* 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 )

4655 into law on October 31, 1998, which instituted a policy of " regime change " against Iraq, though it explicitly stated it did not provide for direct intervention on the part of American military forces.

* 1998 – Iraq disarmament crisis: Operation Desert Fox – The United States and United Kingdom bomb targets in Iraq.

In 1998, Grand Ayatollah Sistani of Iraq, issued a fatwā prohibiting University of Virginia professor Abdulaziz Sachedina from ever again teaching Islam due in part to Sachedina's writings encouraging acceptance of religious pluralism in the Muslim world.

UNSCOM chief weapons inspector Richard Butler withdrew his team from Iraq in November 1998 because of Iraq's lack of cooperation.

Conservative think-tanks in Washington had for years been urging regime change in Baghdad, but until the Iraq Liberation Act of 1998, official US policy was to simply keep Iraq complying with UN sanctions.

* 1998 – Iraq disarmament crisis begins: Iraq announces it would no longer cooperate with United Nations weapons inspectors.

Iraq suspended the inspections in 1998 after claiming that it was a cover for espionage.

The Central Intelligence Agency supported a variety of covert actions designed to depose Saddam Hussein, while Congress approved the Iraq Liberation Act in 1998 aimed at providing Iraqi opposition groups with increased financial assistance.

Several leading Republicans who would occupy high positions in the George W. Bush administration publicly urged President Clinton in February 1998 to recognize the Iraqi National Congress ( INC ) as the provisional government of Iraq.

In 1998, Syria began a slow rapprochement with Iraq, driven primarily by economic needs.

Western charges of Iraqi resistance to UN access to suspected weapons were the pretext for crises between 1997 and 1998, culminating in intensive U. S. and British missile strikes on Iraq, 16 – 19 December 1998.

In a 1, 200-word essay dated March 1998, from the federal maximum-security prison at Florence, Colo., McVeigh claimed that the terrorist bombing was “ morally equivalent ” to U. S. military actions against Iraq and other foreign lands.

On 29 September 1998, the United States Congress passed the Iraq Liberation Act supporting the efforts of Iraqi opposition groups to remove Saddam Hussein from office.

In 1998, Denis Halliday, a United Nations Humanitarian Coordinator, resigned his post in Iraq, describing the effects of his own organisation's sanctions as genocide.

The group received millions in covert funding in the 1990s, and then about $ 8 million a year in overt funding after the passage of the Iraq Liberation Act in 1998.

In 1998, however, the US Congress authorized $ 97 million in U. S. military aid for Iraqi opposition via the Iraq Liberation Act, intended primarily for INC. ( Katzman, 1998 ).

Allawi has claimed INA remained active in Iraq as of March, 1998.

Neoconservatives are widely known to long have supported the overthrow of Saddam Hussein in Iraq, and on January 26, 1998, the PNAC sent a public letter to then-President Bill Clinton stating:

While deployed to the Gulf region in December 1998, the F-16s from the 522nd Fighter Squadron provided close air support alert, defensive counter air alert and interdiction in Iraq.