November 1999 calendar

Events

• 05 Nov 1999 US District Judge Thomas Jackson issues his 207-page Findings of Fact, ruling that Microsoft has monopoly power over personal computer operating systems, and uses that power to harm American consumers.
• 06 Nov 1999 Australians vote to keep the Head of the Commonwealth as their head of state in the Australian republic referendum.
• 11 Nov 1999 The House of Lords Act is given Royal Assent, restricting membership of the British House of Lords by virtue of a hereditary peerage.
• 12 Nov 1999 The Duzce earthquake strikes Turkey with a magnitude of 7.2 on the Richter scale.
• 15 Nov 1999 Neopets, the virtual pet website, is launched.
• 18 Nov 1999 In College Station, Texas, 12 are killed and 27 injured at Texas A&M University when the 59-foot-tall (18 m) Aggie Bonfire, under construction for the annual football game against the University of Texas, collapses at 2:42am.
• 19 Nov 1999 Disney releases the Walt Disney Pictures animated feature film Toy Story 2 to theaters in the USA. North American theater gross receipts: US$245.9 million.
• 21 Nov 1999 The film ''The Wizard of Oz'' begins its run on cable TV, which continues to this day. On cable it is telecast several times a year, like most other films, rather than being shown only once annually.
• 25 Nov 1999 The United Nations establishes the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women to commemorate the murder of three Mirabal Sisters for resistance against the Rafael Trujillo dictatorship in Dominican Republic.
• 26 Nov 1999 An earthquake and tsunami strike Vanuatu.
• 27 Nov 1999 The left-wing Labour Party takes control of the New Zealand government with leader Helen Clark becoming the first elected female Prime Minister in New Zealand's history.
• 29 Nov 1999 General election in Malaysia.
• 30 Nov 1999 In Seattle, Washington, the first major mobilization of the anti-globalization movement catches police unprepared and forces the cancellation of the opening ceremonies of the WTO Meeting of 1999 (protests end on December 3).

Famous Birthday

• Kiernan Shipka

  TV Actress.

• Buddy Handleson

  TV Actor.

• Theodore Burkhardt

  Pop Singer.

• Isaac Waddington

  Pop Singer.

• Karol Sevilla

  TV Actress.

• McKaylee TRUE

  Dancer.

• Adam Brice

  YouTube Star.

• Ellis Hollins

  Soap Opera Actor.

• Karim Zeroual

  TV Actor.

• Sean Cavaliere

  Pop Singer.

• JinJoo Lee

  Guitarist.

• Manfred Erlandsson

  YouTube Star.

• Lauren Thalia

  Pop Singer.

• Gianna Newborg

  Dancer.

• Francesca Scorsese

  American noted family, the daughter of filmmaker Martin Scorsese and his wife, Helen Morris.

• Aliya Keo

  Instagram Star.

• Mert Ulusoy

  YouTube Star.

• Lil Niqo

  Rapper.

• Macaulay Callard

  Model.

• Ryan Mislich

  Instagram Star.

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Famous Deaths

• Alain Peyrefitte

  French scholar and politician.

• Ian Bannen

  Scottish stage actor, film and TV movies.

• Amintore Fanfani

  Italian politician, a Member of Parliament since the beginning of the Italian Republic, Christian Democratic Party.

• Lester Bowie

  American trumpet player and composer (Art Ensemble of Chicago) (d. 1999).

• Donald Mills

  American entertainer, one of four brothers who set groundbreaking standards with their crooning musical hits.

• Charlie Byrd

  American singer and guitarist (d. 1999).

• Hilary Minster

  British actor (Born 1944).

• Jean Coutu

  Canadian actor and director (d. 1999).

• Jacobo Timmerman

  Argentine writer and journalist (Born 1923).

• Yasuhiro Kojima

  Japanese-American wrestler and manager (d. 1999).

• Kazuo Sakamaki

  Japanese naval officer (Born 1918).

• Malcolm Marshall

  Barbadian West Indies cricketer (Born 1958).

• Mary Kay Bergman

  American voice actress (Born 1961).

• Doug Sahm

  American musician (Sir Douglas Quintet, Flaco Jimenez) (Born 1941).

• Theodore Alvin Hall

  American atomic spy (Born 1925).

• Leon Stukelj

  Slovenian gymnast (Born 1898).

• Minos Volanakis

  Greek theatre director and translator.

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Top #5 songs in the USA

1. Santana - Smooth
2. Puff Daddy - Satisfy You
3. Brian McKnight - Back At One
4. Mariah Carey - Heartbreaker
5. Lou Bega - Mambo No. 5 (A Little Bit Of..)

Top #5 songs in the UK

1. Five - Keep On Movin'
2. R Kelly - If I Could Turn Back The Hands Of Time
3. Geri Halliwell - Lift Me Up
4. Robbie Williams - She's The One / It's Only Us
5. Macy Gray - I Try