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Events

January

• 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 in soil in permanently shadowed craters near the Moon's poles.
• 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
  • Lewinsky scandal: On American television, Bill Clinton denies he had "sexual relations" with former White House intern Monica Lewinsky.
  • Compaq buys Digital Equipment Corporation.
• 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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Birmingham is the largest city in the U.S. state of Alabama and the county seat of Jefferson County. ... Eric Robert Rudolph (born September 19, 1966) is a suspect in the July 27, 1996 Centennial Olympic Park bombing at the Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia, which killed Alice Hawthorne and wounded 111 others. ...

February

• February - Iraq disarmament crisis: The United States Senate passes resolution 71, which urged President Bill Clinton to "take all necessary and appropriate actions to respond to the threat posed by Iraq's refusal to end its weapons of mass destruction programs."
• February 3 - Cavalese cable-car disaster: a United States Military pilot causes the death of 20 skiers in Italy riding on a lift suspended by a cable snapped by the low-flying plane.
• February 3 - Karla Faye Tucker is executed in Texas becoming the first woman executed in the United States since 1984.
• February 4 - An earthquake measuring 6.1 on the Richter Scale in northeast Afghanistan kills more than 5,000.
• February 6 - Washington National Airport is renamed Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport.
• February 6 - The French prefect Claude Erignac is assassinated in the streets of Ajaccio (Corse) by a commando of Corsican insurgents, among them Yvan Colonna (trial June 2).
• February 7 - Roger Nicholas Angleton committed suicide in a prison cell in Houston, Texas by cutting himself with razor blades. He admitted to murdering socialite Doris Angleton in her River Oaks home in his suicide note.
• February 10 - A college dropout becomes the first person to be convicted of a hate crime committed in cyberspace.
• February 10 - Voters in Maine repeal a gay rights law passed in 1997 becoming the first U.S. state to abandon such a law.
• February 12 - The presidential line-item veto is declared unconstitutional by a United States federal judge.
• February 14 - Authorities in the United States announce that Eric Rudolph is a suspect in an Alabama abortion clinic bombing.
• February 15 - Dale Earnhardt wins the Daytona 500 in his 20th try after many unsucsessful attempts.
• February 16 - China Airlines Flight 676 crashed into a residential area near by Chiang Kai-shek International Airport, killing 202 people, included all 196 on board and six on the ground.
• February 18 - Two white separatists were arrested in Nevada and accused of plotting a biological attack on New York City subways.
• February 19 - 66-day blackout begins in Auckland, New Zealand.
• February 20 - Iraq disarmament crisis: Iraqi President Saddam Hussein negotiates a deal with U.N. secretary-general Kofi Annan, allowing weapons inspectors to return to Baghdad, preventing military action by the U.S. and Britain.
• February 23 - Tornadoes in central Florida destroy or damage 2,600 structures and kill 42 (see Florida El Niño Outbreak).
• February 23 - Osama bin Laden publishes fatwa declaring jihad against all Jews and Crusaders.
• February 24 - Hustler publisher Larry Flynt is acquitted of charges of defamation of Jerry Falwell.
• February 28 - Serbian police begin to wipe out so-called "terrorist gangs" in Kosovo.

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Eric Robert Rudolph (born September 19, 1966) is a suspect in the July 27, 1996 Centennial Olympic Park bombing at the Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia, which killed Alice Hawthorne and wounded 111 others. ... State nickname: Camellia State, The Heart of Dixie¹, Yellowhammer State Other U.S. States Capital Montgomery Largest city Birmingham Governor Bob Riley (R) Official languages English Area 52,423 mi²/135,775 km² (30th)  - Land 50,750 mi²/131,442 km²  - Water 1,673 mi²/4,333 km² (3. ... February 15 is the 46th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... Dale Earnhardt Ralph Dale Earnhardt, Sr. ... The Daytona 500 is a 200-lap, 500 mile (805 km) NASCAR Nextel Cup Series race held annually at the Daytona International Speedway in Daytona Beach, Florida. ... February 16 is the 47th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 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Bush demanded a complete end to alleged Iraqi production and use of weapons of mass destruction and that Iraq comply with UN Resolutions requiring UN inspectors unfettered access to areas those inspectors thought might have... Saddam Hussein Saddām Hussein Ê»Abd al-MajÄ«d al-TikrÄ«t, sometimes spelled Husayn or Hussain; (Arabic صدام حسين عبد المجيد التكريتي; born April 28, 1937 ) was President of Iraq and former President Bill Clintons good friend and significant other from 1979 until his removal and capture during the 2003 invasion of Iraq. ... Kofi Atta Annan (born April 8, 1938) is a Ghanaian diplomat and the seventh and current Secretary-General of the United Nations. ... Wikinews has news related to this article: Several hundred killed after stampede in Baghdad A street map of Baghdad Average temperature (red) and precipitations (blue) in Baghdad For other meanings see Baghdad (disambiguation) Baghdad (Arabic: ) is the capital of Iraq and the Baghdad Province. ... ... 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Jihad (jihād جهاد) is an Islamic term, from the Arabic root jhd (to exert utmost effort, to strive, struggle), which connotes a wide range of meanings: anything from an inward spiritual struggle to attain perfect faith to a political or military struggle to further the Islamic cause. ... This article is about historical Crusades . ... February 24 is the 55th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... Hustler (April, 2004) Hustler (June, 1978), perhaps the most controversial issue due to the perceived misogyny of the cover image Hustler is a monthly pornographic magazine published in the United States. ... Larry Claxton Flynt, Jr. ... Jerry Falwell is a grossly obese glutton, a shameless bigot, and a relentless hypocrite. ... February 28 is the 59th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Serbia and Montenegro  â€“ Serbia    â€“ Kosovo and Metohia        (UN administration)    â€“ Vojvodina  â€“ Montenegro Official language Serbian1 Capital Belgrade Area  â€“ Total  â€“ % water  88,361 km²  n/a Population  â€“ Total (2002)     (without Kosovo)  â€“ Density  7. ... Kosovo and Metohia (Serbian: Косово и Метохија / Kosovo i Metohija, Albanian: Kosovë / Kosova), in English most often called just Kosovo, is a province of Serbia. ...

March

• March 1 - Attack Submarine USS Sea Devil (now ex-Sea Devil (SSN-664)) starts to be deactivated
• March 2 - Data sent from the Galileo probe indicates that Jupiter's moon Europa has a liquid ocean under a thick crust of ice
• March 4 - Gay rights: 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.
• March 5 - NASA announced that the Clementine probe orbiting the Moon had found enough water in polar craters to support a human colony and rocket fueling station
• March 5 - NASA announces the choice of United States Air Force Lt. Col. Eileen Collins as commander of a future Space Shuttle Columbia mission to launch an X-ray telescope making Collins the first woman commander of a space shuttle mission.
• March 6 - Closure of the South Crofty tin mine
• March 10 - American troops stationed in the Persian Gulf begin to receive the first vaccinations against anthrax.
• March 11 - Danish parliamentary election held, unexpectedly returning Prime Minister Poul Nyrup Rasmussen to power.
• March 14 - An earthquake measuring 6.9 on the Richter scale hits southeastern Iran
• March 23 - At the Academy Awards ceremony Titanic wins 11 Oscars
• March 24 - In Jonesboro, Arkansas, two young boys (aged 11 and 13 years) fire upon students at Westside Middle School while hidden in woodlands near the school. Four students and one teacher are killed and 10 injured
• March 26 - Oued Bouaicha massacre in Algeria; 52 people killed with axes and knives, 32 of them babies under the age of 2.
• March 27 - The FDA approves Viagra for use as a treatment for male impotence, becoming the first pill to be approved to treat this condition in the United States.

