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'''1998''' ('''
Roman numerals 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
*
January January 1998 - A massive
winter storm 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
Russian ruble rubles 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 -
Cosmologists announce that the expansion rate of the
universe is increasing.
*
January 11 -
Sidi-Hamed massacre in
Algeria; over 100 people killed.
*
January 12 - 19
European nations agree to forbid
human cloning.
*
January 13 - A tourist visiting the
White House spray painting 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
Howard Stern 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 of the United States President Bill Clinton of
sexual harassment.
*
January 20 -
Nepalese police intercepts a shipment of 272 human
skulls in
Kathmandu
*
January 22 - Suspected "
Unabomber"
Theodore Kaczynski pleads guilty and accepts a sentence of life without the possibility of parole.
*
January 26 -
Lewinsky scandal: On American television,
Bill Clinton denies he had "sexual relations" with former
White House intern
Monica Lewinsky.
*
January 26 -
Compaq buys
Digital Equipment Corporation.
*
January 26 -
Monkeys 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
*
February -
Iraq disarmament crisis: The
United States Senate passes resolution 71, which urged
President of the United States 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."
*
February 3 -
Cavalese cable-car disaster: a
United States Military 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 separatists were arrested in
Nevada and accused of plotting a
biological warfare biological attack on
New York City metro subways.
*
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
*
February 20 -
Iraq disarmament crisis:
Iraqi 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
United States U.S. and
United Kingdom Britain.
*
February 22 - Collapse of one third of the
Tower block "
Palace II" in
Rio de Janeiro,
Rio de Janeiro (state) Rio de Janeiro,
Brazil.
*
February 23 -
Tornadoes 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
Jews and
Crusaders.
*
February 24 - ''
Hustler'' publisher
Larry Flynt is acquitted of charges of defamation of
Jerry Falwell.
*
February 24 - A man tries to
hijacking hijack Turkish Airlines passenger plane claiming that he has a
bomb in his
teddy bear. Passengers disapprove and apprehend him
*
February 28 -
Serbian police begin to wipe out so-called "
terrorism terrorist gangs" in
Kosovo.
March
*
March 1 -
Submarine Attack Submarine USS Sea Devil (SSN-664) USS Sea Devil (now ex-Sea Devil (SSN-664)) starts to be
Ship-Submarine recycling program deactivated
*
March 2 - Data sent from the
Galileo probe indicates that
Jupiter (planet) Jupiter's moon
Europa (moon) Europa has a liquid
ocean under a thick crust of
ice
*
March 4 -
Gay rights: The
Supreme Court of the United States rules that federal laws banning on-the-job
sexual harassment also apply when both parties are the same sex.
*
March 5 -
NASA announced that the
Clementine mission Clementine probe orbiting the
Moon had found enough water in polar craters to support a human colony and
rocket fueling station
*
March 5 -
NASA announces the choice of
United States Air Force Lt. Col.
Eileen Collins as commander of a future
Space Shuttle Columbia mission to launch an
X-ray telescope making Collins the first woman commander of a
space shuttle mission.
*
March 6 - Closure of the
South Crofty tin mine
*
March 6 - The Imperial Wizard of the
Ku Klux Klan is fined for burning a cross in his garden and infringing air regulations in
California
*
March 10 -
United States American troops stationed in the
Persian Gulf begin to receive the first
vaccine vaccinations against
anthrax disease anthrax.
*
March 11 -
Danish parliamentary election, 1998 Danish parliamentary election held, unexpectedly returning Prime Minister
Poul Nyrup Rasmussen to power.
*
March 14 - An
earthquake measuring 6.9 on the
Richter scale hits southeastern
Iran
*
March 23 - At the
Academy Awards ceremony ''
Titanic (1997 film) Titanic'' wins 11 Oscars
*
March 24 - In
Jonesboro, Arkansas, two young boys (aged 11 and 13 years) fire upon students at
Westside Middle School while hidden in woodlands near the school. Four students and one teacher are killed and 10 injured
*
March 26 -
Oued Bouaicha massacre in
Algeria; 52 people killed with axes and knives, 32 of them babies under the age of 2.
*
March 27 - The
FDA approves
Viagra for use as a treatment for male
impotence, becoming the first pill to be approved to treat this condition in the
United States.
*
March 29 - A series of tornadoes hit southern Minnesota, killing 3 people.
April
*
April 1 -
Ukraine 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
*
April 8 -
Iraq disarmament crisis: UNSCOM reports to the UN Security Council that
Iraq's declaration on its biological weapons program is incomplete and inadequate.
