1998

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1998 is a year in the 20th century. It is a common year.

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[edit] Events

  • January 1998 - A massive ice storm, caused by El Niño, strikes New England, southern Ontario and Quebec, resulting in widespread power failures, severe damage to forests, and a number of deaths.
  • January 1 - Smoking is banned in all California bars and restaurants.
  • January 2
    • Russia begins to circulate new rubles to stem inflation and promote confidence.
    • Gunman shoots Antario Teodoro Filho, Brazilian politician and radio presenter, in a middle of his broadcast.
  • 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.
    • 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 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
  • 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.
    • 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.

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[edit] Films released

  • Saving Private Ryan
  • Armageddon
  • There's Something About Mary
  • A Bug's Life
  • Doctor Dolittle
  • Rush Hour
  • Deep Impact
  • Godzilla
  • Patch Adams
  • Antz
  • The Big Lebowski
  • Blade
  • Chairman of the Board
  • Dark City
  • Elizabeth
  • Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
  • Human Remains
  • Hurlyburly
  • Lethal Weapon 4
  • Lost in Space
  • The Mask of Zorro
  • Mulan
  • The Negotiator
  • Pi
  • Pleasantville
  • Rushmore
  • Shakespeare in Love
  • Six Days Seven Nights
  • Small Soldiers
  • The Thin Red Line
  • Very Bad Things
  • The Waterboy
  • The Wedding Singer
  • The Parent Trap
  • Fight Club

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[edit] New books

  • QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter