1999 South Africa Sevens, Summary
Filimoni Delasau though would score the match winner as he recorded his 13th try of the tournament and give Fiji the victory 12–10. In the minor placings, Australia defeated Samoa by three points in the plate final with the bowl final being won by Tonga who defeated a fast finishing Argentina squad 31–24.


1999 South African Figure Skating Championships
The 1999 South African Figure Skating Championships were held at the Carleton Centre Skyrink in Johannesburg on 20–24 September 1998. Skaters competed in the disciplines of men's and ladies' singles at the senior, novice, and pre-novice levels. There was also a junior and juvenile ladies' competition.


1999 South African general election
General elections were held in South Africa on 2 June 1999. The result was a victory for the governing African National Congress (ANC), which gained fourteen seats. Incumbent president Nelson Mandela declined to seek re-election as president on grounds of his age. This election was notable for the sharp decline of the New National Party, previously the National Party (NP), which without former State President F.W. de Klerk lost more than half of their former support base. The liberal Democratic Party became the largest opposition party, after being the fifth largest party in the previous elections in 1994. The number of parties represented in the National Assembly increased to thirteen, with the United Democratic Movement, jointly headed by former National Party member Roelf Meyer, and former ANC member Bantu Holomisa, being the most successful of the newcomers with fourteen seats.


1999 South African general election, Provincial legislature results, NCOP seats
The National Council of Provinces (NCOP) consists of 90 members, ten elected by each provincial legislature. The Members of NCOP have to be elected in proportion to the party membership of the provincial legislature.


1999 South African general election, Aftermath
Thabo Mbeki was elected president (unopposed) by the new Assembly on 14 June 1999, succeeding Nelson Mandela.


1999 South African motorcycle Grand Prix
The 1999 South African motorcycle Grand Prix was the fourteenth round of the 1999 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season. It took place on 10 October 1999 at Phakisa Freeway.


1999 South African motorcycle Grand Prix, Championship standings after the race (500cc)
Below are the standings for the top five riders and constructors after round fourteen has concluded.


1999 South American Championships in Athletics
The 1999 South American Championships in Athletics were held  at the Coliseo El Salitre in Bogotá, Colombia from June 25–27.


1999 South American Championships in Athletics – Results
These are the full results of the 1999 South American Championships in Athletics which took place on June 25–27, 1999, in Bogotá, Colombia on Coliseo El Salitre. As the stadium is located 2600 meters above sea level, performances in some of the events were aided by high altitude.


1999 South American Cross Country Championships
The 1999 South American Cross Country Championships took place on February 27–28, 1999. The races were held in Artur Nogueira, Brazil.


1999 South American Cross Country Championships
Complete results, results for junior and youth competitions, and medal winners were published.


1999 South American Cross Country Championships, Participation
According to an unofficial count, 89 athletes from 8 countries participated.


1999 South American Junior Championships in Athletics
The 31st South American Junior Championships in Athletics were held in Concepción, Chile from October 22–23, 1999.


1999 South American Junior Championships in Athletics, Participation (unofficial)
Detailed result lists can be found on the "World Junior Athletics History" website. An unofficial count yields the number of about 278 athletes from about 11 countries:  Argentina (47), Bolivia (9), Brazil (63), Chile (59), Colombia (15), Ecuador (30), Panama (4), Paraguay (4), Peru (15), Uruguay (10), Venezuela (22).


1999 South American Junior Championships in Athletics, Medal summary
Medal winners are published for men and womenComplete results can be found on the "World Junior Athletics History" website.


1999 South American U-17 Championship
The 1999 South American Under-17 Football Championship was a football competition contested by all ten U-17 national football teams of CONMEBOL. The tournament was held in Uruguay between 4 and 21 March 1999, it was the 8th time the competition has been held and the 1st to take place in Uruguay.


1999 South American U-17 Championship
This tournament gave three berths to the 1999 FIFA U-17 World Championship, which was held in New Zealand, Brazil won their fifth title and their third in a row. They qualified to the aforementioned tournament along with Paraguay and Uruguay.


1999 South American U-17 Championship, First round
The 10 national teams were divided in 2 groups of 5 teams each. The top 2 teams qualified for the semi-finals.


1999 South American U-17 Championship, Countries to participate in 1999 FIFA U-17 World Championship
Top 3 teams qualify for 1999 FIFA U-17 World Championship:


1999 South American U-20 Championship
The 1999 South American Youth Championship (Sudamericana sub-20) is a football competition contested by all ten U-20 national football teams of CONMEBOL. The tournament was held in Argentina between January 5 and January 25, 1999, the 23rd time the competition had been held and the 2nd to take place in the country. Argentina finished undefeated, winning their 3rd trophy.


1999 South American U-20 Championship, Format
The teams are separated in two groups of five, and each team plays four matches in a pure round-robin stage. The three top competitors advance to a single final group of six, wherein each team plays five matches. The top four teams in the final group qualify to the 1999 FIFA World Youth Championship.


1999 South American U-20 Championship, Squads
For a list of all the squads in the final tournament, see 1999 South American Youth Championship squads.


1999 South American U-20 Championship, Qualification to World Youth Championship
The four best performing teams qualified for the 1999 FIFA World Youth Championship.


1999 South American U-20 Championship squads
The 1999 South American Youth Championship (Sudamericana sub-20) was a football competition contested by all ten national football teams of CONMEBOL. Each team was represented by the under-20 national football team. The tournament was held in Argentina between January 5 and January 25, 1999, the 23rd time the competition had been held.


1999 South Asian Football Federation Gold Cup
The 1999 South Asian Football Federation Gold Cup (also known as SAFF Coca-Cola Cup due to sponsorship reasons) was held in Goa, India between 22 April 1999 and 1 May 1999. The Nehru Stadium in Margao played host to all matches. India successfully defended their title by beating Bangladesh in the final, by doing so they became the first team to retain the title as well.


1999 South Asian Games
The 1999 South Asian Games (or 8th SAF Games) were held in Kathmandu, Nepal (for the second time) from September 25 to October 4, 1999. King Birendra Bir Bikram Shah Dev declared the games open amidst a grand ceremony.


1999 South Asian Games
1069 athletes of the different seven SAARC countries participated in the twelve sports.


1999 South Asian Games
In the final medal count, India took first position and taking the advantages of host country Nepal amazingly took second position followed by Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan and Maldives. Out of 523 medals India had the most, with 102 gold, 58 silver and 37 bronze, Nepal then took 31 gold, 10 silver and 24 bronze, Sri Lanka 16 gold 42 silver and 62 bronze, Pakistan 10 gold, 36 silver and 30 bronze, Bangladesh 2 gold, 10 silver and 35 bronze, Bhutan 1 gold, 6 silver and 7 bronze, Maldives 4 bronze. None of the participant countries went back empty hand without having medals. Even Bhutan and Maldives had the benefit of medals.


1999 South Asian Games, The games, Sports
There were 12 sports including 2 new sports, Karate and Taekwondo.


1999 South Asian Games, The games, Medal table
A total of 523 medals comprising 162 Gold medals, 162 Silver medals and 199 Bronze medals were awarded to athletes. The host Nepal's performance was their best ever yet in South Asian Games and were placed only second to India.


1999 South Asian Games, The games, Medal table
Note: 28 Golds of Nepal came from Taekwondo and Karate. The gold medal won by Pramila Thapa in taekwondo was the first gold medal in Nepal's taekwondo history and sports council's history.


1999 South Ayrshire Council election
Elections to South Ayrshire Council area were held on 6 May 1999, alongside elections to the Scottish Parliament. All 30 seats were up for election. Labour emerged from the election with a majority.


1999 South Carolina Gamecocks football team
The 1999 South Carolina Gamecocks football team represented the University of South Carolina in the Southeastern Conference (SEC) during the 1999 NCAA Division I-A football season. The Gamecocks were led by Lou Holtz in his first season as head coach and played their home games in Williams-Brice Stadium in Columbia, South Carolina.


1999 South Dakota Learjet crash
On October 25, 1999, a chartered Learjet 35 business jet was scheduled to fly from Orlando, Florida, to Dallas, Texas. Early in the flight, the aircraft, which was climbing to its assigned altitude on autopilot, quickly lost cabin pressure and all six on board were incapacitated by hypoxia—a lack of oxygen. The aircraft continued climbing past its assigned altitude, then failed to make the westward turn toward Dallas over north Florida and continued on its northwestern course, flying over the southern and Midwestern United States for almost four hours and 1,500 miles (2,400 km).


1999 South Dakota Learjet crash
The plane ran out of fuel over South Dakota and crashed into a field near Aberdeen after an uncontrolled descent. The two pilots were Michael Kling and Stephanie Bellegarrigue. The four passengers on board were PGA golfer Payne Stewart; his agents, and Bruce Borland, a golf architect with the Jack Nicklaus golf course design company.


1999 South Dakota Learjet crash, History of the flight, Departure
On October 25, 1999, Learjet 35, registration N47BA, operated by Sunjet Aviation of Sanford, Florida, departed Orlando International Airport (IATA: MCO, ICAO: KMCO) at 1319Z (0919 EDT) on a two-day, five-flight trip. Before departure, the aircraft had been fueled with 5,300 lb (2,400 kg) of Jet A, enough for 4 hours and 45 minutes of flight. On board were two pilots and four passengers.


1999 South Dakota Learjet crash, History of the flight, Departure
At 1327:13Z, the controller from the Jacksonville ARTCC instructed the pilot to climb and maintain flight level (FL) 390 (39,000 feet (11,900 m) above sea level). At 1327:18Z (0927:18 EDT), the pilot acknowledged the clearance by stating, "three nine zero bravo alpha." This was the last known radio transmission from the airplane, and occurred while the aircraft was passing through 23,000 feet (7,000 m). The next attempt to contact the aircraft occurred 6 minutes, 20 seconds later (14 minutes after departure), with the aircraft at 36,500 feet (11,100 m), and the controller's message went unacknowledged. The controller attempted to contact N47BA five more times in the next 4+1⁄2 minutes, again with no answer.


1999 South Dakota Learjet crash, History of the flight, First interception
About 1454Z (now 0954 CDT in the Central Time zone), a U.S. Air Force F-16 test pilot from the 40th Flight Test Squadron at Eglin AFB in western Florida, who happened to be in the air nearby, was directed by controllers to intercept N47BA. When the fighter was about 2,000 feet (600 m) from the Learjet, at an altitude of about 46,400 feet (14,100 m), the test pilot made two radio calls to N47BA but did not receive a response. The F-16 pilot made a visual inspection of the Lear, finding no visible damage to the airplane.


1999 South Dakota Learjet crash, History of the flight, First interception
Both engines were running, and the plane's red rotating anti-collision beacon was on (standard operation for aircraft in flight). The fighter pilot could not see inside the passenger section of the airplane because the windows seemed to be dark. Further, he stated that the entire right cockpit windshield was opaque, as if condensation or ice covered the inside.


