WHAT ALL HAPPENED FEBRUARY TO DECEMBER 1998
Find out what all happened February to December 1998

Titanic became the first film to gross over $1 billion worldwide. (1. March 1998)

The Supreme Court of the United States rules that Ellis Island, the historic gateway for millions of immigrants, is mainly in the state of New Jersey, not New York. (26. May 1998)

First radio-frequency identification (RFID) human implantation tested in the United Kingdom. (24. August 1998)

Terry Nichols is sentenced to life in prison for his role in the Oklahoma City bombing. (4. June 1998)

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

First flight of RQ-4 Global Hawk, the first unmanned aerial vehicle certified to file its own flight plans and fly regularly in U.S. civilian airspace. (28. February 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)

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)

Disney's Animal Kingdom opens at Walt Disney World near Orlando, Florida, United States. (22. April 1998)

Jonesboro massacre: Mitchell Johnson and Andrew Golden, aged 11 and 13 respectively, fire upon teachers and students at Westside Middle School in Jonesboro, Arkansas; five people are killed and ten are wounded. (24. March 1998)

President Soeharto of Indonesia resigns following the killing of students from Tri Sakti University earlier that week by security forces and growing mass protests in Jakarta against his ongoing corrupt rule. (21. May 1998)

The European Exchange Rate Mechanism freezes the values of the legacy currencies in the Eurozone, and establishes the value of the euro currency. (31. December 1998)

Second Congo War: Loyalist troops backed by Angolan and Zimbabwean forces repulse the RCD and Rwandan offensive on Kinshasa. (28. August 1998)

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

The first module of the International Space Station, Zarya, is launched. (20. November 1998)

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

Rear Admiral Lillian E. Fishburne becomes the first female African American to be promoted to rear admiral. (1. February 1998)

North Korea reportedly launches Kwangmyŏngsŏng-1, its first satellite. (31. August 1998)

Race riots break out in Jakarta, Indonesia, where shops owned by Indonesians of Chinese descent are looted and women raped. (13. May 1998)

Kosovo War: Serbian police begin the offensive against the Kosovo Liberation Army in Kosovo. (28. February 1998)