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Atmospheric characteristics Atmospheric pressure 1 µPa Oxygen 100% Europa (ew-roe-pa, /juro:pa/   listen?, Greek Ευρώπη) is a moon of the planet Jupiter, smallest of the four Galilean moons. ... Ocean (from Okeanos, a Greek god of sea and water; Greek ωκεανός) covers almost three quarters (71%) of the surface of the Earth, and nearly half of the worlds marine waters are over 3000 m deep. ... ICE can refer to: InterCity Express, a German high-speed train Internal combustion engine, a fuel engine In-car entertainment In-circuit emulator, a computer hardware device In case of emergency, emergency number in mobile phones Institution of Civil Engineers, British civil engineer guild Immigrations and Customs Enforcement, U.S... March 4 is the 63rd day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (64th in leap years). ... The gay rights movement is a collection of loosely aligned civil rights groups, human rights groups, support groups and political activists seeking acceptance, tolerance and equality for non-heterosexual, (homosexual, bisexual), and transgender people - despite the fact that it is typically referred to as the gay rights movement, members also... Seal of the Supreme Court The Supreme Court of the United States is the highest court in the United States of America, and is the head of the Judicial Branch of the Federal Government, one of three separate and equal governmental bodies, along with the Legislative and the Executive branches. ... Sexual harassment is harassment of a sexual nature, typically in the workplace or other setting where raising objections or refusing may have negative consequences. ... March 5 is the 64th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (65th in leap years). ... NASA Logo Listen to this article · (info) This audio file was created from the revision dated 2005-09-01, and does not reflect subsequent edits to the article. ... Clementine was a joint space project between the Ballistic Missile Defense Organization (BMDO, previously the Strategic Defense Initiative Organization, or SDIO) and NASA. The objective of the mission was to test sensors and spacecraft components under extended exposure to the space environment and to make scientific observations of the Moon... Crust composition Oxygen 43% Silicon 21% Aluminium 10% Calcium 9% Iron 9% Magnesium 5% Titanium 2% Nickel 0. ... A Redstone rocket, part of the Mercury program A rocket is a vehicle, missile or aircraft which obtains thrust by the reaction to the ejection of fast moving exhaust gas from within a rocket engine. ... March 5 is the 64th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (65th in leap years). ... NASA Logo Listen to this article · (info) This audio file was created from the revision dated 2005-09-01, and does not reflect subsequent edits to the article. ... Seal of the Air Force. ... Eileen Collins Eileen Marie Collins (b. ... Space Shuttle Columbia (NASA Orbiter Vehicle Designation: OV-102) was the first space shuttle in NASAs orbital fleet. ... In the NATO phonetic alphabet, X-ray represents the letter X. An X-ray picture (radiograph) taken by Röntgen An X-ray is a form of electromagnetic radiation with a wavelength approximately in the range of 5 pm to 10 nanometers (corresponding to frequencies in the range 30 PHz... The Space Shuttle Columbia seconds after engine ignition, 1981 (NASA). ... March 6 is the 65th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (66th in Leap years). ... General Name, Symbol, Number tin, Sn, 50 Chemical series poor metals Group, Period, Block 14, 5, p Appearance silvery lustrous gray Atomic mass 118. ... March 10 is the 69th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (70th in Leap years). ... Map of the Persian Gulf. ... A bottle and a syringe containing the influenza vaccine. ... 11 March is the 70th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (71st in Leap year). ... The Danish Parliamentary Election of 1998 was held on 11 March 1998. ... Poul Nyrup Rasmussen Poul Nyrup Rasmussen (born June 15, 1943) was the Prime Minister of Denmark from January 25, 1993 to November 27, 2001. ... March 14 is the 73rd day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (74th in Leap years) with 292 days remaining in the year. ... Global earthquake epicenters, 1963–1998 An earthquake is a trembling or a shaking movement of the Earths surface. ... The Richter magnitude test scale (or more correctly local magnitude ML scale) assigns a single number to quantify the size of an earthquake. ... March 23 is the 82nd day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (83rd in Leap years). ... Although he never won an Oscar for any of his movie performances, the comedian Bob Hope received two honorary Oscars for his contributions to cinema. ... Titanic is a 1997 dramatic movie released by Paramount Pictures and 20th Century Fox. ... March 24 is the 83rd day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (84th in Leap years). ... Craighead County Veterans Memorial in downtown Jonesboro. ... March 26 is the 85th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (86th in leap years). ... The Oued Bouaïcha massacre took place about 150 miles south of Algiers, near Djelfa, on March 26, 1998. ... March 27 is the 86th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (87th in Leap years). ... The United States Food and Drug Administration is the government agency responsible for regulating food, dietary supplements, drugs, cosmetics, medical devices, biologics and blood products in the United States. ... Sildenafil citrate, sold under the name Viagra, is a drug used to treat male erectile dysfunction (impotence), developed by the pharmaceutical company Pfizer. ... Impotence or, more clinically, erectile dysfunction is the inability to develop or maintain an erection of the penis for satisfactory sexual intercourse regardless of the capability of ejaculation. ...

April

• April 5 - In Japan, the Akashi-Kaikyo Bridge linking Shikoku with Honshu and costing cost about US$3.8 billion, opens to traffic, becoming the largest suspension bridge in the world.
• April 6 - Pakistan tests medium-range missiles capable of hitting India
• April 7 - Citicorp and Travelers Group announce plans to merge creating the largest financial-services conglomerate in the world, Citigroup
• April 8 - Iraq disarmament crisis: UNSCOM reports to the UN Security Council that Iraq's declaration on its biological weapons program is incomplete and inadequate.
• April 10 - Good Friday: 18 hours after the end of talks deadline the Belfast Agreement is signed between the Irish and British governments and most Northern Ireland political parties, with the notable exception of the Democratic Unionist Party.
• April 16 - A massive tornado occurred in Nashville, Tennessee. It is the first tornado in 11 years to make a direct hit on a major city. (see Nashville Tornado of 1998)
• April 25 - A waste reservoir at Los Frailes mine in Andalusia, Spain, ruptures, discharging heavy metal waste into the Guadiamar River. The pollution threatens the sensitive ecosystem and endangered species of Doñana National Park, Spain's largest nature reserve, but is diverted into the Guadalquivir River. Up to 100 km² of farmland are ruined by the spill. [1]

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May

• May 2 - Japanese rock star hide (Hideto Matsumoto) mysteriously dies of asphyxiation.
• May 7 - Apple Computer unveils the iMac.
• May 9 - Dana International, a transexual singer from Israel, wins the 1998 Eurovision Song Contest in Birmingham,UK.
• May 11 - Nuclear testing: In the Rajasthan Desert, India conducts its second series of underground nuclear tests (the first were in 1974) and inflaming its rival neighbor Pakistan (who already has nuclear weapons).
• May 13 - Following India's second round of nuclear tests the United States and Japan impose economic sanctions on the nation.
• May 15 - Iraq disarmament crisis: UNSCOM learns that an Iraqi delegation has travelled to Bucharest to meet with scientists who can provide the country with missile guidance systems.
• May 18 - United States v. Microsoft: The United States Department of Justice and 20 U.S. states file an antitrust case against Microsoft
• May 21 - School shooting: At Thurston High School in Springfield, Oregon, Kipland Kinkel (who was suspended for bringing a gun to school) shoots a semi-automatic rifle into a room filled with students killing 2 wounding 25 others after killing his parents at home
• May 21 - Reproductive rights: In Miami, Florida, five abortion clinics are hit by a butyric acid attacker
• May 21 - Suharto resigns, after 32 years as Indonesian President and 7th consecutive re-election by the Indonesian Parliament (MPR). Suharto's hand-picked Vice President, B. J. Habibie, became Indonesia's third president.
• May 21 to September 30 - Expo '98 is held in Lisbon, Portugal, with the title "Oceans, an Heritage for the Future". UNESCO had previously declared 1998 to be the International Year of the Oceans due to the Expo. 12 million people attend the world fair
• May 22 - Lewinsky scandal: A federal judge rules that United States Secret Service agents can be compelled to testify before a grand jury concerning the scandal
• May 27 - 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.
• May 28 - Nuclear testing: In response to a series of Indian nuclear tests, Pakistan explodes six nuclear devices of its own in the Chaghai hills of Baluchistan, prompting the United States, Japan and other nations to impose economic sanctions.
• May 30 - Nuclear testing: Pakistan conducts two more nuclear explosions following its first test.
• May 30 - A 6.6 magnitude earthquake hits northern Afghanistan killing up to 5,000.
• May 30 - Geri Halliwell, better known as "Ginger Spice", announced her depature from the biggest selling girl group of all time, the Spice Girls

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June

• June 2 - The CIH virus is discovered in Taiwan.
• June 2 - Voters in California approved California Proposition 227, abolishing that state's bilingual education program.
• June 3 - Eschede train disaster: an ICE high speed train derails, causing 101 deaths.
• June 4 - Terry Nichols is sentenced to life in prison for his role in the Oklahoma City bombing
• July 5 - Japan launches a probe to Mars, and thus joins the United States and Russia as a space exploring nation
• June 5 - A strike begins at the General Motors parts factory in Flint, Michigan that quickly spreads to five other assembly plants (the strike lasted seven weeks)
• June 8 - Charlton Heston assumes the presidency of the National Rifle Association.
• June 12 - A jury in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, convicts 17-year-old Luke Woodham of killing two students and wounding seven others at Pearl High School [2]
• June 12 - 13-year old Christina Marie Williams was kidnapped in Seaside, California while taking her dog for a walk.
• June 16 - The Detroit Red Wings sweep the Washington Capitals in 4 games in the 1998 Stanley Cup Finals.
• June 25 - 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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July

• July 6 - The new Hong Kong International Airport at Chek Lap Kok opens.
• July 10 - The DNA-identified remains of United States Air Force 1st Lt. Michael Joseph Blassie arrive home to his family in St. Louis, Missouri after being in the Tomb of the Unknowns since 1984
• July 10 - Catholic priests' sex abuse scandal: The Diocese of Dallas agrees to pay $23.4 million to nine former altar boys who claimed they were sexually abused by former priest Rudolph Kos
• July 12 - France defeats Brazil 3-0 to win the Football World Cup 1998
• July 17 - In St. Petersburg, Nicholas II of Russia and his family are buried in St. Catherine Chapel 80 years after he and his family were killed by Bolsheviks
• July 17 - A tsunami triggered by an undersea earthquake destroys 10 villages in Papua New Guinea killing an estimated 1,500, leaving 2,000 more unaccounted for and thousands more homeless
• July 17 - Biologists report in the journal Science how they sequenced the genome of the bacterium that causes syphilis, Treponema pallidum
• July 24 - Russel 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
• July 25 - The United States Navy commissions the aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman and puts her into service
• July 25 - Wakayama Arsenic poison case - 63 poisoned and 4 dead by arsenic in a festival in the town in Wakayama Prefecture in Japan - Masumi Hayashi is arrested for murder
• July 28 - Monica Lewinsky scandal: Ex-White House intern, Monica Lewinsky receives transactional immunity in exchange for her grand jury testimony concerning her relationship with US President Bill Clinton.

