January 18 - In north west Rwanda, Hutu militia members kill 3 Spanish aid workers, 3 soldiers and seriously wound one other.
January 19 - Yasser Arafat returns to Hebron after more than 30 years and joins celebrations over the handover of the last Israeli controlled West Bank city
January 23 - Mir Aimal Kasi receives the death sentence for a 1993 assault rifle attack outside CIA headquarters that killed two and wounded three others.
February 10 - The United States Army suspends Sgt. Major Gene McKinney, its top-ranking enlisted soldier, after hearing allegations of sexual misconduct
March 13 - India's Missionaries of Charity chooses Sister Nirmala to succeed Mother Teresa as its leader
March 18 - The tail of a Russian An-24 charter plane breaks off while en-route to Turkey causing the plane to crash killing all 50 on board and later the grounding of all An_24s.
April 21 - First space burial, carrying the remains of 24 people on a Pegasus rocket into earth orbit.
April 22 - A 126-day hostage crisis at the residence of the Japanese ambassador in Lima, Peru ends after government commandos storm and capture the building rescuing 71 hostages. One hostage dies of a heart attack, two soldiers are killed from rebel fire and all 14 Tupac Amaru rebels are slain
June - Iraq disarmament crisis: Iraqi military escorts on board an UNSCOM helicopter try to physically prevent the UNSCOM pilot from flying the helicopter in the direction of its planned destination, threatening the safety of the aircraft and their crews.
June 7 - A computer user known as "_eci" published his Microsoft C source code on a Windows 95 and Windows NT exploit, which would later become WinNuke. The source code gets wide distribution across the internet, and Microsoft is forced to release a security patch.
August 29 - Christopher Maier of Lexington, Kentucky is bludgeoned to death by serial killer Angel Maturino Resendiz. Angel also rapes and beats Christopher's girlfriend, who survives. This is the first of a string of murders that Angel commits.
September 13 - Iraqi military officer attacks an UNSCOM weapons inspector on board an UNSCOM helicopter while the inspector was attempting to take photographs of unauthorized movement of Iraqi vehicles inside a site designated for inspection
September 17 - Iraqi guards moving files, burning documents, and dumping waste cans into a nearby river
September 25 - Iraqi men sneaking out the back door of an inspection site with log books for the creation of prohibited bacteria and chemicals.
September 26 - 234 die in air crash in Indonesia. Probable cause is the smoke rising from numerous forest fires in the area
October
October 2 – UK scientists Moira Bruce and John Collinge with their colleagues independently show that the new variant form of the Creutzfeldt_Jakob disease is the same disease as BSE or "mad-cow disease"
October 4 - One million men gather for Promise Keepers' Stand in the Gap event in Washington DC.
November 20 - Boeing 727 of Portuguese TAP airline crashes just before landing in Funchal airport in Madeira - 123 dead
November 24 - Following a 554.26 point drop in the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA), officials at the New York Stock Exchange for the first time invoke the "circuit breaker" rule to stop trading (this was a very controversial move and prompted a quick change in the rule; trading stops will only occur when the DJIA drops at least 10 or 20 percent).
December
December 1 - Michel Carneal fires at students in West Paducah, Ky - 3 dead, five wounded
December 2 - Actress/model Anat Elimelech is murdered by her boyfriend, the hairstyler David Afuta
December 29 - Hong Kong begins to kill all the chickens within its territory (1.25 million) to stop the spread of a potentially deadly influenza strain
December 30 - In the worst incident in Algeria's insurgency, 400 people are killed from four villages.
The murder of JonBenét Ramsey dominates the news in the United States.
June 6 - Actress Farrah Fawcett makes a bizarre appearance on The Late Show with David Letterman. Fawcett tells long, rambling stories without a point, fails to understand simple questions, and gets easily distracted by things like blinking lights on the set.
These tax cuts effectively make the first two years of college universally available, and they will give many more working Americans the financial means to go back to school if they want to choose a new career or upgrade their skills.
A high school senior going into his or her freshman year of college in September, 1998, for example, could be eligible for as much as a $1,500 HOPE tax credit.
The deduction is available for all educational loans, including loans made to students, parents, guaranteed student loans, and loans from private lenders, made before August of 1997 when the new student loan interest deduction became law but only to the extent that the loan is within the first 60 months of repayment.
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