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1998 (''' MCMXCVIII ''') was a Common Year Starting On Thursday of the Gregorian Calendar , and was designated the ''International Year of the Ocean''. In astrology, it was considered being as the year of Gemini, the Twins.
Events
January
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- January 1998 - A massive Ice Storm , caused by El Niño , strikes New England , southern Ontario and Quebec , resulting in widespread power failures, severe damage to forests, and a number of deaths.
- January 1 - Smoking is banned in all California bars and restaurants.
- January 2 - Russia begins to circulate new Ruble s to stem Inflation and promote confidence.
- January 2 - Gunman shoots Antario Teodoro Filho , Brazilian politician and radio presenter, during a broadcast.
- January 4 - Wilaya Of Relizane Massacres Of 4 January 1998 in Algeria ; over 170 killed in three remote villages.
- January 6 - The Lunar Prospector spacecraft is launched into orbit around the Moon and later found evidence for frozen water in soil in permanently shadowed craters near the Moon's poles.
- January 8 - Ramzi Yousef is sentenced to life in prison for planning the World Trade Center Bombing .
- January 8 - Cosmologist s announce that the expansion rate of the Universe is increasing.
- January 11 - Sidi-Hamed Massacre in Algeria ; over 100 people killed.
- January 12 - 19 Europe an nations agree to forbid Human Cloning .
- January 13 - A tourist visiting the White House Sprays Paint on to marble busts of Giuseppe Ceracchi
- January 14 - Researchers in Dallas, Texas present findings about an Enzyme that slows aging and cell death ( Apoptosis ).
- January 15 - The stalker of Howard Stern , Lance Carvin, is sentenced to 2 1/2 years for threatening to kill Stern and his family.
- January 16 - NASA announces that John Glenn will return to space when Space Shuttle Discovery blasts off in October 1998.
- January 17 - Paula Jones accuses President Bill Clinton of Sexual Harassment .
- January 20 - Nepal ese police intercepts a shipment of 272 human Skull s in Kathmandu
- January 22 - Suspected " Unabomber " Theodore Kaczynski pleads guilty and accepts a sentence of life without the possibility of parole.
- January 25 - The Denver Broncos become the first AFC team in fourteen years to win the Super Bowl , as they defeat the Green Bay Packers , 31-24 in Super Bowl XXXII .
- denies he had "sexual relations" with former White House intern Monica Lewinsky .
- January 26 - Compaq buys Digital Equipment Corporation .
- January 26 - Monkey s attack people in Ito , Japan
- January 27 - American First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton appears on the '' Today Show '' calling the attacks against her husband part of a "vast right-wing conspiracy."
- January 28 - Ford Motor Company announces the buyout of Volvo Cars for $6.45 billion.
- January 28 - Gunmen hold at least 400 children and teachers hostage for several hours at an elementary school in Manila , Philippines .
- January 29 - In Birmingham, Alabama a bomb explodes at an abortion clinic killing one and severely wounding another. Serial bomber Eric Rudolph is suspected as the culprit.
February
- passes resolution 71, which urged President Bill Clinton to "take all necessary and appropriate actions to respond to the threat posed by Iraq 's refusal to end its weapons of mass destruction programs."
- pilot causes the death of 20 people near Trento , Italy when his low-flying plane severs the cable of a cable-car.
- February 3 - Karla Faye Tucker is executed in Texas becoming the first woman executed in the United States since 1984 .
- February 4 - An Earthquake measuring 6.1 on the Richter Scale in northeast Afghanistan kills more than 5,000.
- February 6 - Washington National Airport is renamed Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport .
- February 6 - The French prefect Claude Erignac is assassinated in the streets of Ajaccio ( Corse ) by a commando of Corsican insurgents, among them Yvan Colonna (trial June 2 ).
- February 7 - Roger Nicholas Angleton committed suicide in a prison cell in Houston , Texas by cutting himself with razor blades. He admitted to murdering socialite Doris Angleton in her River Oaks home in his suicide note.
- February 10 - A College dropout becomes the first person to be convicted of a Hate Crime committed in Cyberspace .
