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1998 is a year in the 20th century. It is a common year.
[edit] Events
- January 1998 - A massive ice storm, caused by El Niño, strikes New England, southern Ontario and Quebec, resulting in widespread power failures, severe damage to forests, and a number of deaths.
- January 1 - Smoking is banned in all California bars and restaurants.
- January 2
- Russia begins to circulate new rubles to stem inflation and promote confidence.
- Gunman shoots Antario Teodoro Filho, Brazilian politician and radio presenter, in a middle of his broadcast.
- January 4 - Wilaya of Relizane massacres of 4 January 1998 in Algeria; over 170 killed in three remote villages.
- January 6 - The Lunar Prospector spacecraft is launched into orbit around the Moon and later found evidence for frozen water on the moon's surface.
- January 8
- Ramzi Yousef is sentenced to life in prison for planning the World Trade Center bombing.
- Cosmologists announce that the expansion rate of the universe is increasing.
- January 11 - Sidi-Hamed massacre in Algeria; over 100 people killed.
- January 12 - 19 European nations agree to forbid human cloning.
- January 14 - Researchers in Dallas, Texas present findings about an enzyme that slows aging and cell death (apoptosis).
- January 15 - The stalker of Howard Stern, Lance Carvin, is sentenced to 2 1/2 years for threatening to kill Stern and his family.
- January 16 - NASA announces that John Glenn will return to space when Space Shuttle Discovery blasts off in October 1998.
- January 17 - Paula Jones accuses President Bill Clinton of sexual harassment.
- January 22 - Suspected "Unabomber" Theodore Kaczynski pleads guilty and accepts a sentence of life without the possibility of parole.
- January 26
- January 27 - American First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton appears on the Today show calling the attacks against her husband part of a "vast right-wing conspiracy."
- January 28
- Ford Motor Company announces the buyout of Volvo Cars for $6.45 billion.
- Gunmen hold at least 400 children and teachers hostage for several hours at an elementary school in Manila, Philippines.
- January 29 - In Birmingham, Alabama a bomb explodes at an abortion clinic killing one and severely wounding another. Serial bomber Eric Rudolph is suspected as the culprit.
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[edit] Films released
- Saving Private Ryan
- Armageddon
- There's Something About Mary
- A Bug's Life
- Doctor Dolittle
- Rush Hour
- Deep Impact
- Godzilla
- Patch Adams
- Antz
- The Big Lebowski
- Blade
- Chairman of the Board
- Dark City
- Elizabeth
- Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
- Human Remains
- Hurlyburly
- Lethal Weapon 4
- Lost in Space
- The Mask of Zorro
- Mulan
- The Negotiator
- Pi
- Pleasantville
- Rushmore
- Shakespeare in Love
- Six Days Seven Nights
- Small Soldiers
- The Thin Red Line
- Very Bad Things
- The Waterboy
- The Wedding Singer
- The Parent Trap
- Fight Club
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[edit] New books
- QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter
