September 7 - Google, Inc. is founded, in Menlo Park, California, by Stanford University Ph.D. candidates Larry Page and Sergey Brin.[5]
- September 8 - St. Louis Cardinals first baseman Mark McGwire breaks baseball's single-season home-run record, formerly held by Roger Maris. McGwire hits #62 at Busch Stadium in the 4th inning off of Chicago Cubs pitcher Steve Trachsel.
- September 9
- The United Nations General Assembly elects Didier Opertiri of Uruguay as president for its 53rd session.
- A coroner records a verdict of suicide on former footballer Justin Fashanu, who was found hanged in a London lock-up garage 4 months ago.
- September 14 - The GSPC is 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-September 28 - — Major creditors of Long-Term Capital Management, a Greenwich, Connecticut-based hedge fund, after days of tough bargaining and some informal mediation by Federal Reserve officials, agree on terms of a re-capitalization —
- September 26 - The Adelaide Crows defeat the North Melbourne Kangaroos in the AFL Grand Final to become the first club to win back-to-back premierships since the VFL became the AFL in 1990.
- September 27 - Google is started. It becomes the biggest search engine and the second most commonly visited web site in history, following Yahoo!
- September 27 - In Germany, SPD's Gerhard Schröder defeats 4-term CDU Chancellor Helmut Kohl.
- 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.
October
- October 1 - Sky Digital launches in the UK, changing the face of British television forever.
- October 3 - In Australia, John Howard's coalition government is re-elected for a second term.
- October 4 - Leafie Mason is murdered in her Hughes Springs, Texas house by Angel Maturino Resendiz. She is his second victim in his second incident.
- October 6 - College student Matthew Shepard is found tied to a fence near Laramie, Wyoming, a gay-bashing victim. He dies October 12, becoming a symbol of gay-bashing victims and sparking public reflection on homophobia in the US.
- October 7
- Oslo's Fornebu Airport closes.
- The United States Congress passes the Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act, which gives copyright holders 20 more years of copyright privilege on work they control. This effectively freezes the public domain to works created before 1923 in the United States.
- October 8
- Oslo Airport (Gardermoen) opens.
- Japan-Republic of Korea Joint Declaration A New Japan-Republic of Korea Partnership towards the Twenty-first Century.
- October 12 - The Congress of the United States passes the Digital Millennium Copyright Act.
- October 14 - Eric Robert Rudolph is charged with 6 bombings (including the 1996 Olympic bombing) in Atlanta, Georgia.
- October 15 - American Airlines becomes the first airline to offer electronic ticketing in all 44 countries it serves.
- October 16 - British police place General Augusto Pinochet under house arrest during his medical treatment in the UK.
- October 17-October 18 - severe flooding takes place in south Central Texas.
- October 21 - The New York Yankees defeat the San Diego Padres to sweep them in the World Series. The Yankees had a magical season with 114 regular-season wins and 11 postseason victories (125 total - the most by any team in 123 years of Major League baseball).
- October 27 - Germany: New Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder and his liberal SPD-Green Coalition takes office.
- October 28 - An Air China jetliner is hijacked by disgruntled pilot Yuan Bin and flown to Taiwan. After landing the plane safely, Yuan Bin is arrested.
- October 29
- Apartheid: In South Africa, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission presents its report, which condemns both sides for committing atrocities.
- STS-95: The 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 the Earth on February 20, 1962).
- 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 tricks the hijacker into thinking that he was landing in the Bulgarian capital of Sofia to refuel.
- Hurricane Mitch makes landfall in Central America, killing an estimated 18,000 people.
- 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.
- In Gothenburg, Sweden, 2 arsonists burn down a local Macedonian Society disco, killing 63 and injuring 200, most of them children of refugees.
- October 31 - Iraq disarmament crisis begins: Iraq announces it will no longer cooperate with United Nations weapons inspectors.
November
- November 1 - The European Court of Human Rights is instituted.
- November 3
- Jesse Ventura, former professional wrestler, is elected Governor of Minnesota.
- Edmonton, Canada and Wonju, South Korea are declared as sister cities.
- November 5
- Lewinsky scandal: As part of the impeachment inquiry, House Judiciary Committee chairman Henry Hyde sends a list of 81 questions to U.S. President Bill Clinton.
- The journal Nature publishes a genetic study showing compelling evidence that Thomas Jefferson fathered his slave Sally Hemings' son Eston Hemings Jefferson.