- February 10 - Voters in Maine repeal a Gay Rights law passed in 1997 becoming the first U.S. State to abandon such a law.
- February 12 - The presidential Line-item Veto is declared unconstitutional by a United States federal judge.
- February 14 - Authorities in the United States announce that Eric Rudolph is a suspect in an Alabama Abortion clinic bombing.
- February 15 - Dale Earnhardt wins the Daytona 500 in his 20th try after many unsucsessful attempts.
- February 16 - China Airlines Flight 676 crashed into a residential area near by Chiang Kai-shek International Airport , killing 202 people, included all 196 on board and six on the ground.
- February 18 - Two White Separatist s were arrested in Nevada and accused of plotting a Biological Attack on New York City Subway s.
- February 19 - 66-day Blackout begins in Auckland , New Zealand .
- February 19 - Larry Wayne Harris of the Aryan Nations and William Leavitt are arrested in Henderson, New York for possession of military grade Anthrax
- i President Saddam Hussein negotiates a deal with U.N. secretary-general Kofi Annan , allowing weapons inspectors to return to Baghdad , preventing military action by the U.S. and Britain .
- February 22 - Collapse of one third of the Tower Block " Palace II " in Rio De Janeiro , Rio De Janeiro , Brazil .
- February 23 - Tornado es in central Florida destroy or damage 2,600 structures and kill 42 (see Florida El Niño Outbreak ).
- February 23 - Osama Bin Laden publishes '' Fatwa '' declaring '' Jihad '' against all Jew s and Crusaders .
- February 24 - '' Hustler '' publisher Larry Flynt is acquitted of charges of defamation of Jerry Falwell .
- February 24 - A man tries to Hijack Turkish Airlines passenger plane claiming that he has a Bomb in his Teddy Bear . Passengers disapprove and apprehend him
- February 28 - Serbia n police begin to wipe out so-called " Terrorist gangs" in Kosovo .
March
April
- April 1 - Ukrainian Serial Killer Anatoly Onoprienko is sentenced to death for 52 murders
- April 5 - In Japan , the Akashi-Kaikyo Bridge linking Shikoku with Honshu and costing cost about US$3.8 billion, opens to traffic, becoming the largest Suspension Bridge in the world.
- April 6 - Pakistan tests medium-range missiles capable of hitting India
- April 7 - Citicorp and Travelers Group announce plans to merge creating the largest financial-services conglomerate in the world, Citigroup
- 's declaration on its biological weapons program is incomplete and inadequate.
- is signed between the Irish and British governments and most Northern Ireland political parties, with the notable exception of the Democratic Unionist Party .
- April 16 - A massive tornado occurred in Nashville, Tennessee . It is the first tornado in 11 years to make a direct hit on a major city. (see Nashville Tornado Of 1998 )
- April 25 - A waste reservoir at Los Frailes mine in Andalusia , Spain , ruptures, discharging heavy metal waste into the Guadiamar River . The pollution threatens the sensitive ecosystem and endangered species of Doñana National Park , Spain 's largest nature reserve, but is diverted into the Guadalquivir River . Up to 100 km&2 of farmland are ruined by the spill. {Link without Title}
May
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- May 2 - Japanese rock star Hide (Hideto Matsumoto) mysteriously dies of asphyxiation.
- May 7 - Apple Computer unveils the IMac .
- May 9 - Dana International, a transexual singer from Israel, wins the 1998 Eurovision Song Contest in Birmingham,UK.
- , India conducts its second series of underground nuclear tests (the first were in 1974 ) and inflaming its rival neighbor Pakistan (who already has Nuclear Weapon s).
- May 13 - Following India 's second round of Nuclear Test s the United States and Japan impose Economic Sanction s on the nation.
- May 14 - The popular American Sitcom '' Seinfeld '' airs its final episode.
- i delegation has travelled to Bucharest to meet with scientists who can provide the country with missile guidance systems.
- and 20 U.S. State s file an Antitrust case against Microsoft .
