WHAT ALL HAPPENED APRIL TO DECEMBER 1998
Find out what all happened April to December 1998

Eschede train disaster: an ICE high-speed train derails in Lower Saxony, Germany, causing 101 deaths. (3. June 1998)

Eric Rudolph is charged with six bombings including the 1996 Centennial Olympic Park bombing in Atlanta, Georgia. (14. October 1998)

President Bill Clinton is impeached by the United States House of Representatives, becoming the second President of the United States to be impeached. (19. December 1998)

Exxon and Mobil sign a USD$73.7 billion agreement to merge, thus creating ExxonMobil, the world's largest company. (30. November 1998)

The Good Friday Agreement is accepted in a referendum in Northern Ireland with 75% voting yes. (23. May 1998)

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

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

Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian Chairman Yasser Arafat reach a "land for peace" agreement. (23. October 1998)

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

A diplomatic conference adopts the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, establishing a permanent international court to prosecute individuals for genocide, Crimes against humanity, war crimes, and the crime of aggression. (17. July 1998)

The Supreme Court of Canada rules that Quebec cannot legally secede from Canada without the federal government's approval. (20. August 1998)

U.S. embassy bombings: the United States launches cruise missile attacks against alleged al-Qaeda camps in Afghanistan and a suspected chemical plant in Sudan in retaliation for the August 7 bombings of American embassies in Kenya and Tanzania. (20. August 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)

James Byrd, Jr., of Texas was killed by white supremacists who dragged him behind a pickup truck on asphalt pavement. (7. June 1998)

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

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

Nuclear testing: Pakistan responds to a series of nuclear tests by India with five of its own codenamed Chagai-I, prompting the United States, Japan, and other nations to impose economic sanctions. Pakistan celebrates Youm-e-Takbir annually. (28. May 1998)

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

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

A magnitude 6.6 earthquake hits northern Afghanistan, killing up to 5,000. (30. May 1998)