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Phyla/Divisions Actinobacteria Aquificae Bacteroidetes/Chlorobi Chlamydiae/Verrucomicrobia Chloroflexi Chrysiogenetes Cyanobacteria Deferribacteres Deinococcus-Thermus Dictyoglomi Fibrobacteres/Acidobacteria Firmicutes Fusobacteria Gemmatimonadetes Nitrospirae Omnibacteria Planctomycetes Proteobacteria Spirochaetes Thermodesulfobacteria Thermomicrobia Thermotogae Bacteria (singular, bacterium) are a major group of living organisms. ... hey rob im good (Y) ... Binomial name Treponema pallidum Schaudinn & Hoffmann, 1905 Treponema pallidum is a spirochaete bacterium. ... July 24 is the 205th day (206th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 160 days remaining. ... Russel Eugene Weston Jr. ... United States Capitol . The United States Capitol is the building which serves as home for the legislative branch of the United States government. ... July 25 is the 206th day (207th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar, with 159 days remaining. ... 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August

The aftermath of the Niarobi Embassy bombing on August 7.

• August 5 - Iraq disarmament crisis: Iraq officially suspends all cooperation with UNSCOM teams
• August 7 - 1998 U.S. embassy bombings: Bombing of the United States embassies in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, and Nairobi, Kenya kills 224 people and injures over 4,500. The bombings were linked to Osama Bin Laden.
• August 15 - The Real IRA detonate a car bomb in Omagh, County Tyrone, Ireland, killing 29 and injuring over 200 - the greatest loss of life in a single incident of The Troubles.
• August 16 - Silk-Miller police murders: Australian police officers murdered in Moorabbin, Victoria.
• August 17
  • Monica Lewinsky scandal: US President Bill Clinton admits in taped testimony that he had an "improper physical relationship" with White House intern Monica Lewinsky. On the same day he admits before the nation that he "misled people" about his relationship
  • Russian financial crisis: Devaluation of the rouble. The ruble lost 70% of its value against US dollar in 6 months following August 1998. Several largest Russians banks collapsed, and millions of people lost their savings.
• August 20 - The Supreme Court of Canada states Quebec can not legally secede from Canada without the federal government's approval
• August 20 - 1998 U.S. embassy bombings: The United States military launches cruise missile attacks against alleged Al-Qaeda camps in Afghanistan and a suspected chemical plant in Sudan in retaliation for the August 7 bombings of American embassies in Kenya and Tanzania. The al-Shifa pharmaceutical factory in Khartoum is destroyed in the attack
• August 26 - Iraq disarmament crisis: Scott Ritter resigns from UNSCOM, sharply criticized the Clinton administration and the U.N. Security Council for not being vigorous enough about insisting that Iraq's weapons of mass destruction be destroyed. Ritter told reporters that "Iraq is not disarming," "Iraq retains the capability to launch a chemical strike."
• August 31 - North Korea reportedly launches Kwangmyongsong, their first satellite. Although North Korea reports that it reached stable orbit, NORAD was never able to confirm this assertion

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Map of Sudan with Khartoum Map of Khartoum with Ohmdurman and Bahri Khartoum (Arabic الخرطوم al-Ḫará¹­Å«m elephant trunk) is the capital of Sudan, as well as the capital of the state of Khartoum. ... August 26 is the 238th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (239th in leap years). ... The issue of Iraqs disarmament reached a crisis in 2002-2003, when George W. Bush demanded a complete end to alleged Iraqi production and use of weapons of mass destruction and that Iraq comply with UN Resolutions requiring UN inspectors unfettered access to areas those inspectors thought might have... United Nations Special Commission (UNSCOM) was a United Nations organisation performing arms inspections in Iraq after the Gulf War. ... William Jefferson Clinton (born William Jefferson Blythe III on August 19, 1946) was the 42nd President of the United States from 1993 to 2001. ... 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September

• September 2 - In Canada, pilots for Air Canada launch the first strike in company's history
• September 2 - A McDonnell Douglas MD-11 airliner carrying Swissair flight 111 crashes near Peggys Cove, Nova Scotia after taking off from New York City en-route to Geneva. All 229 people on board are killed
• September 2 - A United Nations court finds Jean-Paul Akayesu, the former mayor of a small town in Rwanda, guilty of nine counts of genocide, marking the first time that the 1948 law banning genocide is enforced
• September 7 - Google Inc. is founded.
• September 8 - St. Louis Cardinals first baseman Mark McGwire breaks baseball's single season homerun record, formerly held by Roger Maris. McGwire hits #62 at Busch Stadium in the fourth inning off of Chicago Cubs pitcher Steve Trachsel.
• September 14 - GSPC formed in Algeria, splitting off from the GIA over its policy of massacring civilians.
• September 15 - Telecommunications companies MCI Communications and WorldCom complete their $37 billion merger to form MCI WorldCom.
• September 25 - 28 September -- Major creditors of Long Term Capital Management, a Greenwich, Connecticut based hedge fund, after days of tough bargaining and some informal mediation by officials of the Federal Reserve agree on terms of a re-capitalization -- i.e. they create a consortium that takes over the fund's failing portfolio.
• September 26 - The Adelaide Crows do what the critics said was impossible, win their 2nd AFL (Australian Football League) Premiership to make it Back2Back!
• September 29 - Iraq disarmament crisis: The U.S. Congress passes the "Iraq Liberation Act", which states that the United States wants to remove Saddam Hussein from power and replace the government with a democratic institution.

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Geneva (French: Genève) is the second-most populous city in Switzerland located where Lake Geneva (French: Lac Léman, but the Genevois and Genevoise are fond of calling it Lac de Genève) empties into the Rhône River. ... September 2 is the 245th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (246th in leap years). ... The United Nations, or UN, is an international organization established in 1945. ... Jean-Paul Akayesu is the former mayor of Taba, a small town in Rwanda, who was found guilty of nine counts of genocide by the United Nations International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda on September 2, 1998. ... Look up Genocide on Wiktionary, the free dictionary Genocide means mass murder of a particular ethnic group. ... 1948 is a leap year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar). ... September 7 is the 250th day of the year (251st in leap years). ... This page is about Google Inc. ... September 8 is the 251st day of the year (252nd in leap years). ... * World Champion notes: St. ... Mark McGwire hits a home run during his last Major League season in 2001 Mark David McGwire (born October 1, 1963 in Pomona, California) is a former first baseman in Major League Baseball who played from 1986 through 2001. ... Roger Maris (September 10, 1934 – December 14, 1985), was a baseball player primarily remembered for breaking Babe Ruths 34-year-old single-season home run record in 1961. ... Busch Stadium in St. ... The Chicago Cubs are a Major League Baseball team based in Chicago, Illinois. ... Steve Trachsel, born Stephen Christopher Trachsel on October 31, 1970, is a Major League Baseball pitcher, currently as of 2005, playing with the New York Mets. ... September 14 is the 257th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (258th in leap years). ... The Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat (French Groupe Salafiste pour la Prédication et le Combat) is an Algerian Islamist guerilla group which aims to overthrow the Algerian state and institute some sort of Islamic republic. ... The Armed Islamic Group (GIA, from French Groupe Islamique Armé; Arabic al-Jamaah al-Islamiyah al-Musallah) is a militant Islamist group with the declared aim of overthrowing the Algerian government and replacing it with an Islamic state. ... September 15 is the 258th day of the year (259th in leap years). ... For the corporation that has used the MCI brand name since 1998, and operated under the MCI name since 2003, see WorldCom. ... For a time, WorldCom (WCOM) was the United States second largest long distance phone company (AT&T was the largest). ... For a time, WorldCom (WCOM) was the United States second largest long distance phone company (AT&T was the largest). ... September 25 is the 268th day of the year (269th in leap years). ... September 28 is the 271st day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (272nd in leap years). ... Long-Term Capital Management was a hedge fund company founded by John Meriwether (a former bond trader at Salomon Brothers bank) in 1994 and with Nobel Prize winners Myron Scholes and Robert Merton on the board. ... Greenwich is a town located in Fairfield County, Connecticut. ... The term hedge fund dates back to the first such fund founded by Alfred Winslow Jones in 1949. ... The Federal Reserve System is headquartered in the Eccles Building on Constitution Avenue in Washington, DC. The Federal Reserve System (also the Federal Reserve; informally The Fed) is the central banking system of the United States. ... // Finance Main article portfolio (finance) In finance, a portfolio is a collection of investments held by an institution or a private individual. ... September 26 is the 269th day of the year (270th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 96 days remaining. ... 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October

