1998

1998 (MCMXCVIII) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1998th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 998th year of the 2nd millennium, the 98th year of the 20th century, and the 9th year of the 1990s decade.

New rubles

Lunar Prospector

Akashi Kaikyō Bridge

On May 21st, Suharto resigns its post as President of Indonesia, ending his 32-year New Order dictatorship in Indonesia.

President Joseph Estrada

Aug. 7: Nairobi Embassy bombing.

Canadian Coast Guard Vessel Henry Hudson searches for Swissair Flight 111 debris

STS-88 maneuvering towards the Zarya module of the International Space Station

Éder Militão

Ariel Winter

Khalid

Jayson Tatum

Paola Andino

Peyton List

Elle Fanning

Markelle Fultz

MrBeast

Houssem Aouar

Jaden Smith

Maya Hawke

Shai Gilgeous-Alexander

lil skies

Shawn Mendes

Stefanos Tsitsipas

China Anne McClain

Trae Young

Trent Alexander-Arnold

Sofia Kenin

Martin Ødegaard

Kylian Mbappe

Sonny Bono

Vladimir Prelog

Halldór Laxness

George H. Hitchings

Lloyd Bridges

Benjamin Spock

Pol Pot

Octavio Paz

Konstantinos Karamanlis

Frank Sinatra

Sōsuke Uno

Barry Goldwater

Maureen O'Sullivan

Alan Shepard

Todor Zhivkov

E. G. Marshall

Frederick Reines

Akira Kurosawa

Florence Griffith Joyner

Gene Autry

Roddy McDowall

Jean Marais

Stokely Carmichael

Esther Rolle

Irene Hervey

Alan Hodgkin