- Myra Hindley loses her second appeal in 11 months against her whole life tariff.
- November 7 - John Glenn returns to Earth aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery.
- 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.
- United Kingdom formally abolishes the death penalty.
- November 12 - Daimler-Benz completes a merger with Chrysler Corporation to form Daimler-Chrysler.
- November 13-November 14 - Iraq disarmament crisis: U.S. President Bill Clinton orders airstrikes on Iraq, then calls them off at the last minute when Iraq promises once again to "unconditionally" cooperate with UNSCOM.
- November 19 - Lewinsky scandal: The United State House of Representatives' Judiciary Committee begins impeachment hearings against U.S. President Bill Clinton.
- November 20
- A court in Taliban-controlled Afghanistan declares accused terrorist Osama bin Laden "a man without a sin" in regard to the 1998 U.S. embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania.
- Galina Starovoitova, Russian legislator and democracy advocate, is assassinated in St. Petersburg, Russia.
- November 21 - The "dump site" murder in Hyvinkää, Finland: Satanists Jarno Elg, Terhi Tervashonka and Mika Riska murder, cut up, and partly eat a 23-year-old man.
- November 23-November 26 - Iraq disarmament crisis: According to UNSCOM, Iraq once again ends cooperation with the United Nations 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 Dáil Éireann, the Republic of Ireland's parliament.
- Japan-China Joint Declaration On Building a Partnership of Friendship and Cooperation for Peace and Development.
- November 27 - The Sega Dreamcast is made first available in Japan.
- November 30 - Deutsche Bank announces a US$10 billion deal to buy Bankers Trust, thus creating the largest financial institution in the world.
December
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- December 1 - Exxon announces a US$73.7 billion deal to buy Mobil, thus creating Exxon-Mobil, the second-largest company on the planet by revenue.
- December 5 - D.C. United defeats Vasco da Gama 2 – 1 on aggregate to win the Interamerican Cup (one of the greatest triumphs in the history of U.S. club soccer).
- December 6 - Hugo Chávez Frías, former member of the Venezuelan military and politician, is elected President of Venezuela.
- December 8 - Tadjena massacre in Algeria: 81 villagers are killed.
- December 11 - Iraq disarmament crisis: Iraq announces that United Nations 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-December 19 - Iraq disarmament crisis: U.S. President Bill 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 (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."
- Lewinsky scandal: President Bill Clinton is impeached by the United States House of Representatives.
- December 21 - Iraq disarmament crisis: UN Security Council members France, Germany and Russia call for sanctions to end against Iraq. The 3 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 announces its intention to fire upon U.S. and British warplanes that patrol the northern and southern "no-fly zones".
- December 29 - Khmer Rouge leaders apologize for the genocide in Cambodia that claimed over 1 million in the 1970s.
- December 31 - The first leap second since June 30, 1997 occurs. In the eurozone, the currency rates of this day are fixed permanently.
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Fictional
The following are references to year 1998 in fiction:
- * Set in 1998: V for Vendetta (1982-1988)
- Computer/video games:
- Set in 1998:
- * (2005)
- * Resident Evil 0 Around July 23th to early July 24th
- * Resident Evil (1996), on July 24th
- * Resident Evil 2 (1998), from the night of September 29th to early September 30th.
- * Resident Evil 3 (1999), from September 28th to October 1st
- * (2000), in December
- * Snake's Revenge (1992)
- * Max Payne (2001): Max Payne's wife and daughter are murdered.
- * ''The House Of The Dead The Curien Case
- * CarnEvil: The rising of the Carnival of Evil.
- * Back to the Future Part II (1989): Marty McFly, Jr. is born.
- * Defenders of the Earth (1986): Jedda Walker is born.
- * Sonic Underground was first aired on television.
Births
- January 25 - Marlene Lawston, American actress
- February 25 - Brendon Baerg, American actor
- April 9 - Elle Fanning, American actress
- April 15 - Sharlene san Pedro, Filipino actress
- April 24 - Ryan Newman, American actress
- May 16 - Ariel Waller, Canadian actress
- July 17 - Felipe Juan Froilán de Marichalar y de Borbón, grandson of Juan Carlos I of Spain.
- July 18 - Nixzmary Brown, American child abuse victim (d. 2006)
- July 22 - Madison Pettis, American actress
- July 24 - Bindi Irwin, daughter of wildlife icon Steve Irwin.