• October 3 — In Australia, John Howard's coalition government was re-elected for a second term.
• October 4 - Leafie Mason is murdered in her Hughes Springs, Texas house by Angel Maturino Resendiz. She was his second victim in his second incident.
• October 6 - Matthew Shepard, a Wyoming college student, is found tied to a fence, the victim of a gay-bashing. He dies on Monday, October 12, becoming a symbol of victims of gay-bashing and sparking public reflection on homophobia.
• October 7 - Oslo Fornebu Airport closes.
• October 7 - United States Congress passes, the Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act, which gives copyright holders 20 more years of copyright privilege on work which they control the copyright. This effectively freezes the public domain to works created before 1923 in the United States.
• October 8 - Oslo Airport (Gardermoen) opens.
• October 8 - Japan-Republic of Korea Joint Declaration A New Japan-Republic of Korea Partnership towards the Twenty-first Century.
• October 12 - U.S. Congress passes Digital Millennium Copyright Act
• October 14 - Eric Robert Rudolph is charged with 6 bombings including the 1996 Olympic bombing in Atlanta, Georgia
• October 16 - British police place General Augusto Pinochet into house arrest during his medical treatment in Britain
• October 23 - Swatch Internet Time introduced
• October 28 - An Air China jetliner is hijacked by disgruntled pilot Yuan Bin and flown to Taiwan. After landing the plane safely, Yuan Bin was arrested.
• October 29 - Apartheid: In South Africa, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission presents its report, which condemns both sides for committing atrocities
• October 29 - Space Shuttle Discovery blasts-off with 77-year old John Glenn on board, making him the oldest person to go into space. He became the first American to orbit Earth on Tuesday, February 20, 1962.
• October 29 - While en route from Adana to Ankara, a Turkish Airlines flight with a crew of 6 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 hijacking into thinking that he was landing in the Bulgarian capital of Sofia to refuel
• October 29 - In Freehold Borough, New Jersey, Melissa Drexler pleads guilty to aggravated manslaughter for killing her baby moments after delivering him in the bathroom at her senior prom, and is sentenced to 15 years imprisonment
• October 29 - In Göteborg, Sweden two arsonists burn down a disco of a local Macedonian Society - 63 dead, over 200 injured, most of them children of refugees
• October 31 - Iraq disarmament crisis begins: Iraq announces it would no longer cooperate with United Nations weapons inspectors.

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Eric Rudolphs FBI photo Eric Robert Rudolph, also known as the Olympic Bomber (born September 19, 1966) is an extreme right-wing American terrorist who committed a series of bombings across the southern United States, resulting in the deaths of three people and injuries to at least 150 others. ... (Redirected from 1996 Olympic bombing) The Centennial Olympic Park bombing took place on July 27, 1996 in Atlanta, Georgia during the 1996 Summer Olympics. ... Atlanta is the capital and largest city of Georgia, a state of the United States of America. ... October 16 is the 289th day of the year (290th in Leap years). ... General Augusto José Ramón Pinochet Ugarte[1] (born November 25, 1915) was head of the military government that ruled Chile from 1973 to 1990. ... In justice and law, house arrest is the situation where a person is confined (by the authorities) to his or her residence. ... 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October 29 is the 302nd day of the year (303rd in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 63 days remaining. ... Shuttle Orbiter Discovery (NASA Orbiter Vehicle Designation: OV-103) is a NASA Space Shuttle. ... This article is about the astronaut. ... Tuesday is considered either the second or the third day of the week, between Monday and Wednesday. ... February 20 is the 51st day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 1962 was a common year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ... October 29 is the 302nd day of the year (303rd in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 63 days remaining. ... See Adana Province. ... Ankara from the Atakule Tower, looking N-NE Ankara is the capital of Turkey and the countrys second largest city after Ä°stanbul. ... Turkish Airlines (Turkish Türk Hava Yolları) (THY) is an airline based in Istanbul, Turkey. ... Kurds are one of the Iranian peoples and speak Kurdish, a north-Western Iranian language related to Persian. ... The city of Sofia (Bulgarian: София), at the foot of the Vitosha mountain, has a population of 1,208,930 (2003), and is the biggest city and capital of the Republic of Bulgaria. ... October 29 is the 302nd day of the year (303rd in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 63 days remaining. ... Freehold is a borough located in Monmouth County, New Jersey. ... Melissa Drexler (born 1980) delivered a baby in a restroom stall at her high school prom, and threw the body in the trash before returning to the dance. ... In the United States, a prom is a formal dance held at the end of the second-to-last and last years of high school, called junior prom and senior prom respectively. ... 2013 is a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... October 29 is the 302nd day of the year (303rd in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 63 days remaining. ... 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November

• November 1 - The European Court of Human Rights is instituted.
• November 3 - Former professional wrestler, Jesse Ventura is elected Governor of Minnesota.
• November 5 - Lewinsky scandal: As part of the impeachment inquiry, House Judiciary Committee chairman Henry Hyde sends a list of 81 questions to US President Bill Clinton
• November 5 - The journal Nature publishes a genetic study showing compelling evidence that Thomas Jefferson fathered his slave Sally Hemings' son Eston Hemings Jefferson
• November 9 - In the largest civil settlement in United States history, a federal judge approves a US$1.03 billion settlement requiring dozens of brokerage houses (including Merrill Lynch, Goldman Sachs, and Salomon Smith Barney) to pay investors who claim they were cheated in a wide-spread price-fixing scheme on the NASDAQ
• November 12 - Daimler-Benz completes a merger with Chrysler to form Daimler-Chrysler.
• November 13-14 - Iraq disarmament crisis: U.S. President Clinton orders airstrikes on Iraq. Clinton then calls it off at the last minute when Iraq promises once again to "unconditionally" cooperate with UNSCOM
• November 18 - Iraq disarmament crisis: UNSCOM inspectors return to Iraq.
• November 19 - Lewinsky scandal: The United State House of Representatives' Judiciary Committee begins impeachment hearings against US President Bill Clinton.
• November 20 - A court in Taliban-controlled Afghanistan declares accused terrorist Osama bin Laden "a man without a sin" in regards to the 1998 U.S. embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania.
• November 23-26 - Iraq disarmament crisis: According to UNSCOM, Iraq once again ends cooperation with the U.N. inspectors, alternately intimidating and withholding information from them
• November 24 - America Online announces it will acquire Netscape Communications in a stock-for-stock transaction worth US$4.2 billion.
• November 26 - Tony Blair becomes the first Prime Minister of the United Kingdom to address the Republic of Ireland's parliament
• November 26 - Japan-China Joint Declaration On Building a Partnership of Friendship and Cooperation for Peace and Development
• November 30 - Deutsche Bank announces a US$10 billion deal to buy Bankers Trust, thus creating the largest financial institution in the world.

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Depiction of the impeachment trial of Andrew Johnson, then President of the United States, in 1868. ... Henry Hyde Henry John Hyde (born April 18, 1924), American politician, has been a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives since 1975, representing the 6th District of Illinois (map). ... William Jefferson Clinton (born William Jefferson Blythe III on August 19, 1946) was the 42nd President of the United States from 1993 to 2001. ... November 5 is the 309th day of the year (310th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 56 days remaining. ... Nature is one of the oldest and most reputable general-purpose scientific journals, first published on November 4, 1869. ... Thomas Jefferson (April 13 (April 2 O.S.), 1743 – July 4, 1826) was the third (1801–1809) President of the United States, second (1797–1801) Vice President, first (1789–1785) United States Secretary of State, and an American statesman, ambassador to France, political philosopher, revolutionary, agriculturalist, horticulturist, land owner, architect... Sally Hemings (c. ... November 9 is the 313th day of the year (314th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 52 days remaining. ... Merrill Lynch & Co. ... The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. ... Smith Barney is the retail brokerage division of Citigroup. ... NASDAQ MarketSite (Times Square, New York City) at night NASDAQ (originally an acronym for National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations) is a U.S. electronic stock exchange. ... November 12 is the 316th day of the year (317th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 49 days remaining. ... Daimler-Benz AG was founded on May 1, 1924 by the merger of Benz & Cie. ... The Chrysler Corporation is a United States-based automobile manufacturer, since 1998 merged with Daimler_Benz into DaimlerChrysler. ... DaimlerChrysler AG (Xetra: DCX) , (NYSE: DCX), with headquarters in Stuttgart, Germany and Auburn Hills, Michigan, is a prominent automobile and truck manufacturer, formed in 1998 by the buyout of the Chrysler Corporation (USA) by Daimler-Benz (Germany). ... November 13 is the 317th day of the year (318th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 48 days remaining. ... November 14 is the 318th day of the year (319th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 47 days remaining. ... The issue of Iraqs disarmament reached a crisis in 2002-2003, when George W. 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Netscape Communications Corporation was the publisher of the Netscape Navigator web browser as well as many other internet and intranet client and server software products. ... November 26 is the 330th day (331st on leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... The Right Honourable Anthony Charles Lynton Blair (born 6 May 1953 in Edinburgh, Scotland) is the current Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, First Lord of the Treasury and Minister for the Civil Service. ... In the United Kingdom, the Prime Minister is the head of government, exercising many of the executive functions nominally vested in the Sovereign, who is head of state. ... November 26 is the 330th day (331st on leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Japan-China Joint Declaration On Building a Partnership of Friendship and Cooperation for Peace and Development (平和と発展のための友好協力パートナーシップの構築に関する日中共同宣言) was made on November 26, 1998 to reaffirm friendly and cooperative relations between Japan and the Peoples Republic of China. ... November 30 is the 334th day (335th on leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar, with 31 days remaining, as the final day of November. ... Deutsche Bank AG NYSE: DB (German for German Bank) is a multinational bank operating worldwide and employing almost 70,000 people (2004). ... The Bankers Trust is a historic US banking organisation that was merged with Deutsche Bank in 1998, but continues to operate under that name. ...