*
April 10 -
Good Friday: 18 hours after the end of talks deadline the
Belfast Agreement 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 km² of farmland are ruined by the spill. [http://edition.cnn.com/EARTH/9804/25/spain.disaster.reut/]
May
*
May 2 - Japanese rock star
Hide (musician) 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.
*
May 11 -
Nuclear testing: In the
Rajasthan Desert,
India conducts its second series of underground nuclear tests (the first were in
1974) and inflaming its rival neighbor
Pakistan (who already has
nuclear weapons).
*
May 13 - Following
India's second round of
nuclear tests the
United States and
Japan impose
economic sanctions on the nation.
*
May 14 - The popular American
sitcom ''
Seinfeld'' airs its final episode.
*
May 15 -
Iraq disarmament crisis: UNSCOM learns that an
Iraqi delegation has travelled to Bucharest to meet with scientists who can provide the country with missile guidance systems.
*
May 18 -
United States v. Microsoft: The
United States Department of Justice and 20
U.S. states file an
antitrust case against
Microsoft
*
May 21 -
School shooting: At
Thurston High School 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
*
May 21 -
Reproductive rights: In
Miami, Florida, five
abortion clinics are hit by a
butyric acid attacker
*
May 21 -
Suharto resigns, after
1966 32 years as
President of Indonesia Indonesian President and 7th consecutive re-election by the Indonesian Parliament (MPR). Suharto's hand-picked Vice President,
Jusuf Habibie 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
*
May 22 -
Lewinsky scandal: A federal judge rules that
United States Secret Service agents can be compelled to testify before a
grand jury concerning the scandal
*
May 27 -
Oklahoma City bombing:
Michael Fortier is sentenced to
2010 12 years in prison and fined $200,000 for failing to warn authorities about the terrorist plot.
*
May 28 -
Nuclear testing: In response to a series of
India Indian 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 sanctions.
*
May 28 - Wife of
United States US comedian
Phil Hartman kills him and commits
suicide afterwards
*
May 30 -
Nuclear testing:
Pakistan 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
*
June 2 - The
CIH virus is discovered in
Taiwan.
*
June 2 - Voters in
California approved
California Proposition 227, abolishing that state's bilingual education program.
*
June 3 -
Eschede train disaster: an
InterCity Express ICE high speed rail high speed train derails, causing 101 deaths.
*
June 4 -
Terry Nichols is sentenced to life in prison for his role in the
Oklahoma City bombing
*
June 5 - A
Strike action strike begins at the
General Motors Corporation General Motors parts factory in
Flint, Michigan that quickly spreads to five other assembly plants (the strike lasted seven weeks)
*
June 8 -
Charlton Heston assumes the presidency of the
National Rifle Association.
*
June 8 - President
Sani Abacha of
Nigeria dies of apparent heart failure
*
June 10 - Hemamset Angaza is born on June 10, 1989
*
June 12 - A jury in
Hattiesburg, Mississippi, convicts 17-year-old
Luke Woodham of killing two students and wounding seven others at Pearl High School [http://www.cnn.com/US/9806/12/school.shooting.verdict/]
*
June 12 - 13-year old
Christina Marie Williams was kidnapped in
Seaside,
California while taking her dog for a walk.
*
June 14 - The
Chicago Bulls win their sixth
NBA title in 8 years when they beat the
Utah Jazz, 87-86 in Game Six. This is also
Michael Jordan's last game as a Bull.
*
June 16 - The
Detroit Red Wings sweep the
Washington Capitals in 4 games in the
1998 Stanley Cup Finals.
*
June 25 - In ''
Clinton v. City of New York'', the
United States Supreme Court decides that the Line Item Veto Act of 1996 is
United States Constitution unconstitutional.
*
June 25 - Microsoft releases
Windows 98 (First Edition).
July
*
July 5 -
Japan launches a probe to
Mars (planet) Mars, and joins the
United States and
Russia as a
outer space space-exploring nation
*
July 6 - The new
Hong Kong International Airport at
Chek Lap Kok opens.
*
July 10 - The
DNA-identified remains of
United States Air Force 1st Lt.
