Year 1998

1998 August 31

North Korea fires missile across Japan

1998 August 7

U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania bombed

1998 December 16-19

Clinton orders air strikes on Iraq

1998 February 3

U.S. plane cuts ski cable in Italy and sends car plunging; 20 killed

1998 February 4 et seq.

Thousands dead in Afghanistan quake

1998 January 21 and sequent

President accused in White House sex scandal; denies allegations of affair with White House intern, Monica Lewinsky

1998 January 21-25

Pope John Paul II visits Cuba

1998 January 9

Ramzi Ahmed Yousef sentenced to life for 1993 World Trade Center bombing

1998 June 1

Serbs renew attack on Kosovo rebels

1998 March 19

Hindu nationalist Vajpayee becomes India's prime minister

1998 March 27

FDA approves Viagra, male impotence drug

1998 March 27

The FDA approves the male impotence drug Viagra

1998 March 5 et seq.

Serbs battle ethnic Albanians in Kosovo

1998 May 11, 13

India conducts three atomic tests despite worldwide disapproval

1998 May 11, 13

India conducts three atomic tests despite worldwide disapproval

1998 May 29, 30

Pakistan stages five nuclear tests in response

1998 May 29, 30

Pakistan stages five nuclear tests in response to India's

1998 May 3

Europeans agree on single currency, the euro

1998 May 3

Europeans agree on single currency, the euro

1998 May 4

Unabomber, Theodore Kaczynski, sentenced to four life terms

1998 November 1

More than 10,000 die in Central American hurricane, Mitch

1998 October 16

Former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet arrested in London

1998 October 16

Former Chilean dictator Pinochet arrested in London

1998 October 29

77-year old Senator John Glenn, the first American to orbit the earth, returns to orbit in the space shuttle Discovery

1998 October 5

Matthew Shepard, gay Wyoming student, fatally beaten in hate crime

1998 September 18

Senate sustains veto of bill to outlaw late-term abortions

1998 September 2

Swissair jet crashes; kills 229

1998 September 24

Iran lifts death threat against Salman Rushdie

1998 September 27

German chancellor Helmut Kohl defeated by Gerhard Schröder

1998

Afghanistan, Takhar - 4.700 deads - magnitudo 6,9

1998

Papua Nuova Guinea, with Tsunami - 2100 deads - magnitudo 7

1998

Nobel Prizes Physiology or Medicine: Robert F. Furchgott, Louis Ignarro, Ferid Murad

1998

Nobel Prizes Physics: Robert B. Laughlin, $Horst St'rmer$, Daniel Tsui

1998

Nobel Prizes Economy: Amartya Sen

1998

Nobel Prizes Chemistry: Walter Kohn, per lo sviluppo della teoria del funzionale di densitÓ

1998

Nobel Prizes Peace: John Hume, David Trimble

1998

Nobel Prizes Literature: Josè Saramago

1998

Nobel Prizes Chemistry: John A. Pople, per lo sviluppo del metodo computazionale di chimica quantistica noto come metodo Pariser-Parr-Pople

1998

Academy Award Best Director: Steven Spielberg, Saving Private Ryan

1998

Academy Award Best Original Screenplay:

1998

Academy Award Best Supporting Actress: Judi Dench, Shakespeare in Love

1998

Academy Award Best Supporting Actor: James Coburn, Affliction

1998

Academy Award Best Actress: Gwyneth Paltrow, Shakespeare in Love

1998

Academy Award Best Actor: Roberto Benigni, Life Is Beautiful

1998

Academy Award Best Picture: Shakespeare in Love

1998

Football XXXII Super Bowl: Denver Broncos d. Green Bay Packers(31-24)

1998

Tennis Wimbledon Women: Jana Novotna d. N. Tauziat (6-4 7-6)

1998

Tennis Wimbledon Men: Pete Sampras d. G. Ivanisevic (6-7 7-6 6-4 3-6 6-2)

1998

UEFA_Champions_League, Soccer World Cup: France d. Brazil (3-0) in France

1998

Baseball World Series: New York Yankees (AL) 4-0 San Diego Padres (NL)

1998

WINTER OLYMPICS, Winter Olympics XVIII: Nagano, Japan

1998

NBA, Basketball NBA Championship: Chicago Bulls d. Utah Jazz (4-2)

1998

UEFA Champions League, UEFA Champions League: Real Madrid CF (Spain)

1998

1998 Playboy cover

1998 September 10

Gemelli DiVersi , Group Virgo

1998 September 09

Marco Todisco , actor (born at Rome,Italy) Virgo

1998 June 14

Eric Tabarly , velista (born 1931 July 24) Leo

1998 May 14

Frank Sinatra , actor, singer (dead at Los Angeles, California, USA) (born 1915 December 12) Sagittarius

1998 July 23

John Richard Hopkins , PPP (born 1931 January 27) Aquarius

1998 April 17

Linda Louise Eastman McCartney , singer, moglie di Paul (born 1941 September 24) Libra