1998 Calendar
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1998 Historical Event(s)
- January 1, 1998 – The European Central Bank is established.
- January 25, 1998 – A suicide attack by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam on Sri Lanka’s Temple of the Tooth kills 8 people and injures 25 others.
- January 28, 1998 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Earth Tiger in Chinese astrology.
- February 17, 1998 – Nagorno-Karabakh War: Armenian troops kill 70–90 Azerbaijani civilians in the village of Qaradağlı.
- February 28, 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.
- 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 7, 1998 – Mercedes-Benz buys Chrysler for $40 billion USD and forms DaimlerChrysler in the largest industrial merger in history.
- May 11, 1998 – India conducts three underground atomic tests in Pokhran to include a thermonuclear device.
- September 14, 1998 – Telecommunications companies MCI Communications and WorldCom complete their $37 billion merger to form MCI WorldCom.
- November 19, 1998 – Vincent van Gogh’s Portrait of the Artist Without Beard sells at auction for US$71.5 million.
Who Were Born On 1998?
- January 12, 1998 – Nathan Gamble, American actor
- February 15, 1998 – Zachary Gordon, American actor
- March 24, 1998 – Isabel Suckling, British Choirgirl
- April 9, 1998 – Elle Fanning, American actress
- April 24, 1998 – Ryan Newman, American actress
- July 1, 1998 – Hollie Steel, English singer
- July 10, 1998 – Haley Pullos, American actress
- July 24, 1998 – Bindi Irwin, Australian entertainer
- August 25, 1998 – China Anne McClain, American actress
- October 18, 1998 – Julia Wróblewska, Polish actress