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3 days ago · This article teaches you fun facts, trivia, and history events from the year 1998. Find out about popular TV shows, movies, music, books, cars, interesting foods, sports facts, and other pop culture trends to get the right mix of questions and answers for your 1990s-themed trivia quiz.
Moments like Bill Clinton’s impeachment scandal, Google’s founding, the home run chase, and top movies like Armageddon and Saving Private Ryan make 1998 a year full of fun facts and trivia to remember.
Dec 30, 1998 · The Funny Guy was: Eddie Izzard. On April Fools Day in 1998, Burger King took out a full-page ad in USA Today introducing a Whopper designed especially for lefties. The new burger would contain the same ingredients as the original, but rotated 180°. Thousands of customers swarmed BK restaurants requesting the “lefty” Whopper.
What happened in 1998 Major News Stories include Search Engine Google is founded, FDA approves Viagra, Apple unveils the iMac, Maastricht Treaty comes into force, Yangtze River breaks it's banks more than 10 thousand, 66-day blackout in Auckland, Terrorist Bombing attacks on two US Embassies.
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- Saving Private Ryan, Armageddon, and There's Something About Mary were among the five biggest films of the year.
- Titanic not only became the first movie to gross over a billion dollars at the box office, it also spent the first 13 weeks of 1998 at No. 1.
- The Titanic soundtrack (of course, fueled by Céline Dion's "My Heart Will Go On") was the biggest-selling album of the year.
- Titanic also took home the Academy Award for Best Picture at that year's Oscars.
- It's now been 20 years since Titanic tied Ben-Hur for the most Oscars ever won by a movie (it won 11).
- The European Euro became the entire currency of the European Union in 1998!
- Harry Potter And The Chamber of Secrets is 20 years old this year, meaning it's nearly old enough to drink (and I'm not just talking about Butterbeer).
- Britney Spears absolutely exploded onto the scene with one of the most iconic music videos ever.
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