* 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 )

On 15 August 1998, four months after the signing of the Good Friday Agreement, the Real IRA exploded a car bomb in Omagh, County Tyrone, killing 31 people and injuring 220, from many communities.

It is a dramatisation of the 1998 Omagh bombing and its aftermath.

Omagh came into the international focus of the media on 15 August 1998, when the Real Irish Republican Army exploded a car bomb in the town centre.

The Omagh bombing () was a car bomb attack carried out by the Real Irish Republican Army ( RIRA ), a splinter group of former Provisional Irish Republican Army members opposed to the Good Friday Agreement, on Saturday 15 August 1998, in Omagh, County Tyrone, Northern Ireland.

* Dissident Irish Republicans in Northern Ireland used car bombs for decades, the deadliest attack beind the Omagh bombing of 1998.

In June 2009, McKevitt was one of four men found by a civil court to be liable for the 1998 Omagh bombing in a case taken by relatives of the victims.

The Corrs, along with Sinéad O ' Connor, Van Morrison, Boyzone, U2 and Enya held a charity concert in 1998, to raise money for the victims of the Omagh bombing in Northern Ireland.

* Saturday 15 August 1998 Omagh bombing by the Real IRA resulted in 29 deaths and hundreds of injuries.

Two weeks before the Omagh bombing, on August 1 1998, a second car bomb planted by the Real IRA exploded in Banbridge town centre.

Greengrass co-wrote the screenplay for Omagh, which depicted the 1998 bombing of Omagh, and directed The Murder of Stephen Lawrence ( 1999 ), which told the story of Stephen Lawrence, a black youth whose murder was not properly investigated by the Metropolitan Police and his mother's investigations, which led to accusations about institutional racism in the police.

His niece Esther Gibson was one of the 29 victims killed in the 1998 Omagh bombing.

In August 1998, Turner sang the song " Broken Things " ( originally released by American Julie Miller ) to crowded streets at the memorial service for the victims of the Omagh bombing.

The administration then launched a four-day bombing campaign named Operation Desert Fox, lasting from December 16 to December 19, 1998.

* 1998 – Oklahoma City bombing: Michael Fortier is sentenced to 12 years in prison and fined $ 200, 000 for failing to warn authorities about the terrorist plot.

* 1998 – Eric Robert Rudolph is charged with six bombings including the 1996 Centennial Olympic Park bombing in Atlanta, Georgia.

The most prominent attack during this time was the bombing on 25 August 1998 of the Cape Town Planet Hollywood.

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.

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 ".

The December 1998 bombing of Iraq ( code-named Operation Desert Fox ) was a major four-day bombing campaign on Iraqi targets from December 16 – 19, 1998 by the United States and United Kingdom.

The bombing campaign had been anticipated since February 1998 and incurred wide-ranging criticism and support, at home and abroad.

Rudolph was first identified as a suspect in the Alabama bombing by the Department of Justice on February 14, 1998.

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.

Bin Laden and his al Qaeda group were charged with the bombing of the United States embassies in Nairobi and Dar Es Salaam in 1998, and in August 1998 the United States launched a cruise missile attack against bin Laden's terrorist camp in Afghanistan.

McCarthy was against the bombing of the factory in 1998, and had written a formal letter of protest to President Clinton.

Thomas Joscelyn quotes Daniel Benjamin, a former NSC staffer: " The report of the 9 / 11 Commission notes that the National Security staff reviewed the intelligence in April 2000 and concluded that the CIA's assessment of its intelligence on bin Laden and al-Shifa had been valid ; the memo to Clinton on this was cosigned by Richard Clarke and Mary McCarthy, the NSC senior director for intelligence programs, who opposed the bombing of al-Shifa in 1998.

* ( 1998 ) ' Proud terrorist ' gets life for Trade Center bombing CNN