1998

1998 in other calendars
Gregorian calendar	1998 ; MCMXCVIII
Ab urbe condita	2751
Armenian calendar	1447 ; ?? ????
Assyrian calendar	6748
Baha'i calendar	154?155
Balinese saka calendar	1919?1920
Bengali calendar	1405
Berber calendar	2948
British Regnal year	46 Eliz. 2 ? 47 Eliz. 2
Buddhist calendar	2542
Burmese calendar	1360
Byzantine calendar	7506?7507
Chinese calendar	丁丑年 (Fire Ox ) ; 4694 or 4634 ; ? to ? ; 戊寅年 (Earth Tiger ) ; 4695 or 4635
Coptic calendar	1714?1715
Discordian calendar	3164
Ethiopian calendar	1990?1991
Hebrew calendar	5758?5759
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	2054?2055
- Shaka Samvat	1919?1920
- Kali Yuga	5098?5099
Holocene calendar	11998
Igbo calendar	998?999
Iranian calendar	1376?1377
Islamic calendar	1418?1419
Japanese calendar	Heisei 10 ; (平成１０年)
Javanese calendar	1930?1931
Juche calendar	87
Julian calendar	Gregorian minus 13 days
Korean calendar	4331
Minguo calendar	ROC 87 ; 民國87年
Nanakshahi calendar	530
Thai solar calendar	2541
Tibetan calendar	?火牛年 ; (female Fire- Ox ) ; 2124 or 1743 or 971 ; ? to ? ; ?土虎年 ; (male Earth- Tiger ) ; 2125 or 1744 or 972
Unix time	883612800 ? 915148799

Millennium :	2nd millennium
Centuries :	19th century ? 20th century ? 21st century
Decades :	1960s 1970s 1980s ? 1990s ? 2000s 2010s 2020s
Years :	1995 1996 1997 ? 1998 ? 1999 2000 2001

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.

Events [ change | change source ]

January [ change | change source ]

January 1 ? Smoking is banned in all California bars and restaurants. ^[1]
January 2 - Russia begins to circulate new rubles to stem inflation and promote confidence.
January 2 - A gunman shoots Antario Teodoro Filho , Brazilian politician and radio presenter, in the middle of his broadcast.
January 4 - 10 - A massive ice storm , caused by El Nino, strikes New England , southern Ontario and Quebec , resulting in widespread power failures, severe damage to forests, and a number of deaths.
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 on the moon's surface.
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 1998 like a 1999 one human cloning .
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 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 Bill Clinton of sexual harassment .
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 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 [ change | change source ]

February 3 - A low-flying US military airplane cuts the cable of a cable car near Trento , Italy , killing 20 people.
February 3 - President of Armenia Levon Ter-Petrosian resigns.
February 4 - A magnitude 6.1 earthquake kills more than 5,000 people in Northeastern Afghanistan .
February 7 - 22 - The 1998 Winter Olympics are held in 1998 like a 2000 one for Nagano , Japan .
February 16 - China Airlines Flight 676 crashes into a residential area near Chiang Kai-shek Airport in Taipei , killing 202 people, including 6 on the ground.
February 20 - Saddam Hussein negotiates a deal with UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan , allowing weapons inspectors to return to Baghdad , preventing military action by the US and the UK .
February 20-March 27 - The 1998 Auckland power crisis lasts five weeks.
February 22-23 - The 1998 Kissimmee tornado outbreak strikes central Florida , including Orlando . Forty-two people are killed.
February 26 - A solar eclipse is seen over the Caribbean Sea .

March [ change | change source ]

March 2 - Data sent from the Galileo probe indicates that Jupiter 's moon Europa has a liquid ocean under a thick crust of ice .
March 2 - In Austria , Natascha Kampusch is kidnapped by Wolfgang Priklopil , being held in captivity until August 2006 .
March 11 - Prime Minister of Denmark Poul Nyrup Rasmussen is re-elected.
March 24 - A cyclone hits Bangladesh .
March 26 - In Algeria , 52 people are killed in the Oued Bouaicha massacre.

April [ change | change source ]

April 5 - The Akashi-Kaikyo Bridge is opened to traffic in Japan , connecting Honshu and Shikoku .
April 6 - Pakistan tests a medium-range missile.
April 10 - In Northern Ireland the Good Friday Agreement is signed by the British and Irish governments and most political parties in Northern Ireland .
April 29 - The Kyoto Protocol is signed.

