1998 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1998?
- January 1, 1998 – Russia begins to circulate new rubles to stem inflation and promote confidence.
- January 28, 1998 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Earth Tiger in Chinese astrology.
- February 3, 1998 – Cavalese cable car disaster: a United States Military pilot causes the death of 20 people when his low-flying plane cuts the cable of a cable-car near Trento, Italy.
- February 4, 1998 – An earthquake measuring 6.1 on the Richter Scale in northeast Afghanistan kills more than 5,000.
- February 10, 1998 – Voters in Maine repeal a gay rights law passed in 1997 becoming the first U.S. state to abandon such a law.
- February 20, 1998 – American figure skater Tara Lipinski becomes the youngest gold-medalist at the Winter Olympics in Nagano, Japan.
- March 27, 1998 – The Food and Drug Administration approves Viagra for use as a treatment for male impotence, the first pill to be approved for this condition in the United States.
- April 6, 1998 – Travelers Group announces an agreement to undertake the $76 billion merger between Travelers and Citicorp, and the merger is completed on October 8, of that year, forming Citibank.
- May 6, 1998 – 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 12, 1998 – Four students are shot at Trisakti University, leading to widespread riots and the fall of Suharto
- May 27, 1998 – 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 30, 1998 – A magnitude 6.6 earthquake hits northern Afghanistan, killing up to 5,000.
- July 5, 1998 – Japan launches a probe to Mars, and thus joins the United States and Russia as a space exploring nation.
- August 15, 1998 – Omagh bomb in Northern Ireland, the worst terrorist incident of The Troubles
- August 28, 1998 – 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.
- September 27, 1998 – The Google internet search engine retrospectively claims this as its birthday.
- October 14, 1998 – Eric Robert Rudolph is charged with six bombings including the 1996 Centennial Olympic Park bombing in Atlanta, Georgia.
- October 29, 1998 – The Gothenburg nightclub fire in Sweden kills 63 and injures 200.
- December 4, 1998 – The Unity Module, the second module of the International Space Station, is launched.
- December 22, 1998 – Hurricane Quinto strikes the Cayman Islands, knocking out power to the entire island for 2 days. Looting is rampant, but contained after 12 hours.
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