Notable Historical Events - 1998
1998 Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
Jan 1 |
All California bars, clubs & card rooms must be smoke-free |
Jan 1 |
Mongolia switches from a 46 hour to 40 hour work week |
Jan 1 |
US Census Bureau estimates population at 268,921,733 |
Jan 1 |
Russia begins to circulate new rubles to stem inflation and promote confidence. |
Jan 1 |
The European Central Bank is established. |
Jan 2 |
Autopsy of Chris Farley shows he overdosed of opiates & cocaine |
Jan 3 |
"Side Show," closes at Richard Rodgers NYC after 91 performances |
Jan 3 |
Grandpa Jones suffers a stroke |
Jan 4 |
"Funny Thing Happened," closes at St James NYC after 715 perform |
Jan 4 |
"Ivanov," closes at Vivian Beaumont Theater NYC after 51 performances |
Jan 4 |
"Triumph of Love," closes at Royale Theater NYC |
Jan 4 |
Wilaya of Relizane massacres in Algeria: over 170 are killed in three remote villages. |
Jan 4 |
A massive ice storm hits eastern Canada and the northeastern United States, continuing through January 10 and causing widespread destruction. |
Jan 5 |
Ice storm knocks out electricity in Quebec & Ontario |
Jan 5 |
Vandals decapitate Copenhagen's Little Mermaid |
Jan 6 |
Barry Switzer resigns as Dallas Cowboy coach |
Jan 6 |
Don Sutton selected to Baseball Hall of Fame |
Jan 7 |
Former White House intern Monica Lewinsky signs affidavit denying she had an affair with President Bill Clinton |
Jan 8 |
NY Giant GM George Young resigns to accept NFL position |
Jan 8 |
Unabomber suspect Ted Kaczynski asks to act as his own lawyer |
Jan 8 |
World Trade Center bomber Ramzi Ahmed Yousef sentenced to life |
Jan 9 |
Anatoly Karpov defeats Viswanathan Anand to retain chess title |
Jan 9 |
Anatoly Solovyov & Pavel Vinogradov spacewalk record 3 hrs 8 mins |
Jan 9 |
Boston Red Sox Mo Vaughn pleads not guilty to drunken driving |
Jan 9 |
Decapitated head of Danish Little Mermaid is returned |
Jan 9 |
Hockey News selects Wayne Gretzky best NHL player ever |
Jan 10 |
18th United Negro College Fund raises (rebroadcasted Jan 17th) |
Jan 11 |
"Proposals," closes at Broadhurst Theater NYC after 76 performances |
Jan 11 |
AFC Championship: Denver Broncos beat Pitt Steelers 24-21 |
Jan 11 |
NFC Championship: Green Bay Packers beat SF 49'ers 23-10 |
Jan 11 |
US female Figure Skating championship won by Michelle Kwan |
Jan 11 |
US male Figure Skating championship won by Todd Eldredge |
Jan 11 |
Sidi-Hamed massacre takes place in Algeria, over 100 people are killed. |
Jan 11 |
24th People's Choice Awards: Harrison Ford & Julia Roberts win (Dramatic Motion Picture) and Tim Allen & Oprah Winfrey win (TV) |
Jan 12 |
Nineteen European nations agree to forbid human cloning. |
Jan 13 |
"Patti LaBelle On Broadway," opens at St James Theater NYC |
Jan 13 |
CBS pays $4 billion to televise AFC games for 8-years |
Jan 14 |
100th episode of "Ellen," airs |
Jan 14 |
Charles Barkley pleads not guilty to an assault charge |
Jan 14 |
Researchers in Dallas, Texas present findings about an enzyme that slows aging and cell death (apoptosis). |
Jan 15 |
NASA announces John Glenn, 76, may fly in space again |
Jan 15 |
Dino Ciccarelli is traded for the fourth time, from the Tampa Bay Lightning to the Florida Panthers |
Jan 17 |
President Clinton faces sexual harrament charges from Paula Jones |
Jan 18 |
"Ragtime," opens at Ford Theater NYC |
Jan 18 |
48th NHL All-Star Game: North America beats World 8-7 at Vancouver |
Jan 18 |
ABL All-Star Game at Disney complex in Orlando |
Jan 18 |
Boston Celtics retire Robert Parrish's #00 |
Jan 18 |
Kelly Robbins wins Healthsouth Golf Inaugural |
Jan 18 |
UCP Telethon |
Jan 20 |
Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inducts Mama & Papas & Eagles |
Jan 20 |
Warner Brothers TV Network begins Tueday night programming |
Jan 21 |
Pope John Paul II visits Cuba |
Jan 22 |