Michael Joseph Blassie arrive home to his family in
St. Louis, Missouri after being in the
Tomb of the Unknowns since
1984
*
July 10 -
Catholic priests' sex abuse scandal: The
Diocese of Dallas agrees to pay $23.4 million to nine former altar boys who claimed they were
sexual abuse sexually abused by former priest
Rudolph Kos
*
July 12 -
France national football team France defeats
Brazil national football team Brazil 3-0 to win the
Football World Cup 1998
*
July 17 - In
Saint Petersburg St. Petersburg,
Nicholas II of Russia and his family are buried in St. Catherine Chapel
1918 80 years after he and his family were killed by
Bolsheviks
*
July 17 - A
tsunami triggered by an undersea
earthquake destroys 10 villages in
Papua New Guinea killing an estimated 1,500, leaving 2,000 more unaccounted for and thousands more homeless
*
July 17 - Biologists report in the journal ''
Science (journal) Science'' how they sequenced the
genome of the
bacterium that causes
syphilis, ''
Treponema pallidum''
*
July 24 -
Russel Eugene Weston Jr. bursts into the
United States Capitol and opens fire killing two police officers. He is later ruled to be incompetent to stand trial
*
July 25 - The
United States Navy commissions the aircraft carrier
USS Harry S. Truman USS ''Harry S. Truman'' and puts her into service
*
July 25 -
Wakayama Arsenic poison case - 63 poisoned and 4 dead by
arsenic in a festival in the town in
Wakayama Prefecture in
Japan -
Masumi Hayashi is arrested for murder
*
July 28 -
Monica Lewinsky scandal: Ex-
White House intern,
Monica Lewinsky receives
transactional immunity in exchange for her
grand jury testimony concerning her relationship with
US President Bill Clinton.
*
July 31 -
United Kingdom UK import ban on
land mine landmines
August
Image:Kenya bombing 1.jpg thumb|200px|The aftermath of the Nairobi Embassy bombing on August 7.
*
August 7 -
Yangtze River Floods: In
China 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.
*
August 5 -
Iraq disarmament crisis:
Iraq officially suspends all cooperation with UNSCOM teams
*
August 7 -
1998 U.S. embassy bombings: Bombing of the
United States 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
Omagh bombing 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.
*
August 16 -
Silk-Miller police murders:
Australian police officers murdered in
Moorabbin, Victoria.
*
August 17
**
Monica Lewinsky scandal:
US President 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
*
August 20 -
1998 U.S. embassy bombings: The
United States military 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
United States American embassies in
Kenya and
Tanzania. The
al-Shifa pharmaceutical factory in
Khartoum is destroyed in the attack
*
August 26 -
Iraq disarmament crisis: Scott Ritter resigns from
UNSCOM, sharply criticized the
Bill Clinton 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,
North American Aerospace Defense Command 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
Armed Islamic Group 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.
*
September 29 -
Iraq disarmament crisis: The
Congress of the United States U.S. Congress 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 -
Congress of the United States 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.
*
October 29 -
Apartheid: In
South Africa, 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
United States 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
Kurdish 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
Bulgarian 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
2013 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
*
October 31 -
Iraq disarmament crisis begins:
Iraq 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.
*
November 5 -
Lewinsky scandal: As part of the
impeachment inquiry, House Judiciary Committee chairman
Henry Hyde sends a list of 81 questions to US President
Bill Clinton
*
November 5 - The journal ''
Nature (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
Space Shuttle Discovery 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 Corporation Chrysler to form
Daimler-Chrysler.
*
November 13-
November 14 14 -
Iraq disarmament crisis:
U.S. President Bill Clinton Clinton orders airstrikes on
Iraq.
Bill Clinton Clinton then calls it off at the last minute when
Iraq promises once again to "unconditionally" cooperate with UNSCOM
*
November 18 -
Iraq disarmament crisis: UNSCOM inspectors return to
Iraq.
*
November 19 -
Lewinsky scandal: The
United State House of Representatives' 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,
Russian legislator and democracy advocate, is assassinated in
St Petersburg,
Russia
*
November 23-
November 26 26 -
Iraq disarmament crisis: According to
UNSCOM,
Iraq once again ends cooperation with the
United Nations 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
Venezuelan presidential election, 1998 elected President of
Venezuela.
*
December 8 -
Tadjena massacre in
Algeria; 81 villagers killed.
*
December 11 -
Iraq disarmament crisis:
Iraq announces that
United Nations 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
*
December 16-
December 19 19 -
Iraq disarmament crisis:
U.S. President Bill Clinton Clinton orders
United States American and
United Kingdom 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.
*
December 19 -
Iraq disarmament crisis:
Iraqi 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
impeachment impeached by the
United States House of Representatives House of Representatives.
*
December 21 -
Iraq disarmament crisis: UN Security Council members
France,
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
*
December 26 -
Iraq disarmament crisis:
Iraq announced its intention to fire upon
United States US and
United Kingdom 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.
