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Events on the year of 1998 in history

Events
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01 Jan 1998 All California bars, clubs and card rooms must be smoke-free
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01 Jan 1998 Mongolia switches from a 46 hour to 40 hour work week
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01 Jan 1998 US Census Bureau estimates population at 268,921,733
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01 Jan 1998 The European Central Bank is established.
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01 Jan 1998 Russia begins to circulate new rubles to stem inflation and promote confidence.
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02 Jan 1998 Autopsy of Chris Farley shows he overdosed of opiates and cocaine
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03 Jan 1998 "Side Show, " closes at Richard Rodgers NYC after 91 performances
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03 Jan 1998 Grandpa Jones suffers a stroke
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04 Jan 1998 "Funny Thing Happened, " closes at St. James NYC after 715 performances
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04 Jan 1998 "Ivanov, " closes at Vivian Beaumont Theater NYC after 51 performances
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04 Jan 1998 "Triumph of Love, " closes at Royale Theater, New York City
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04 Jan 1998 A massive ice storm hits eastern Canada and the northeastern United States, continuing through January 10 and causing widespread destruction.
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04 Jan 1998 Wilaya of Relizane massacres in Algeria: over 170 are killed in three remote villages.
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05 Jan 1998 Ice storm knocks out electricity in Quebec and Ontario
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06 Jan 1998 Barry Switzer resigns as Dallas Cowboy coach
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06 Jan 1998 Don Sutton selected to Baseball Hall of Fame
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08 Jan 1998 New York Giant GM George Young resigns to accept NFL position
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08 Jan 1998 Roseanne files for divorce from 3rd husband Ben Thomas
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08 Jan 1998 Unabomber suspect Theodore Kaczynski asks to act as his own lawyer
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08 Jan 1998 World Trade Center bomber Ramzi Ahmed Yousef sentenced to life
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09 Jan 1998 Anatoly Karpov defeats Viswanathan Anand to retain chess title
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09 Jan 1998 Anatoly Solovyov and Pavel Vinogradov spacewalk record 3 hours 8 minutes
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09 Jan 1998 Boston Red Sox Mo Vaughn pleads not guilty to drunken driving
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09 Jan 1998 Decapitated head of Danish Little Mermaid is returned
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09 Jan 1998 Hockey News selects Wayne Gretzky best NHL player ever
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10 Jan 1998 18th United Negro College Fund raises (re-broadcasted Jan 17th)
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11 Jan 1998 "Proposals, " closes at Broadhurst Theater NYC after 76 performances
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11 Jan 1998 Over 100 people are killed in the Sidi-Hamed massacre in Algeria.
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11 Jan 1998 US male Figure Skating championship won by Todd Eldredge
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11 Jan 1998 US female Figure Skating championship won by Michelle Kwan
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11 Jan 1998 NFC Championship Green Bay Packers beat San Francisco 49'ers 23-10
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11 Jan 1998 AFC Championship Denver Broncos beat Pitt Steelers 24-21
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11 Jan 1998 24th Annual People's Choice Awards - Seinfeld, Tim Allen win
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11 Jan 1998 "Proposals" closes at Broadhurst Theater New York City NY after 76 performances
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12 Jan 1998 Nineteen European nations agree to forbid human cloning.
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13 Jan 1998 "Patti LaBelle On Broadway, " opens at St. James Theater, New York City
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13 Jan 1998 CBS pays $4 billion to televise AFC games for 8-years
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14 Jan 1998 100th episode of "Ellen, " airs
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14 Jan 1998 100th episode of "Ellen" airs
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14 Jan 1998 Charles Barkley pleads not guilty to an assault charge
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15 Jan 1998 NASA announces John Glenn, 76, may fly in space again
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17 Jan 1998 Lewinsky scandal: Matt Drudge breaks the story of the Bill Clinton–Monica Lewinsky affair on his website The Drudge Report.