December

• December 1 - Exxon announces a US$73.7 billion deal to buy Mobil, thus creating Exxon-Mobil, the largest company on the planet.
• December 5 - D.C. United defeats Vasco da Gama 2 – 1 on aggregate to win the Interamerican Cup and is one of the greatest triumphs in the history of U.S. club soccer.
• December 6 - Hugo Chávez Frías, Venezuelan military and politician, is elected President of Venezuela.
• December 8 - Tadjena massacre in Algeria; 81 villagers killed.
• December 11 - Iraq disarmament crisis: Iraq announces that U.N. weapons inspections will no longer take place on Friday, the Muslim day of rest. Iraq also refuses to provide test data from the production of missiles and engines
• December 16-19 - Iraq disarmament crisis: U.S. President Clinton orders American and British airstrikes on Iraq. UNSCOM withdraws all weapons inspectors from Iraq
• December 17 - Claudia Benton, of West University Place, Texas, is murdered in her house by Angel Maturino Resendiz, She is his third victim in his third incident.
• December 19 - Iraq disarmament crisis: Iraqi vice-president Taha Yassin Ramadan announces that Iraq will no longer cooperate and declares that UNSCOM's "mission is over."
• December 21 - Iraq disarmament crisis: UN Security Council members France, Germany and Russia call for sanctions to end against Iraq. The three Security Council members also call for UNSCOM to either be disbanded or for its role to be recast. The U.S. says it will veto any such proposal
• December 26 - Iraq disarmament crisis: Iraq announced its intention to fire upon US and British warplanes that patrol the northern and southern "no-fly zones".
• December 29 - Leaders of the Khmer Rouge apologize for the genocide in Cambodia that claimed over 1 million in the 1970s.
• December 31 - The first leap second since June 30, 1997.

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Unknown Dates

• The third World Parliament of Religions is held in Cape Town on 1 - 8 December 1999.
• The fourth generation of VW's Passat automobile goes on sale in North America.
• Ibrahim Hanna, the last native speaker of Mlahsö, dies in Qamishli, Syria, making the language effectively extinct. In that same year, the last native speaker of related Bijil Neo-Aramaic dies in Jerusalem.

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Births

• February 25 - Brendon Baerg, child actor
• April 9 - Elle Fanning, actress
• September 21 - Lorenzo, Nikolas, Zachary and Myrinda Brino, child actors/actress

February 25 is the 56th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... Brendon Baerg (born February 25, 1998 in Whittier, California) is a child actor best known from playing Logan Hughes on the CBS show Yes, Dear. ... April 9 is the 99th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (100th in leap years). ... Elle Fanning Elle Fanning (born Mary Elle Fanning on April 9, 1998 in Conyers, Georgia) is an American actress. ... September 21 is the 264th day of the year (265th in leap years). ... Lorenzo Nathanel Brino was born September 21, 1998 in Woodland Hills, California to Tony and Shawna Brino. ... Nikolas Landon Brino (born 21 September 1998 in Woodland Hills, California) Nikolas is a quadruplet, his siblings are Lorenzo, Zachary and Myrinda Brino. ... Zachary Brino was born September 21, 1998 in Woodland Hills, California to Tony and Shawna Brino. ... Myrinda Brino was born September 21, 1998 in Woodland Hills, California to Tony and Shawna Brino. ...

Deaths

January-February

• January 1 - Helen Wills Moody, American tennis player (b. 1905)
• January 4 - Mae Questel, American actress (b. 1908)
• January 5 - Sonny Bono, American singer, actor and politician (b. 1935)
• January 8 - Michael Tippett, English composer (b. 1905)
• January 11 - Klaus Tennstedt, German conductor (b. 1926)
• January 15 - Junior Wells, American harmonica player (b. 1934
• January 19 - Carl Perkins, American guitarist (b. 1932)
• January 21 - Jack Lord, American actor (b. 1920)
• February - Roger Nicholas Angleton, American murderer (b. 1942)
• February 6 - Falco, Austrian musician (b. 1957)
  • Carl Wilson, American musician (b. 1946)
• February 7 - Lawrence Sanders, American author (b. 1920)
• February 8 - Halldór Laxness, Icelandic author (b. 1902)
  • Julian Simon, American economist, author (b. 1932)
• February 18 - Harry Caray, American TV and radio broadcaster (b. 1917)
• February 24 - Henny Youngman, English born American comedian (b. 1906)
• February 27 - J.T. Walsh, American actor (b 1943)
• February 28 - Dermot Morgan, Irish Actor, Comedian (b. 1952)

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Sir Michael Kemp Tippett (2 January 1905 – 8 January 1998) was one of the foremost English composers of the 20th century. ... 1905 was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ... January 11 is the 11th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... Klaus Tennstedt (June 6, 1926 - January 11, 1998) was a German conductor. ... 1926 was a common year starting on Friday (link will take you to calendar). ... January 15 is the 15th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... Junior Wells (December 9, 1934 - January 15, 1998), real name Amos Blackmore, was a blues harmonica player based in Chicago who was famous for playing with Muddy Waters, Buddy Guy, Magic Sam, Lonnie Brooks, the Rolling Stones and Van Morrison. ... A harmonica A harmonica is a very common free reed musical wind instrument (also known, among other things, as a mouth organ, french harp, blues harp, simply harp, or Mississippi saxophone), having multiple, variably-tuned brass or bronze reeds, each secured at one end over an airway slot of like... 1934 was a common year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ... January 19 is the 19th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... Carl Perkins Carl Lee Perkins (April 9, 1932 - January 19, 1998) was an American pioneer of rockabilly music, a mix of rhythm and blues and country music that evolved at Sun Records in Memphis in the early 1950s. ... Steve Howe playing lead guitar for Yes in 1977 A guitarist is a musician who plays the guitar. ... 1932 is a leap year starting on a Friday. ... January 21 is the 21st day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... John Joseph Patrick Ryan (December 30, 1920–January 21, 1998), best known by his stage name Jack Lord, is noted for his performances as an actor on television and film, most notably for his starring role as Steve McGarrett on Hawaii Five-O. Lord also appeared as Felix Leiter in... 1920 is a leap year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar) // Events January January 7 - Forces of Russian White admiral Kolchak surrender in Krasnoyarsk. ... February is the second month of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... Roger Nicholas Angleton (1942 - February 7, 1998) was the man who confessed to murdering his sister-in law Doris Angleton in her River Oaks home in Houston, Texas. ... This article is about the year. ... February 6 is the 37th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... Falco (Johann Hölzel), Austrian pop-star whose albums became #1 multiple times on the charts in both Europe and North America during the 1980s Falco (February 19, 1957 - February 6, 1998) was the stage name of the classical music prodigy turned Austrian rock star, Johann Hölzel (also Hans... 1957 was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Carl Dean Wilson (December 21, 1946 - February 6, 1998) was the youngest of the three brothers who made up the core of The Beach Boys. ... 1946 was a common year starting on Tuesday. ... February 7 is the 38th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... Lawrence Sanders (March 15, 1920 – February 7, 1998) was an American novelist. ... 1920 is a leap year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar) // Events January January 7 - Forces of Russian White admiral Kolchak surrender in Krasnoyarsk. ... February 8 is the 39th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... Halldór Kiljan Laxness (born Halldór Guðjónsson) (April 23, 1902 - February 8, 1998) was a famous 20th century Icelandic author of such novels as Independent People, The Atom Station, Paradise Reclaimed, Icelands Bell, The Fish Can Sing and World Light. ... 1902 was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ... Julian Lincoln Simon (February 12, 1932–February 8, 1998) was professor of business administration at the University of Maryland and a Senior Fellow at the Cato Institute. ... 1932 is a leap year starting on a Friday. ... February 18 is the 49th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... Harry Caray Harry Caray (March 1, 1914 — February 18, 1998), born Harry Christopher Carabina in St. ... 1917 was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar (see link for calendar) or a common year starting on Tuesday of the Julian calendar. ... February 24 is the 55th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... Henny Youngman performing at the Jerry Lewis MDA Telethon Henny Youngman (Henry Youngman, March 16, 1906 - February 24, 1998) was a comedian and violinist famous for one-liners, short simple jokes usually delivered rapid-fire. ... 1906 was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ... February 27 is the 58th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... J.T. Walsh (September 28, 1943–February 27, 1998) was an American actor best known for his roles as quietly sinister white-collar sleazeballs (quote from Leonard Maltin) in numerous feature films. ... 1943 is a common year starting on Friday. ... February 28 is the 59th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Dermot Morgan (3 February 1952 - 28 February 1998) was an Irish school-teacher turned comedian and actor who achieved international renown as Father Ted Crilly in the Channel 4 sitcom Father Ted. ... 1952 was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ...