NHL's Minnesota franchise selects the nickname Wild |
Jan 22 |
Rickey Henderson, rejoins Oakland A's for 4th time |
Jan 22 |
STS 89 (Endeavour 12) launches into orbit |
Jan 22 |
World League of American Football renamed as NFL Europe |
Jan 23 |
Pope John Paul II condemns US embargo against Cuba |
Jan 25 |
"Grease," closes at Eugene O'Neill Theater NYC after 1,503 performance |
Jan 25 |
"Patti LaBelle On Broadway," closes at St James Theater NYC |
Jan 25 |
Britain's Queen Mother, 97, gets an emergency hip replacement |
Jan 25 |
Helen Alfredsson wins Office Depot LPGA tournament |
Jan 25 |
Spice Girl Victoria Adams (Posh) and soccer player David Beckham get engaged |
Jan 25 |
Super Bowl XXXII: Denver Broncos beat Green Bay Packers 31-24 |
Jan 25 |
Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) suicide attack on Sri Lanka's Temple of the Tooth, killing 8 people injuring 25 others. |
Jan 26 |
25th American Music Award: Spice Girls & Babyface win |
Jan 26 |
Intel launches 333 MHz Pentium II chip |
Jan 26 |
President Bill Clinton says "I want to say one thing to the American people; I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Miss Lewinsky" |
Jan 27 |
Crane crashes into Roosevelt Island tram (NYC), injuring 10 |
Jan 27 |
Roland Clarkson discovers 2^3021377-1 (37th known Mersenne prime) |
Jan 27 |
WNBA begins filling rosters of Washington Mystics & Detroit Shock |
Jan 28 |
Michelangelo, "Christ & the Woman of Samaria," sold for $7.4 million |
Jan 29 |
"Capeman," opens at Marquis Theater NYC |
Jan 29 |
Singers Bobby Brown found guiilty of DWI in Fort Lauderdale, Florida |
Jan 29 |
Soyuz TM-27 launches to MIR |
Jan 29 |
Thick Fog causes highway carnage in Belgium & Netherlands, 6 die |
Jan 29 |
Woman's Clinic in Birmingham Ala bombed, 1 killed |
Jan 30 |
All-Star Fla Marlin catcher Darren Daulton, retires |
Jan 30 |
Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Indianapolis IN on WNAP 93.1 FM |
Jan 30 |
Paul Simon's "The Capeman," premieres |
Jan 31 |
72nd Australian Womens Tennis: Martina Hingis beats C Martinez (63 63) |
Jan 31 |
STS 89 (Endeavour 12) lands |
Feb 1 |
"Street Corner Symphony," closes at Brooks Atkinson NYC after 79 perf |
Feb 1 |
86th Australian Mens Tennis: Petr Korda beats Marcelo Rios (62 62 62) |
Feb 1 |
Australian Mixed: J Gimelstob & V Williams beat Suk & Sukova (62 61) |
Feb 1 |
NFL Pro Bowl: AFC beats NFC 29-24 |
Feb 1 |
Rear Admiral Lillian E. Fishburne became the first female African American to be promoted to rear admiral. |
Feb 2 |
Daniel Baldwin hospitalized in NYC for cocaine overdose |
Feb 2 |
Philippine DC-9 crashes apparently killing all 104 on board |
Feb 3 |
Florida Panther Dino Ciccarelli's is 9th NHLer to score 600 career goals |
Feb 3 |
NY Yankees replace general manager Bob Watson with Brian Cashman |
Feb 3 |
Stamps commemorating Princess Diana go on sale in Britain |
Feb 3 |
US military plane clips cable car lines in northern Italy, kills 20 |
Feb 3 |
Mary Kay LeTourneau, 36, former teacher, violates probation with 14 year-old father of her baby |
Feb 3 |
Karla Faye Tucker is executed in Texas becoming the first woman executed in the United States since 1984. |
Feb 4 |
Bill Gates gets a pie thrown in his face in Brussels, Belgium |
Feb 4 |
An earthquake measuring 6.1 on the Richter Scale in northeast Afghanistan kills more than 5,000. |
Feb 5 |
Alberto Acciarito convicted of harassing his ex-wife Ingrid Rossellini |
Feb 5 |
Author Tom Clancy confirms he signed agreement to purchase Minnesota Vikings for slightly more than $200 million, an NFL franchise record |
Feb 5 |
Nancy Kerrigan & Tonya Harding talk on FOX (Taped Dec 22nd) |
Feb 6 |
Twins trade Chuck Knoblauch to NY Yankees for $3M & 4 minor leaguers |
Feb 6 |
Mary Kay LeTourneau, 36, former teacher, who violated probation by seeing 14 year old father of her baby, sentenced to 7 years |
Feb 6 |
