WHAT HAPPENED IN 1998.
Look what happened the 1998.

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

A US federal judge orders 37 US brokerage houses to pay 1.03 billion USD to cheated NASDAQ investors to compensate for price-fixing. This is the largest civil settlement in United States history. (9. November 1998)

Capital punishment in the United Kingdom, already abolished for murder, is completely abolished for all remaining capital offences. (9. November 1998)

Lewinsky scandal: The United States House of Representatives Judiciary Committee begins impeachment hearings against U.S. President Bill Clinton. (19. November 1998)

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

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

Tony Blair becomes the first Prime Minister of the United Kingdom to address the Oireachtas, the parliament of Ireland. (26. November 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 Unity Module, the second module of the International Space Station, is launched. (4. December 1998)

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

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)

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

Leaders of the Khmer Rouge apologize for the 1970s genocide in Cambodia that claimed over 1 million lives. (29. December 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)