May [ change | change source ]

May 11 - India conducts 3 underground nuclear tests.
May 21 - Suharto resigns as President of Indonesia , with Bacharuddin Jusuf Habibie succeeding him.
May 26 - Bear Grylls becomes the youngest British person to climb Mount Everest .
May 28 ? Pakistan explodes 5 nuclear devices.
May 30 - A magnitude 6.6 earthquake kills up to 5,000 people in Afghanistan .

June [ change | change source ]

June 3 - An ICE high speed train derails at Eschede between Hanover and Hamburg , killing 101 people.
June 7 - The Guinea-Bissau Civil War begins.
June 30 - Joseph Estrada becomes the 13th President of the Philippines .

July [ change | change source ]

July 5 - Japan launches a probe to Mars .
July 6 - Hong Kong International Airport opens.
July 12 - The France national football team wins the FIFA World Cup on home soil against the Brazil national football team , 3-0.

July 17 - At a conference in Rome 120 countries vote to create an International Criminal Court .
July 17 - A tsunami is triggered by an undersea earthquake off Papua New Guinea , destroying 10 villages and killing thousands of people.
July 17 - 80 years after being executed Tsar Nicholas II of Russia and his family are buried at the St. Catherine chapel in Saint Petersburg .

August [ change | change source ]

August 2 - The Second Congo War begins.
August 7 - Andres Pastrana Arango becomes President of Colombia .
August 7 - During major flooding the Yangtze River breaks through the main bank, with the death toll exceeding 12,000 people.
August 7 - The US Embassies in Nairobi , Kenya and Dar es Salaam , Tanzania are bombed, killing 224 people. Al-Qaeda is believed to be responsible.
August 10 - Jamil Mahuad becomes President of Ecuador .
August 15 - The Omagh bombing is carried out by the IRA in Northern Ireland .
August 17 - Bill Clinton admits having an affair with White House intern Monica Lewinsky .
August 24 - The first RFID human implantation is tested in the United Kingdom .
August 28 - Said Musa becomes Prime Minister of Belize .

September [ change | change source ]

Vessels searching for Swissair Flight 111 off Nova Scotia

September 2 - Swissair Flight 111, travelling from New York City to Geneva , crashes off the coast of Peggys Cove, Nova Scotia , Canada , killing all 229 people on board.
September 4 - Google Inc. is founded in California by Sergey Brin and Larry Page .
September 27 - After 16 years as Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany , Helmut Kohl of the CDU is voted out, with the SPD 's Gerhard Schroeder being elected to succeed him.

October [ change | change source ]

October 3 - John Howard is elected to a second term as Prime Minister of Australia .
October 8 - Oslo Gardermoen Airport opens.
October 14 - Eric Robert Rudolph is charged with four bombings in Atlanta , Georgia in 1996 .
October 16 - While receiving medical treatment in the UK , Augusto Pinochet is put under house arrest under an arrest warrant from Spain .
October 17 - 1,082 people are killed when an oil pipeline in Nigeria explodes.
October 27 - Gerhard Schroeder becomes Chancellor of Germany , officially succeeding Helmut Kohl .
October 29 - Hurricane Mitch makes landfall in Central America , causing a large amount of destruction and killing over 18,000 people across Honduras , Nicaragua and El Salvador .

November [ change | change source ]

November 3 - Hurricane Mitch weakens after leaving a trail of destruction across Central America .
November 20 - A Russian Proton rocket is launched from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan . ^[2]
November 26 - Tony Blair becomes the first Prime Minister of the United Kingdom to speak at the Irish Parliament .

December [ change | change source ]

December 6 - Hugo Chavez is elected President of Venezuela , taking office in February 1999 .
December 16 - Bill Clinton orders air strikes on Iraq .
December 29 - Khmer Rouge leaders apologise for the genocide committed in Cambodia under Pol Pot 's rule.
December 31 - An extra leap second is added onto the end of the year.

Births [ change | change source ]

January 28 - Ariel Winter , American actress
February 24 - Erica Parsons , American murder victim (d. December 17 , 2011 ).
February 25 ? Brendon Baerg , American actor
April 9 ? Elle Fanning , American actress
April 12 - Diana Quer , Spanish murder victim (d. 2016 )
May 3 - Ionu? Palade, Romanian singer (Trupa Muzicii Rock-The Jam Hendrix Experience)
April 24 - Ryan Whitney , American actress
April 28 - Byron Ward , American Basketball Player
June 15 ? Rachel Covey , American actress
July 1 - Hollie Steel , English singer
July 8 - Jaden Smith , American actor
July 24 – Bindi Irwin , Australian-American conservationist, singer & actress
August 8 - Ronan Parke , English singer
September 9 - Cristian Gabriel Dima, Romanian football player & bassist (Trupa Muzicii Rock- Fecal Matter )
September 21 ? Lorenzo Brino , American actor
September 21 ? Myrinda Brino , American actress
September 21 ? Nikolas Brino , American actor
September 21 ? Zachary Brino , American actor
October 6 - Mia-Sophie Wellenbrink , German actress and singer
November 23 - Bradley Steven Perry , American actor and singer
December 2 - Gabbi Garcia , Filipina actress
December 9 - Mika Dela Cruz , Filipina actress