- May 18 - The New Republic publishes '' Hack Heaven '', a fabricated story by Stephen Glass , Glass was later fired from TNR and the events were made into the 2003 film '' Shattered Glass ''
- in Springfield, Oregon , Kipland Kinkel (who was suspended for bringing a Gun to school) shoots a Semi-automatic Rifle into a room filled with students killing 2 wounding 25 others after killing his parents at home
- , five Abortion Clinic s are hit by a Butyric Acid attacker
- May 21 - Suharto resigns, after 32 Years as Indonesian President and 7th consecutive re-election by the Indonesian Parliament (MPR). Suharto's hand-picked Vice President, B. J. Habibie , became Indonesia's third president.
- May 21 to September 30 - Expo '98 is held in Lisbon , Portugal , with the title "Oceans, an Heritage for the Future". UNESCO had previously declared 1998 to be the International Year of the Oceans due to the Expo. 12 million people attend the world fair
- agents can be compelled to testify before a Grand Jury concerning the scandal
- is sentenced to 12 Years in prison and fined $200,000 for failing to warn authorities about the terrorist plot.
- nuclear tests, Pakistan explodes five nuclear devices of its own in the Chaghai hills of Baluchistan, prompting the United States , Japan and other nations to impose Economic Sanction s.
- May 28 - Wife of US comedian Phil Hartman kills him and commits Suicide afterwards
- conducts one more nuclear explosion following its first test.
- May 30 - A 6.6 magnitude Earthquake hits northern Afghanistan killing up to 5,000.
- May 31 - Geri Halliwell , better known as "Ginger Spice", announced her departure from the biggest selling girl group of all time, the Spice Girls
June
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July
August
- officially suspends all cooperation with UNSCOM teams
- the Yangtze River breaks through the main bank, before this from August 1-5 periphery levees collapsed consecutively in Jiayu County Baizhou Bay. The death toll was more than 12,000 injuring many thousands more.
- embassies in Dar Es Salaam , Tanzania , and Nairobi , Kenya kills 224 people and injures over 4,500. The bombings were linked to Osama Bin Laden .
- August 15 - The Real IRA detonate a Car Bomb in Omagh , County Tyrone , Ireland , killing 29 and injuring over 200 - the greatest loss of life in a single incident of The Troubles .
- n police officers murdered in Moorabbin, Victoria .
- August 17
- --- Bill Clinton admits in taped testimony that he had an "improper physical relationship" with White House intern Monica Lewinsky . On the same day he admits before the nation that he "misled people" about his relationship
- --- Russian Financial Crisis : Devaluation of the rouble. The ruble lost 70% of its value against US dollar in 6 months following August 1998. Several largest Russians banks collapsed, and millions of people lost their savings.
- August 20 - The Supreme Court Of Canada states Quebec can not legally secede from Canada without the federal government's approval
- launches Cruise Missile attacks against alleged Al-Qaeda camps in Afghanistan and a suspected chemical plant in Sudan in retaliation for the August 7 bombings of American embassies in Kenya and Tanzania . The Al-Shifa Pharmaceutical Factory in Khartoum is destroyed in the attack
- , sharply criticized the Clinton administration and the U.N. Security Council for not being vigorous enough about insisting that Iraq 's weapons of mass destruction be destroyed. Ritter told reporters that " Iraq is not disarming," " Iraq retains the capability to launch a chemical strike."
- August 31 - North Korea reportedly launches Kwangmyongsong , their first satellite. Although North Korea reports that it reached stable orbit, NORAD was never able to confirm this assertion
September
- September 2 - In Canada , pilots for Air Canada launch the first strike in company's history
- September 2 - A McDonnell Douglas MD-11 airliner carrying Swissair Flight 111 crashes near Peggys Cove, Nova Scotia after taking off from New York City en-route to Geneva . All 229 people on board were killed.
- September 2 - A United Nations court finds Jean-Paul Akayesu , the former mayor of a small town in Rwanda , guilty of nine counts of Genocide , marking the first time that the 1948 law banning genocide is enforced
- September 3 - In Somalia , the southern port of Kismayo is declared the capital of independent Jubaland under Muhamed Said Hersi
- September 7 - Google is founded.