In Corsica, the prefect Claude Erignac is assassinated in Ajaccio, presumably by Yvan Colonna. |
Feb 6 |
Washington National Airport is renamed Ronald Reagan National Airport. |
Feb 7 |
18th Winter Olympic games open at Nagano Japan |
Feb 7 |
NHL's Dallas Stars retire Neal Broten's #7 |
Feb 8 |
1st female ice hockey game in Olympic history Finland beats Sweden 6-0 |
Feb 8 |
48th NBA All-Star Game: East beats West 135-114 at NYC |
Feb 8 |
NHL stops season until Feb 24th to accomodate the Olympics |
Feb 9 |
Failed assassination attempt on Georgian Pres Eduard Shevardnadze |
Feb 9 |
6th ESPY Awards: Ken Griffey Jr, Mia Hamm win |
Feb 10 |
AOL raises monthly flat rate internet access from $19.95 to $21.95 |
Feb 10 |
Olympic figure skater Peggy Fleming undergoes breast cancer surgery |
Feb 10 |
Voters in Maine repeal a gay rights law passed in 1997 becoming the first U.S. state to abandon that law. |
Feb 11 |
KVBC-FM (Las Vegas) offers Monica Lewinsky $5M for interview |
Feb 11 |
Lyrics to "Candle in the Wind 1997," auctioned for $442,500 |
Feb 12 |
"Freak," opens at Cort Theater NYC |
Feb 12 |
250-car Italy pile-up due to fog, 4 die & 50 hurt |
Feb 12 |
Dallas Cowboys sign Chan Gailey as their 4th head coach |
Feb 12 |
Intel unveils its 1st graphics chip i740 |
Feb 12 |
US district judge T Hogan declares line-item veto law unconstitutional |
Feb 14 |
Authorities in the United States announce that Eric Robert Rudolph is a suspect in an Alabama abortion clinic bombing. |
Feb 15 |
Dale Eggeling wins Los Angeles Women's Golf Championship |
Feb 15 |
Daytona 500 race |
Feb 16 |
Tellabs Inc acquires Coherent Communications Systems for $670 million |
Feb 17 |
US Naval Academy cadet Diane Zamora, 20, convicted of capital murder |
Feb 17 |
Larry Wayne Harris & Bill Levitt arrested for possession of anthrax |
Feb 17 |
USA Women's Ice Hockey Team beats Canada and wins the first Olympic Gold medal |
Feb 18 |
NY Rangers fire head coach Colin Campbell |
Feb 18 |
Two white separatists are arrested in Nevada and accused of plotting a biological attack on New York City subways. |
Feb 19 |
Soyuz TM-26 lands |
Feb 19 |
US hockey team destroys their rooms at Olympic village in Japan |
Feb 20 |
Tara Lipinski wins Olympic figure skating gold medal |
Feb 20 |
UN Sec-Gen Kofi Annan lands in Baghdad, for peace negotiations |
Feb 20 |
US movie box office hits quickest $1 billion for year (51 days) |
Feb 21 |
Cup Noodles Hawaiian Ladies Golf Open |
Feb 22 |
"King & I," closes at Neil Simon Theater NYC after 781 performances |
Feb 22 |
18th Winter Olympic games close at Nagano Japan |
Feb 23 |
Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Charleston SC on WAVF 96.1 FM |
Feb 23 |
Supreme Court lets Megan's Law stand |
Feb 23 |
Tornadoes in Florida kills at least 31 |
Feb 23 |
Osama bin Laden publishes a fatwa declaring jihad against all Jews and Crusaders. |
Feb 24 |
Elton John knighted |
Feb 24 |
NHL resumes season since Feb 8th to accomodate the Olympics |
Feb 25 |
Pamela Lee has husband Tommy Lee arrested on battery charges |
Feb 25 |
Switzerland's 1st legal brothel opens in Zurich |
Feb 25 |
40th Grammy Awards: "Sunny Came Home" best song, Paula Cole best new artist |
Feb 26 |
Oprah Winfrey found not guilty in beef defamation trial brought by Texas cattlemen |
Feb 26 |
Steven M Gluckstern completes sale of NY Islanders |
Feb 26 |
Total solar eclipse in Venezuela-Pacific Ocean (4m09) |
Feb 27 |
Apple discontinues developing Newton computer |
Feb 27 |
FBI arrests 10 most wanted suspected serial killer Tony Ray Amati |
Feb 27 |
NE Patriot David Meggett arrested in Toronto on sex assault charges |
Feb 27 |
Britain's House of Lords agree's to end 1,000 years of male preference by giving a monarch's first-born daughter the same claim to the throne as any first born son |
Feb 27 |
12th Soul Train Music Awards: Puff Daddy, Whitney Houston win |
