuously from November 4, 1999 to November 4, 2000 in honor of the Catholic Jubilee celebrations.

At the end of 1999, most cruise ships embarked on millennium cruises scheduled around New Year's Eve celebrations of the end of the millennium and the beginning of 2000.

In 1999, during the club's centenary celebrations, a fan's poll declared him the best player ever to play for the club.

In the celebrations marking the return of democracy in March 1990 at Santiago's Estadio Nacional de Chile, the anthem was played in its present melody, raised to F Major ( the Royal Musical Official Version of the anthem ) which is the original melody of the second anthem by Carnicer, but using the 1847 lyrics as text, save for the original chorus.

The tradition of marking the day with the ringing of church bells and bonfires started soon after the Plot's discovery, and fireworks were included in some of the earliest celebrations.

* 1919 – Following Peace Day celebrations marking the end of World War I, ex-servicemen riot and burn down Luton Town Hall.

In March and July 2005, the members of the 1954 – 55 group, now billed as simply The Comets after decades of controversy over the use of the name, made several high-profile concert appearances in New York City and Los Angeles organized by Martin Lewis as part of celebrations marking the 50th anniversary of rock and roll, the release of Blackboard Jungle, the 50th anniversary of " Rock Around the Clock " hitting Number 1, and the 80th birthday of Bill Haley.

In 1560, the first ever fireworks display seen in France took place during the celebrations marking the ascension to the throne of Catherine's son Francis II.

In addition to the basic four-week cycle of praying nearly the entire set of Psalms with each of the canonical hours, the Church also provides an alternate collection of hymns, readings, psalms, canticles and antiphons, for use in marking specific dates on the Roman Calendar, which sets out the order of celebrations for the liturgical year.

There is no traditionally set program marking this event, and celebrations differ from family to family.

In 1992, the author directed a revised text for the Citizen's, Glasgow-a production which afterwards was seen in Shrewsbury as part of the celebrations marking the centenary of Owen's birth.

The highlight of his career may have been when in 1892 he presided over the great celebrations marking the tercentenary of the College, which had been founded by Queen Elizabeth I.

The original opening was scheduled for 11 February 2004, the onset of the auspicious " Ten-Day Dawn " ( 1 – 11 February ) celebrations, marking the anniversary of the 1979 Islamic Revolution.

On 12 November 1924 Tractate Berachot was completed, with small siyums ( celebrations marking the completion of study of a Talmudic tractate ) in local communities.

In summer 1989, in connection with celebrations marking the 150th anniversary of Dutch railways, British Rail was invited to send an example of its latest rolling stock to be exhibited at Utrecht for two weeks.

** Galway City begins celebrations marking its mayoral status granted by King Richard III in 1484.

* September 5 – Taoiseach Seán Lemass attends celebrations marking the silver jubilee of the first commercial transatlantic flight.

His home in Cromarty is open as a geological museum, with specimens collected in the immediate area ; a week-end event at the site in 2008 was part of celebrations marking the bicentenary of the Geological Society of London.

Irnerius was largely forgotten ; his name was revived by German historians of the later 19th century and came to prominence with the celebrations marking the octocentennial of the University of Bologna.

In 1977, Prince Charles, as a member of the Canadian Royal Family, visited Alberta to attend celebrations marking the 100th anniversary of the treaty signing.

The scope of celebrations marking the 11th Siyum HaShas was described in one newspaper account as follows:

In 2010 it was painted bright colours with images of circus performers affixed to the exterior, and in 2011 was painted to appear as if it had been bombed in order to coincide with celebrations marking 70 years since the end of The Blitz.

Chand Raat occurs the night before Eid day celebrations commence, marking the end of the month of Ramadan.

GYC played a significant role in the April 2011 celebrations marking the centenary of SVC, now situated in nearby Patrick Street ( Years 3-6 ) and Austins Ferry ( Year 7-10 ).

Plans for the Golden Jubilee in the United Kingdom went ahead as planned, and, after a dinner hosted by Tony Blair at 10 Downing Street for her and all her living former British Prime Ministers ( Sir John Major, The Lady Thatcher, Sir Edward Heath, and The Lord Callaghan of Cardiff ), the Queen officially launched the celebrations in the UK with a speech to both houses of the British parliament at Westminster Hall on 30 April, marking the fifth time in five decades that Elizabeth II addressed her British parliament on her own account.

Indira Gandhi during the celebrations marking the 2000th anniversary of the birth of Thiruvalluvar, the great Tamil poet and author of Thirukural.