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17 Jan 1998 President Clinton faces sexual harassment charges from Paula Jones
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18 Jan 1998 "Ragtime, " opens at Ford Theater, New York City
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18 Jan 1998 ABL All-Star Game at Disney complex in Orlando
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18 Jan 1998 UCP Telethon
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18 Jan 1998 Kelly Robbins wins Healthsouth Golf Inaugural
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18 Jan 1998 Boston Celtics retire Robert Parrish's #00
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18 Jan 1998 ABL All-Star Game at Disney complex in Orlando FL (West beats East 102-73)
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18 Jan 1998 55th Golden Globes Awards
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18 Jan 1998 48th NHL All-Star Game North America beats World 8-7 at Vancouver
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18 Jan 1998 "Ragtime" opens at Ford Theater New York City NY
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20 Jan 1998 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inducts Mama & Papas & Eagles
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20 Jan 1998 Warner Brothers TV Network begins Tuesday night programming
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21 Jan 1998 Pope John Paul II visits Cuba
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22 Jan 1998 Rickey Henderson, rejoins Oakland Athletics for 4th time
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22 Jan 1998 NHL's Minnesota franchise selects the nickname Wild
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22 Jan 1998 STS 89 (Endeavour 12) launches into orbit
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22 Jan 1998 World League of American Football becomes NFL East
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23 Jan 1998 Pope John Paul II condemns US embargo against Cuba
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25 Jan 1998 "Patti LaBelle On Broadway, " closes at St. James Theater, New York City
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25 Jan 1998 Super Bowl XXXII: Denver Broncos beat Green Bay Packers 31-24
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25 Jan 1998 "Grease" closes at Eugene O'Neill Theater New York City NY after 1,503 performance
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25 Jan 1998 Britain's Queen Mother, 97, gets an emergency hip replacement
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25 Jan 1998 Helen Alfredsson wins Office Depot LPGA tournament
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25 Jan 1998 Spice Girl Victoria Adams (Posh) & soccer David Beckham gets engaged
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25 Jan 1998 Super Bowl XXXII Denver Broncos beat Green Bay Packers 31-24 in San Diego; Super Bowl MVP Terrell Davis, Denver, Running Back
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26 Jan 1998 President Clinton says "I want to say one thing to the American people I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Miss Lewinsky"
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26 Jan 1998 Lewinsky scandal: On American television, U.S. President Bill Clinton denies having had "sexual relations" with former White House intern Monica Lewinsky.
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26 Jan 1998 25th American Music Award Spice Girls & Babyface win
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26 Jan 1998 Intel launches 333 MHz Pentium II chip
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27 Jan 1998 Crane crashes into Roosevelt Is (New York City NY) Tram, injuring 10
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27 Jan 1998 Roland Clarkson discovers 2^3021377-1 (37th known Mersenne prime)
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27 Jan 1998 WNBA begins filling rosters of Washington Mystics & Detroit Shock
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28 Jan 1998 Michelangelo, "Christ & the Woman of Samaria, " sold for $7.4 million
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29 Jan 1998 "Capeman, " opens at Marquis Theater, New York City
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29 Jan 1998 Singers Bobby Brown found guilty of DWI in Ft Lauderdale Florida
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29 Jan 1998 In Birmingham, Alabama, a bomb explodes at an abortion clinic, killing one and severely wounding another. Serial bomber Eric Robert Rudolph is suspected as the culprit.
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29 Jan 1998 "Capeman" opens at Marquis Theater New York City NY
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29 Jan 1998 Soyuz TM-27 launches to MIR
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29 Jan 1998 Thick Fog causes highway carnage in Belgium & Netherlands, 6 die
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29 Jan 1998 Woman's Clinic in Birmingham AL bombed, 1 killed
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30 Jan 1998 All-Star Florida Marlin catcher Darren Daulton, retires
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30 Jan 1998 Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Indianapolis IN on WNAP 93.1 FM
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30 Jan 1998 Paul Simon's "The Capeman" premieres
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31 Jan 1998 72nd Australian Women's Tennis Martina Hingis beats C Martinez (63 63)
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31 Jan 1998 STS 89 (Endeavour 12) lands
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01 Feb 1998 "Street Corner Symphony, " closes at Brooks Atkinson NYC after 79 performances
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01 Feb 1998 86th Australian Mens Tennis: Petr Korda beats Marcelo Rios (62 62 62)
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01 Feb 1998 Australian Mixed: J Gimelstob and V Williams beat Suk and Sukova (62 61)
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01 Feb 1998 NFL Pro Bowl Game, AFC beats NFC 29-24
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01 Feb 1998 Rear Admiral Lillian E. Fishburne becomes the first female African American to be promoted to rear admiral.