Feb 27 |
14th Soap Opera Digest Awards - General Hospital wins |
Feb 28 |
"View From the Bridge," closes at Criterion Theater NYC |
Feb 28 |
Vancouver Canucks Mark Messier is 4th NHLer to get 1,600 points |
Feb 28 |
First flight of RQ-4 Global Hawk, the first unmanned aerial vehicle certified to file its own flight plans and fly regularly in U.S. civilian airspace. |
Feb 28 |
Kosovo War: Serbian police begin the offensive against the Kosovo Liberation Army in Kosovo. |
Mar 1 |
"Art," opens at Royale Theater NYC |
Mar 1 |
Australian Ladies Masters Golf |
Mar 2 |
Data sent from the Galileo spacecraft indicates that Jupiter's moon Europa has a liquid ocean under a thick crust of ice. |
Mar 3 |
Bill Gates testifies at Senate Judiciary Committee |
Mar 4 |
Gay rights: Oncale v. Sundowner Offshore Services: 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. |
Mar 6 |
1st time the British flag is flown over Buckingham Palace |
Mar 6 |
Matt Beck, an angry lottery accountant kills 4 at Conn state lottery |
Mar 8 |
The Screen Actors Guild award Gloria Stuart (Old Rose in "Titanic") with their Founders Award |
Mar 12 |
"Sound of Music," opens at Martin Beck Theater NYC |
Mar 14 |
An earthquake measuring 6.9 on the Richter scale hits southeastern Iran. |
Mar 15 |
"Cabaret" opens at Club Expo Theater NYC |
Mar 15 |
Welch's/Circle K Golf Championship |
Mar 16 |
Pope John Paul II asks God for forgiveness for the inactivity and silence of some Roman Catholics during the Holocaust. |
Mar 19 |
"Ah Wilderness!" opens at Vivian Beaumont theater |
Mar 21 |
Good Friday Agreement signed in Northern Ireland. |
Mar 22 |
18th Golden Raspberry Awards: The Postman wins |
Mar 23 |
70th Academy Awards - "Titanic," Jack Nicholson & Helen Hunt win |
Mar 24 |
Jonesboro massacre: Two students, ages 11 and 13, fire upon teachers and students at Westside Middle School in Jonesboro, Arkansas; five people are dead and ten are wounded. |
Mar 24 |
A tornado sweeps through Dantan in India killing 250 people and injuring 3000 others. |
Mar 26 |
Oued Bouaicha massacre in Algeria; 52 people killed with axes and knives, 32 of them babies under the age of 2. |
Mar 29 |
17th NCAA Women's Basketball Championship: at Kemper Arena KC |
Mar 29 |
27th Nabisco Dinah Shore Golf Championship |
Mar 29 |
Vasco da Gama Road bridge opens in Lisbon, Portugal as the longest bridge in Europe |
Mar 30 |
60th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: at Alamodome San Antonio |
Mar 31 |
Tampa Bay Devil Rays 1st game they host Detroit Tigers |
Apr 1 |
World Ice Pairs Figure Skating Championship in Minn |
Apr 2 |
World Mens Figure Skating Championship in Minn |
Apr 3 |
World Ice Dance Figure Skating Championship in Minn |
Apr 4 |
NFL Europe (Formerly WLAF), kicks off season |
Apr 5 |
10th Seniors Golf Tradition: |
Apr 6 |
Pakistan tests medium-range missiles capable of hitting India. |
Apr 10 |
The Good Friday/Belfast Agreement for Northern Ireland is signed by the British and Irish goverments |
Apr 12 |
62nd Golf Masters Championship: Mark O'Meara wins, shooting a 279 |
Apr 12 |
An earthquake in Slovenia, measuring 5.6 on the Richter scale occurs near the town of Bovec. |
Apr 19 |
59th PGA Seniors Golf Championship: |
Apr 20 |
TAME Boeing 727-200 chartered by Air France crashes into Cerro El Cable mountain after takeoff from Bogotá, Colombia, killing 53. |
Apr 20 |
German terrorist group Red Army Faction announces their dissolution after 28 years. |
Apr 22 |
Disney's Animal Kingdom opens at Walt Disney World near Orlando, Florida, United States. |
Apr 22 |
33rd Academy of Country Music Awards: Garth Brooks, Trisha Yearwood & George Strait wins |
Apr 29 |
15th Miss Hawaiian Tropic crowned |
May 2 |
124th Kentucky Derby: Kent Desormeaux aboard Real Quiet wins in 2:02.20 |
May 2 |
