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Actor and Comedian Chris Farley. Jan 3 American "Hee Haw" banjo player Grandpa Jones suffers a stroke. Jan 3 Los Angeles Clippers Bill Fitch coaches his 2,000th NBA game, a 97-88 win against the Dallas Mavericks at the LA Memorial Sports Arena. Jan 4 A massive ice storm hits eastern Canada and the northeastern United States, continues through ...
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Historical events in June 1998. Learn about 32 famous,...
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Aug 22 South Africa beats Australia, 29-15 in Johannesburg...
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Sep 1 American harness trainer and driver Dave Palone wins...
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January 1: From this day onwards in California, all card rooms, clubs and bars must be smoke-free. January 1: In Mongolia, the work week is changed from 46 hours to 40 hours. January 1: The United States Census Bureau reports that the US population estimates at 268,921,733. January 1: In Russia, new rubles begin to circulate to stem inflation, and ...
February 1: In the United States Navy, Lillian E. Fishburne becomes the first African American woman to be promoted to rear admiral. February 2: In New York City, actor, director and producer Daniel Baldwin is taken to hospital after suffering a cocaine overdose. February 2: The Philippine DC-9 flight crashes killing all people on board the flight....
March 1: Pat Riley, coach for the Miami Heat basketball team, becomes the fifth head coach to achieve 900 NBA career wins when the team defeats the New Jersey Nets 85-84. March 1: The film Titanic becomes the first film to gross 1 billion US dollars. March 2: The Galileo spacecraft sends data that reveals that the moon of Jupiter, Europa, has a liq...
April 5: In the Nations Rugby Championship, Wales are heavily defeated by France, 51 points to none, at Wembley Stadium in London. April 5: The San Francisco Giantsare defeated by the Arizona Diamondbacks in the team’s first win in their history. They defeat the Giants 3-2 in Phoenix, Arizona in one of the main April 1998 events in sport. April 5: ...
May 4: In Sacramento, California, unabomber Ted Kaczynski is given 4 life sentences by a federal judge, plus another 30 years after. Kaczynski accepted a plea agreement which spared him the death penalty. May 6: 20 Houston Astros players are striked out by Kerry Wood to reach the major league record held by Roger Clemens. Wood threw a one-hotter an...
June 1: In Brussels, the European Central Bank is founded, intended to execute and define the European Union’s monetary policy. June 1: Susie Maroney from Australia is the first person to swim to Cuba from Mexico, across the shark and jellyfish-infested Yucatan Straits. She swims the 123-mile distance in 38 hours and 33 minutes in a cage. June 2: I...
July 1: After no agreement is made with players about salary issues, the NBA begins a player lockout. This lasts 204 days and the basketball season is cut short by 50 games. July 2: The second book in the Harry Potter series, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, is published in the UK by Bloomsbury. July 4: In Wimbledon Women’s Tennis, French p...
August 2: In the Tour de France, Italian Marco Pantani makes it a Tour and Giro d’Italia double, with Erik Zabel from Germany the points winner. August 3: Boyzone, Irish boy band, release No Matter What, their best-selling single. The single was composed by Jim Steinman and Andrew Lloyd Webber. August 4: 5.4 million people lose their lives before t...
September 2: Near Peggy’s Cove in Nova Scotia, Swissair Flight 111 crashes, resulting in the deaths of all 229 people on board. September 2: The former mayor of a small town in Rwanda, Jean-Paul Akayesu, is found guilty of nine counts of genocide by the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda. This is the first time that the law of 1948 banning ...
October 1: Of the Security Council of the Russian Federation, Vladimir Putin becomes a permanent member. October 1: When the Europol Convention being signed by all its members comes into force, the Europol is formed. October 2: Australian cricket batsman smashes an astounding 157 to guide the tourists to an innings and 99 run win over Pakistan in t...
- What Events Happened in 1998.
- United States - Google Founded. The search engine Google is incorporated as a private company in Menlo Park, California by Larry Page and Sergey Brin during September.
- Ireland - Good Friday Agreement Referendums. Citizens of Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland vote in referendums on the Good Friday Agreement in May.
- Ireland -- Good Friday Agreement. The United Kingdom, Republic of Ireland, and Northern Ireland sign the Good Friday Agreement, also known as the Belfast Agreement, on April 10th.
August. August 7: U.S. embassy bombings in Tanzania and Kenya. August 7 – 1998 U.S. embassy bombings: The bombings of the United States embassies in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, and Nairobi, Kenya kill 224 people and injure over 4,500; they are linked to terrorist Osama bin Laden, an exile of Saudi Arabia.
1998 ( MCMXCVIII) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1998th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 998th year of the 2nd millennium, the 98th year of the 20th century, and the 9th year of the 1990s decade. 1998 was designated as the International Year of the Ocean.
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1994 — Former Arkansas state employee Paula Jones accuses President Clinton of sexual harassment. 1994 — The United States hosts the FIFA World Cup, which is won by Brazil. 1995 — Oklahoma City bombing kills 168 and wounds 800. The bombing is the worst domestic terrorist incident in U.S. history, and the investigation results in the ...