March-July

• March 8 - Ray Nitschke, American Linebacker (b. 1936)
• March 10 - Lloyd Bridges, American actor (b. 1913)
• March 12 - Beatrice Wood, American artist and ceramicist (b. 1893)
• March 13 - Bill Reid, Canadian artist (b. 1920)
  • Risen Star, race horse (b. 1985)
• March 15 - Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician, author and Olympian (b. 1903)
• March 31 - Bella Abzug, American politician (b. 1920)
• April 6 - Tammy Wynette, American musician (b. 1942)
• April 15 - Pol Pot, Cambodian Khmer Rouge prime minister (b. 1925)
• April 19 - Octavio Paz, Mexican author and Nobel Prize Winner (b. 1914)
• April 23 - Constantine Caramanlis, Greek politician (b. 1907)
• May 1 - Eldridge Cleaver, American Black activist (b. 1935)
• May 7 - Eddie Rabbitt, country musician (b. 1941)
• May 9 - Alice Faye, American entertainer (b. 1915)
• May 14 - Frank Sinatra, American entertainer (b. 1915)
• May 15 - Earl Manigault, basketball player (b. 1944)
• May 19 - Sosuke Uno, Japanese prime minister (b. 1922)
• May 28 - Phil Hartman, Canadian born American graphic artist, writer, actor, and comedian (b. 1948)
• May 29 - Barry M. Goldwater, American politician (b. 1909)
• June 10 - Hammond Innes, English author (b. 1914)
• June 11 - Catherine Cookson, English author (b. 1906)
• June 13 - Birger Ruud, Norwegian athelete (b. 1911)
• July 3 - Danielle Bunten Berry, American software developer (b. 1949)
• July 6 - Roy Rogers, American singer and actor (b. 1911)
• July 19 - Elmer Valo, Czech baseball player (b. 1921)
• July 22 - Hermann Prey, German bass-baritone (b. 1929)

March 8 is the 67th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (68th in Leap years). ... Raymond Ernest Nitschke (December 29, 1936 - March 8, 1998) was an American Football player who played linebacker for the Green Bay Packers of the NFL. He played from 1958 to 1972. ... The defensive team or defense in American football or Canadian football, is the team that begins a play from scrimmage not in possession of the ball. ... 1936 was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ... March 10 is the 69th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (70th in Leap years). ... Bridges in The Sound of Fury (1950) Lloyd Bridges (born January 15, 1913 in San Leandro, California; died March 10, 1998 in Los Angeles, California) was an American actor. ... Link title1913 is a common year starting on Wednesday. ... March 12 is the 71st day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (72nd in Leap years). ... Beatrice Wood Beatrice Wood ( March 3, 1893 – March 12, 1998) was an American artist and ceramist, known as the Mama of Dada. Beatrice Wood was born in San Francisco, California, the daughter of wealthy socialites. ... 1893 was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ... March 13 is the 72nd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (73rd in leap years). ... Bill Reids sculpture The Raven and The New Men, showing part of a Haida creation myth. ... 1920 is a leap year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar) // Events January January 7 - Forces of Russian White admiral Kolchak surrender in Krasnoyarsk. ... Risen Star, (1985-1998), was a champion thoroughbred race horse. ... Horse-racing is an equestrian sporting activity which has been practiced over the centuries; the chariot races of Roman times were an early example, as was the contest of the steeds of the god Odin and the giant Hrungnir in Norse mythology. ... 1985 is a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... March 15 is the 74th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (75th in Leap years). ... Doctor Benjamin McLane Spock (May 2, 1903 – March 15, 1998) was an American pediatrician whose book Baby and Child Care, published in 1946, is one of the biggest best-sellers of all time. ... Pediatrics (also spelled paediatrics or pædiatrics) is the branch of medicine that deals with the medical care of infants and children. ... The Olympic Games, or Olympics, is an international multi-sport event taking place every two years and alternating between Summer and Winter Games. ... 1903 has the latest occurring solstices and equinoxes for 400 years, because the Gregorian calendar hasnt had a leap year for seven years or a century leap year since 1600. ... March 31 is the 90th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (91st in Leap years), with 275 days remaining, as the final day of March. ... Bella Abzug Bella Savitsky Abzug (July 24, 1920 – March 31, 1998) was a well-known American political figure and a leader of the womens movement. ... 1920 is a leap year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar) // Events January January 7 - Forces of Russian White admiral Kolchak surrender in Krasnoyarsk. ... April 6 is the 96th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (97th in leap years). ... Tammy Wynette on the cover of her tribute album Tammy Wynette Remembered Tammy Wynette (May 5, 1942 – April 6, 1998) was an American country singer and songwriter. ... Country music, formerly called country and western music or country-western, is an amalgam of popular musical forms developed in the southern United States, with roots in traditional folk music, spirituals, and the blues. ... This article is about the year. ... April 15 is the 105th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (106th in leap years). ... Pol Pot Saloth Sar (May 19, 1925 – April 15, 1998), better known as Pol Pot, was the ruler of the Khmer Rouge and the Prime Minister of Cambodia (officially Democratic Kampuchea during his rule) from 1976 to 1979, having been de facto leader since mid-1975. ... Some of the Khmer Rouge leadership during their period in power. ... A prime minister may be either: the chief or leading member of the cabinet of the top-level government in a country having a parliamentary system of government; or the official, in countries with a semi-presidential system of government, appointed to manage the civil service and execute the directives... 1925 was a common year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar). ... April 19 is the 109th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (110th in leap years). ... Octavio Paz on the cover of his Selected Poems (1988) Octavio Paz (March 31, 1914 – April 19, 1998) was a Mexican writer, poet, and diplomat, and the winner of the 1990 Nobel Prize in Literature. ... Sir Edward Appletons medal Photographs of Nobel Prize Medals. ... 1914 is a common year starting on Thursday. ... April 23 is the 113th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (114th in leap years). ... Constantine Karamanlis Constantine (Konstantinos) Karamanlis (Κωνσταντίνος Καραμανλής) (March 8, 1907 - April 23, 1998) is a towering figure of modern Greek politics and history. ... A politician is an individual involved in politics. ... 1907 was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ... May 1 is the 121st day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (122nd in leap years). ... Eldridge Cleaver (August 31, 1935 - May 1, 1998) was a prominent black leader and activist, beginning as a founding member of the Black Panther Party. ... 1935 was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ... May 7 is the 127th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (128th in leap years). ... Eddie Rabbitt (November 27, 1941 - May 7, 1998) was a country music singer and songwriter who reached the peak of his popularity in the late 1970s and early 1980s. ... 1941 was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ... May 9 is the 129th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (130th in leap years). ... Alice Faye from her official website, http://www. ... 1915 was a common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ... May 14 is the 134th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (135th in leap years). ... Old Blue Eyes belts one out Francis Albert Sinatra (December 12, 1915 – May 14, 1998) was an American singer who is considered one of the finest vocalists of all time, renowned for his impeccable phrasing and timing. ... 1915 was a common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ... May 15 is the 135th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (136th in leap years). ... Earl Manigault (September 7, 1944 - May 15, 1998) was an American basketball player. ... hi my name is princess , angle and laura we are hot and ready for some action if u want a long quicky then message mi on 0400028542 and i will defently set you up!!!! ; ) we playn basketball Basketball is very popular in U.S. colleges. ... 1944 was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar). ... May 19 is the 139th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (140th in leap years). ... Sōsuke Uno (宇野 宗佑 Uno Sōsuke August 27, 1922–May 19, 1998) was a Japanese politician and the 75th Prime Minister of Japan from June 3, 1989 to August 10, 1989. ... The Prime Minister of Japan (内閣総理大臣 Naikaku sōri daijin) is the English political nomenclature of the head of government of Japan. ... 1922 was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ... May 28 is the 148th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (149th in leap years). ... Phil Hartman Philip Phil Edward Hartman (originally Hartmann) (September 24, 1948–May 28, 1998) was a graphic artist, writer, actor and comedian born in Brantford, Ontario, Canada. ... The term writer can apply to anyone who creates a written work, but the word more usually designates those who write creatively or professionally, or those who have written in many different forms. ... Actors in period costume sharing a joke whilst waiting between takes during location filming. ... A comedian (also comedienne, female) is a person who attempts to make people laugh through a variety of methods, normally through joke telling, or a stream of funny banter. ... 1948 is a leap year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar). ... May 29 is the 149th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (150th in leap years). ... Barry Goldwater Barry Morris Goldwater (January 1, 1909 – May 29, 1998) was a United States politician and a founding figure in the modern conservative movement in the USA. Goldwater personified the shift in balance in American culture from the Northeast to the West. ... 1909 was a common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ... June 10 is the 161st day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (162nd in leap years), with 204 days remaining. ... Hammond Innes (July 15, 1914 – June 10, 1998) was an English author who wrote over thirty novels, as well as childrens and travel books. ... 1914 is a common year starting on Thursday. ... June 11 is the 162nd day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (163rd in leap years), with 203 days remaining. ... Dame Catherine Ann Cookson DBE OBE (20 June 1906–11 June 1998) was an English novelist. ... 1906 was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ... June 13 is the 164th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (165th in leap years), with 201 days remaining. ... Birger Ruud (August 23, 1911 - June 13, 1998) was a Norwegian ski jumper. ... 1911 was a common year starting on Sunday (click on link for calendar). ... July 3 is the 184th day of the year (185th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar, with 181 days remaining. ... Danielle Bunten Berry (February 19, 1949 - July 3, 1998), a. ... 1949 is a common year starting on Saturday. ... July 6 is the 187th day of the year (188th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 178 days remaining. ... Dale Evans & Roy Rogers Leonard Franklin Slye (November 5, 1911 – July 6, 1998), became famous as Roy Rogers, a singer and cowboy actor. ... 1911 was a common year starting on Sunday (click on link for calendar). ... July 19 is the 200th day (201st in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 165 days remaining. ... Elmer William Valo ( March 5, 1921 - July 19, 1998) was a Major League Baseball player, coach and scout, making his debut on September 22, 1940. ... MLB logo Major League Baseball (MLB) is the highest level of play in professional baseball in the world. ... 1921 was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ... July 22 is the 203rd day (204th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 162 days remaining. ... Hermann Prey (July 11, 1929 – July 22, 1998) was a German bass-baritone. ... 1929 was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ...