The European Central Bank is founded in Brussels in order to define and execute the European Union's monetary policy. |
May 4 |
A federal judge in Sacramento, California, gives "Unabomber" Ted Kaczynski four life sentences plus 30 years after Kaczynski accepts a plea agreement sparing him from the death penalty. |
May 6 |
Kerry Wood strikes out 20 Houston Astros to tie the major league record held by Roger Clemens. He threw a one-hitter and did not walk a batter in his 5th career start. |
May 7 |
Mercedes-Benz buys Chrysler for $40 billion USD and forms DaimlerChrysler in the largest industrial merger in history. |
May 11 |
India conducts three underground nuclear tests in Pokhran, including a thermonuclear device. |
May 13 |
Race riots break out in Jakarta, Indonesia, where shops owned by Indonesian of Chinese descendants are looted and women raped. |
May 13 |
India carries out two nuclear tests at Pokhran, in addition to the three conducted on May 11. The United States and Japan impose economic sanctions on India. |
May 14 |
Last episode of seinfeld on NBC (commercials are $2M for 30 seconds) |
May 16 |
124th Preakness: Kent Desormeaux aboard Real Quiet wins in 1:54.80 |
May 17 |
44th McDonald's LPGA Championship won by Se Ri Pak |
May 17 |
David Wells (New York Yankees) pitches a perfect game against the Minnesota Twins |
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 |
In Miami, Florida, five abortion clinics are hit by a butyric acid attacker. |
May 21 |
Suharto, the Indonesian dictator who had ruled for 32 years, resigns. |
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, involving President Bill Clinton. |
May 23 |
The Good Friday Agreement is accepted in a referendum in Northern Ireland with 75% voting yes. |
May 24 |
Indianapolis 500: Eddie Cheever Jr wins in 3:26:40.524 (233.604 km/h) |
May 26 |
Date for Paula Jones sex harassment trial vs President Clinton |
May 26 |
The United States Supreme Court rules that Ellis Island, the historic gateway for millions of immigrants, is mainly in the state of New Jersey, not New York. |
May 27 |
Oklahoma City bombing: Michael Fortier is sentenced to 12 years in prison and fined $200,000 for failing to warn authorities about the terrorist plot. |
May 28 |
Nuclear testing: Pakistan responds to a series of Indian nuclear tests with five of its own, prompting the United States, Japan, and other nations to impose economic sanctions. |
May 30 |
A magnitude 6.6 earthquake hits northern Afghanistan, killing up to 5,000. |
Jun 2 |
The CIH computer virus is discovered in Taiwan. |
Jun 3 |
Eschede train disaster: an ICE high speed train derails in Lower Saxony, Germany, causing 101 deaths. |
Jun 4 |
Terry Nichols is sentenced to life in prison for his role in the Oklahoma City bombing. |
Jun 5 |
A strike begins at the General Motors parts factory in Flint, Michigan, that quickly spreads to five other assembly plants (the strike lasted seven weeks). |
Jun 5 |
"The Truman Show", starring Jim Carrey, Laura Linney, and Ed Harris, is released |
Jun 6 |
130th Belmont: Gary Stevens aboard Victory Gallop wins in 2:29 |
Jun 6 |
68th French Womens Tennis: |
Jun 7 |
68th French Mens Tennis: |
Jun 7 |
James Byrd, Jr. is dragged to death by Shawn Allen Berry, Lawrence Russel Brewer, and John William King in Jasper, Texas in a racially-motivated hate crime. |
Jun 7 |
52nd Tony Awards: The Lion King & 'Art' win |
Jun 11 |
Compaq Computer pays $9 billion for Digital Equipment Corporation in the largest high-tech acquisition. |
Jun 14 |
"Comic Relief" benefit comedy show |
Jun 14 |
World Bowl in Frankfurt Germany |
Jun 14 |
52nd NBA Championship: Chicago Bulls beat Utah Jazz, 4 games to 2 |
Jun 15 |
32nd Music City News Country Awards: Neal McCoy, Lorrie Morgan & Billy Ray Cyrus wins |
Jun 21 |
98th US Golf Open: Lee Janzen shoots a 280 at Olympic Club SF |
Jun 25 |