- September 7 - Pokémon is premiered the first time on Kids WB.
- September 8 - St. Louis Cardinals first baseman Mark McGwire breaks baseball's single season homerun record, formerly held by Roger Maris . McGwire hits #62 at Busch Stadium in the fourth inning off of Chicago Cubs pitcher Steve Trachsel .
- September 9 - The United Nations General Assembly elects Didier Opertiri of Uruguay as president for its 53rd session
- September 14 - GSPC formed in Algeria , splitting off from the GIA over its policy of massacring civilians.
- September 15 - Telecommunications companies MCI Communications and WorldCom complete their $37 billion merger to form MCI WorldCom .
- September 25 - 28 September — Major creditors of Long-Term Capital Management , a Greenwich, Connecticut based Hedge Fund , after days of tough bargaining and some informal mediation by officials of the Federal Reserve agree on terms of a re-capitalization — i.e. they create a consortium that takes over the fund's failing Portfolio .
- passes the " Iraq Liberation Act", which states that the United States wants to remove Saddam Hussein from power and replace the government with a democratic institution.
October
- October 3 - In Australia , John Howard 's coalition government was re-elected for a second term.
- October 4 - Leafie Mason is murdered in her Hughes Springs, Texas house by Angel Maturino Resendiz . She was his second victim in his second incident.
- October 6 - Matthew Shepard , a Wyoming college student, is found tied to a fence, the victim of a Gay-bashing . He dies on Monday , October 12 , becoming a symbol of victims of gay-bashing and sparking public reflection on Homophobia .
- October 7 - Oslo Fornebu Airport closes.
- October 7 - United States Congress passes, the Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act , which gives copyright holders 20 more years of copyright privilege on work which they control the copyright. This effectively freezes the Public Domain to works created before 1923 in the United States.
- October 8 - Oslo Airport (Gardermoen) opens.
- October 8 - Japan-Republic Of Korea Joint Declaration A New Japan-Republic Of Korea Partnership Towards The Twenty-first Century .
- October 12 - U.S. Congress passes Digital Millennium Copyright Act
- October 14 - Eric Robert Rudolph is charged with 6 bombings including the 1996 Olympic Bombing in Atlanta, Georgia
- October 16 - British police place General Augusto Pinochet into House Arrest during his medical treatment in Britain
- October 23 - Swatch Internet Time introduced
- October 28 - An Air China jetliner is hijacked by disgruntled pilot Yuan Bin and flown to Taiwan . After landing the plane safely, Yuan Bin was arrested.
- , the Truth And Reconciliation Commission presents its report, which condemns both sides for committing atrocities
- October 29 - Space Shuttle Discovery blasts-off with 77-year old John Glenn on board, making him the oldest person to go into space. He became the first American to orbit Earth on Tuesday , February 20 , 1962 .
- October 29 - While en route from Adana to Ankara , a Turkish Airlines flight with a crew of 6 and 33 passengers is hijacked by a Kurd ish militant who orders the pilot to fly to Switzerland . The plane instead lands in Ankara after the pilot tricked the hijacking into thinking that he was landing in the Bulgaria n capital of Sofia to refuel
- October 29 - Hurricane Mitch makes landfall in Central America killing an estimated 18,000 people.
- October 29 - In Freehold Borough, New Jersey , Melissa Drexler pleads guilty to aggravated Manslaughter for killing her baby moments after delivering him in the bathroom at her senior Prom , and is sentenced to 15 Years imprisonment
- October 29 - In Göteborg , Sweden two arsonists burn down a disco of a local Macedonian Society - 63 dead, over 200 injured, most of them children of refugees
- announces it would no longer cooperate with United Nations weapons inspectors.
November
- November 1 - The European Court Of Human Rights is instituted.
- November 3 - Former Professional Wrestler , Jesse Ventura is elected Governor Of Minnesota .