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02 Feb 1998 Daniel Baldwin hospitalized in NYC for cocaine overdose
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02 Feb 1998 Philippine DC-9 crashes apparently killing all 104 on board
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03 Feb 1998 Britain issues a set of Princess Diana stamps
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03 Feb 1998 Mary Kay LeTourneau, 36, former teacher, violates probation with 14 year-old father of her baby
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03 Feb 1998 New York Yankees replace general manager Bob Watson with Brian Cashman
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03 Feb 1998 Stamps commemorating Princess Diana go on sale across Britain
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03 Feb 1998 US military plane clips cable car lines in Northern Italy, kills 20
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03 Feb 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.
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03 Feb 1998 Karla Faye Tucker is executed in Texas, becoming the first woman executed in the United States since 1984.
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04 Feb 1998 Bill Gates gets a pie thrown in his face in Brussels Belgium
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04 Feb 1998 An earthquake measuring 6.1 on the Richter Scale in northeast Afghanistan kills more than 5,000.
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05 Feb 1998 Alberto Acciarito convicted of harassing his ex-wife Ingrid Rossellini
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05 Feb 1998 Author Tom Clancy confirms he signed agreement to purchase Minnesota Vikings for slightly more than $200 million, an NFL franchise record
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05 Feb 1998 Nancy Kerring and Tonya Harding talk on FOX (Taped Dec 22nd)
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06 Feb 1998 Twins trade Chuck Knoblauch to New York Yankees for $3M and 4 minor leaguers
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06 Feb 1998 Washington National Airport is renamed Ronald Reagan National Airport.
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07 Feb 1998 18th Winter Olympic games open at Nagano Japan
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08 Feb 1998 1st female ice hockey game in Olympic history Finland beats Sweden 6-0
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08 Feb 1998 48th NBA All-Star Game: East beats West 135-114 at New York City
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08 Feb 1998 NHL stops season until February 24th to accommodate the Olympics
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09 Feb 1998 6th annual ESPY Awards
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09 Feb 1998 Failed assassination attempt on Georgian President Eduard Shevardnadze
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10 Feb 1998 Voters in Maine repeal a gay rights law passed in 1997 becoming the first U.S. state to abandon such a law.
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10 Feb 1998 AOL raises monthly flat rate Internet access from $19.95 to $21.95
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10 Feb 1998 Olympics figure skater Peggy Fleming undergoes breast cancer surgery
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11 Feb 1998 Lyrics to "Candle in the Wind 1997, " auctioned for $442,500
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11 Feb 1998 KVBC-FM (Las Vegas) offers Monica Lewinsky $5M for interview
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12 Feb 1998 "Freak, " opens at Cort Theater, New York City
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12 Feb 1998 "Freak" opens at Cort Theater NYC
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12 Feb 1998 250-car Italy pile-up due to fog, 4 die & 50 hurt
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12 Feb 1998 Dallas Cowboys sign Chan Gailey as their 4th head coach
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12 Feb 1998 Intel unveils its 1st graphics chip i740
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12 Feb 1998 US district judge T Hogan declares line-item veto law unconstitutional
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14 Feb 1998 An oil tanker train collides with a freight train in Yaoundé, Cameroon, spilling fuel oil. One person scavenging the oil created a massive explosion which kills 120.
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15 Feb 1998 Daytona 500 race
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15 Feb 1998 Dale Eggeling wins Los Angeles Women's Golf Championship
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15 Feb 1998 Daytona 500 race; Dale Earnhardt wins
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16 Feb 1998 China Airlines Flight 676 crashes into a road and residential area near Chiang Kai-shek International Airport in Taiwan, killing all 196 aboard and seven more on the ground.
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16 Feb 1998 Tellabs Inc acquires Coherent Communications Systems for $670 million
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17 Feb 1998 Diane Zamora, 20, Naval Academy cadet convicted of capital murder
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17 Feb 1998 Larry Wayne Harris & Bill Levitt arrested for possession of anthrax
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18 Feb 1998 New York Rangers fire head coach Colin Campbell
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19 Feb 1998 Soyuz TM-26 lands
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19 Feb 1998 US hockey team destroys their rooms at Olympics village in Japan
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20 Feb 1998 American figure skater Tara Lipinski becomes the youngest gold-medalist at the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano, Japan.
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20 Feb 1998 Tara Lipinski wins Olympics figure skating gold medal
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20 Feb 1998 UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan lands in Baghdad, for peace negotiations
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20 Feb 1998 US movie box office hits quickest $1 billion for year (51 days)
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21 Feb 1998 Cup Noodles Hawaiian Ladies Golf Open
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22 Feb 1998 "King & I, " closes at Neil Simon Theater NYC after 781 performances
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22 Feb 1998 18th Winter Olympics games close at Nagano Japan
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23 Feb 1998 In the United States, tornadoes in central Florida destroy or damage 2,600 structures and kill 42.