In Clinton v. City of New York, the United States Supreme Court decides that the Line Item Veto Act of 1996 is unconstitutional. |
Jun 27 |
Opening of the Kuala Lumpur International Airport in Malaysia. |
Jun 30 |
Sega Channel, cable's 1st on-demand video game service, closes down |
Jul 4 |
105th Wimbledon Women's Tennis: Jana Novotná beats Nathalie Tauziat (6-4 7-6) |
Jul 5 |
53rd US Women's Open Golf Championship at Blackwolf Run GC, Kohler WI |
Jul 5 |
112th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Pete Sampras beats G Ivanišević (6-7 7-6 6-4 3-6 6-2) |
Jul 6 |
Hong Kong's Kai Tak Airport is closed and the new Hong Kong International Airport at Chek Lap Kok becomes operational. |
Jul 7 |
69th All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 13-8 at Coors Field, Denver |
Jul 10 |
Roman Catholic sex abuse cases: The Diocese of Dallas agrees to pay $23.4 million to nine former altar boys who claimed they were sexually abused by former priest Rudolph Kos. |
Jul 12 |
16th Seniors Players Golf Championship: |
Jul 12 |
Jamie Farr Kroger Golf Classic |
Jul 12 |
France beats Brazil 3-0 for soccer's 16th World Cup (1st title) |
Jul 12 |
Pres. Nelson Mandela accompanies Queen Elizabeth II on a coach drive through the streets of London |
Jul 14 |
Violence erupts in Richmond, South Africa, reflecting underlying political tensions between supporters of the ANC and Inkatha Freedom Party |
Jul 17 |
Russia buries Tsar Nicholas II & family, 80 years after they died |
Jul 19 |
127th British Golf Open: Mark O'Meara shoots a 280 at Royal Birkdale |
Jul 19 |
JAL Big Apple Golf Classic |
Jul 20 |
Two hundred aid workers from CARE International, Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders) and other aid groups leave Afghanistan on orders of the Taliban. |
Jul 24 |
Russell 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. |
Jul 26 |
19th US Senior Golf Open ends at Riviera CC, Pacific Palisades, Calif |
Aug 1 |
-8] Gay & Lesbian Games #5 open in Amsterdam |
Aug 2 |
26th du Maurier Golf Classic: Brandie Burton |
Aug 2 |
30th Curtis Cup: US wins 10-8 at The Minikahda Club (Minneapolis, Minnesota, US) |
Aug 2 |
San Francisco Giants slugger Barry Bonds is hit by a pitch and charges the mound, causing a bench-clearing brawl |
Aug 5 |
The American spin-off "Whose Line Is It Anyway?", starring Ryan Stiles, Colin Mochrie, and Wayne Brady, debuts on ABC |
Aug 10 |
The Royal Proclamation of HRH Prince Al-Muhtadee Billah as the Crown Prince of Brunei. |
Aug 11 |
Palestine Liberation Organisation and Palestinian National Authority president, Yasser Arafat, arrives in Cape Town on his first state visit to South Africa at the invitation of President Nelson Mandela |
Aug 14 |
Winnie Mandela sued by the South Africa government |
Aug 15 |
Omagh bomb in Northern Ireland, the worst terrorist incident of The Troubles, killed 29 people and injured about 220 |
Aug 16 |
80th PGA Championship: Vijay Singh shoots a 271 at Sahalee Country Club |
Aug 16 |
Weetabix Women's British Golf Open |
Aug 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. |
Aug 19 |
South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission chairperson, Archbishop D. Tutu, releases documents revealing an alleged plot by Western countries to assassinate United Nations Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold of Sweden |
Aug 20 |
The Supreme Court of Canada rules that Quebec cannot legally secede from Canada without the federal government's approval. |
Aug 20 |
U.S. embassy bombings: the United States military launches cruise missile attacks against alleged al-Qaida 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. |
Aug 21 |
P.W. Botha found guilty of contempt for repeatedly ignoring subpoenas to testify before South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission. |
Aug 24 |
The Netherlands is selected as the site for the trial of the two Libyan suspects of the 1988 Pan Am bombing. |
