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* 1998 – In Birmingham, Alabama, a bomb explodes at an abortion clinic, killing one and severely wounding another.
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* Guide to the Elements – Revised Edition, Albert Stwertka, ( Oxford University Press ; 1998 ) ISBN 0-19-508083-1
* 1998 – Pakistan tests medium-range missiles capable of reaching India.
* 1998 – Travelers Group announces an agreement to undertake the $ 76 billion merger between Travelers and Citicorp, and the merger is completed on October 8, of that year, forming Citibank.
* 1916 – Phil Leeds, American actor ( d. 1998 )
* 1919 – Georgios Mylonas, Greek politician ( d. 1998 )
* 1998 – Lily Jackson, American actress
* 1998 – Peyton List, American actress
* 1998 – Spencer List, American actor
* 1998 – An earthquake in Slovenia, measuring 5. 6 on the Richter scale occurs near the town of Bovec.
* 1900 – David Manners, Canadian-American actor ( d. 1998 )
* 1902 – Theodore Schultz, American economist, Nobel laureate ( d. 1998 )
* 1921 – Leo Penn, American director ( d. 1998 )
* 1943 – Jon Postel, American computer scientist ( d. 1998 )
* 1998 – Jack Scanlon, English actor
* 1908 – Gene Raymond, American actor ( d. 1998 )
* 1913 – Fred Davis, English snooker player ( d. 1998 )
Since the 1998 – 99 Ashes series, a Waterford Crystal representation of the Ashes urn has been presented to the winners of an Ashes series as the official trophy of that series.
As a compromise, the MCC commissioned a trophy in the form of a larger replica of the urn in Waterford Crystal to award to the winning team of each series from 1998 – 99.
After re-establishing its credibility in 1989, Australia underlined its superiority with victories in the 1990 – 91, 1993, 1994 – 95, 1997, 1998 – 99, 2001 and 2002 – 03 series, all by convincing margins.
* 1922 – Geoffrey Dutton, Australian author and historian ( d. 1998 )
* 1998 – Gene Evans, American actor ( b. 1922 )
* 1998 – Rozz Williams, American musician ( Christian Death, Shadow Project, and Premature Ejaculation ) ( b. 1963 )
1998 and Birmingham
A new factory opened in Tyseley, Birmingham, England around 1928 and was subsequently demolished in 1998.
* 81st 1998 Birmingham, United Kingdom
After outrage from Birmingham residents ( who felt that the word ' Blast ' may have been misconstrued as a reference to the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing in 1963, as well as Eric Rudolph's 1998 bombing of a local abortion clinic ), the XFL changed the name of the Birmingham team to the more benign " Birmingham Thunderbolts ".
In The Trial of Enoch Powell, a Channel 4 television broadcast in April 1998, on the thirtieth anniversary of his Birmingham speech ( and two months after his death ), 64 % of the studio audience voted that Powell was not a racist.
In 1998 the Birmingham Pledge, written by local attorney James Rotch, was introduced at the Martin Luther King Unity Breakfast.
The greater Birmingham area has been hit by two F5 tornadoes ; one in Birmingham's northern suburbs in 1977, and second in the western suburbs in 1998.
In 1998 Telewest announced a merger with General Cable, and acquired the outstanding interest in Birmingham Cable, adding a further 1. 7 million franchise homes in Yorkshire, west London and Birmingham.
Large scale International anti-capitalist protests are widely seen as dawning between 1998 and 2000 with events such as the protests at the Birmingham 1998 G8, J18, the Seattle 1999 WTO protests and the Prague 2000 IMF protests.
This campaign, involving, for example, demonstrations at the 1998 G8 meeting in Birmingham, was successful in pushing debt relief onto the agenda of Western governments and international organizations such as the International Monetary Fund and World Bank.
A second lavish centenary exhibit — this time marking the 100th anniversary of Burne-Jones's death — was held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York in 1998, before traveling to the Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery and the Musée d ' Orsay, Paris.
In 1998, Selfridges voiced reservations about opening a store in Birmingham due to restrictions on doing so and considered opening a store in Glasgow instead.
Harrington returned to Eurovision in 1998, backing Dawn Martin when she performed " Is Always Over Now " at the contest in Birmingham.
Other exhibitions include a retrospective at Tate Liverpool in 1997, Dulwich Picture Gallery in 1998, Tate Britain in 2005 and Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery in 2007.
The Eurovision Song Contest 1998 was the 43rd Eurovision Song Contest and was held on 9 May 1998 at the National Indoor Arena in Birmingham, England.
