1999 (MCMXCIX) was a common year starting on Friday, and was designated the International Year of Older Persons by the United Nations. 1999 - Events. Kosovo War Y2K preparation was a major event in 1999 both in actual events and in media over-reporting. The human population of the world surpassed six billion. The United Nations Population Fund designated October 12 as the approximate date for this event. 1999 - January. J ...

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History of Kosovo, History of Kosovo - Kosovo from prehistory to 1455, History of Kosovo - Kosovo from 1455 to 1912, History of Kosovo - 20th century, History of Kosovo - The 1990s, History of Kosovo - War and its aftermath, History of Kosovo - Kosovo from June 10 1999

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June 6 - 1236 to 1899. 1236 - Wen Tianxiang, Chinese prime minister (d. 1283) 1436 - Regiomontanus, German mathematician (d. 1476) 1502 - King John III of Portugal (d. 1557) 1519 - Andrea Cesalpino, Italian philosopher, physician, and botanist (d. 1603) 1542 - Richard Grenville, English soldier and explorer (d. 1591) 1553 - Bernardino Baldi, Italian mathematician (d. 1617) 1576 - Giovanni Diodati, Swiss protestant clergyman (d. 1649) 1580 - Gode ...

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June 5 - 535 to 1899. 535 - Epiphanius of Constantinople, patriarch of Constantinople 1017 - Sanjo, Emperor of Japan (b. 976) 1118 - Robert de Beaumont, 1st Earl of Leicester 1296 - Edmund Crouchback, son of Henry III of England (b. 1245) 1316 - King Louis X of France (b. 1289) 1383 - Dmitry Konstantinovich, Russian prince (b. 1324) 1568 - Lamoral, Count of Egmont, Flemish general and statesman (b. 1522) 1625 - Orlando Gibbons, English composer ...

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June 6 is the 157th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (158th in leap years), with 208 days remaining. June 6 - Events. 1508 - Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor, is defeated in Friulia by Venetian forces; he is forced to sign a three-year truce and cede several territories to Venice 1513 - Italian Wars: Battle of Novara. Swiss troops defeat the French under Louis de la Tremoille, forcing the French to abandon Milan. Duke Massimiliano Sforza is restored.Including:

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Benjamin Netanyahu ▶ (help·info) (Hebrew: בִּנְיָמִין נְתַנְיָהוּ (without niqqud: בנימין נתניהו), Hebrew transliteration written in English: Binyamin Netanyahu, nicknamed Bibi) (born October 21, 1949, Tel Aviv) was the 9th Prime Minister of Israel. Leader of the conservative Likud party, he was Prime Minister from June, 1996 to July, 1999. He is the first (and to date only) Prime Minister o ...

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Cardinal Basil Hume OSB OM (2 March 1923 - 17 June 1999) was the Archbishop of Westminster and Primate of the Catholic Church in England and Wales from 1976-1999. Cardinal Hume was until his death the spiritual leader of English and Welsh Catholics. Basil Cardinal Hume - Early life. Cardinal Hume was born George Finlayson Hume in Newcastle upon Tyne in 1923. His father was a doctor and a Border Scot, his mother a French Catholic, daughter of an army officer. He had two sisters. ...

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Ape Escape is a platform game for the PlayStation, which launched a video game series. Ape Escape was first released in North America on May 31, 1999, and shortly after in Japan under the name Saru! Get You! (サルゲッチュ), on June 24, 1999. Ape Escape tells the story of a monkey by the name of Specter. This monkey came into ownership of a special hat, called a Peak Point Helmet, which raised his intelligence, but which also revealed that he was an evil monkey, bent on world domination. ...

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David MacKenzie Ogilvy (June 23, 1911–July 21, 1999) has been often called 'The Father of Advertising'. In 1975, Time called him “the most sought-after wizard in the advertising industry.” In early 2004, Adweek magazine asked people in the business “Which individuals – alive or dead – made you consider pursuing a career in advertising?” Ogilvy topped the list. And the same result came when students of advertising were surveyed. His best-selling book 'Confessions of an Advertising Man' is one o ...

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David Ogilvy - The Early Years 1911–1938 David Ogilvy - At Gallup 1938–1948 David Ogilvy - The O&M Years 1949–1973 David Ogilvy - Life with WPP and afterwards 1989–1999

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Richard Bach (born June 23, 1936) is an American writer. He has authored numerous works of fiction and nonfiction, including Jonathan Livingston Seagull (1970), Illusions (1977), One (1989), and Out of My Mind (1999). Most of his books have been semi-autobiographical, using actual or fictionalized events from his life to illustrate his philosophy. Bach was born in Oak Park, Illinois ...