Deaths [ change | change source ]

January [ change | change source ]

January 1 - Helen Wills Moody , American tennis player (born 1905 )
January 5 - Sonny Bono , American singer, actor and politician (born 1935 )
January 7 - Vladimir Prelog , Croatian chemist (born 1906 )
January 8 - Michael Tippett , English composer (born 1905 )
January 9 - Kenichi Fukui , Japanese chemist (born 1918 )
January 11 - Klaus Tennstedt , German conductor (born 1926 )
January 19 - Carl Perkins , American guitarist (born 1932 )
January 21 - Jack Lord , American actor (born 1920 )
January 23 - Alfredo Ormando , Italian writer (born 1958 )
January 28 - Shotari Ishinomari , Japanese manga artist (born 1938 )

February [ change | change source ]

February 6 - Falco , Austrian singer and musician (born 1957 )
February 6 - Carl Wilson , American musician (born 1946 )
February 8 - Halldor Laxness , Icelandic writer (born 1902 )
February 8 - Julian Lincoln Simon , American economist and writer (born 1932 )
February 8 - Enoch Powell , British politician (born 1912 )
February 17 - Ernst Juenger , German writer (born 1895 )
February 26 - Theodore Schultz , American economist (born 1902 )
February 27 - George H. Hitchings , American scientist (born 1905 )
February 28 - Dermot Morgan , Irish actor and comedian (born 1952 )

March [ change | change source ]

March 3 - Fred W. Friendly , American television journalist and executive (born 1915 )
March 10 - Lloyd Bridges , American actor (born 1913 )
March 12 - Judge Dread , English musician (born 1945 )
March 12 - Beatrice Wood , American artist and ceramicist (born 1893 )
March 12 - Jozef Kroner , Slovakian actor (born 1924 )
March 15 - Benjamin Spock , American athlete, pediatrician and writer (born 1903 )
March 16 - Derek Harold Richard Barton , British chemist (born 1918 )
March 21 - Galina Ulanova , Russian ballerina (born 1910 )
March 25 - Daniel Massey , British actor (born 1933 )
March 27 - Ferdinand Anton Ernst Porsche , Austrian automobile designer and businessman (born 1909 )
March 31 - Bella Abzug , American politician (born 1920 )

April [ change | change source ]

April 1 - Gene Evans , American actor (born 1920 )
April 2 - Rob Pilatus , member of the pop group Milli Vanilli (born 1965 )
April 6 - Tammy Wynette , American singer (born 1942 )
April 15 - Pol Pot , Cambodian dictator (born 1925 )
April 16 - Marie-Louise Meilleur , Canadian supercentenarian (born 1880 )
April 17 - Linda McCartney , American photographer and musician (born 1941 )
April 19 - Octavio Paz , Mexican writer (born 1914 )
April 23 - Konstantinos Karamanlis , Greek politician (born 1907 )
April 23 - James Earl Ray , convicted assassin of Martin Luther King, Jr. (born 1928 )
April 25 - Christian Mortensen , Danish-born American supercentenarian (born 1882 )
April 27 - Carlos Castaneda , Peruvian-American anthropologist and writer (born 1925 )

May [ change | change source ]

May 1 - Eldridge Cleaver , American activist (born 1935 )
May 2 - Hide , Japanese musician (born 1964 )
May 2 - Justin Fashanu , English footballer (born 1961 )
May 2 - Kevin Lloyd , British actor (born 1949 )
May 7 - Allan McLeod Cormack , South African-born physicist (born 1924 )
May 14 - Frank Sinatra , American singer and entertainer (born 1915 )
May 19 - S?suke Uno , Prime Minister of Japan (born 1922 )
May 22 - John Derek , American actor and movie director (born 1926 )
May 28 - Phil Hartman , Canadian-born American artist, writer, actor and comedian (born 1948 )
May 29 - Barry Goldwater , American politician (born 1909 )