1999 South Dakota Learjet crash, History of the flight, First interception
He also indicated that the left cockpit windshield was opaque, although several sections of the center of the windshield seemed to be only thinly covered by condensation or ice; a small rectangular section of the windshield was clear, with only a small section of the glare shield visible through this area. He did not see any flight control movement. At about 15:12 Z, the F-16 pilot concluded his inspection of N47BA and broke formation, proceeding to Scott AFB in southwestern Illinois.


1999 South Dakota Learjet crash, History of the flight, Second interception
At 1613Z, almost three hours into the flight of the unresponsive Learjet, two F-16s from the 138th Fighter Wing of the Oklahoma Air National Guard (ANG), flying under the call-sign "TULSA 13 flight", were directed by the Minneapolis ARTCC to intercept. The TULSA 13 lead pilot reported that he could not see any movement in the cockpit, that the windshield was dark and that he could not tell if the windshield was iced.


1999 South Dakota Learjet crash, History of the flight, Second interception
A few minutes later, a TULSA 13 pilot reported, "We're not seeing anything inside, could be just a dark cockpit though...he is not reacting, moving or anything like that he should be able to have seen us by now." At 16:39 Z, TULSA 13 left to rendezvous with a tanker for refueling.


1999 South Dakota Learjet crash, History of the flight, Second interception
The aircraft reached a maximum altitude of 48,900 feet (9.3 mi; 14.9 km).


1999 South Dakota Learjet crash, History of the flight, Third interception and escort
About 1650Z, two F-16s from the 119th Wing of the North Dakota ANG with the identification "NODAK 32 flight" were directed to intercept N47BA. TULSA 13 flight also returned from refueling, and all four fighters maneuvered close to the Lear. The TULSA 13 lead pilot reported, "We've got two visuals on it. It's looking like the cockpit window is iced over and there's no displacement in any of the control surfaces as far as the ailerons or trims." About 17:01 Z, TULSA 13 flight returned to the tanker again, while NODAK 32 remained with N47BA.


1999 South Dakota Learjet crash, History of the flight, Third interception and escort
There was some speculation in the media that military jets were prepared to shoot down the Lear if it threatened to crash in a heavily populated area. Officials at the Pentagon strongly denied that possibility. Shooting down the plane "was never an option," Air Force spokesman Captain Joe Della Vedova said, "I don't know where that came from."


1999 South Dakota Learjet crash, History of the flight, Third interception and escort
Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chrétien authorized the Royal Canadian Air Force to shoot down the plane if it entered Canadian airspace without making contact. He writes in his 2018 memoirs, "The plane was heading toward the city of Winnipeg and the air traffic controllers feared that it would crash into the Manitoba capital. I was asked to give permission for the military to bring down the plane if that became necessary. With a heavy heart, I authorized the procedure. Shortly after I made my decision, I learned that the plane had crashed in South Dakota." Chrétien relates that Stewart was "an excellent golfer, whom I knew and liked very much."


1999 South Dakota Learjet crash, History of the flight, Crash
The Learjet's cockpit voice recorder (CVR), which was recovered from the wreckage, contained an audio recording of the last 30 minutes of the flight (it was an older model which only recorded 30 minutes of audio; the aircraft was not equipped with a flight data recorder). At 1710:41Z, the Learjet's engines can be heard winding down, indicating that the plane's fuel had been exhausted. In addition, sounds of the stick shaker and the disconnection of the autopilot can be heard. With the engines powered down, the autopilot would have attempted to maintain altitude, causing the plane's airspeed to drop until it approached stall speed, at which point the stick shaker would have automatically engaged to warn the pilot and the autopilot would have switched itself off.


1999 South Dakota Learjet crash, History of the flight, Crash
At 1711:01Z, the Lear began a right turn and descent. NODAK 32 remained to the west, while TULSA 13  broke away from the tanker and followed N47BA down. At 1711:26 CDT, the NODAK 32 lead pilot reported, "The target is descending and he is doing multiple aileron rolls, looks like he's out of control...in a severe descent, request an emergency descent to follow target." The TULSA 13 pilot reported, "It's soon to impact the ground; he is in a descending spiral."


1999 South Dakota Learjet crash, History of the flight, Crash
Impact occurred approximately 1713Z, or 1213 local, after a total flight time of 3 hours, 54 minutes, with the aircraft hitting the ground at a nearly supersonic speed and an extreme angle. The Learjet crashed in South Dakota, just outside Mina in Edmunds County, on relatively flat ground and left a crater 42 feet (13 m) long, 21 feet (6.4 m) wide, and 8 feet (2.4 m) deep. None of its components remained intact.


1999 South Dakota Learjet crash, Passengers and crew
In addition to Payne Stewart and three others, there were two pilots on board:


1999 South Dakota Learjet crash, Passengers and crew
The 42-year-old captain, Michael Kling, held an airline transport pilot certificate and type ratings for the Boeing 707, Boeing 737, and Learjet 35. He also had Air Force experience flying the KC-135 and Boeing E-3 Sentry. Kling was also an instructor pilot on the KC-135E in the Maine Air National Guard. According to Sunjet Aviation records, the captain had accumulated a total of 4,280 hours of flight time (military and commercial) and had flown a total of 60 hours with Sunjet, 38 as a Learjet pilot-in-command and 22 as a Learjet second-in-command.


1999 South Dakota Learjet crash, Passengers and crew
The first officer, 27-year-old Stephanie Bellegarrigue, held a commercial pilot certificate and type ratings for Learjet and Cessna Citation 500. She was also a certified flight instructor. She had accumulated a total of 1,751 hours of flight time, of which 251 hours were with Sunjet Aviation as a second-in-command and 99 as a Learjet second-in-command.


1999 South Dakota Learjet crash, Investigation
The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) has several levels of investigation, of which the highest is a "major" investigation. Because of the extraordinary circumstances in this crash, a major investigation was performed.


1999 South Dakota Learjet crash, Investigation
The probable cause of this accident was incapacitation of the flight crew members as a result of their failure to receive supplemental oxygen following a loss of cabin pressurization, for undetermined reasons.


1999 South Dakota Learjet crash, Investigation
The Board added a commentary regarding the possible reasons why the crew did not obtain supplemental oxygen:


1999 South Dakota Learjet crash, Investigation
Following the depressurization, the pilots did not receive supplemental oxygen in sufficient time and/or adequate concentration to avoid hypoxia and incapacitation. The wreckage indicated that the oxygen bottle pressure regulator/shutoff valve was open on the accident flight. Further, although one flight crew mask hose connector was found in the wreckage disconnected from its valve receptacle (the other connector was not recovered), damage to the recovered connector and both receptacles was consistent with both flight crew masks having been connected to the airplane's oxygen supply lines at the time of impact. In addition, both flight crew mask microphones were found plugged into their respective crew microphone jacks. Therefore, assuming the oxygen bottle contained an adequate supply of oxygen, supplemental oxygen should have been available to both pilots' oxygen masks.


1999 South Dakota Learjet crash, Investigation
[ A] possible explanation for the failure of the pilots to receive emergency oxygen is that their ability to think and act decisively was impaired because of hypoxia before they could don their oxygen masks. No definitive evidence exists that indicates the rate at which the accident flight lost its cabin pressure; therefore, the Safety Board evaluated conditions of both rapid and gradual depressurization.


1999 South Dakota Learjet crash, Investigation
If there had been a breach in the fuselage (even a small one that could not be visually detected by the in-flight observers) or a seal failure, the cabin could have depressurized gradually, rapidly, or even explosively. Research has shown that a period of as little as 8 seconds without supplemental oxygen following rapid depressurization to about 30,000 feet (9,100 m) may cause a drop in oxygen saturation that can significantly impair cognitive functioning and increase the amount of time required to complete complex tasks.


1999 South Dakota Learjet crash, Investigation
A more gradual decompression could have resulted from other possible causes, such as a smaller leak in the pressure vessel or a closed flow control valve. Safety Board testing determined that a closed flow control valve would cause complete depressurization to the airplane's flight altitude over a period of several minutes. However, without supplemental oxygen, substantial adverse effects on cognitive and motor skills would have been expected soon after the first clear indication of decompression (the cabin altitude warning), when the cabin altitude reached 10,000 feet (3,000 m) (which could have occurred in about 30 seconds).


1999 South Dakota Learjet crash, Investigation
Investigations of other accidents in which flight crews attempted to diagnose a pressurization problem or initiate emergency pressurization instead of immediately donning oxygen masks following a cabin altitude alert have revealed that, even with a relatively gradual rate of depressurization, pilots have rapidly lost cognitive or motor abilities to effectively troubleshoot the problem or don their masks shortly thereafter.


1999 South Dakota Learjet crash, Investigation
In this accident, the flight crew's failure to obtain supplemental oxygen in time to avoid incapacitation could be explained by a delay in donning oxygen masks; of only a few seconds in the case of an explosive or rapid decompression, or a slightly longer delay in the case of a gradual decompression.


1999 South Dakota Learjet crash, Investigation
In summary, the Safety Board was unable to determine why the flight crew could not, or did not, receive supplemental oxygen in sufficient time and/or adequate concentration to avoid hypoxia and incapacitation.


1999 South Dakota Learjet crash, Investigation
The NTSB report showed that the plane had several instances of maintenance work related to cabin pressure in the months leading up to the accident. The NTSB was unable to determine whether they stemmed from a common problem – replacements and repairs were documented, but not the pilot discrepancy reports that prompted them or the frequency of such reports. The report criticised Sunjet Aviation for the possibility that this would have made the problem harder to identify, track, and resolve, as well as the fact that in at least one instance the plane was flown with an unauthorized maintenance deferral for cabin pressure problems.


1999 South Dakota Learjet crash, Aftermath
Stewart was ultimately headed to Houston for the 1999 Tour Championship, but planned a stop in Dallas for discussions with the athletic department of his alma mater, Southern Methodist University, about building a new home course for the school's golf program. Stewart was memorialized at the Tour Championship with a lone bagpipe player playing at the first hole at Champions Golf Club prior to the beginning of the first day of play.


1999 South Dakota Learjet crash, Aftermath
The owner of the crash site, after consulting the wives of Stewart and several other victims, created a memorial on about 1 acre (4,000 m2) of the site. At its center is a rock pulled from the site inscribed with the names of the victims and a Bible passage.


1999 South Dakota Learjet crash, Aftermath
The 2000 U.S. Open, held at Pebble Beach Golf Links, began with a golf version of a 21-gun salute when 21 of Stewart's fellow players simultaneously hit balls into the Pacific Ocean.


1999 South Dakota Learjet crash, Aftermath
In 2001, Stewart was posthumously inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame.


