Date: February 16, 1998
Race riots break out in Jakarta, Indonesia, where shops owned by Indonesians of Chinese descent are looted and women raped. Date: May 13, 1998 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on May 13 📅 Events on this day in 1998 📅 On This Day (Today) More events from 1998Thai Airways Flight 261 Crash…
In Clinton v. City of New York, the United States Supreme Court decides that the Line Item Veto Act of 1996 is unconstitutional. Date: June 25, 1998 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on June 25 📅 Events on this day in 1998 📅 On This Day (Today) More events from 1998Unabomber Theodore…
The Google internet search engine retroactively claims this date as its birthday. Date: September 27, 1998 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on September 27 📅 Events on this day in 1998 📅 On This Day (Today) More events from 1998Cubana Flight 389 Crash Kills 80 in Quito August 29, 1998Sidi-Hamed Massacre Kills…
The 6.5 Mw Afghanistan earthquake shook the Takhar Province of northern Afghanistan with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VII (Very strong), killing around 4,000–4,500. Date: May 30, 1998 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on May 30 📅 Events on this day in 1998 📅 On This Day (Today) More events from 1998Gothenburg…
Data sent from the Galileo spacecraft indicates that Jupiter's moon Europa has a liquid ocean under a thick crust of ice. Date: March 2, 1998 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on March 2 📅 Events on this day in 1998 📅 On This Day (Today) More events from 1998First Computer-Assisted Bone Segment…
American figure skater Tara Lipinski, at the age of 15, becomes the youngest Olympic figure skating gold-medalist at the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano, Japan. Date: February 20, 1998 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on February 20 📅 Events on this day in 1998 📅 On This Day (Today) More events from…