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23 Feb 1998 Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Charleston SC on WAVF 96.1 FM
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23 Feb 1998 Supreme Court lets Megan's Law stand
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23 Feb 1998 Tornadoes in Florida kills at least 31
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24 Feb 1998 NHL resumes season since February 8th to accommodate the Olympics
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24 Feb 1998 Elton John knighted
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25 Feb 1998 40th Grammy Awards
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25 Feb 1998 Pamela Lee has husband Tommy Lee arrested on battery charges
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25 Feb 1998 Switzerland's 1st legal brothel opens in Zurich
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26 Feb 1998 Oprah Winfrey beats Texas cattlemen in beef trial
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26 Feb 1998 Steven M Gluckstern completes sale of New York Islanders
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26 Feb 1998 Total solar eclipse in Venezuela-Pacific Ocean (4m09)
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27 Feb 1998 14th Soap Opera Digest Awards
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27 Feb 1998 Apple discontinues developing Newton computer
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27 Feb 1998 FBI arrests 10 most wanted suspected serial killer Tony Ray Amati
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27 Feb 1998 New England Patriot David Meggett arrested in Toronto on sex assault charges
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28 Feb 1998 "View From the Bridge, " closes at Criterion Theater, New York City
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28 Feb 1998 Kosovo War: Serbian police begin the offensive against the Kosovo Liberation Army in Kosovo.
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28 Feb 1998 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.
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28 Feb 1998 "View From the Bridge" closes at Criterion Theater NYC
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28 Feb 1998 Vancouver Canucks Mark Messier is 4th NHLer to get 1,600 points
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01 Mar 1998 "Art, " opens at Royale Theater, New York City
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01 Mar 1998 Australian Ladies Masters Golf
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01 Mar 1998 Titanic became the first film to gross over $1 billion worldwide.
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02 Mar 1998 Data sent from the Galileo spacecraft indicates that Jupiter's moon Europa has a liquid ocean under a thick crust of ice.
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03 Mar 1998 Bill Gates testifies at Senate Judiciary Committee
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04 Mar 1998 Gay rights: Oncale v. Sundowner Offshore Services, Inc.: 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.
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05 Mar 1998 Mariah Carey divorces Tommy Lee Jones
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06 Mar 1998 1st time the British flag is flown over Buckingham Palace
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06 Mar 1998 Matt Beck, an angry lottery accountant kills 4 at Conn state lottery
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10 Mar 1998 4th Blockbuster Entertainment Awards
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12 Mar 1998 "Sound of Music, " opens at Martin Beck Theater, New York City
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12 Mar 1998 "Sound of Music" opens at Martin Beck Theater NYC
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15 Mar 1998 "Cabaret, " opens at Club Expo Theater, New York City
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15 Mar 1998 "Cabaret" opens at Club Expo Theater NYC
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15 Mar 1998 Welch's/Circle K Golf Championship
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17 Mar 1998 USA Women's Hockey Team beats Canada for 1st Olympics Gold medal
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19 Mar 1998 "Ah Wilderness!, " opens at Vivian Beaumont theater
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22 Mar 1998 18th Golden Raspberry Awards
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22 Mar 1998 Wins Standard Register PING Golf
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22 Mar 1998 18th Golden Raspberry Awards: The Postman wins
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22 Mar 1998 Liselotte Neumann wins Standard Register PING Golf Tournament
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23 Mar 1998 70th Academy Awards
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23 Mar 1998 70th Academy Awards: Titanic, Jack Nicholson, Helen Hunt win
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24 Mar 1998 First Computer-assisted Bone Segment Navigation, performed at the University of Regensburg, Germany
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24 Mar 1998 A tornado sweeps through Dantan in India, killing 250 people and injuring 3000 others.
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24 Mar 1998 Jonesboro massacre: Mitchell Johnson and Andrew Golden, aged 11 and 13 respectively, fire upon teachers and students at Westside Middle School in Jonesboro, Arkansas; five people are killed and ten are wounded.
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26 Mar 1998 Oued Bouaicha massacre in Algeria: Fifty-two people are killed with axes and knives, 32 of them children under the age of two.
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27 Mar 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.