1999 South Dakota Learjet crash, Aftermath
On June 8, 2005, a Florida state court jury in Orlando found that Learjet was not liable for the deaths of Stewart and his agents Robert Fraley and Van Ardan, who had also been aboard the plane.


1999 South Dakota Learjet crash, Documentaries
The documentary series Mayday, also known by the titles Air Crash Investigation and Air Disasters, features this incident in the first episode of its 16th season. The episode, titled "Deadly Silence," was first aired on June 7, 2016.


1999 South Dublin County Council election
An election to South Dublin County Council took place on 10 June 1999 as part of that year's Irish local elections. 26 councillors were elected from five electoral divisions by PR-STV voting for a five-year term of office.


1999 South Florida Bulls football team
The 1999 South Florida Bulls football team represented the University of South Florida (USF) in the 1999 NCAA Division I-AA football season, and was the third team fielded by the school. The Bulls were led by head coach Jim Leavitt in his third year, played their home games at Raymond James Stadium in Tampa, Florida and competed as a Division I-AA Independent. The Bulls finished the season with a record of seven wins and four losses (7–4). William Pukylo corner back led team in interceptions with 8, named Bulls defensive player of the year.


1999 South Gloucestershire Council election
The 1999 South Gloucestershire Council election took place on 6 May 1999 to elect members of South Gloucestershire unitary authority in England. All 70 seats in the council were up for election and the Liberal Democrats gained overall control of the council from no overall control.


1999 South Gloucestershire Council election, Ward results
In wards that are represented by more than one councillor, electors were given more than one vote each, hence the voter turnout may not match the number of votes cast.


1999 South Hams District Council election
Elections to South Hams District Council took place on 6 May 1999, the same day as other United Kingdom local elections. This was the first election to be held under new ward boundaries, with the number of seats reduced from 44 to 40 The Conservative Party gained overall control of the council, which had previously been under no overall control.


1999 South Kesteven District Council election
The 1999 South Kesteven District Council election took place on 6 May 1999 to elect members of South Kesteven District Council in Lincolnshire, England. The whole council was up for election with boundary changes since the last election in 1995. The council stayed under no overall control.


1999 South Lakeland District Council election
The 1999 South Lakeland District Council election took place on 6 May 1999 to elect members of South Lakeland District Council in Cumbria, England. The whole council was up for election with boundary changes since the last election in 1998. The council stayed under no overall control.


1999 South Lanarkshire Council election
Elections to South Lanarkshire Council were held on 6 May 1999, the same day as the other Scottish local government elections and the inaugural Scottish Parliament election. Following a review, the number of single-member wards reduced from 73 to 67.


1999 South Lanarkshire Council election
The council remained under Scottish Labour Party control following the election - they won seven fewer seats and collected 7% less of the overall vote share than in 1995, but with less seats available their percentage loss was only 3%, and the number of votes they collected increased substantially due to the higher voter turnout, which went up from 107,833 (46.4% turnout) in 1995 to 139,564 (59.2% turnout), an increase of 29%; this was at least partly attributable to the interest in the new Scottish Parliament - the 1995 election had not been held in conjunction with votes for any other body.


1999 South Lanarkshire Council election
The SNP and Conservative vote numbers also each nearly doubled, but with far less dramatic gains in terms of their vote share and seats. In those circumstances, the Liberal Democrats polling almost the same numbers as four years earlier could be seen as the most disappointing outcome for a major party in South Lanarkshire, in contrast to their positive overall results across Scotland on the night.


1999 South Oxfordshire District Council election
The 1999 South Oxfordshire District Council election took place on 6 May 1999 to elect members of South Oxfordshire District Council, a non-metropolitan district council in Oxfordshire, England. This was part of the wider 1999 UK local elections. The whole council was up for election and the council stayed under no overall control.


1999 South Pacific Games
The 1999 South Pacific Games, held in Guam from 29 May to 12 June 1999, was the eleventh edition of the South Pacific Games.


1999 South Pacific Games, Participating countries
The 21 countries that competed at the 1999 South Pacific Games were:


1999 South Pacific Games, Notes
Congressman Robert A. Underwood stated that more than 3,000 athletes were welcomed for the 1999 SPG.


1999 South Pacific Games, Notes
Congressman Underwood recorded 26 sporting events, but the results for wrestling listed the freestyle and Greco-Roman medals separately and the results for weightlifting listed the clean and jerk, snatch, and overall medals separately. The football tournament was not held because newly imposed OFC/FIFA regulations on player registrations conflicted with the South Pacific Games system and the tournament was not sanctioned. The official site listed 22 sports.


1999 South Pacific Games, Notes
The Guam Bodybuilding website reported Ricky Collins as winning gold in the heavyweight division for bodybuilding at 1999 South Pacific Games, but this may not have been an official event in the 1999 Games. The sport is not included in the list above as it was not mentioned on SPG 1999 website.


1999 South Pacific Games, Notes
Solomon Islands beach volleyball team's first appearance was in the 1999 Guam South Pacific Games.


1999 South Pacific Games, Notes
Six events for the "Galaide II", OC6 canoe (G6). Four events for the Va'a 1, rudderless OC1 (V1). Held at Matapang Beach, Tumon Bay.


1999 South Pacific Games, Notes
Swimming: Three were 34 medal events contested, 17 each for men and women. The 5 kilometre open water events were introduced at the 1999 SPG. Swimmers from American Samoa, Fiji, Guam, New Caledonia, Northern Marianas, Micronesia, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, and Tahiti competed.


1999 South Ribble Borough Council election
Elections to South Ribble Borough Council were held on 6 May 1999. The whole council was up for election and the council stayed under no overall control.


1999 South Tipperary County Council election
An election to South Tipperary County Council took place on 10 June 1999 as part of that year's Irish local elections. 26 councillors were elected from five electoral divisions by PR-STV voting for a five-year term of office.


1999 South Tyneside Metropolitan Borough Council election
The 1999 South Tyneside Metropolitan Borough Council election took place on 6 May 1999 to elect members of South Tyneside Metropolitan Borough Council in Tyne and Wear, England. One third of the council was up for election and the Labour party kept overall control of the council.


1999 South Tyneside Metropolitan Borough Council election, Election result
The results saw no change with Labour remaining firmly in control with 51 of the 60 seats on the council. In Hebburn Quay ward 3 recounts were required before the sitting Liberal Democrat councillor, Catherine Tolson, was re-elected by 20 votes. Overall turnout in the election was 25.4%.


1999 Southampton City Council election
The 1999 Southampton Council election took place on 6 May 1999 to elect members of Southampton Unitary Council in Hampshire, England. One third of the council was up for election and the Labour party stayed in overall control of the council.


1999 Southampton City Council election, Election result
The results saw the Labour party stay in control of the council after holding all but one of the seats they had been defending. The only change came in St Lukes ward where Conservative Conor Burns gained the seat from Labour. Overall turnout in the election was 26.4%.


1999 Southeast Asian Games
The 1999 Southeast Asian Games (Malay: Sukan Asia Tenggara 1999), officially known as the 20th Southeast Asian Games, was a Southeast Asian multi-sport event held in Bandar Seri Begawan, Brunei Darussalam. This was the first time Brunei hosted the Southeast Asian Games and also in Borneo island.


1999 Southeast Asian Games
The games is the last Southeast Asian Games in the 20th century and also the last in the 2nd Millennium. Around 2365 athletes from 10 participating nations participated at the games, which featured 233 events in 21 sports. Brunei is the seventh country to host the Southeast Asian Games after Thailand, Myanmar, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia and the Philippines. The games was held from 7 to 15 August 1999, although several events had commenced from 30 July 1999. The games was opened by His Majesty Sultan Haji Hassanal Bolkiah at the National Sports Complex named after him, Hassanal Bolkiah National Stadium.


1999 Southeast Asian Games
The final medal tally was led by Thailand, followed by Malaysia and Indonesia with host Brunei in seventh place. Several Games and National Records were broken during the games. The games were deemed generally successful with the rising standard of competition amongst the Southeast Asian nations.


1999 Southeast Asian Games, Development and preparation
The 20th SEA Games Organising Committee was formed to oversee the staging of the games.


1999 Southeast Asian Games, Development and preparation, Venues
The 1999 Southeast Asian Games used a mix of new, existing and temporary venues. Some major retrofitting work were done in most venues to host the multi-sport event.


1999 Southeast Asian Games, Development and preparation, Venues
At the centrepiece of the activities was the Hassanal Bolkiah Sports Complex which was completed in September 1983. Incorporating the 28,000-seat national stadium, it hosted most of the events. As Brunei have limited sports facilities, only 21 sports were held in the country.


1999 Southeast Asian Games, Development and preparation, Venues
A games village was not built. Instead, a "village in the city" concept saw athletes and officials housed in were housed in service apartment and hotels respectively across Brunei, with the former served as the games village for the athletes. Besides being physically near to the Hassanal Bolkiah Sports Complex, it was hoped that it will add vibe to the city and reduce post-games costs in converting a dedicated games village to other uses.


1999 Southeast Asian Games, Development and preparation, Venues
The 20th Southeast Asian Games had 22 venues for the games.


1999 Southeast Asian Games, Marketing, Logo
The logo of the 1999 Southeast Asian Games is an image of a torch, the symbol of the Games that represents vitality, sportsmanship and tradition. The logo that is coloured in red, yellow and green symbolises the excitement of the games. The ten interlinked gold rings, the logo of the Southeast Asian Games Federation represents the participating nations of the Southeast Asian Games, and the Southeast Asian Games itself. The gold colour of the logo represents quality, achievement and victory. The games' logo is the first logo in Southeast Asian Games history to use the 10-ring chain which last until the 2011 games.


1999 Southeast Asian Games, Marketing, Mascot
The mascot of the 1999 Southeast Asian Games is a boy named Awang Budiman. His traditional Malay attire bears the colours of the flag of Brunei, which symbolises the traditional cultural identity of the nation. The first name "Awang" is a specific Bruneian male name, while the last name "Budiman" represents the wise and courteous characteristics of Brunei as the host of the games.


1999 Southeast Asian Games, Marketing, Songs
A song album of the games was released during the games which contains songs written by Prince Sufri Bolkiah. These include the theme song of the games: "Mencari Kejayaan" (In search for success) which was composed by Prince Haji Sufri Bolkiah and was sung by Ak Mohd Yusri. The other songs are "Here We Meet", "Selamat Datang" (Welcome), "Tekad Kemenangan" (Determined to win), "Skuad Negara" (National Squad) and "Till We Meet Again".


1999 Southeast Asian Games, The games, Opening ceremony
The opening ceremony began at 20:00 BST with the arrival of guests, VIPs and Prince Haji Sufri Bolkiah, President of the National Olympic Council of Brunei Darussalam and Chairman of the 20th SEA Games Organising Committee into the stadium, the marching performance by the Royal Brunei Armed Forces and the Royal Brunei Police Force and the stage performance by local artists including Ak Mohd Yusri who performed the games' theme song, Mencari Kejayaan.