Aug 24 |
First RFID human implantation tested in the United Kingdom. |
Aug 28 |
Pakistan's National Assembly passes a constitutional amendment to make the "Qur'an and Sunnah" the "supreme law" but the bill is defeated in the Senate. |
Aug 30 |
State Farm Rail Golf Classic |
Aug 31 |
North Korea reportedly launches Kwangmyongsong, its first satellite. |
Sep 2 |
Swissair Flight 111 crashes near Peggys Cove, Nova Scotia. All 229 people on board are killed. |
Sep 2 |
The UN's International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda finds Jean-Paul Akayesu, the former mayor of a small town in Rwanda, guilty of nine counts of genocide. |
Sep 4 |
Google is founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin, two students at Stanford University |
Sep 7 |
Jerry Lewis' 33rd Muscular Dystrophy telethon raises |
Sep 10 |
15th MTV Awards: Madonna & Will Smith wins |
Sep 11 |
Independent counsel Kenneth Starr sends a report to the U.S. Congress accusing President Bill Clinton of 11 possible impeachable offenses. |
Sep 11 |
Opening ceremony for the 1998 Commonwealth Games in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Malaysia is the first Asian country to host the games. |
Sep 13 |
112th US Womens Tennis |
Sep 13 |
118th US Mens Tennis |
Sep 13 |
SAFECO Golf Classic |
Sep 13 |
50th Emmy Awards: The Practice, Frasier, Andre Braugher & Christine Lahti win |
Sep 14 |
Week of Fed Cup |
Sep 14 |
Telecommunications companies MCI Communications and WorldCom complete their $37 billion merger to form MCI WorldCom. |
Sep 15 |
With the landmark merger of WorldCom and MCI Communications completed the day prior, the new MCI WorldCom opens its doors for business. |
Sep 18 |
Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) is formed. |
Sep 20 |
Solheim Cup |
Sep 23 |
32nd Country Music Association Award: Garth Brooks, Trisha Yearwood & George Strait wins |
Sep 27 |
Core States Betsy King Golf Classic |
Sep 27 |
Google is launched. |
Oct 1 |
Vladimir Putin became a permanent member of the Security Council of the Russian Federation. |
Oct 7 |
Matthew Shepard, a gay student at the University of Wyoming, is found tied to a fence after being savagely beaten by two young adults in Laramie, Wyoming. |
Oct 8 |
Oslo Gardermoen airport opening after the close down of Fornebu. |
Oct 11 |
A Congo Airlines Boeing 727 is shot down by rebels in Kindu, Democratic Republic of the Congo, killing 40 people. |
Oct 14 |
NY Islanders beat Tampa Bay, 7-1, to end 11 game winless streak |
Oct 14 |
Eric Robert Rudolph is charged with 6 bombings including the 1996 Centennial Olympic Park bombing in Atlanta, Georgia. |
Oct 16 |
Former Chilean dictator Gen. Augusto Pinochet is arrested in London on a warrant from Spain requesting his extradition on murder charges. |
Oct 17 |
At Jesse, in the Niger Delta, Nigeria, a petroleum pipeline explodes killing about 1200 villagers, some of whom are scavenging gasoline. |
Oct 18 |
Samsung World Championship of Women's Golf |
Oct 19 |
The Earth Liberation Front sets fire to the Vail Mountain ski resort in Vail, Colorado, causing $12 million in damage. |
Oct 23 |
Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian Chairman Yasser Arafat reach a "land for peace" agreement. |
Oct 24 |
Launch of Deep Space 1 comet/asteroid mission |
Oct 28 |
An Air China (Mainland China) jetliner is hijacked by disgruntled pilot Yuan Bin and flown to Taiwan. |
Oct 29 |
Apartheid: In South Africa, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission presents its report, which condemns both sides for committing atrocities. |
Oct 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 hijacker into thinking that he was landing in the Bulgarian capital of Sofia to refuel. |
Oct 29 |
Hurricane Mitch, the second deadliest Atlantic hurricane in history, made landfall in Honduras. |