August-December

• August 3 - Alfred Schnittke, Volga German composer (b. 1934)
• August 4 - Yuri Artyukhin, cosmonaut (b. 1930)
• August 6 - André Weil, French mathematician (b. 1906)
• August 24 - E.G. Marshall, American actor (b. 1910)
• August 26 - Frederick Reines, American physicist, and (Nobel Prize) winner (b. 1918)
• September 6 - Akira Kurosawa, Japanese screenwriter, producer, and director (b. 1910)
• September 14 - Johnny Adams, American musician (b. 1932)
• September 21 - Florence "Flo-Jo" Griffith-Joyner, American runner (b. 1959)
• September 27 - Narita Bryan, Japanese racehorse (b. 1991)
• September 30 - Dan Quisenberry, baseball player (b. 1953)
• October 2 - Olivier Gendebien, Belgian race car driver (b. 1924)
• October 6 - Mark Belanger, baseball player (b. 1944)
• October 29 - Ted Hughes, English poet (b. 1930)
• November 10 - Hal Newhouser, American baseball player (b. 1921)
• December ?? - Brian Stonehouse, English painter, SOE agent in World War II (b. 1918)
• December 7 - Michael Craze, British actor (b. 1942)
• December 14 - Annette Strauss, American philanthropist and mayor of Dallas, Texas (b. 1924)
• December 17 - Claudia Benton, child psychologist (murder victim) (b. 1959)
• December 18 - Lev Demin, cosmonaut (b. 1926)
• December 20 - Irene Hervey, American actress (b. 1910)

August 3 is the 215th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (216th in leap years), with 150 days remaining. ... Alfred Garyevich Schnittke (Russian: Альфре́д Га́ррьевич Шни́тке, November 24, 1934 – August 3, 1998) was a Russian- German Jewish composer of classical music. ... 1934 was a common year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ... August 4 is the 216th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (217th in leap years), with 149 days remaining. ... Yuri Petrovich Artyukhin (Russian: Юрий Петрович Артюхин; June 22, 1930 – August 4, 1998) was a Soviet cosmonaut who made a single flight into space. ... 1930 is a common year starting on Wednesday. ... August 6 is the 218th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (219th in leap years), with 147 days remaining. ... André Weil (May 6, 1906 - August 6, 1998) was one of the great mathematicians of the 20th century, a founding member of the influential Bourbaki group. ... 1906 was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ... August 24 is the 236th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (237th in leap years), with 129 days remaining. ... Everett Gunnar Marshall (June 18, 1910 - August 24, 1998) was an American actor who starred in 1957 movie 12 Angry Men. Marshall was born in Owatonna, Minnesota. ... 1910 was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ... August 26 is the 238th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (239th in leap years). ... Frederick Reines Frederick Reines (March 16, 1918 - August 26, 1998) was an American physicist. ... Sir Edward Appletons medal Photographs of Nobel Prize Medals. ... 1918 was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar (see link for calendar) or a common year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar. ... September 6 is the 249th day of the year (250th in leap years). ... Akira Kurosawa Akira Kurosawa (黒澤 明 Kurosawa Akira, also é»’æ²¢ 明) (March 23, 1910 – September 6, 1998) was a prominent Japanese director, producer, and screenwriter of films, many of which are considered highly influential worldwide classics. ... 1910 was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ... September 14 is the 257th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (258th in leap years). ... Johnny Adams (January 5, 1932 - September 14, 1998) was an American blues singer. ... 1932 is a leap year starting on a Friday. ... September 21 is the 264th day of the year (265th in leap years). ... Delorez Florence Griffith-Joyner a. ... 1959 was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... September 27 is the 270th day of the year (271st in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 95 days remaining. ... Narita Brian(ナリタブライアン, May 3, 1991 - September 27, 1998) is Japanese racehorse, by Brians Time-Pacificus, by Northern Dancer. ... 1991 is a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... September 30 is the 273rd day of the year (274th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar, with 92 days remaining. ... Daniel Raymond Quisenberry (February 7, 1953 - September 30, 1998) was a Major League Baseball player, primarily as a star relief pitcher for the Kansas City Royals. ... 1953 is a common year starting on Thursday. ... October 2 is the 275th day (276th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 90 days remaining. ... Olivier Gendebien, born January 12, 1924 in Brussels, Belgium and died on October 2, 1998 in Les Baux de Provence, in the Bouches-du-Rhône departement of France, was a war hero and race car driver. ... 1924 was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ... October 6 is the 279th day of the year (280th in Leap years). ... Mark Henry Belanger (June 8, 1944 - October 6, 1998) was an American Major League Baseball player. ... 1944 was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar). ... October 29 is the 302nd day of the year (303rd in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 63 days remaining. ... Edward James Hughes, OM referred to normally as Ted Hughes (August 17, 1930 – October 28, 1998) was an English poet and childrens writer. ... 1930 is a common year starting on Wednesday. ... November 10 is the 314th day of the year (315th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 51 days remaining. ... Harold Newhouser (May 20, 1921 - November 10, 1998) was a professional Major League Baseball pitcher of the 1940s and 1950s. ... The National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum, located at 25 Main Street in Cooperstown, New York, United States, is a semi-official museum operated by private interests that serves as the central point for the study of the history of baseball in North America, the display of baseball-related... 1921 was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ... December is the twelfth and last month of the year in the Gregorian Calendar and one of seven Gregorian months with the length of 31 days. ... Brian Julian Stonehouse (August 8, 1918 _ December 1998) was a British painter and Special Operations Executive agent during World War II. He was born in Torquay, England. ... The Special Operations Executive (SOE), often called the Baker Street Irregulars after Sherlock Holmess fictional group of spies, was a World War II organisation initiated by Winston Churchill and Hugh Dalton in July 1940 as a mechanism for conducting warfare by means other than direct military engagement. ... 1918 was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar (see link for calendar) or a common year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar. ... December 7 is the 341st day (342nd on leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Michael Craze (born 29 November 1942 in Cornwall and died 7 December 1998 ) was a British actor noted for his role of Ben Jackson, a companion of the Doctor, in the long running BBC science fiction television series Doctor Who. ... This article is about the year. ... December 14 is the 348th day of the year (349th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. ... Annette Strauss (January 26, 1924-December 14, 1998) was a philanthropist and a former mayor of Dallas. ... 1924 was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ... December 17 is the 351st day of the year (352nd in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. ... Dr. Claudia Gabriella Benton was born in Peru in 1959. ... 1959 was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... December 18 is the 352nd day of the year (353rd in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. ... Lev Stepanovich Demin (Russian: Лев Степанович Дёмин; born January 11, 1926 in Moscow, died December 18, 1998 in Zvyozdny Gorodok) was a Soviet cosmonaut who flew on the Soyuz 15 mission. ... 1926 was a common year starting on Friday (link will take you to calendar). ... December 20 is the 354th day of the year (355th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Irene Hervey (July 11, 1910 - December 20, 1998) was an American actress. ... 1910 was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ...

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• Zhang Chongren, Chinese artist. (b. 1907)

Zhang Chongren Zhang Chongren or Chang Chung-jen (张充仁, 1907 - 1998), was a Chinese artist and sculptor best remembered in Europe as the friend of Hergé, the Belgian comics writer and artist. ... Artist is a subjective term which describes a person creative in, innovative in, or adept at, their endeavors. ... 1907 was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ...

