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Jan 4 A massive ice storm hits eastern Canada and the northeastern United States, continues through January 10, and causes widespread destruction. Jan 4 Wilaya of Relizane massacres in Algeria: over 170 are killed in three remote villages. Jan 5 Ice storm knocks out electricity in Quebec & Ontario.
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Jun 7 52nd Tony Awards: "The Lion King" (musical) and '"Art"...
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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...
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Jul 21, 2015 · 1998 in Sport. Jul 1 NBA commences a player lockout after no agreement with players about salary issues - lasts 204 days with the season shortened by 50 games. Jul 12 FIFA World Cup Final, Stade de France, Saint-Denis: Zinedine Zidane scores twice as France wins first World Cup beating Brazil, 3-0.
January 23 – Mir Qazi is sentenced to death for a 1993 assault rifle attack outside CIA headquarters that killed two and wounded three. January 25 – Super Bowl XXXII: The Denver Broncos become the first AFC team in 14 years to win the Super Bowl, as they defeat the Green Bay Packers, 31–24. January 26.
[1] Events. January 6 – The Lunar Prospector spacecraft is launched into orbit around the Moon, and later finds evidence for frozen water, in soil in permanently shadowed craters near the Moon's poles. January 11 – Over 100 people are killed in the Sidi-Hamed massacre in Algeria. January 12 – Nineteen European nations agree to forbid human cloning.
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.
Oct 27, 2023 · October 27, 2023 12 items. The information below pulls from our 1998 timeline video, part of Weird History’s Timeline Series. As the decade of the 90s approached its conclusion, the year 1998 bore witness to intense political events, groundbreaking cultural phenomena in the music scene, and significant milestones in sports and entertainment.