Unknown Dates
* The third
World Parliament of Religions is held in
Cape Town on 1 - 8 December 1999.
* The
VW Passat#B5 fourth generation of
VW's
Passat automobile goes on sale in
North America.
* Ibrahim Hanna, the last native speaker of
Mlahso language Mlahsö, dies in
Qamishli,
Syria, making the language effectively extinct. In that same year, the last native speaker of related
Bijil Neo-Aramaic dies in
Jerusalem.
*
Karolyn Nunnallee elected president of
Mothers Against Drunk Driving.
Births
*
February 25 -
Brendon Baerg, American actor
*
April 9 -
Elle Fanning, American actress
*
September 21 -
Lorenzo Brino, American actor
*
September 21 -
Myrinda Brino, American actress
*
September 21 -
Nikolas Brino, American actor
*
September 21 -
Zachary Brino, American actor
Deaths
January-February
*
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 in Chemistry Nobel Prize laureate (b.
1906)
*
January 8 -
Michael Tippett, English composer (b.
1905)
*
January 9 -
Kenichi Fukui, Japanese chemist,
Nobel Prize in Chemistry Nobel Prize laureate (b.
1918)
*
January 11 -
Klaus Tennstedt, German conductor (b.
1926)
*
January 15 -
Junior Wells, American harmonica player (b.
1934
*
January 19 -
Carl Perkins, American guitarist (b.
1932)
*
January 21 -
Jack Lord, American actor (b.
1920)
*
February -
Roger Nicholas Angleton, American murderer (b.
1942)
*
February 6 -
Falco (musician) Falco, Austrian musician (b.
1957)
*
February 6 -
Carl Wilson, American musician (b.
1946)
*
February 7 -
Lawrence Sanders, American author (b.
1920)
*
February 8 -
Halldór Laxness, Icelandic writer,
Nobel Prize in Literature Nobel Prize laureate (b.
1902)
*
February 8 -
Julian Lincoln Simon, American economist and author (b.
1932)
*
February 18 -
Harry Caray, American television and radio broadcaster (b.
1917)
*
February 23 -
Sean A. Moore, American writer (b.
1965)
*
February 24 -
Henny Youngman, English-born comedian (b.
1906)
*
February 26 -
Theodore Schultz, American economist,
Nobel Prize in Economics Nobel Prize laureate (b.
1902)
*
February 27 -
George H. Hitchings, American scientist, recipient of the
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b.
1905)
*
February 27 -
J.T. Walsh, American actor (b
1943)
*
February 28 -
Dermot Morgan, Irish actor and comedian (b.
1952)
March-July
*
March 8 -
Ray Nitschke, American football player (b.
1936)
*
March 10 -
Lloyd Bridges, American actor (b.
1913)
*
March 12 -
Beatrice Wood, American artist and ceramicist (b.
1893)
*
March 13 -
Bill Reid, Canadian artist (b.
1920)
*
March 13 -
Risen Star, American racehorse (b.
1985)
*
March 15 -
Benjamin Spock, American athlete, pediatrician, and author (b.
1903)
*
March 16 -
Derek Harold Richard Barton, British chemist,
Nobel Prize in Chemistry Nobel Prize laureate (b.
1918)
*
March 31 -
Bella Abzug, American politician (b.
1920)
*
April 1 -
Rozz Williams, American singer (b.
1963)
*
April 6 -
Wendy O.Williams, American singer (b.
1949)
*
April 6 -
Tammy Wynette, American singer (b.
1942)
*
April 15 -
Rose Maddox, American singer (b.
1925)
*
April 15 -
Pol Pot, Cambodian Khmer Rouge leader (b.
1925)
*
April 19 -
Octavio Paz, Mexican diplomat and writer,
Nobel Prize in Literature Nobel Prize laureate (b.
1914)
*
April 23 -
Constantine Caramanlis, Greek politician (b.
1907)
*
May 1 -
Eldridge Cleaver, American activist (b.
1935)
*
May 2 -
Kevin Lloyd, British actor (b.
1949)
*
May 7 -
Allan McLeod Cormack, South African-born physicist, recipient of the
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b.
1924)
*
May 7 -
Eddie Rabbitt, American musician (b.
1941)
*
May 9 -
Alice Faye, American entertainer (b.
1915)
*
May 14 -
Frank Sinatra, American entertainer (b.
1915)
*
May 15 -
Earl Manigault, American basketball player (b.
1944)
*
May 19 -
Sosuke Uno,
Prime Minister of Japan (b.