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27 Mar 1998 Soul Train Awards
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29 Mar 1998 17th NCAA Women's Basketball Championship: at Kemper Arena Kansas City,Tennessee beats Louisiana Tech 93-75
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29 Mar 1998 27th Nabisco Dinah Shore Golf Championship
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30 Mar 1998 60th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: at Alamodome San Antonio, Kentucky beats Utah 78-69
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31 Mar 1998 Tampa Bay Devil Rays 1st game they host Detroit Tigers
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01 Apr 1998 World Ice Pairs Figure Skating Championship in Minnesota
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02 Apr 1998 World Mens Figure Skating Championship in Minnesota
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03 Apr 1998 World Ice Dance Figure Skating Championship in Minnesota
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04 Apr 1998 NFL Europe (Formerly WLAF), kicks off season
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05 Apr 1998 10th Seniors Golf Tradition
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05 Apr 1998 Wins Longs Drugs Golf Challenge
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05 Apr 1998 In Japan, the Akashi Kaikyō Bridge linking Awaji Island with Honshū and costing about $3.8 billion USD, opens to traffic, becoming the largest suspension bridge in the world.
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06 Apr 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.
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06 Apr 1998 Pakistan tests medium-range missiles capable of reaching India.
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10 Apr 1998 Northern Ireland peace deal reached (Good Friday Agreement).
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12 Apr 1998 An earthquake in Slovenia, measuring 5.6 on the Richter scale occurs near the town of Bovec.
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12 Apr 1998 62nd Golf Masters Championship Mark O
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19 Apr 1998 59th PGA Seniors Golf Championship
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19 Apr 1998 Wins City of Hope Golf Classic
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20 Apr 1998 German terrorist group the Red Army Faction announces their dissolution after 28 years.
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22 Apr 1998 Disney's Animal Kingdom opens at Walt Disney World near Orlando, Florida, United States.
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26 Apr 1998 Wins Chick-fil-A Golf Charity Championship
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29 Apr 1998 15th Miss Hawaiian Tropic crowned
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02 May 1998 124th Kentucky Derby
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02 May 1998 The European Central Bank is founded in Brussels in order to define and execute the European Union's monetary policy.
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03 May 1998 Wins Titleholders Golf Championship
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04 May 1998 A federal judge in Sacramento, California, gives "Unabomber" Theodore Kaczynski four life sentences plus 30 years after Kaczynski accepts a plea agreement sparing him from the death penalty.
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06 May 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 fifth career start.
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09 May 1998 ABC Masters Bowling Tournament won by
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10 May 1998 Wins Sara Lee Golf Classic
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11 May 1998 India conducts three underground atomic tests in Pokhran to include a thermonuclear device.
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12 May 1998 Four students are shot at Trisakti University, leading to widespread riots and the fall of Suharto
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13 May 1998 India carries out two nuclear tests at Pokhran, following the three conducted on May 11. The United States and Japan impose economic sanctions on India.
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13 May 1998 Race riots break out in Jakarta, Indonesia, where shops owned by Indonesians of Chinese descent are looted and women raped.
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14 May 1998 Last episode of Seinfeld on NBC (commercials are $2 million for 30 seconds)
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16 May 1998 124th Preakness
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16 May 1998 124th Preakness: Kent Desormeaux on Real Quiet wins in 1:54.8
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17 May 1998 44th McDonald's LPGA Championship
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21 May 1998 In Miami, five abortion clinics are hit by a butyric acid attacker.
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21 May 1998 President Suharto of Indonesia resigns following the killing of students from Trisakti University earlier that week by security forces and growing mass protests in Jakarta against his ongoing corrupt rule.
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22 May 1998 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.
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23 May 1998 The Good Friday Agreement is accepted in a referendum in Northern Ireland with 75% voting yes.
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24 May 1998 Indianapolis 500 race
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24 May 1998 Wins J C Penney LPGA Skins Game
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24 May 1998 Indianapolis 500 race; Eddie Cheever Jr. wins with an average speed of 145.155 mph
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26 May 1998 The Supreme Court of the United States rules that Ellis Island, the historic gateway for millions of immigrants, is mainly in the state of New Jersey, not New York.
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26 May 1998 The first "National Sorry Day" was held in Australia, and reconciliation events were held nationally, and attended by over a million people.
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26 May 1998 Date for Paula Jones sex harassment trial vs President Clinton
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27 May 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.