- August 19 - Ella Guevara, Filipino actress
- August 25 - China Anne McClain, American actress
- September 21 - Brino quadruplets, American actor/actresses
- October 6 - Mia-Sophie Wellenbrink, German actress and singer
- October 18 - Julia Wróblewska, Polish actress
- December 29 - Seamus Davey-Fitzpatrick, American actor
Deaths
January
- 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 7 - Vladimir Prelog, Croatian chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1906)
- January 8 - Michael Tippett, English composer (b. 1905)
- January 9 - Kenichi Fukui, Japanese chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1918)
- 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)
- January 28 - Shotaro Ishinomori, Japanese Manga artist, "Father of Henshin heroes." (b. 1938)
February
- February 3 - Karla Faye Tucker, Texas murderer (b. 1959)
- February 6
- Falco, Austrian musician (b. 1957)
- Carl Wilson, American musician (b. 1946)
- February 7
- Lawrence Sanders, American author (b. 1920)
- Roger Nicholas Angleton, American murderer (b. 1942)
- February 8
- Halldór Laxness, Icelandic writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1902)
- Julian Lincoln Simon, American economist and author (b. 1932)
- February 18 - Harry Caray, American television and radio broadcaster (b. 1917)
- February 22 - Abraham Alexander Ribicoff, American Democratic Party politician (b. 1910)
- February 23 - Sean A. Moore, American writer (b. 1965)
- February 24 - Henny Youngman, English-born comedian (b. 1906)
- February 26 - Theodore Schultz, American economist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1902)
- February 27
- George H. Hitchings, American scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1905)
- J. T. Walsh, American actor (b. 1943)
- February 28 - Dermot Morgan, Irish actor and comedian (b. 1952)
March
- 7 March - Bernarr Rainbow, historian of music education, organist, and choir master, (b.1914)
- March 8 - Ray Nitschke, American football player (b. 1936)
- March 10 - Lloyd Bridges, American actor (b. 1913)
- March 12
- Judge Dread, English musician (b. 1945)
- Beatrice Wood, American artist and ceramicist (b. 1893)
- Jozef Kroner, Slovak actor (The Shop on Main Street) (b. 1924)
- March 13
- Bill Reid, Canadian artist (b. 1920)
- Risen Star, American racehorse (b. 1985)
- March 15 - Benjamin Spock, American athlete, pediatrician, and author (b. 1903)
- March 16 - Derek Harold Richard Barton, British chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1918)
- March 20 - George Howard, American jazz saxophone musician (b. 1956)
- March 25 - Daniel Massey, English actor (b. 1933)
- March 31 - Bella Abzug, American politician (b. 1920)
April
- April 1 - Rozz Williams, American singer (b. 1963)
- April 5 - Cozy Powell, English rock drummer (b. 1947)
- April 6
- Wendy O. Williams, American singer (b. 1949)
- Tammy Wynette, American singer (b. 1942)
- April 13 - Patrick de Gayardon, French skydiver and skysurfing pioneer (b. 1960)
- April 15
- Rose Maddox, American singer (b. 1925)
- Pol Pot, Cambodian Khmer Rouge leader (b. 1925)
- April 16 - Fred Davis, English snooker player (b. 1913)
- April 17 - Muhammad Metwally Al Shaarawy, Egyptian Muslim jurist (b. 1911)
- April 19 - Octavio Paz, Mexican diplomat and writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1914)
- April 21 - Irene Vernon, American actress (b. 1922)
- April 22 - Kitch Christie, South African rugby coach (b. 1940)
- April 23
- Constantine Karamanlis, Greek politician (b. 1907)
- James Earl Ray, American assassin (b. 1928)
- April 25 - Wright Morris, American photographer and writer (b. 1910)
May
- May 1 - Eldridge Cleaver, American activist (b. 1935)
- May 2
- Kevin Lloyd, British actor (b. 1949)
- Justin Fashanu, British footballer (b. 1961)
- Matsumoto Hideto, Japanese musician (b. 1964)
- May 3 - Jason Anderson, American military (b. 1974)
- May 7
- Allan McLeod Cormack, South African-born physicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1924)
- Eddie Rabbitt, American musician (b. 1941)
- May 9 - Alice Faye, American entertainer (b. 1915)
- May 14
- Frank Sinatra, American entertainer (b. 1915)
- Marjory Stoneman Douglas, American conservationist and writer (b. 1890)
- May 15 - Earl Manigault, American basketball player (b. 1944)
- May 19 - Sosuke Uno, Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1922)
- May 22 - José Enrique Moyal, mathematical physicist (b. 1910)
