1998

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This article is about the year 1998. For other uses, see 1998 (disambiguation).
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1998 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar 1998
MCMXCVIII
Ab urbe condita 2751
Armenian calendar 1447
ԹՎ ՌՆԽԷ
Assyrian calendar 6748
Bahá'í calendar 154–155
Bengali calendar 1405
Berber calendar 2948
British Regnal year 46 Eliz. 2 – 47 Eliz. 2
Buddhist calendar 2542
Burmese calendar 1360
Byzantine calendar 7506–7507
Chinese calendar 丁丑(Fire Ox)
4694 or 4634
    — to —
戊寅年 (Earth Tiger)
4695 or 4635
Coptic calendar 1714–1715
Discordian calendar 3164
Ethiopian calendar 1990–1991
Hebrew calendar 5758–5759
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat 2054–2055
 - Shaka Samvat 1919–1920
 - Kali Yuga 5098–5099
Holocene calendar 11998
Igbo calendar 998–999
Iranian calendar 1376–1377
Islamic calendar 1418–1419
Japanese calendar Heisei 10
(平成10年)
Javanese calendar 1930–1931
Juche calendar 87
Julian calendar Gregorian minus 13 days
Korean calendar 4331
Minguo calendar ROC 87
民國87年
Nanakshahi calendar 530
Thai solar calendar 2541
Unix time 883612800 – 915148799

1998 (MCMXCVIII) was a common year starting on Thursday (dominical letter D) of the Gregorian calendar, the 1998th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 998th year of the 2nd millennium, the 98th year of the 20th century, and the 9th year of the 1990s decade.

1998 was designated as the International Year of the Ocean.[1]

Events[edit]

January[edit]

New rubles

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April[edit]

Akashi-Kaikyo Bridge

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President Joseph Estrada

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August[edit]

Aug.7: Nairobi Embassy bombing.

September[edit]

Canadian Coast Guard Vessel Henry Hudson searches for Swissair Flight 111 debris

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Date unknown[edit]

Births[edit]

Births
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Deaths[edit]

Main article: Deaths in 1998
Deaths
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Nobel Prizes[edit]

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References[edit]

  1. ^ "1998 INTERNATIONAL YEAR OF THE OCEAN". December 29, 1997. Archived from the original on July 7, 2010. Retrieved February 29, 2016. 
  2. ^ "Inside Indonesia - Digest 86 - Towards a mapping of 'at risk' groups in Indonesia". serve.com. Archived from the original on September 20, 2000. 
  3. ^ "[INDONESIA-L] DIGEST - The May Riot". ohiou.edu. 
  4. ^ "ASIET NetNews Number 20 - June 1-7, 1998". asia-pacific-solidarity.net. 
  5. ^ "Constitutional Change and Democracy in Indonesia". google.com. 
  6. ^ Collins 2002, p. 597.
  7. ^ "BBC NEWS - UK - Flying over the top of the world". 
  8. ^ "The History Of Google – Searching The World" (notes), Matt Jacks, 10 January 2005, webpage: WAH-HGoogle.
  9. ^ "Barzani Jewish Neo-Aramaic". www.endangeredlanguages.com. Retrieved January 23, 2017.