Nobel Prizes

• Physics - Robert B. Laughlin, Horst L. Störmer, Daniel Chee Tsui
• Chemistry - Walter Kohn, John A. Pople
• Medicine - Robert F. Furchgott, Louis J. Ignarro, Ferid Murad
• Literature - José Saramago
• Peace - John Hume and David Trimble

Sir Edward Appletons medal Photographs of Nobel Prize Medals. ... List of Nobel Prize laureates in Physics from 1901 to the present day. ... Robert Betts Laughlin (born November 1, 1950) is an American theoretical physicist who, with Horst L. Störmer and Daniel C. Tsui, was awarded the 1998 Nobel Prize in physics for his explanation of the fractional quantum Hall effect. ... Horst Ludwig Störmer (born April 6, 1949) is a Bell Labs physicist who shared the 1998 Nobel Prize in Physics with Daniel Tsui and Robert Laughlin. ... Daniel Chee Tsui 崔琦 (pinyin: Cuī Qí)(born February 28, 1939, Henan Province, China) is a Chinese American physicist whose areas of research included electrical properties of thin films and microstructures of semiconductors and solid-state physics. ... List of Nobel Prize laureates in Chemistry from 1901 to the present day. ... Walter Kohn (born March 9, 1923 in Vienna, Austria) is an Austrian-born American physicist who was awarded, with John A. Pople, the Nobel Prize in chemistry in 1998. ... Sir John Anthony Pople (October 31, 1925 - March 15, 2004) was a theoretical chemist. ... List of Nobel Prize laureates in Physiology or Medicine from 1901 to the present day. ... Robert F. Furchgott (born June 4, 1916 in Charleston, South Carolina) is a Nobel Prize-winning American chemist. ... Dr. Louis J. Ignaro (b. ... Ferid Murad (born September 14, 1936) is an American physician and pharmacologist, and a co-winner of the 1998 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. ... The Nobel Prize in literature is awarded annually to an author from any country who has produced the most outstanding work of an idealistic tendency. The work in this case generally refers to an authors work as a whole, not to any individual work, though individual works are sometimes... José Saramago José Saramago (born November 16, 1922) is a Portuguese writer, playwright, and journalist. ... The Nobel Peace Prize (where Nobel is pronounced with the stress on the second syllable) is one of five Nobel Prizes bequested by the Swedish industrialist and inventor Alfred Nobel. ... John Hume - Wikipedia /**/ @import /skins-1. ... The Right Honourable David Trimble (born on October 15, 1944 in Belfast) is a Northern Ireland politician, and former leader of the Ulster Unionist Party (UUP), former First Minister of Northern Ireland. ...

Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel

• Amartya Sen

The Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel (in Swedish Sveriges Riksbanks pris i ekonomisk vetenskap till Alfred Nobels minne), is a prize awarded each year for oustanding intellectual contributions in the field of economics. ... Amartya Sen Amartya Kumar Sen (born November 3, 1933) is an Indian Economist best known for his work on famine, human development theory, welfare economics, and the underlying mechanisms of poverty. ...

Fields Medalists

• Richard Ewen Borcherds, William Timothy Gowers, Maxim Kontsevich, Curtis T. McMullen

The Fields Medal is a prize awarded to up to four mathematicians (not over forty years of age) at each International Congress of International Mathematical Union, since 1936 and regularly since 1948 at the initiative of the Canadian mathematician John Charles Fields. ... Richard Ewen Borcherds (born November 29, 1959) is a mathematician specializing in group theory and Lie algebras. ... William Timothy Gowers (born November 20, 1963, Wiltshire, United Kingdom) is a British mathematician. ... Maxim Kontsevich (Russian: Максим Концевич) (born August 25, 1964) is a Russian mathematician. ... Curtis T McMullen (born 21 May 1958) is Professor of Mathematics at Harvard University. ...

Templeton Prize

• Sir Sigmund Sternberg

The Templeton Prize for Progress Toward Research or Discoveries about Spiritual Realities (795,000 Pounds Sterling in 2003) was until 2001 . ...

Heads of state and government

• Canada
  • Jean Chrétien Prime Minister
• People's Republic of China
  • Jiang Zemin President
• France
  • Jacques Chirac President
  • Lionel Jospin Prime Minister
• Germany
  • Roman Herzog President
  • Helmut Kohl Chancellor
  • Gerhard Schröder Chancellor
• Indonesia
  • Suharto President
  • B. J. Habibie President
• Republic of Ireland
  • Mary McAleese President
  • Bertie Ahern Taoiseach
• Japan
  • Akihito Emperor
  • Ryutaro Hashimoto Prime Minister
  • Keizo Obuchi Prime Minister
• Russia
  • Boris Yeltsin President
• United Kingdom
  • Elizabeth II Queen regnant
  • Tony Blair Prime Minister
• United States
  • Bill Clinton President

The Right Honourable Joseph Jacques Jean Chrétien, PC , LL.D (born January 11, 1934) was the twentieth Prime Minister of Canada, serving from November 4, 1993, to December 12, 2003. ... The Prime Minister of Canada, the head of the Canadian government, is usually the leader of the political party with the most seats in the Canadian House of Commons. ... Jiāng Zémín (born August 17, 1926) was the core of the third generation of Communist Party of China leaders, serving as General Secretary of the Communist Party of China from 1989 to 2002, as President of the Peoples Republic of China from 1993 to 2003, and... The President of the Peoples Republic of China (Chinese: 中华人民共和国主席 pinyin: Zhōnghuá Rénmín Gònghéguó Zhŭxí) is the head of state of the Peoples Republic of China. ...   Jacques René Chirac?, known as Jacques Chirac, (born November 29, 1932 in Paris, France) is a French politician. ... The President of France, known officially as the President of the Republic (Président de la République in French), is Frances elected Head of State. ... Lionel Robert Jospin (born July 12, 1937 in Meudon, France, a suburb of Paris into a Protestant family) is a French statesman who served as Prime Minister of France from 1997-2002. ... The Prime Minister of France (Premier ministre de la France) is the functional head of the Cabinet of France. ... Prof. ... The Federal President (German: Bundespräsident, formerly Reichspräsident) is Germanys head of state. ... Dr. Helmut Kohl (full name Helmut Josef Michael Kohl) (born April 3, 1930) is a German conservative politician and statesman. ... The German title Bundeskanzler is also the title of the Chancellor of Austria, and the title of a Swiss federal official (List of Federal Chancellors of Switzerland). ... Gerhard Fritz Kurt Schröder [] (born April 7, 1944 in Mossenberg-Wöhren), a German politician, has been serving as Chancellor of Germany since 1998. ... The German title Bundeskanzler is also the title of the Chancellor of Austria, and the title of a Swiss federal official (List of Federal Chancellors of Switzerland). ... General Soeharto (commonly spelled Suharto in the English-speaking world) (born June 8, 1921) was an Indonesian leader and military strongman. ... List of Presidents of Indonesia Categories: Indonesia | Lists of office-holders ... Bacharuddin Jusuf Habibie Bacharuddin Jusuf Habibie (born June 25, 1936), more commonly known simply as Rudy Habibie or B J Habibie, was the third President of Indonesia, holding office from 1998 to 1999. ... List of Presidents of Indonesia Categories: Indonesia | Lists of office-holders ... Mary Patricia McAleese (Irish name Máire Pádraigín Mhic Ghiolla Íosa) (born 27 June 1951) is the eighth, and current, President of Ireland. ... The President of Ireland (Irish: Uachtarán na hÉireann) is the head of state of the Republic of Ireland. ... Patrick Bartholemew Ahern (Irish name: Pádraig Parthalán Ó hEachthairn) (born September 12, 1951), commonly called Bertie Ahern, is an Irish politician. ... The Taoiseach (plural: Taoisigh) or, more formally, An Taoiseach, is the head of government of the Republic of Ireland and the leader of the Irish cabinet1. ... Emperor Akihito Emperor Akihito (Japanese: 明仁) (born December 23, 1933) is the current Emperor (天皇, tennō) of Japan and the 125th according to the traditional order of succession. ... His Majesty Emperor Akihito of Japan The Emperor of Japan (天皇 tennō) is a constitutionally-recognized symbol of the Japanese nation and the unity of its people. ... Ryūtarō Hashimoto (橋本龍太郎 Hashimoto Ryūtarō, Born July 29, 1937) is a Japanese politician and was the 82nd and 83rd Prime Minister of Japan from January 11, 1996 to July 30, 1998. ... The Prime Minister of Japan (内閣総理大臣 Naikaku sōri daijin) is the English political nomenclature of the head of government of Japan. ... Keizo Obuchi (小渕恵三; Obuchi Keizō June 25, 1937–May 14, 2000) was a Japanese politician and the 84th Prime Minister of Japan from July 30, 1998 to April 5, 2000. ... The Prime Minister of Japan (内閣総理大臣 Naikaku sōri daijin) is the English political nomenclature of the head of government of Japan. ... Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin   listen? (Russian: Борис Николаевич Ельцин, Boris Nikolajevič Jelcin; b. ... List of Presidents of Russia Boris Yeltsin1 ( July 10, 1991 – December 31, 1999) two terms. ... Elizabeth II (Elizabeth Alexandra Mary Windsor, born 21 April 1926), styled Her Majesty The Queen, is the Queen regnant of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Jamaica, Barbados, the Bahamas, Grenada, Papua New Guinea, the Solomon Islands, Tuvalu, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and... The Right Honourable Anthony Charles Lynton Blair (born 6 May 1953 in Edinburgh, Scotland) is the current Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, First Lord of the Treasury and Minister for the Civil Service. ... In the United Kingdom, the Prime Minister is the head of government, exercising many of the executive functions nominally vested in the Sovereign, who is head of state. ... William Jefferson Clinton (born William Jefferson Blythe III on August 19, 1946) was the 42nd President of the United States from 1993 to 2001. ... The President of the United States (often abbreviated POTUS) is the head of state of the United States. ...

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