1999 Southeast Asian Games, The games, Opening ceremony
At 20:30 BST, His Majesty Sultan Haji Hassanal Bolkiah Muizaddin Waddaulah, Sultan and Yang Di-Pertuan of Brunei Darussalam, Her Majesty Raja Isteri Pengiran Anak Hajah Saleha and the members of the royal family arrived at the stadium. The armed forces bringing in the National Flag of Brunei and the National Anthem of Brunei was played as the National Flag of Brunei was raised. The Sultan then inspected of the guards of honour of the Armed Forces.


1999 Southeast Asian Games, The games, Opening ceremony
Later, the march past by 50 flag bearers of the SEA Games flags and Mascot started, followed by 100 flag bearers carrying the flags of all participating nations. The contingents of each country also paraded into the stadium began with the Cambodia contingent. The host Contingent, Brunei led by Crown Prince Pengiran Muda Haji Al-Muhtadee Billah, Prince Abdul Mateen, Princess Azemah Ni'matul Bolkiah and Princess Fadzillah Lubabul Bolkiah, received the warmest welcome when they marched into the stadium.


1999 Southeast Asian Games, The games, Opening ceremony
After that, the President delivered his welcoming speech and the games was then declared opened by the Sultan. Fathan and Ernie then performed the song Selamat Datang. Later, the Royal Armed Force personnel then marched into the stadium taking the games flag with them and raised them beside the Brunei National Flag. The 20th SEA Games cauldron was then lit by Dayang Umi Kalthum Haji Karim, Brunei's Gold Medalist in Pencak Silat event at the 17th SEA Games in Singapore. The reading of the SEA Games oath was led by the 15th SEA Games Gold Medalist in Shooting event, Lieutenant Colonel Dato Setia Haji Md Samid Haji Abdul Aziz. The ceremony concluded with field performance presented by paratroopers, five-thousand students of Brunei and three hundred Brunei Shell Employees.


1999 Southeast Asian Games, The games, Closing ceremony
The closing ceremony began at 20:00 BST with the arrival of the Crown Prince at the National Stadium alongside the President of the National Olympic Council of Brunei Darussalam and the Chairman of the 20th SEA Games Organising Committee. Also presented were other members of the royal family.


1999 Southeast Asian Games, The games, Closing ceremony
After that, a video clip on the highlights of the 20th SEA Games was broadcast, followed by the Games Mascot performance which portrayed the images of some of the sports events during the nine days sport meet, the parade of athletes competed at the games with Prince Abdul Mateen, Princess Azeemah Niqmatul Bolkiah and Princess Fadzillah Lubabul Bolkiah leading the Brunei contingent by order of sports. A song presentation entitled "Skuad Negara" composed by the President of the Brunei Darussalam National Olympic Council was performed by a Bruneian choir group. The President then gave his speech. Later, the Crown Prince declared the games closed.


1999 Southeast Asian Games, The games, Closing ceremony
The cauldron was later extinguished with the President of the National Olympic Council of Brunei Darussalam and the Chairman of the 20th SEA Games Organising Committee, handed over the SEA Games Flag to the Malaysian representative, Tunku Emran Tuanku Jaafar, President of the Malaysia Olympic Council, represented the SEA Games responsibilities being handed over to Malaysia, host of the 2001 Southeast Asian Games.


1999 Southeast Asian Games, The games, Closing ceremony
The national anthem of Malaysia was played as the National Flag of Malaysia was raised. Later, a Malaysia segment performance, "Gemilang Malaysia" was performed by members of the Sabah Cultural Board and the Sarawak Cultural Village as well as 60 students from the Bandaraya Kuching Secondary School which formed the Malaysian cultural group. The ceremony concluded with a stage performance performed by Bruneian artists.


1999 Southeastern Conference Baseball Tournament
The 1999 Southeastern Conference Baseball Tournament was held at Hoover Metropolitan Stadium in Hoover, Alabama from May 19-23. Alabama defeated Arkansas in the championship game, earning the Southeastern Conference's automatic bid to the 1999 NCAA Division I Baseball Tournament.


1999 Southeastern Conference Baseball Tournament, Regular Season Results
The top four teams (based on conference results) from both the Eastern and Western Divisions earned invites to the tournament.


1999 Southend-on-Sea Borough Council election
The 1999 Southend-on-Sea Council election took place on 6 May 1999 to elect members of Southend-on-Sea Unitary Council in Essex, England. One third of the council was up for election and the council stayed under no overall control.


1999 Southend-on-Sea Borough Council election, Election result
Before the election the Conservatives needed a swing of less than 5% in order to win a majority on the council, but despite targeting the council they failed to take control. However they came within a single vote of a majority, after Labour came top in both of the seats that were being contested in Milton ward. The second Labour candidate for the ward, Stephen George, was only one vote ahead of the sitting Conservative councillor, Joyce Lambert, thus preventing the Conservatives from holding the critical seat that would have seen them win control of the council.


1999 Southend-on-Sea Borough Council election, Election result
The Conservatives did gain one seat from the Liberal Democrats in Leigh ward, as the Liberal Democrats lost votes across the council. This saw a number of close results for the Liberal Democrats as they only held Prittlewell by 5 votes from the Conservatives and Westborough by 4 votes over Labour. Overall turnout in the election was 26.5%.


1999 Southend-on-Sea Borough Council election, Election result
The results meant that the Liberal Democrat and Labour administration, which had run the council for the previous 5 years, would continue.


1999 Southern Brazil blackout
The 1999 Southern Brazil blackout was a widespread power outage (the largest ever at the time) that occurred in Brazil on March 11 to June 22, 1999.


1999 Southern Brazil blackout
The blackout involved São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Minas Gerais, Goiás, Mato Grosso, Mato Grosso do Sul and Rio Grande do Sul, affecting an estimated 75 to 97 million people. A chain reaction was started when a lightning strike occurred at 22h 16m at an electricity substation in Bauru, São Paulo State causing most of the 440kV circuits at the substation to trip. Brazil was undergoing a severe investment crisis during 1999, which limited spending on maintenance and expansion of the power grid.


1999 Southern Brazil blackout
With few routes for the power to flow from the generating stations via the 440kV system (a very important system to São Paulo state, carrying electricity generated by the Paraná river) a lot of generators automatically shut down because they did not have any load. The world's biggest power plant at the time, Itaipu, tried to support the load that was no longer being supplied by the 440kV power plants, but the 750kV AC lines and the 600kV DC lines that connected the plant to the rest of the system could not take the load and tripped too.


1999 Southern Brazil blackout
South of São Paulo the consumers experienced an overfrequency, caused because they had more generation than load, mostly because Itaipu was now connected only to this sub-system, but that problem was automatically solved by all generators in the area, that reduced their loads.


1999 Southern Brazil blackout
The rest of the system experienced a much bigger problem, an underfrequency, since the system had a lot of load and not enough generation capacity. Some generators tripped because of the overfrequency, which aggravated the problem, and after an automatic rejection of 35% of the sub-system load the underfrequency did not go away. This caused the system to break in many pieces, São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro states were split with a few areas remaining online. Most of the Minas Gerais system remained online, and powered Brazil's capital, Brasília, as well as the state of Goias and some of Espirito Santo.


1999 Southern Brazil blackout
In Rio, the military police placed 1,200 men in the streets to avoid looting. In São Paulo, traffic authorities announced they closed the city's tunnels to prevent robberies. More than 60,000 people were on Rio's subway when lights went out.


1999 Southern Conference Baseball Tournament
The 1999 Southern Conference Baseball Tournament was held at Joseph P. Riley, Jr. Park in Charleston, SC from May 19 through May 22. Top seeded The Citadel won the tournament and earned the Southern Conference's automatic bid to the 1999 NCAA Division I Baseball Tournament. It was the Bulldogs fifth tournament win.


1999 Southern Conference Baseball Tournament
The tournament used a double-elimination format. Only the top eight teams participate, so Appalachian State, Davidson, and Furman were not in the field.


1999 Southern Conference Men's Basketball Tournament
The 1999 Southern Conference Men's Basketball Tournament took place from February 25–28, 1999, at the Greensboro Coliseum in Greensboro, North Carolina. The College of Charleston Cougars, led by head coach John Kresse, won their first Southern Conference title and received the automatic berth to the 1999 NCAA Tournament.


1999 Southern Conference Men's Basketball Tournament, Format
All twelve teams were eligible for the tournament. The tournament used a preset bracket consisting of four rounds, the first of which featured four games, with the winners moving on to the quarterfinal round. The top two finishers in each division received first round byes.


1999 Southern District Council election
The 1999 Southern District Council election was held on 28 November 1999 to elect all 17 elected members to the 21-member District Council.


1999 Southern Miss Golden Eagles football team
The 1999 Southern Miss Golden Eagles football team represented the University of Southern Mississippi in the 1999 NCAA Division I-A football season. The Golden Eagles were led by head coach Jeff Bower and played their home games at M. M. Roberts Stadium. They secured their third Conference USA conference championship after finishing 6–0 in conference play. Their overall record was 9–3, and they were invited to play in the 1999 Liberty Bowl, where they defeated Colorado State, 23–17. In the final AP Poll of the year, the Golden Eagles were ranked 14th, which is to date the highest finish in school history.


1999 Southland Conference Baseball Tournament
The 1999 Southland Conference Baseball Tournament was held from May 16 to 19, 1999 to determine the champion of the Southland Conference in the sport of college baseball for the 1999 season. The event pitted the top six finishers from the conference's regular season in a double-elimination tournament held at Warhawk Field, home field of Northeast Louisiana in Monroe, Louisiana. Third-seeded Southwest Texas State won their second championship and claimed the automatic bid to the 1999 NCAA Division I Baseball Tournament.


1999 Southland Conference Baseball Tournament, Seeding and format
The top six finishers from the regular season were seeded one through six. They played a double-elimination tournament.


1999 Southland Conference Baseball Tournament, All-Tournament Team, Most Valuable Player
Matt Mize was named Tournament Most Valuable Player. Mize was an outfielder for Texas–Arlington.


1999 Spa 24 Hours
The 1999 Proximus 24 Spa World Championship GT was the 53rd running of the Spa 24 Hours. It took place at the Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps, Belgium, over August 3-4, 1999. The event was won by the #1 Peugeot Team Belgique Luxembourg Peugeot 306 GTi.


1999 Spa 24 Hours
2 classes ran in the event. Group 1 - Superproduction fuel (SP) and Group 2 - Group N 2000 (N2.0). 53 cars started with 27 being classified.


1999 Spanish Grand Prix
The 1999 Spanish Grand Prix was a Formula One motor race held on 30 May 1999 at the Circuit de Catalunya near Barcelona, Spain. It was the fifth race of the 1999 Formula One season. The 65-lap race was won from pole position by Mika Häkkinen, driving a McLaren-Mercedes, with team-mate David Coulthard second and Michael Schumacher third in a Ferrari.


1999 Spanish Grand Prix, Report, Race
Mika Häkkinen, starting on pole for the fifth time in 1999, got off the line quickly and began building a gap between him and second place. David Coulthard and Jacques Villeneuve, starting third and sixth respectively, had great starts and were able to take second and third place by the first corner. Eddie Irvine, starting second, had a poor start and fell to fifth place after being passed by Coulthard, Villeneuve, and then in the second corner, his teammate Michael Schumacher. Olivier Panis and Marc Gené failed to start, with Gené retiring and Panis able to continue on in last place.


1999 Spanish Grand Prix, Report, Race
The McLaren duo of Häkkinen and Coulthard began building up a substantial gap, with the Ferraris being held up by Villeneuve. Eddie Irvine, on lap 23, became the first of the front runners to pit. Mika Häkkinen came in the next lap, and had built up such a lead that he only fell to second place. Villeneuve and Schumacher both stopped simultaneously, but Villeneuve's stop was longer and Schumacher was able to pass Villeneuve in the pits. Irvine was also able to capitalize on Villeneuve's slow stop to pass him.


1999 Spanish Grand Prix, Report, Race
After pitting, Michael Schumacher was initially caught behind Heinz-Harald Frentzen, but once past, he began the task of chasing down David Coulthard, fourteen seconds ahead. Schumacher closed to within a second of Coulthard on lap 41, but he pitted the next lap without making an attempt to pass. Mika Häkkinen pitted the lap after Schumacher, and Coulthard pitted on lap 45. Coulthard's stop was slightly faster that Schumacher's, and came out just ahead of Schumacher. Schumacher was able to close up behind Coulthard on cold tires, but was unable to pass Coulthard. Once Coulthard's tires warmed up, he was able to pull away from Schumacher.


1999 Spanish Grand Prix, Report, Race
Jacques Villeneuve pitted on lap 40, suffering from a broken rear wing element. The mechanics pulled the broken element off the wing, but first gear broke when Villeneuve tried to leave his pit box, and he retired.


1999 Spanish Grand Prix, Report, Race
Michael Schumacher made another late charge on David Coulthard as the two battled through the lap traffic of Damon Hill, Rubens Barrichello, and Toranosuke Takagi. Schumacher ran out of time, however, and finished the race in third place behind Coulthard. Mika Häkkinen won the race by over six seconds, marking the first time that both McLarens finished a race in 1999. Only one on-track overtaking manoeuvre was reported.


1999 Spanish local elections
The 1999 Spanish local elections were held on Sunday, 13 June 1999, to elect all 65,201 councillors in the 8,104 municipalities of Spain and all 1,034 seats in 38 provincial deputations. The elections were held simultaneously with regional elections in thirteen autonomous communities, as well as local elections in the three foral deputations of the Basque Country, the ten island councils in the Balearic and Canary Islands and the 1999 European Parliament election.


1999 Spanish local elections, Electoral system
Municipalities in Spain were local corporations with independent legal personality. They had a governing body, the municipal council or corporation, composed of a mayor, deputy mayors and a plenary assembly of councillors. Voting for the local assemblies was on the basis of universal suffrage, with all nationals over eighteen, registered in the corresponding municipality and in full enjoyment of all political rights entitled to vote. The mayor was in turn elected by the plenary assembly, with a legal clause providing for the candidate of the most-voted party to be automatically elected to the post in the event no other candidate was to gather an absolute majority of votes.


1999 Spanish local elections, Electoral system
Local councillors were elected using the D'Hondt method and a closed list proportional representation, with an electoral threshold of five percent of valid votes—which included blank ballots—being applied in each local council. Councillors were allocated to municipal councils based on the following scale:


1999 Spanish local elections, Electoral system
Councillors of municipalities with populations between 100 and 250 inhabitants were elected under an open list partial block voting, with electors voting for individual candidates instead of parties and for up to four candidates. Additionally, municipalities below 100 inhabitants, as well as those whose geographical location or the best management of municipal interests or other circumstances made it advisable, were to be organized through the open council system (Spanish: régimen de concejo abierto), in which voters would directly elect the local major.


1999 Spanish local elections, Electoral system
The electoral law provided that parties, federations, coalitions and groupings of electors were allowed to present lists of candidates. However, groupings of electors were required to secure the signature of a determined amount of the electors registered in the municipality for which they sought election:


1999 Spanish local elections, Electoral system
Electors were barred from signing for more than one list of candidates. Concurrently, parties and federations intending to enter in coalition to take part jointly at an election were required to inform the relevant Electoral Commission within ten days of the election being called.


1999 Spanish local elections, Electoral system
Provincial deputations were the governing bodies of provinces in Spain, having an administration role of municipal activities and composed of a provincial president, an administrative body, and a plenary. Basque provinces had foral deputations instead—called Juntas Generales—, whereas deputations for single-province autonomous communities were abolished: their functions transferred to the corresponding regional parliaments. For insular provinces, such as the Balearic and Canary Islands, deputations were replaced by island councils in each of the islands or group of islands. For Majorca, Menorca and Ibiza–Formentera this figure was referred to in Spanish as consejo insular (Catalan: consell insular), whereas for Gran Canaria, Tenerife, Fuerteventura, La Gomera, El Hierro, Lanzarote and La Palma its name was cabildo insular.


1999 Spanish local elections, Electoral system
Most deputations were indirectly elected by local councillors from municipalities in each judicial district. Seats were allocated to provincial deputations based on the following scale:


1999 Spanish local elections, Electoral system
Island councils and foral deputations were elected directly by electors under their own, specific electoral regulations.


1999 Spanish local elections, Municipal elections, City control
The following table lists party control in provincial capitals, as well as in municipalities above or around 75,000. Gains for a party are highlighted in that party's colour.


1999 Spanish local elections, Provincial deputations, Deputation control
The following table lists party control in provincial deputations. Gains for a party are highlighted in that party's colour.


1999 Spanish motorcycle Grand Prix
The 1999 Spanish motorcycle Grand Prix was the third round of the 1999 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season. It took place on 9 May 1999 at the Circuito Permanente de Jerez. The event is notable for being the last round that 5-time 500cc and reigning World Champion Mick Doohan participated in. Doohan did not start the race due to crashing in the wet qualifying session, resulting in career-ending leg injuries.


1999 Spanish motorcycle Grand Prix, Championship standings after the race (500cc)
Below are the standings for the top five riders and constructors after round three has concluded.


1999 Spanish regional elections
The 1999 Spanish regional elections were held on Sunday, 13 June 1999, to elect the regional parliaments of thirteen of the seventeen autonomous communities—Aragon, Asturias, the Balearic Islands, the Canary Islands, Cantabria, Castile and León, Castilla–La Mancha, Extremadura, La Rioja, Madrid, Murcia, Navarre and the Valencian Community, not including Andalusia, the Basque Country, Catalonia and Galicia, which had separate electoral cycles. 784 of 1,178 seats in the regional parliaments were up for election, as well as the 50 seats in the regional assemblies of Ceuta and Melilla. The elections were held simultaneously with local elections all throughout Spain, as well as the 1999 European Parliament election.


1999 Spanish regional elections, Election date
Determination of election day varied depending on the autonomous community, with each one having competency to establish its own regulations. Typically, thirteen out of the seventeen autonomous communities—all but Andalusia, the Basque Country, Catalonia and Galicia—had their elections fixed for the fourth Sunday of May every four years, to be held together with nationwide local elections. Legal amendments introduced in 1998 allowed for these elections to be held together with European Parliament elections, in the event that they were scheduled for within a four month-timespan.


1999 Spanish regional elections, Election date
In some cases, regional presidents had the prerogative to dissolve the regional parliament and call for extra elections at a different time, but newly elected assemblies were restricted to serving out what remained of their previous four-year terms without altering the period to their next ordinary election.


1999 Spanish regional elections, Regional governments
The following table lists party control in autonomous communities. Gains for a party are highlighted in that party's colour.


1999 Sparkassen Cup (tennis)
The 1999 Sparkassen Cup (tennis) was a women's tennis tournament played on indoor hard courts in Leipzig, Germany. It was part of the Tier II category of the 1999 WTA Tour. The tournament was held from 1 November 1 until 7 November 1999. Second-seeded Nathalie Tauziat won the singles title and earned $80,000 first-prize money.


1999 Sparkassen Cup (tennis), Entrants, Other entrants
The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:


1999 Sparkassen Cup (tennis), Entrants, Other entrants
The following players received wildcards into the doubles main draw:


1999 Sparkassen Cup (tennis), Entrants, Other entrants
The following players received entry from the singles qualifying draw:


1999 Sparkassen Cup (tennis), Finals, Doubles
Mary Pierce /  Larisa Neiland defeated  Elena Likhovtseva /  Ai Sugiyama, 6–4, 6–3


1999 Sparkassen Cup on Ice
The 1999 Sparkassen Cup on Ice was the third event of six in the 1999–2000 ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating, a senior-level international invitational competition series. It was held in Gelsenkirchen on November 11–14. Medals were awarded in the disciplines of men's singles, ladies' singles, pair skating, and ice dancing. Skaters earned points toward qualifying for the 1999–2000 Grand Prix Final.


1999 Sparkassen Cup – Doubles
The 1999 Sparkassen Cup – Doubles was the tennis doubles event of the tenth edition of the Sparkassen Cup; a WTA Tier II tournament held in Leipzig, Germany. Elena Likhovtseva and Ai Sugiyama were the defending champions but were defeated in this year's final by Larisa Neiland and Mary Pierce, 6–1, 6–3.


1999 Sparkassen Cup – Singles
The 1999 Sparkassen Cup – Singles was the tennis singles event of the tenth edition of the Sparkassen Cup; a WTA Tier II tournament held in Leipzig, Germany. Steffi Graf was the defending champion but retired after Wimbledon earlier in the year.


1999 Sparkassen Cup – Singles
After losing in last year's final, Nathalie Tauziat won the title this year, defeating qualifier Květa Hrdličková, 6–1, 6–3.


1999 Sparkassen Cup – Singles, Seeds
The top four seeds received a bye to the second round.


1999 Special Olympics World Summer Games
The 1999 Special Olympics World Summer Games were held in Raleigh, Durham, and Chapel Hill in North Carolina, United States between June 26 and July 4, 1999. The events in 19 sports were predominantly held on the campuses of North Carolina State University, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and North Carolina Central University.


1999 Special Olympics World Summer Games
The gymnastics venue opening ceremonies was held in the Raleigh Convention Center.