At the 26th International Congress of Actuaries, held in Birmingham on 7-12 June 1998, the General Assembly of the International Actuarial Association restructured itself.
Rudolph has also confessed to the bombings of an abortion clinic in the Atlanta suburb of Sandy Springs on January 16, 1997 ; the Otherside Lounge of Atlanta lesbian bar on February 21, 1997, injuring five ; and an abortion clinic in Birmingham, Alabama on January 29, 1998, killing Birmingham police officer and part-time clinic security guard Robert Sanderson, and critically injuring nurse Emily Lyons.
Allegedly, the league had originally planned to name the team the Blast, but changed the name at the last minute when it was considered to invoke images of the 1963 bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church and of the 1998 bombing of a local abortion clinic, two tragic events in Birmingham history.
She returned to the West End theatre in April 2006 ( for the first time since 1998 ) playing the murderess Roxie Hart in the long-running West End musical Chicago and again in Dec 2007-Feb 2008 in the same role, also in 2006-7 she appeared in the Birmingham and Plymouth tours of Guys and Dolls playing Miss Adelaide Adams, a dance hall hostess.
1998 and Alabama
* 1919 – George Wallace, American politician, 45th Governor of Alabama ( d. 1998 )
In May 1998, three white supremacists were arrested for allegedly planning a nationwide campaign of assassinations and bombings targeting " Morris Dees, an undisclosed federal judge in Illinois, a black radio-show host in Missouri, Dees's Southern Poverty Law Center in Alabama, the Simon Wiesenthal Center in Los Angeles, and the Anti-Defamation League in New York.
* August 25 – George Wallace, Governor of Alabama ( d. 1998 )
Alabama Baptists: Southern Baptists in the Heart of Dixie ( 1998 )
The first Alabama Grill is located in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee, a second opened up in Myrtle beach in 1998.
* Julio Iglesias and Cybill Shepherd present the AMA Favorite Country Band, Duo, or Group award to Alabama in 1998.
* Mark Williams and Daniel T. Elliott, eds., A World Engraved: Archaelogy of the Swift Creek Culture ( Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1998 ).
* George Wallace ( 1919 – 1998 )-Governor of Alabama and U. S. President candidate
It was added to the Alabama Register of Landmarks and Heritage on November 2, 1990 and the National Register of Historic Places on February 20, 1998.
File: Thornhill, State Road 21, Talladega vicinity ( Talladega County, Alabama ). jpg | Thornhill was added to the National Register of Historic Places on February 20, 1998.
Hurricane Georges gave Purvis 5 – 7 inches of precipitation in 1998, and also some wind before curving back over Alabama.
In 1998, snake-handling evangelist John Wayne " Punkin " Brown died after being bitten by a timber rattler at the Rock House Holiness Church in rural northeastern Alabama.
Some higher-profile cases include the Waco Siege, Ruby Ridge, the capture of the suspected masterminds of the 1998 bombings of the US embassies in Africa, and the hostage rescue operations of prison guards at Talladega, Alabama, and St. Martinville, Louisiana.
Rudolph was first identified as a suspect in the Alabama bombing by the Department of Justice on February 14, 1998.
George Corley Wallace Jr. ( August 25, 1919 – September 13, 1998 ) was an American politician and the 45th governor of Alabama, having served four nonconsecutive terms: 1963 – 1967, 1971 – 1979 and 1983 – 1987.
The only favored teams to have won the Music City Bowl are Virginia Tech (− 5 ) over Alabama in the first Music City Bowl in 1998, Auburn (− 3 ) over Wisconsin in 2003, Kentucky (− 7 ) over Florida State in 2007, and Mississippi State (- 6. 5 ) over Wake Forest in 2011.
The most lopsided loss was Virginia Tech's 38 – 7 win over Alabama in 1998.
United States Senate election in Alabama, 1998:
* Modern and Contemporary Poetics, Editor, with Hank Lazer, of a book series from the University of Alabama Press ( 1998 — )
* Alabama Angels ( 1996 – 1998 )
Coretta Scott King was the third of four children born to Obadiah " Obe " Scott ( 1899 – 1998 ) and Bernice McMurray Scott ( 1904 – 1996 ) in Marion, Alabama.
Grand Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve-maritime slash pine Pinus elliottii savanna on the Mississippi and Alabama state line near Bayou Heron ( 1998 )
Overall, damage in Alabama amounted to $ 125 million ( 1998 USD, $ 164 million 2009 USD ).
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