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28 May 1998 Nuclear testing: Pakistan responds to a series of nuclear tests by India with five of its own codenamed Chagai-I, prompting the United States, Japan, and other nations to impose economic sanctions. Pakistan celebrates Youm-e-Takbir annually.
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30 May 1998 A magnitude 6.6 earthquake hits northern Afghanistan, killing up to 5,000.
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30 May 1998 Nuclear Testing: Pakistan conducts an underground test in the Kharan Desert. It is reported to be a plutonium device with yield of 20kt.
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31 May 1998 Wins Wegmans Rochester Golf International
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04 Jun 1998 Terry Nichols is sentenced to life in prison for his role in the Oklahoma City bombing.
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05 Jun 1998 A strike begins at the General Motors parts factory in Flint, Michigan, that quickly spreads to five other assembly plants. The strike lasts seven weeks.
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06 Jun 1998 130th Belmont
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06 Jun 1998 68th French Womens Tennis
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07 Jun 1998 68th French Mens Tennis
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07 Jun 1998 Wins Michelob Light Golf Classic
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11 Jun 1998 Compaq Computer pays US$9 billion for Digital Equipment Corporation in the largest high-tech acquisition.
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14 Jun 1998 "Comic Relief" benefit comedy show
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14 Jun 1998 Wins Oldsmobile Golf Classic
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14 Jun 1998 World Bowl in Frankfurt Germany
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15 Jun 1998 32nd TNN Music City News Country Awards
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21 Jun 1998 98th US Golf Open: at Olympic Club San Francisco
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23 Jun 1998 Lloyd J. Old contribution to the resurrection of the cancer immunosurveillance hypothesis and to the development of the expanded model of cancer immunoediting.
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25 Jun 1998 In Clinton v. City of New York, the United States Supreme Court decides that the Line Item Veto Act of 1996 is unconstitutional.
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28 Jun 1998 Wins ShopRite LPGA Classic
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04 Jul 1998 Japan launches the Nozomi probe to Mars, joining the United States and Russia as a space exploring nation.
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07 Jul 1998 69th All Star Baseball Game: at Coors Field, Denver
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10 Jul 1998 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 Rudolph Kos, a former priest.
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12 Jul 1998 16th Seniors Players Golf Championship
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12 Jul 1998 Jamie Farr Kroger Golf Classic
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17 Jul 1998 Russia buries tsar Nicholas II and family, 80 years after they died
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17 Jul 1998 Papua New Guinea earthquake: A tsunami triggered by an undersea earthquake destroys 10 villages in Papua New Guinea killing an estimated 3,183, leaving 2,000 more unaccounted for and thousands more homeless.
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17 Jul 1998 A diplomatic conference adopts the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, establishing a permanent international court to prosecute individuals for genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes, and the crime of aggression.
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19 Jul 1998 127th British Golf Open: at Royal Birkdale
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19 Jul 1998 JAL Big Apple Golf Classic
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24 Jul 1998 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.
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26 Jul 1998 19th US Senior Golf Open ends at Riviera Country Club - Pacific Palisades, California
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26 Jul 1998 Giant Eagle LPGA Classic
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02 Aug 1998 26th du Maurier Golf Classic
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02 Aug 1998 30th Curtis Cup
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02 Aug 1998 The Second Congo War begins.
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07 Aug 1998 The United States embassy bombings in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania and Nairobi, Kenya kill approximately 212 people.
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09 Aug 1998 Star Bank LPGA Classic
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10 Aug 1998 HRH Prince Al-Muhtadee Billah is proclaimed the crown prince of Brunei with a Royal Proclamation.
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15 Aug 1998 Omagh bombing in Northern Ireland, the worst terrorist incident of The Troubles.
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16 Aug 1998 80th PGA Championship at Sahalee Country Club - Seattle, Washington
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23 Aug 1998 Minnesota LPGA Classic
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28 Aug 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.
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28 Aug 1998 Second Congo War: Loyalist troops backed by Angolan and Zimbabwean forces repulse the RCD and Rwandan offensive on Kinshasa.
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30 Aug 1998 State Farm Rail Golf Classic
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30 Aug 1998 Second Congo War: Armed forces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and their Angolan and Zimbabwean allies recapture Matadi and the Inga dams in the western DRC from RCD and Rwandan troops.
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31 Aug 1998 North Korea reportedly launches Kwangmyŏngsŏng-1, its first satellite.