1999 SpeedVision World Challenge
The 1999 SpeedVision World Challenge was the tenth running of the Sports Car Club of America's premier series. It was the first season that the series would be covered by the SpeedVision network. The season also marked a new format, with Touring 1 becoming Grand Touring and Touring 2 becoming Touring Car. 1999 was also the first year in which the series would have a corporate sponsor since 1991. Pontiac got its final series win this season, joining Oldsmobile and Saturn as General Motors brands gradually disappearing from the World Challenge. It was not until the rise of the Cadillac CTS-V that a GM division other than Chevrolet would see a win. This also led to the beginning of a longtime BMW-Mazda-Acura affair in touring car.


1999 Speedway Conference League
The 1999 Speedway Conference League was the third tier/division of British speedway.


1999 Speedway Conference League, Summary
The title was won by Newport Mavericks, the junior club belonging to the Newport Wasps.


1999 Speedway Conference League, Conference League Knockout Cup
The 1999 Conference League Knockout Cup was the second edition of the Knockout Cup for tier three teams. St Austell Gulls were the winners for the second successive year.


1999 Speedway Grand Prix
The 1999 Speedway Grand Prix was the 54th edition of the official World Championship to determine the world champion rider. It was the fifth season in the Speedway Grand Prix era and was used to determine the Speedway World Champion.


1999 Speedway Grand Prix, Event format
The system first used in 1998 continued to be adopted with 24 riders, divided into two classes. The eight best would be directly qualified for the "Main Event", while the sixteen others would be knocked out if they finished out of the top two in 4-man heats on two occasions – while they would go through if they finished inside the top two on two occasions. This resulted in 10 heats, where eight proceeded to the Main Event, where exactly the same system was applied to give eight riders to a semi-final.


1999 Speedway Grand Prix, Event format
The semi-finals were then two heats of four, where the top two qualified for a final and the last two going towards the consolation final. The 4 finalists scored 25, 20, 18 and 16 points, with 5th to 8th scoring 15, 14, 12 and 10 point, and after that 8, 8, 7, 7, etc. Places after 8th place were awarded according to the time a rider was knocked out and, secondly, according to position in the last heat he rode in.


1999 Speedway Grand Prix, Qualification for Grand Prix
The 1999 season had 22 permanent riders and two wild cards at each event. The permanent riders are highlighted in the results table below.


1999 Speedway Grand Prix of Czech Republic
The 1999 Speedway Grand Prix of Czech Republic was the first race of the 1999 Speedway Grand Prix season. It took place on 8 May in the Marketa Stadium in Prague, Czech Republic It was the third Czech Republic SGP and was won by Pole Tomasz Gollob.


1999 Speedway Grand Prix of Czech Republic, Starting positions draw
The Speedway Grand Prix Commission nominated Antonín Šváb Jr. (from Czech Republic) and Piotr Protasiewicz (from Poland) as Wild Card.


1999 Speedway Grand Prix of Denmark
The 1999 Speedway Grand Prix of Denmark was the sixth and last race of the 1999 Speedway Grand Prix season. It took place on 25 September in the Speedway Center in Vojens, Denmark


1999 Speedway Grand Prix of Denmark, Starting positions draw
The Speedway Grand Prix Commission nominated British rider Mark Loram and a Jesper B. Jensen as Wild Card.


1999 Speedway Grand Prix of Great Britain
The 1999 Speedway Grand Prix of Great Britain was the fourth race of the 1999 Speedway Grand Prix season. It took place on 31 July at the Brandon Stadium in Coventry, England


1999 Speedway Grand Prix of Great Britain, Starting positions draw
The Speedway Grand Prix Commission nominated British rider Mark Loram and a Scott Nicholls as Wild Card.


1999 Speedway Grand Prix of Poland
The 1999 Speedway Grand Prix of Poland was the third race of the 1999 Speedway Grand Prix season. It took place on 3 July at the Olympic Stadium in Linköping, Sweden


1999 Speedway Grand Prix of Poland, Starting positions draw
The Speedway Grand Prix Commission nominated British rider Mark Loram and a Pole Sebastian Ułamek as Wild Card.


1999 Speedway Grand Prix of Poland II
The 1998 Speedway Grand Prix of Poland was the fifth race of the 1999 Speedway Grand Prix season. It took place on 28 September in the Polonia Stadium in Bydgoszcz, Poland


1999 Speedway Grand Prix of Poland II, Starting positions draw
The Speedway Grand Prix Commission nominated British rider Jacek Gollob and a Piotr Protasiewicz as Wild Card.


1999 Speedway Grand Prix of Sweden
The 1999 Speedway Grand Prix of Sweden was the second race of the 1999 Speedway Grand Prix season. It took place on 4 June in the Motorstadium in Linköping, Sweden It was the fifth Swedish SGP and was won by wild card rider Mark Loram.


1999 Speedway Grand Prix of Sweden, Starting positions draw
The Speedway Grand Prix Commission nominated British rider Mark Loram and a Pole Sebastian Ułamek as Wild Card.


1999 Speedway World Team Cup
The 1999 Speedway World Team Cup was the 40th edition of the FIM Speedway World Team Cup to determine the team world champions.


1999 Speedway World Team Cup
The final took took place at Pardubice in the Czech Republic. The winners were the Australia team who claimed their second title and first since winning the 1976 Speedway World Team Cup.


1999 Speedway World Team Cup, World final, Venue : Pardubice, Czech Republic
Australia  win Championship. United States third after Sam Ermolenko beat Joe Screen in a race off.


1999 Spengler Cup
The 1999 Spengler Cup was held in Davos, Switzerland between December 26, 1999, and December 31, 1999. All matches were played at HC Davos's home arena, Eisstadion Davos. The final was won 6-2 by Kölner Haie over Metallurg Magnitogorsk.


1999 SportsRacing World Cup
The 1999 Sports Racing World Cup was the third season of Sports Racing World Cup (later known as the FIA Sportscar Championship). It was a series for sportscar style prototypes broken into two classes based on power and weight, called SR1 and SR2. It began on March 28, 1999, and ended November 28, 1999, after 9 races.


1999 SportsRacing World Cup, Teams Championship
Points are awarded to the top 10 finishers in the order of 20-15-12-10-8-6-4-3-2-1. Only the highest placing car within a team earned points towards the championship. The SportsRacing World Cup was available to all teams that participated, but a separate SR2 only championship was also held.


1999 Sri Lankan presidential election
Presidential elections were held in Sri Lanka on 21 December 1999. Nominations were accepted on 16 November 1999 and electoral participation was 73.31%. Incumbent President Chandrika Kumaratunga of the governing People's Alliance was re-elected for a second term, receiving 51% of all votes cast.


1999 Sri Lankan presidential election, Background
Sri Lankan presidents are elected for six-year terms; with the previous election having taken place in 1994, an election normally would not have been held until 2000. Kumaratunga called the election early.


1999 Sri Lankan presidential election, Background
Kumaratunga campaigned to continue her actions against the Tamil Tigers, while her main opponent Ranil Wickremasinghe called for the commencement of direct negotiations with the Tigers.


1999 Sri Lankan presidential election, Background
Three days before the election, Kumaratunga was nearly killed by a Tamil Tiger assassination attempt at her final rally. She lost her right eye, and appeared heavily bandaged on television before the election.


1999 Sri Lankan provincial council elections
The 1999 Sri Lankan provincial council election was held on 25 January 1999, 6 April 1999 and 10 June 1999 to elect members to seven provincial councils in Sri Lanka. No election was held in the eighth province, North Eastern, which had been governed directly by the national government since March 1990. The People's Alliance, which was in power nationally, won the majority of seats in two provinces (North Central and North Western). It was also able to form a majority administration in the other five provinces with the support of smaller parties such as the Ceylon Workers' Congress.


1999 Sri Lankan provincial council elections, Background
In an attempt to end the Sri Lankan Civil War, the Indo-Lanka Accord was signed on 29 July 1987. One of the requirements of the accord was that the Sri Lankan government to devolve powers to the provinces. Accordingly, on 14 November 1987, the Sri Lankan Parliament passed the 13th Amendment to the 1978 Constitution of Sri Lanka and the Provincial Councils Act No 42 of 1987. On 3 February 1988, nine provincial councils were created by order. The first elections for provincial councils took place on 28 April 1988 in North Central, North Western, Sabaragamuwa, and Uva provinces. On 2 June 1988, elections were held for provincial councils for Central, Southern and Western provinces. The United National Party (UNP), which was in power nationally, won control of all seven provincial councils.


1999 Sri Lankan provincial council elections, Background
The Indo-Lanka Accord also required the merger of the Eastern and Northern provinces into one administrative unit. The accord required a referendum to be held by 31 December 1988, in the Eastern Province to decide whether the merger should be permanent. Crucially, the accord allowed the Sri Lankan president to postpone the referendum at his discretion. On September 2 and 8 1988, President Jayewardene issued proclamations enabling the Eastern and Northern provinces to be one administrative unit administered by one elected council, creating the North Eastern Province. Elections in the newly merged North Eastern Province were held on 19 November 1988. The Eelam People's Revolutionary Liberation Front, an Indian backed paramilitary group, won control of the North Eastern provincial council.


1999 Sri Lankan provincial council elections, Background
On 1 March 1990, just as the Indian Peace Keeping Force were preparing to withdraw from Sri Lanka, Annamalai Varatharajah Perumal, Chief Minister of the North Eastern Province, moved a motion in the North Eastern Provincial Council declaring an independent Eelam. President Premadasa reacted to Permual's UDI by dissolving the provincial council and imposing direct rule on the province.


1999 Sri Lankan provincial council elections, Background
The 2nd Sri Lankan provincial council election was held in 1993 in seven provinces. The UNP retained control of six provincial councils but lost control of the largest provincial council, Western, to the opposition People's Alliance. A special election was held in Southern Province in 1994 after some UNP provincial councillors defected to the opposition. The PA won the election and took control of the Southern Provincial Council.


1999 Sri Lankan provincial council elections, Results
The PA, which was now in power nationally, managed to win the majority of seats in two provinces (North Central and North Western). It was also able to form a majority administration in the other five provinces with the support of smaller parties such as the Ceylon Workers' Congress.


1999 Sri Lankan provincial council elections, Results, Central Province
Results of the 3rd Central provincial council election held on 6 April 1999:


1999 Sri Lankan provincial council elections, Results, North Central Province
Results of the 3rd North Central provincial council election held on 6 April 1999:


1999 Sri Lankan provincial council elections, Results, North Western Province
Results of the 3rd North Western provincial council election held on 25 January 1999:


1999 Sri Lankan provincial council elections, Results, Sabaragamuwa Province
Results of the 3rd Sabaragamuwa provincial council election held on 6 April 1999:


1999 Sri Lankan provincial council elections, Results, Southern Province
Results of the 4th Southern provincial council election held on 10 June 1999:


1999 Sri Lankan provincial council elections, Results, Uva Province
Results of the 3rd Uva provincial council election held on 6 April 1999:


1999 Sri Lankan provincial council elections, Results, Western Province
Results of the 3rd Western provincial council election held on 6 April 1999:


1999 St Albans City and District Council election
The 1999 St Albans City and District Council election took place on 6 May 1999 to elect members of St Albans City and District Council in Hertfordshire, England. The whole council was up for election with boundary changes since the last election in 1998 increasing the number of seats by 1. The Liberal Democrats lost overall control of the council to no overall control.