Oct 29 |
Space Shuttle Discovery blasts off on STS-95 with 77-year old John Glenn on board, making him the oldest person to go into space. |
Oct 29 |
ATSC HDTV broadcasting in the United States is inaugurated with the launch of STS-95 space shuttle mission. |
Oct 31 |
Iraq disarmament crisis begins: Iraq announces it would no longer cooperate with United Nations weapons inspectors. |
Nov 1 |
Nichirei Golf International |
Nov 1 |
The European Court of Human Rights is instituted. |
Nov 8 |
Japan Golf Classic |
Nov 9 |
Brokerage houses are ordered to pay 1.03 billion USD to cheated NASDAQ investors to compensate for their price-fixing. This is the largest civil settlement in United States history. |
Nov 9 |
Capital punishment in the United Kingdom, already abolished for murder, is completely abolished for all remaining capital offences. |
Nov 12 |
NY Islanders tie Detroit Red Wings 1-1, to end 10 game losing streak |
Nov 12 |
Vice President of the United States Al Gore symbolically signs the Kyoto Protocol. |
Nov 16 |
Monica Lewinsky signs a deal for the North American rights to a book about her affair with US President Clinton |
Nov 17 |
Tori Amos release a compilation of her videos, "Tori Amos: The Complete Collection: 1992-1998" |
Nov 17 |
Whitney Houston releases "My Love is Your Love" |
Nov 17 |
Mariah Carey releases "#1's" |
Nov 19 |
Vincent van Gogh's Portrait of the Artist Without Beard sells at auction for $71.5 million USD. |
Nov 19 |
Lewinsky scandal: The United States House of Representatives Judiciary Committee begins impeachment hearings against U.S. President Bill Clinton. |
Nov 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. |
Nov 20 |
The first module of the International Space Station, Zarya, is launched. |
Nov 22 |
86th CFL Grey Cup: Calgary Stampeders defeats Hamilton Tiger-Cats, 26-24 |
Nov 23 |
Agreement between Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen and his rival, prince Norodom Ranariddh. |
Nov 26 |
Tony Blair becomes the first Prime Minister of the United Kingdom to address the Republic of Ireland's parliament. |
Nov 28 |
The people of Albania vote for their new Constitution in a referendum. |
Nov 30 |
Deutsche Bank announces a $10 billion USDdeal to buy Bankers Trust, thus creating the largest financial institution in the world. |
Dec 1 |
Exxon announces a $73.7 billion USD deal to buy Mobil, thus creating Exxon-Mobil, the world's largest company. |
Dec 4 |
The Unity Module, the second module of the International Space Station, is launched. |
Dec 6 |
JC Penney Golf Classic |
Dec 6 |
Hugo Chávez Frías, Venezuelan military and politician, is elected President of Venezuela. |
Dec 6 |
87th Davis Cup: Sweden beats Italy in Milan (4-1) |
Dec 8 |
Tadjena massacre: 81 people are killed by armed groups in Algeria. |
Dec 11 |
Thai Airways Airbus A310-200 crashes near Surat Thani Airport, killing 101 |
Dec 16 |
Iraq disarmament crisis: Operation Desert Fox - the United States and United Kingdom bomb targets in Iraq. |
Dec 19 |
Lewinsky scandal: The United States House of Representatives forwards articles I and III of impeachment against President Bill Clinton to the Senate. |
Dec 20 |
Wendy's Three-Tour Golf Challenge |
Dec 26 |
Iraq announces its intention to fire upon U.S. and British warplanes that patrol the northern and southern no-fly zones. |
Dec 26 |
Severe gales over Ireland, northern England, and southern Scotland cause widespread disruption and widespread power outages in Northern Ireland and southern Scotland. |
Dec 29 |
Leaders of the Khmer Rouge apologize for the 1970s genocide in Cambodia that claimed over 1 million. |
Dec 31 |
US movie box office hits record $6.24 billion for year |
Dec 31 |
Exchange rates between the euro and legacy currencies in the Eurozone become fixed. |
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