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02 Sep 1998 Swissair Flight 111 crashes near Peggys Cove, Nova Scotia. All 229 people on board are killed.
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02 Sep 1998 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.
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04 Sep 1998 Google is founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin, two students at Stanford University.
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06 Sep 1998 Safeway LPGA Golf Championship
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11 Sep 1998 Opening ceremony for the 1998 Commonwealth Games in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Malaysia is the first Asian country to host the games.
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13 Sep 1998 112th US Womens Tennis
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13 Sep 1998 SAFECO Golf Classic
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14 Sep 1998 Telecommunications companies MCI Communications and WorldCom complete their $37 billion merger to form MCI WorldCom.
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15 Sep 1998 With the landmark merger of WorldCom and MCI Communications completed the day prior, the new MCI WorldCom opens its doors for business.
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18 Sep 1998 ICANN is formed.
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27 Sep 1998 Core States Betsy King Golf Classic
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27 Sep 1998 The Google internet search engine retrospectively claims this as its birthday.
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07 Oct 1998 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.
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10 Oct 1998 A Lignes Aériennes Congolaises Boeing 727 is shot down by rebels in Kindu, Democratic Republic of the Congo, killing 41 people.
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11 Oct 1998 Robert Trent Jones Golf Trail LPGA Tournament
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14 Oct 1998 New York Islanders beat Tampa Bay, 7-1, to end 11 game winless streak
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14 Oct 1998 Eric Rudolph is charged with six bombings including the 1996 Centennial Olympic Park bombing in Atlanta, Georgia.
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16 Oct 1998 Former Chilean dictator General Augusto Pinochet is arrested in London on a warrant from Spain requesting his extradition on murder charges.
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23 Oct 1998 Israeli–Palestinian conflict: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian Chairman Yasser Arafat reach a "land for peace" agreement.
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23 Oct 1998 Swatch Internet Time, a measure of 1000 "beats" per day was inaugurated by the Swatch Group.
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24 Oct 1998 Launch of Deep Space 1 comet/asteroid mission.
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28 Oct 1998 An Air China jetliner is hijacked by disgruntled pilot Yuan Bin and flown to Taiwan.
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29 Oct 1998 Apartheid: In South Africa, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission presents its report, which condemns both sides for committing atrocities.
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29 Oct 1998 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.
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29 Oct 1998 ATSC HDTV broadcasting in the United States is inaugurated with the launch of STS-95 space shuttle mission.
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29 Oct 1998 While en route from Adana to Ankara, a Turkish Airlines flight with a crew of six 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 is landing in the Bulgarian capital of Sofia to refuel.
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29 Oct 1998 Hurricane Mitch, the second deadliest Atlantic hurricane in history, makes landfall in Honduras.
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29 Oct 1998 The Gothenburg discothèque fire in Sweden kills 63 and injures 200.
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31 Oct 1998 Iraq disarmament crisis begins: Iraq announces it would no longer cooperate with United Nations weapons inspectors.
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01 Nov 1998 Nichirei Golf International
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08 Nov 1998 Japan Golf Classic
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12 Nov 1998 New York Islanders tie Detroit Red Wings 1-1, to end 10 game losing streak
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22 Nov 1998 ITT LPGA Tour Championship
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26 Nov 1998 Tony Blair becomes the first Prime Minister of the United Kingdom to address the Oireachtas, the parliament of the Republic of Ireland.
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30 Nov 1998 Exxon and Mobil sign a US$73.7 billion agreement to merge, thus creating ExxonMobil, the world's largest company.
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04 Dec 1998 The Unity Module, the second module of the International Space Station, is launched.
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06 Dec 1998 JC Penney Golf Classic
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08 Dec 1998 Eighty-one people are killed by armed groups in Algeria.
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11 Dec 1998 Thai Airways Flight 261 crashes near Surat Thani Airport, killing 101. The pilot flying the Airbus A310-300 is thought to have suffered spatial disorientation.
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19 Dec 1998 President Bill Clinton is impeached by the United States House of Representatives, becoming the second President of the United States to be impeached.
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20 Dec 1998 Wendy's Three-Tour Golf Challenge
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26 Dec 1998 Iraq announces its intention to fire upon U.S. and British warplanes that patrol the northern and southern no-fly zones.
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29 Dec 1998 Leaders of the Khmer Rouge apologize for the 1970s genocide in Cambodia that claimed over one million lives.
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31 Dec 1998 US movie box office hits record $6.24 billion for year
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