1999 St Albans City and District Council election, Election result
Both the Liberal Democrats and Conservatives won 21 seats, while Labour took 16 seats. Boundary changes had increased the number of seats to 58 from 57, with an exact seat in Sandridge ward. The closest result was in Harpenden East, where Conservative Michael Clark won a seat by 3 votes defeating the mayor Brian Peyton. Overall turnout at the election was 37.1%, up from 35.3% at the 1998 election but down from the 39.6% in 1996.


1999 St Helens Metropolitan Borough Council election
The 1999 St Helens Metropolitan Borough Council election took place on 6 May 1999 to elect members of St Helens Metropolitan Borough Council in Merseyside, England. One third of the council was up for election and the Labour party stayed in overall control of the council.


1999 St Helens Metropolitan Borough Council election, Background
After the last election in 1998 Labour had 42 seats, the Liberal Democrats had 10 and there were 2 Conservatives. However, in January 1999 the Liberal Democrats gained a seat in Newton West from Labour in a by-election.


1999 St Helens Metropolitan Borough Council election, Election result
The Liberal Democrats gained 3 seats from Labour in Sutton and Bold, Moss Bank and Newton East wards to have 14 councillors. Meanwhile, the Conservatives also gained a seat from Labour in Rainford, to mean that Labour dropped 4 seats in total. Turnout at the election ranged from a high of 33.2% in Rainford to a low of 13.5% in Blackbrook.


1999 St Helens Metropolitan Borough Council election, Election result
Following the election Labour councillor Marie Rimmer became leader of the council again succeeding Mike Doyle, having previously stepped down as leader in 1993.


1999 St. George Illawarra Dragons season
The 1999 St. George Illawarra Dragons season was the first in the joint venture club's history. The Dragons competed in the NRL's 1999 premiership season. The team finished sixth in the regular season, before making and losing the grand final against the Melbourne Storm in front of a record-breaking crowd, with 107,999 people in attendance at the new Stadium Australia.


1999 St. Louis Cardinals season
The St. Louis Cardinals 1999 season was the team's 118th season in St. Louis, Missouri and the 108th season in the National League. The Cardinals went 75-86 during the season and finished 4th in the National League Central division, 21½ games behind the Houston Astros.


1999 St. Louis Cardinals season, Player stats, Batting, Starters by position
Note: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in


1999 St. Louis Cardinals season, Player stats, Batting, Other batters
Note: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in


1999 St. Louis Cardinals season, Player stats, Pitching, Starting pitchers
Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts


1999 St. Louis Cardinals season, Player stats, Pitching, Other pitchers
Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts


1999 St. Louis Cardinals season, Player stats, Pitching, Relief pitchers
Note: G = Games pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; SV = Saves; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts


1999 St. Louis Rams season
The 1999 St. Louis Rams season was the team's 62nd year with the National Football League and the fifth season in St. Louis, Missouri. The Rams finished the regular-season with a record of 13–3, and defeated the Tennessee Titans in Super Bowl XXXIV.


1999 St. Louis Rams season
It was the team's first playoff appearance in St. Louis, their first since 1989, and their first division title since 1985. The Rams were undefeated at home for the first time since 1973. On the road, the Rams were 5–3.


1999 St. Louis Rams season
In the post-season, they defeated the Minnesota Vikings, who had just posted one of the greatest offenses in NFL history the year before, by a score of 49–37 in the NFC Divisional Playoffs and went on to defeat the Tampa Bay Buccaneers 11–6 in the NFC Championship Game. These were the first NFL playoff games ever played in St. Louis. The Rams then won their first ever Super Bowl title, defeating the Tennessee Titans by a score of 23–16 in Super Bowl XXXIV. The game was played on January 30, 2000 at the Georgia Dome in Atlanta. It was also the franchise's first NFL World Championship since 1951, when the Rams played in Los Angeles. The Rams also became the first “dome-field” (indoor home games) team to win a Super Bowl.


1999 St. Louis Rams season
It was the first season of the Rams’ “Greatest Show on Turf” offense. The 1999 Rams remain one of only five teams in NFL history to score more than 30 points twelve separate times in a single season. On defense, the Rams recorded seven interceptions returned for touchdowns, third most in NFL history.


1999 St. Louis Rams season
The Rams were the third St. Louis-based pro sports team to win a major championship, joining the, then, nine-time World Series Champion St. Louis Cardinals of Major League Baseball and the 1957–58 St. Louis (now Atlanta) Hawks of the NBA. They would be followed by two more World Series championships by the St. Louis Cardinals and a championship by the St. Louis Blues in the 2019 Stanley Cup Finals which made St. Louis the eighth city to win a championship in each of the four major U.S. sports.


1999 St. Louis Rams season
Quarterback Kurt Warner was the MVP in both the regular season and in Super Bowl XXXIV.


1999 St. Louis Rams season
It was the final season the Rams wore their 1973-1999 uniforms that had been synonymous with their time in Los Angeles (they brought them back as their home uniform set beginning in 2018).


1999 St. Louis Rams season, Offseason
After a poor showing from the Rams offense in the previous 1998 season, Rams VP John Shaw suggested the Rams hire Mike Martz, and Vermeil and the team agreed. Martz advocated for the Rams to sign quarterback Trent Green, which the team did; This made Tony Banks expendable, and he was traded, which moved Kurt Warner from third string to backup quarterback. VP Shaw signed Marshall Faulk from the Colts in exchange for two draft picks. The team also signed guard Adam Timmerman and linebacker Todd Collins, both of whom became starters.


1999 St. Louis Rams season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 1: vs. Baltimore Ravens
Quarterback Kurt Warner threw for 316 yards and 3 touchdowns in his first NFL start. The Rams pass defense notched five sacks and two interceptions against Ravens quarterback Scott Mitchell.


1999 St. Louis Rams season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 3: vs. Atlanta Falcons
Warner threw 3 touchdown passes, and Marshall Faulk gained 172 yards combined rushing and receiving.


1999 St. Louis Rams season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 4: at Cincinnati Bengals
With this win the Rams moved to 3–0 in Kurt Warner's first three games as starting quarterback


1999 St. Louis Rams season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 5: vs. San Francisco 49ers
The Rams got off to a strong start with Kurt Warner throwing touchdown passes to Isaac Bruce on each of the team’s first three possessions. Isaac Bruce totaled 134 receiving yards and four touchdowns during the game. This game ended the Rams’ 17-game losing streak against the 49ers. It was also the Rams' first home win against the 49ers since 1986, when they were located in Los Angeles.


1999 St. Louis Rams season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 6: at Atlanta Falcons
Faulk gained 181 rushing yards, and the Rams defense generated two interceptions and four sacks. The Rams moved to 5–0 with this win over the 1998 NFC champions.


1999 St. Louis Rams season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 7: vs. Cleveland Browns
Marshall Faulk ran for 181 yards, and the Rams defense racked up three turnovers and four sacks. The Rams ran their record to 6–0 against the revived Cleveland franchise.


1999 St. Louis Rams season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 8: at Tennessee Titans
Despite a second half comeback, 21 unanswered first half points by Titans, due in part to two first-quarter fumbles by Kurt Warner in the Rams’ own half that Tennessee converted into touchdowns, enables them to inflict the Rams’ first defeat in a Super Bowl preview. Rams right offensive tackle Fred Miller had a miserable game, committing five false starts and two holding penalties.


1999 St. Louis Rams season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 9: at Detroit Lions
Detroit converted a 4th-and-26 in the fourth quarter on the game-winning touchdown drive.


1999 St. Louis Rams season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 11: at San Francisco 49ers
With this win the Rams swept the 49ers for the first time since the 1980 season nineteen years previously.


1999 St. Louis Rams season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 13: at Carolina Panthers
The Rams won their tenth game and clinched the NFC West Division title for the first time since 1985.


1999 St. Louis Rams season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 14: at New Orleans Saints
The Rams pass defense pressured the Saints offense, racking up three interceptions and six sacks. The Rams clinched a first-round bye for the first time under the playoff format adopted in 1990.


1999 St. Louis Rams season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 15: vs. New York Giants
With a 12–2 record with two games remaining, the Rams clinched home field advantage for the first time since 1978.


1999 St. Louis Rams season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 16: vs. Chicago Bears
Marshall Faulk racked up 204 receiving yards, in addition to 54 rushing yards on 10 carries. With this victory, the Rams set single-season franchise records for most home wins with 8 and most overall wins with 13 (a record they would break two years later). Additionally, the Rams finished with a perfect home record for the first time since the 1973 season.


1999 St. Louis Rams season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 17: at Philadelphia Eagles
The Rams traveled to Philadelphia for their season finale against the struggling Eagles. The Rams rested a number of starters for much of the game, having already clinched home-field playoffs. Despite dominating Philadelphia offensively, St. Louis was doomed by a seven-turnover afternoon, with three lost fumbles and four interceptions, two of which were returned for Eagles touchdowns. The Rams lost, 38–31, but nevertheless earned the top seed in the NFC playoffs with a 13–3 record.


1999 St. Louis Rams season, Regular season, Kurt Warner
Warner was the backup quarterback for the St. Louis Rams during the 1998 regular season and the 1999 preseason. When starting quarterback Trent Green was injured in a preseason game, Warner took over as the starter. With the support of running back Marshall Faulk and wide receivers Isaac Bruce, Torry Holt, Az-Zahir Hakim and Ricky Proehl, Warner completed one of the top seasons by a quarterback in NFL history by throwing for 4,353 yards with 41 touchdown passes and a completion rate of 65.1 percent.


1999 St. Louis Rams season, Regular season, Kurt Warner
The Rams' high-powered offense was nicknamed "The Greatest Show on Turf" and registered the first in a string of three consecutive 500-point seasons, an NFL record. Warner threw three touchdown passes in each of the first three games in the 1999 season, his first three NFL starts. He is the only NFL quarterback in history to accomplish that feat, and only the second other than Dan Marino to do it in his first two NFL starts.


1999 St. Louis Rams season, Regular season, Kurt Warner
Warner really drew attention, however, in the season's fourth game against the San Francisco 49ers, who had been NFC West Division champs for 12 of the previous 13 seasons. The Rams had lost 17 of their previous 18 meetings with the 49ers and had a 3–0 record along with the 49ers’ 3–1 record. Warner threw three touchdown passes on the Rams' first three possessions of the game and four in the first half to propel the Rams to a 28–10 halftime lead on the way to a 42–20 victory. Warner finished the game with five touchdown passes, giving him 14 in four games and, more importantly, the Rams a 4–0 record. After many years of defeats and losing records, football experts finally had to take notice.


