WHAT ALL HAPPENED SEPTEMBER TO DECEMBER 1998
Find out what all happened September to December 1998

Launch of Deep Space 1 comet/asteroid mission (24. October 1998)

Thai Airways Flight 261 crashes near Surat Thani Airport, killing 101. The pilot flying the Thai Airways Airbus A310-300 is thought to have suffered spatial disorientation. (11. December 1998)

The Unity Module, the second module of the International Space Station, is launched. (4. December 1998)

The Gothenburg nightclub fire in Sweden kills 63 and injures 200. (29. October 1998)

A Lignes Aériennes Congolaises Boeing 727 is shot down by rebels in Kindu, Democratic Republic of the Congo, killing 41 people. (10. October 1998)

The Google internet search engine retrospectively claims this as its birthday. (27. September 1998)

Space Shuttle Discovery blasts off on STS-95 with 77-year old John Glenn on board, making him the oldest person to go into space. (29. October 1998)

Iraq disarmament crisis begins: Iraq announces it would no longer cooperate with United Nations weapons inspectors. (31. October 1998)

Vincent van Gogh's Portrait of the Artist Without Beard sells at auction for US$71.5 million. (19. November 1998)

Matthew Shepard, a gay student at the University of Wyoming, is found tied to a fence after being savagely beaten by two young adults in Laramie, Wyoming. (7. October 1998)

With the landmark merger of WorldCom and MCI Communications completed the day prior, the new MCI WorldCom opens its doors for business. (15. September 1998)

An Air China jetliner is hijacked by disgruntled pilot Yuan Bin and flown to Taiwan. (28. October 1998)

Iraq announces its intention to fire upon U.S. and British warplanes that patrol the northern and southern no-fly zones. (26. December 1998)

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. (20. November 1998)

Eighty-one people are killed by armed groups in Algeria. (8. December 1998)

Tony Blair becomes the first Prime Minister of the United Kingdom to address the Oireachtas, the parliament of Ireland. (26. November 1998)

ATSC HDTV broadcasting in the United States is inaugurated with the launch of STS-95 space shuttle mission. (29. October 1998)

Opening ceremony for the 1998 Commonwealth Games in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Malaysia is the first Asian country to host the games. (11. September 1998)

Hurricane Mitch, the second deadliest Atlantic hurricane in history, makes landfall in Honduras. (29. October 1998)

Google is founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin, two students at Stanford University. (4. September 1998)