1922)
*
May 28 -
Phil Hartman, Canadian-born artist, writer, actor, and comedian (b.
1948)
*
May 29 -
Barry Goldwater Barry M. Goldwater, American politician (b.
1909)
*
June 1 -
Darwin Joston, American actor (b.
1937)
*
June 2 - Helen Carter Jones, singer (b.
1927)
*
June 3 -
Poul Bundgaard, Danish actor and singer (b.
1922)
*
June 10 -
Hammond Innes, English author (b.
1914)
*
June 11 -
Catherine Cookson, English author (b.
1906)
*
June 13 -
Birger Ruud, Norwegian athlete (b.
1911)
*
June 20 -
Conrad Schumann, East German border guard (b.
1942)
*
July 3 -
Danielle Bunten Berry, American software developer (b.
1949)
*
July 6 -
Roy Rogers, American singer and actor (b.
1911)
*
July 19 -
Elmer Valo, Czech
Major League Baseball player (b.
1921)
*
July 22 -
Hermann Prey, German bass-baritone (b.
1929)
August-December
*
August 2 -
Shari Lewis, American ventriloquist (b.
1933)
*
August 3 -
Alfred Schnittke, Volga German composer (b.
1934)
*
August 4 -
Yuri Artyukhin, cosmonaut (b.
1930)
*
August 6 -
André Weil, French mathematician (b.
1906)
*
August 24 -
E.G. Marshall, American actor (b.
1910)
*
August 26 -
Frederick Reines, American physicist,
Nobel Prize in Physics Nobel Prize laureate (b.
1918)
*
September 2 -
Jackie Blanchflower, Northern Irish footballer (b.
1933)
*
September 6 -
Akira Kurosawa, Japanese screenwriter, producer, and director (b.
1910)
*
September 9 -
Lucio Battisti, Italian singer (b.
1943)
*
September 13 -
George Wallace, racist politician (b.
1919)
*
September 14 -
Johnny Adams, American musician (b.
1932)
*
September 21 -
Florence Griffith Joyner Florence "Flo-Jo" Griffith-Joyner, American runner (b.
1959)
*
September 27 -
Narita Bryan, Japanese racehorse (b.
1991)
*
September 30 -
Dan Quisenberry, baseball player (b.
1953)
*
September 30 -
Bruno Munari, Industrial Designer (b.
1907)
*
October 2 -
Gene Autry, American singing cowboy (b.
1907)
*
October 2 -
Olivier Gendebien, Belgian race car driver (b.
1924)
*
October 3 -
Roddy McDowall, British actor (b.
1928)
*
October 6 -
Mark Belanger, baseball player (b.
1944)
*
October 12 -
Matthew Shepard, American murder victim (b.
1976)
*
October 14 -
Frankie Yankovic, American musician (b.
1916)
*
October 29 -
Ted Hughes, English poet (b.
1930)
*
November 10 -
Hal Newhouser, baseball player (b.
1921)
*
November 28 -
Kerry Thornley, American counterculture figure, writer, co-founder of
Discordianism
* December -
Brian Stonehouse, English painter and World War II secret agent (b.
1918)
*
December 7 -
Michael Craze, British actor (b.
1942)
*
December 7 -
Martin Rodbell, American scientist, recipient of the
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b.
1925)
*
December 14 -
Annette Strauss, American philanthropist and mayor of Dallas, Texas (b.
1924)
*
December 17 -
Claudia Benton, Peruvian-born child psychologist (murdered) (b.
1959)
*
December 18 -
Lev Demin, cosmonaut (b.
1926)
*
December 20 -
Irene Hervey, American actress (b.
1910)
*
December 20 -
Alan Lloyd Hodgkin, British scientist, recipient of the
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b.
1914)
Unknown date
*
Zhang Chongren, Chinese artist (b.
1907)
Nobel prizes
*
Nobel Prize/Physics Physics -
Robert B. Laughlin,
Horst L. Störmer,
Daniel Chee Tsui
*
Nobel Prize/Chemistry Chemistry -
Walter Kohn,
John A. Pople
*
Nobel Prize/Physiology or medicine Medicine -
Robert F. Furchgott,
Louis J. Ignarro,
Ferid Murad
*
Nobel Prize in literature Literature -
José Saramago
*
Nobel Prize/Peace Peace -
John Hume and
David Trimble
Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel
*
Amartya Sen
Fields Medal Fields Medalists
*
Richard Ewen Borcherds,
William Timothy Gowers,
Maxim Kontsevich,
Curtis T. McMullen
Templeton Prize
*
Sir Sigmund Sternberg
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