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BS 7799 Part 1 was a standard originally published as BS 7799 by the British Standards Institute (BSI) in 1995. It was written by the United Kingdom Government's Department of Trade and Industry (DTI), and after several revisions, was eventually adopted by ISO as ISO 17799, "Information Technology - Code of practice for information security management." in 2000. ISO 17799 was most recently revised in June 2005. A second part to BS7799 was first published by BSI in 1999, known as BS 7799 Part 2, titled "Information Securi ...

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Archibald John Norman (May 1, 1954) is a British politician and businessman. From 1991 until 2000, Norman was Chief Executive and then Chairman of Asda, the large supermarket chain, and was credited with turning it around and making it the second largest in the UK, before its sale to Walmart in June 1999. He helped form the think tank Policy Exchange. In 2002 he joined Energis as Chairman having led a consortium of banks in the purchase and refinance o ...

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The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) is a non-profit corporation (classified as 501(c)3 in the United States) to support Apache software projects, including the Apache HTTP Server. The ASF was formed from the Apache Group and incorporated in Delaware, USA, in June, 1999. The Apache Software Foundation is a decentralized community of developers. The software they produce is distributed under the terms of the Apache License and are therefore free software / open source software. The Apache projects are characterized by a collabor ...

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Ashley Montagu (June 28, 1905, London, England - November 26, 1999, Princeton, New Jersey), was an English anthropologist and humanist who popularized issues such as race and gender and their relation to politics and development. Montagu was born in London's East End as Israel Ehrenberg. He later changed his name to "Montague Francis Ashley-Montagu" and went by "Ashley Montagu" after moving to the United States. He developed an interest in anatomy very quickly and as a boy was befriended by Arthur Keith. In 1922, at the ...

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Charles Alexander Moose served as the 15th Montgomery County, Maryland, Police Chief from August 2, 1999, to June 18, 2003, when he resigned to write a book. During October 2002, he became known nationwide as the primary official in charge of the efforts to apprehend the Beltway snipers. Later analysis revealed that Moose's insistence on pursuing only white suspects delayed the solving of the crime spree. Moose earned a PhD in urban stu ...

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The Right Honourable William Stephen Ian Whitelaw, 1st Viscount Whitelaw, KT, CH, MC, PC, DL (June 28, 1918 – July 1, 1999), commonly known as Willie Whitelaw, was a British Conservative politician. William Whitelaw 1st Viscount Whitelaw - Biography. Whitelaw was born in Nairn, in northeast Scotland. He was educated at Winchester College and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he won a blue for golf. He then joined the British Army, earning the rank of Major in the Scots Guards; during the Se ...

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Messenger may mean: Bicycle messenger, a bicyclist who transports packages through cities Chemical messenger, a molecule used for cellular signalling. MESSENGER, a NASA probe to Mercury launched in 2004. Messenger (album), the third album by Edwin McCain, released on June 15, 1999. Messenger (horse), an English thoroughbred horse that was foaled in 1780, and who was the originating sire of modern-day standardbred horses. Messenger (novel), a novel written by Lois Lowry.<

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June 5 - 1341 to 1899. 1341 - Edmund of Langley, 1st Duke of York, son of Edward III of England (d. 1402) 1493 - Justus Jonas, German protestant reformer (d. 1555) 1640 - Pu Songling, Chinese writer (d. 1715) 1656 - Joseph Pitton de Tournefort, French botanist (d. 1708) 1718 - Thomas Chippendale, English furniture maker (d. 1779) 1723 - Adam Smith, Scottish economist and philosopher (d. 1790) 1757 - Pierre Jean George Cabanis, French physiologist (d. 180 ...

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June 6 - 1393 to 1899. 1393 - Emperor Go-En'yu of Japan (b. 1359) 1480 - Vecchietta, Italian artist and architect 1548 - Juan de Castro, Portuguese explorer (b. 1500) 1563 - Ikeda Nagamasa, Japanese samurai commander (b. 1519) 1583 - Nakagawa Kiyohide, Japanese warlord (b. 1556) 1740 - Alexander Spotswood, British governor of Virginia Colony 1784 - Joan van der Capellen tot den Pol, Dutch politician (b. 1741) 1799 - Patrick Henry, American revol ...

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