- inquiry, House Judiciary Committee chairman Henry Hyde sends a list of 81 questions to US President Bill Clinton
- November 5 - The journal '' Nature '' publishes a genetic study showing compelling evidence that Thomas Jefferson fathered his slave Sally Hemings ' son Eston Hemings Jefferson
- November 7 - John Glenn returned to Earth aboard the space shuttle Discovery .
- November 9 - In the largest civil settlement in United States history, a federal judge approves a US$1.03 billion settlement requiring dozens of brokerage houses (including Merrill Lynch , Goldman Sachs , and Salomon Smith Barney ) to pay investors who claim they were cheated in a wide-spread price-fixing scheme on the NASDAQ
- November 12 - Daimler-Benz completes a merger with Chrysler to form Daimler-Chrysler .
- Clinton orders airstrikes on Iraq . Clinton then calls it off at the last minute when Iraq promises once again to "unconditionally" cooperate with UNSCOM
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- ' Judiciary Committee begins Impeachment hearings against US President Bill Clinton .
- November 20 - A court in Taliban -controlled Afghanistan declares accused terrorist Osama Bin Laden "a man without a sin" in regard to the 1998 U.S. Embassy Bombings in Kenya and Tanzania .
- November 20 - Galina Starovoitova , Russia n legislator and democracy advocate, is assassinated in St Petersburg , Russia
- , Iraq once again ends cooperation with the U.N. inspectors, alternately intimidating and withholding information from them
- November 24 - America Online announces it will acquire Netscape Communications in a stock-for-stock transaction worth US$4.2 billion.
- November 26 - Tony Blair becomes the first Prime Minister Of The United Kingdom to address the Republic Of Ireland 's parliament
- November 26 - Japan-China Joint Declaration On Building A Partnership Of Friendship And Cooperation For Peace And Development
- November 30 - Deutsche Bank announces a US$10 billion deal to buy Bankers Trust , thus creating the largest financial institution in the world.
December
- December 1 - Exxon announces a US$73.7 billion deal to buy Mobil , thus creating Exxon-Mobil , the second-largest company on the planet by revenue.
- December 5 - D.C. United defeats Vasco Da Gama 2 – 1 on aggregate to win the Interamerican Cup and is one of the greatest triumphs in the history of U.S. club soccer.
- December 6 - Hugo Chávez Frías , Venezuelan military and politician, is Elected President of Venezuela .
- December 8 - Tadjena Massacre in Algeria ; 81 villagers killed.
- announces that U.N. weapons inspections will no longer take place on Friday , the Muslim day of rest. Iraq also refuses to provide test data from the production of missiles and engines
- Clinton orders American and British airstrikes on Iraq . UNSCOM withdraws all weapons inspectors from Iraq
- December 17 - Claudia Benton , of West University Place , Texas , is murdered in her house by Angel Maturino Resendiz , She is his third victim in his third incident.
- i vice-president Taha Yassin Ramadan announces that Iraq will no longer cooperate and declares that UNSCOM's "mission is over."
- December 19 - Bill Clinton is Impeached by the House Of Representatives .
- , Germany and Russia call for sanctions to end against Iraq . The three Security Council members also call for UNSCOM to either be disbanded or for its role to be recast. The U.S. says it will veto any such proposal
- announced its intention to fire upon US and British warplanes that patrol the northern and southern "no-fly zones".
- December 29 - Leaders of the Khmer Rouge apologize for the Genocide in Cambodia that claimed over 1 million in the 1970s .
- December 31 - The first Leap Second since June 30 , 1997 .
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Births
Deaths
January
- January 1 - Helen Wills Moody , American tennis player (b. 1905 )
- January 4 - Mae Questel , American actress (b. 1908 )
- January 5 - Sonny Bono , American singer, actor, and politician (b. 1935 )
- January 7 - Vladimir Prelog , Croatian chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1906 )
- January 8 - Michael Tippett , English composer (b. 1905 )
- January 9 - Kenichi Fukui , Japanese chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1918 )
- January 11 - Klaus Tennstedt , German conductor (b. 1926 )
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