- May 28 - Phil Hartman, Canadian-born artist, writer, actor, and comedian (b. 1948)
- May 29 - Barry M. Goldwater, American politician (b. 1909)
June
July
August
September
- September 2 - Jackie Blanchflower, Irish footballer (b. 1933)
- September 6 - Akira Kurosawa, Japanese screenwriter, producer, and director (b. 1910)
- September 9 - Lucio Battisti, Italian singer (b. 1943)
- September 10 - Carl Forgione, British actor (b. 1944)
- September 13 - George Wallace, American politician (b. 1919)
- 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 29 - Jared High, bullycide victim (b. 1985)
- September 30 - Dan Quisenberry, baseball player (b. 1953)
- September 30 - Bruno Munari, Italian-born industrial designer (b. 1907)
- September 30 - Pavel Štěpán, Czech pianist (b. 1925)
October
- October 2
- Gene Autry, American actor, singer, and sports team owner (b. 1907)
- Olivier Gendebien, Belgian race car driver (b. 1924)
- October 3 - Roddy McDowall, British actor (b. 1928)
- October 6 - Mark Belanger, American baseball player (b. 1944)
- October 8 - Zhang Chongren, Chinese artist (b. 1907)
- October 12 - Matthew Shepard, American murder victim (b. 1976)
- October 13 - General Gérard Charles Édouard Thériault, Canadian Chief of the Defence Staff (b. 1932)
- October 14 - Frankie Yankovic, American musician (b. 1916)
- October 16 - Jon Postel, American Internet pioneer (b. 1943)
- October 17 - Hakim Mohammed Said, Pakistani scholar and philanthropist (b. 1920)
- October 29 - Ted Hughes, English poet (b. 1930)
November
- November 3 - Bob Kane, American comic book creator (b. 1915)
- November 10 - Hal Newhouser, baseball player (b. 1921)
- November 13 - Michel Trudeau, Canadian outdoorsman, son of Pierre Trudeau (b. 1975)
- November 17 - Kenneth Allen McDuff, Texas serial killer executed
- November 22 - Stu Unger, professional poker player (b. 1953)
- November 28 - Kerry Thornley, American counterculture figure and writer (b. 1938)
- November 29
- Martin Ruane, British wrestler best known as Giant Haystacks and later, The Loch Ness Monster (b. 1947)
- Frank Latimore, well known Hollywood actor (b. 1925)
December
- December - Brian Stonehouse, English painter and World War II secret agent (b. 1918)
- December 7
- Michael Craze, British actor (b. 1942)
- Martin Rodbell, American scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1925)
- December 12 - Lawton Chiles, U.S. Senator from Florida and Governor of Florida (b. 1930)
- December 14 - Annette Strauss, American philanthropist and mayor of Dallas, Texas (b. 1924)
- December 16 - William Gaddis, American writer (b. 1922)
- December 17 - Claudia Benton, Peruvian-born child psychologist (murdered) (b. 1959)
- December 18 - Lev Demin, cosmonaut (b. 1926)
- December 20
- Irene Hervey, American actress (b. 1910)
- Alan Lloyd Hodgkin, British scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1914)
- December 21 - Roger Avon, Durham actor (b. 1914)
- December 22 - Michelle Thomas, American actress (b. 1969)
- December 25 - John Pulman, English snooker player (b. 1923)
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Nobel prizes
Templeton Prize
Fields Medal
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List of events by month
2007:
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February,
March,
April,
May,
June,
July,
August,
September,
October,
November,
December 2006:
January,
February,
March,
April,
May,
June,
July,
August,
September,
October,
November,
December 2005:
January,
February,
March,
April,
May,
June,
July,
August,
September,
October,
November,
December 2004:
January,
February,
March,
April,
May,
June,
July,
August,
September,
October,
November,
December 2003:
January,
February,
March,
April,
May,
June,
July,
August,
September,
October,
November,
December 2002:
January,
February,
March,
April,
May,
June,
July,
August,
September,
October,
November,
December 2001:
January,
February,
March,
April,
May,
June,
July,
August,
September,
October,
November,
December 2000:
January,
February,
March,
April,
May,
June,
July,
August,
September,
October,
November,
December 1999:
January,
February,
March,
April,
May,
June,
July,
August,
September,
October,
November,
December 1998: January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December
1997: January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December
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