1999 St. Louis Rams season, Regular season, Kurt Warner
Warner's breakout season from a career in anonymity was so unexpected that Sports Illustrated featured him on their October 18 cover with the caption “Who IS this guy?”  He was named the 1999 NFL MVP at the season's end.


1999 St. Louis Rams season, Regular season, Kurt Warner
In the NFL playoffs, Warner led the Rams to a Super Bowl XXXIV victory against the Tennessee Titans. He threw for two touchdowns and a then Super Bowl record 414 passing yards, including a 73-yard touchdown to Isaac Bruce when the game was tied with just over two minutes to play. Warner also set a Super Bowl record by attempting 45 passes without a single interception.


1999 St. Louis Rams season, Regular season, Kurt Warner
Warner was awarded the 1999 Super Bowl MVP, becoming one of only six players to win both the league MVP and Super Bowl MVP awards in the same year. The others are Bart Starr in 1966, Terry Bradshaw in 1978, Joe Montana in 1989, Emmitt Smith in 1993, and Steve Young in 1994.


1999 St. Louis Rams season, Playoffs, NFC Divisional Playoff
As expected, this match between the two high powered offenses produced a lot of points (86), and yards (880, 475 by St. Louis, 405 by Minnesota). But after falling behind 17–14, St. Louis stormed to victory with 35 consecutive second half points to open a 49–17 lead early in the fourth quarter. Warner threw for 391 yards and five touchdown passes to five different receivers, and Bruce accounted for 133 receiving yards. It was also the first NFL Playoff game ever played in St. Louis.


1999 St. Louis Rams season, Playoffs, NFC Championship Game
The Rams and Buccaneers, a rematch of the 1979 NFC Championship game, would slug it out for most of the game, with the Buccaneers defense holding the Rams highly-potent offense in check. Tampa Bay, weak on offense, could only muster 163 passing yards all game against the Rams defense, with the Rams defense notching two interceptions and five sacks. The Buccaneers would only muster two field goals, and gave up a costly safety in the second quarter when a bad snap from center went over the head of rookie quarterback Shaun King and out of the endzone. Despite this, the Buccaneers nursed an unusual 6–5 lead into the 4th Quarter. The Rams broke open a defense dominated game when Kurt Warner threw a touchdown pass to Ricky Proehl, his first and only touchdown catch of the season, with 4:44 left in the game.


1999 St. Louis Rams season, Playoffs, NFC Championship Game
The Buccaneers would mount a drive on their final possession, however a replay overturned what appeared to be a 2nd down reception by Buccaneers wide receiver Bert Emanuel which would have set up a short-yardage 3rd down. Emanuel dove for a catch and clasped the ball between two hands, then upon falling, the ball touched the turf while in Emanuel's hands. The ruling on the field was a completed catch, but was overturned on review because the ball had touched the ground before Emanuel was deemed in possession of it. Following this, the Buccaneers threw incomplete passes on 3rd and 4th down and the Rams were able to kneel out the clock.


1999 St. Louis Rams season, Playoffs, NFC Championship Game
This was the Rams’ first NFC Championship win since the 1979 season.


1999 St. Louis Rams season, Playoffs, Super Bowl XXXIV
The first half of Super Bowl XXXIV had been uncharacteristically low-scoring for St. Louis, as they scored only three Jeff Wilkins field goals in the first half. The Rams finally got into the end zone in the third quarter, with a 9-yard touchdown pass from Warner to Torry Holt, giving St. Louis a 16–0 lead. Tennessee, however, scored 16 unanswered points with two Eddie George touchdown runs (1- and 2-yards respectively, the first with a failed two-point conversion attempt), and a 43-yard Al Del Greco field goal.


1999 St. Louis Rams season, Playoffs, Super Bowl XXXIV
On St. Louis’ first play from scrimmage after Tennessee's tying field goal, Warner threw a 73-yard touchdown to Isaac Bruce to take a 23–16 lead with just under two minutes left in the game, which would give Tennessee one more chance to tie the game with a touchdown.


1999 St. Louis Rams season, Playoffs, Super Bowl XXXIV
The Titans took over the ball at their own 10-yard line with 1:54 left in the game after committing a holding penalty on the ensuing kickoff. McNair started out the drive with a pair of completions to Mason and Wycheck for gains of 9 and 7 yards to reach the 28-yard line. Then after throwing an incompletion, defensive back Dre' Bly’s 15-yard facemask penalty while tackling McNair on a 12-yard scramble gave the Titans a first down at the St. Louis 45-yard line.


1999 St. Louis Rams season, Playoffs, Super Bowl XXXIV
On the next play, St. Louis was penalized 5 yards for being offsides, moving the ball to the 40-yard line with 59 seconds left. McNair then ran for 2 yards, followed by a 7-yard completion to wide receiver Kevin Dyson. Three plays later, with the Titans facing 3rd down and 5 to go, McNair was hit by two Rams’ defenders, but he escaped and completed a 16-yard pass to Dyson to gain a first down at the Rams 10-yard line.


1999 St. Louis Rams season, Playoffs, Super Bowl XXXIV
Tennessee then used up their final timeout with just 6 seconds left in the game, giving them a chance for one last play. McNair threw a short pass to Kevin Dyson down the middle, which looked certain to tie up the game until Rams linebacker Mike Jones tackled Dyson at the one-yard line as time expired. Dyson tried to stretch his arm and the football across the goal line, but he had already gone down, so it was too late. This final play has gone down in NFL history as simply “The Tackle”.


1999 St. Petersburg Open
The 1999 St. Petersburg Open was a tennis tournament played on indoor carpet courts at the Petersburg Sports and Concert Complex in Saint Petersburg in Russia and was part of the World Series of the 1999 ATP Tour. The tournament ran from February 8 through February 14, 1999.


1999 St. Petersburg Open, Finals, Doubles
Jeff Tarango /  Daniel Vacek defeated  Menno Oosting /  Andrei Pavel, 3–6, 6–3, 7–5.


1999 St. Petersburg Open – Doubles
Jeff Tarango and Daniel Vacek won in the final 3–6, 6–3, 7–5 against Menno Oosting and Andrei Pavel.


1999 St. Petersburg Open – Singles
Richard Krajicek was the defending champion but not did compete that year.


1999 St. Petersburg Open – Singles
Marc Rosset won in the final 6–3, 6–3 against David Prinosil.


1999 Sta. Lucia Realtors season
The 1999 Sta.Lucia Realtors season was the seventh season of the franchise in the Philippine Basketball Association (PBA).


1999 Sta. Lucia Realtors season, Occurrences
Assistant coach Adonis Tierra signed a two-year deal to be promoted back as coach of the Realtors, replacing Derrick Pumaren, who moved over to Purefoods.


1999 Sta. Lucia Realtors season, Occurrences
In the Commissioner's Cup, the Realtors had Kwan Johnson as their import and along with the signing of their direct-hire recruit, Fil-Am Rob Parker, their tandem nearly led Sta.Lucia to their first finals appearance in the Commissioner's Cup when they lead the best-of-five semifinal series against Formula Shell, two games to one, only to lose the last two matches.


1999 Sta. Lucia Realtors season, Occurrences
Prior to the start of the Governor's Cup, a senate hearing was conducted on the ongoing investigation regarding the fake Fil-foreigners playing in the league, the flamboyant Rob Parker with the possibility of being deported, breached his contract and suddenly left the team unnoticed. The Realtors retain Kwan Johnson but soon replaced him with Joseph Temple, who was one of their imports from last season.


1999 Sta. Lucia Realtors season, Notable dates
March 26: Dennis Espino delivered the clutch baskets in the stretch as the Realtors scored an 82-73 victory over Barangay Ginebra Kings in their first assignment in the second round of eliminations of the All-Filipino Cup. Sta.Lucia survived a third quarter run by the Gin Kings and took its third win in nine outings.


1999 Sta. Lucia Realtors season, Notable dates
July 11: The Realtors dealt Mobiline its worst loss with a 103-74 victory to finally barge into the win column and spoiled Jerry Codiñera's debut with the Phone Pals as Fil-Am Robert Parker displayed a fiery, grandstanding offensive while Kwan Johnson registered his first triple-double of 22 points, 11 rebounds and 10 assists in the Commissioner's Cup tournament.


1999 Sta. Lucia Realtors season, Notable dates
July 18: Sta.Lucia scored its second victory in five outings with an 88-78 win over Baranagay Ginebra Kings.


1999 Stanford Cardinal baseball team
The 1999 Stanford Cardinal baseball team represented Stanford University in the 1999 NCAA Division I baseball season. The Cardinal played their home games at Sunken Diamond. The team was coached by Mark Marquess in his 23rd year at Stanford.


1999 Stanford Cardinal baseball team
The Cardinal won the Palo Alto Regional and the Palo Alto Super Regional to advanced to the College World Series, where they were defeated by the Florida State Seminoles.


1999 Stanford Cardinal football team
The 1999 Stanford Cardinal football team represented Stanford University in the 1999 NCAA Division I-A football season. In head coach Tyrone Willingham's fifth season at Stanford, the Cardinal won the Pacific-10 Conference championship for the first time since 1971, earning its first Rose Bowl appearance since that season, and its first-ever BCS appearance.


1999 Stanley Cup Finals
The 1999 Stanley Cup Finals was the championship series of the National Hockey League's (NHL) 1998–99 season, and the culmination of the 1999 Stanley Cup playoffs. It was contested by the Eastern Conference champion Buffalo Sabres and the Western Conference champion Dallas Stars. It was the 106th year of the Stanley Cup being contested.


1999 Stanley Cup Finals
The Sabres were led by captain Michael Peca, head coach Lindy Ruff and goaltender Dominik Hasek. The Stars were led by captain Derian Hatcher, head coach Ken Hitchcock and goaltender Ed Belfour. The Stars defeated the Sabres four games to two to win their first Stanley Cup, becoming the eighth post-1967 expansion team to earn a championship, and the first team based in the Southern United States to win the Cup.


1999 Stanley Cup Finals
The series ended with a controversial triple-overtime goal in game six, when replays showed that Stars forward Brett Hull scored with his skate in the crease. Although the Sabres protested later, the league stated that the goal had been reviewed and was judged as a good goal, since Hull had maintained possession of the puck as it exited the crease just before he shot it.


1999 Stanley Cup Finals, Background
Buffalo defeated the Ottawa Senators 4–0, the Boston Bruins 4–2 and Toronto Maple Leafs 4–1 to advance to the final.


1999 Stanley Cup Finals, Background
Dallas defeated the Edmonton Oilers 4–0, the St. Louis Blues 4–2 and the Colorado Avalanche 4–3 to advance to the final.