* Guide to the Elements – Revised Edition, Albert Stwertka, ( Oxford University Press ; 1998 ) ISBN 0-19-508083-1

* 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 – An Afghan cargo plane crashes into a mountain in southwest Pakistan killing more than 50 people.

* 1998 – Nuclear Testing: Pakistan conducts an underground test in the Kharan Desert.

* 1998 – Nuclear testing: Pakistan responds to a series of nuclear tests by India with five of its own codenamed Chagai-I, prompting the United States, Japan, and other nations to impose economic sanctions.

Prior to that, he was the 13th Chief of Army Staff from October 1998 till November 2007, and was also the tenth Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee of Pakistan Armed Forces from 1998 until 2001.

Commissioned in Pakistan Army in 1964, Musharraf rose to national prominence after being appointed to the four-star assignments in October 1998 by then-Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif.

PLAN task groups also paid visits to Indonesia in 1995 ; North Korea in 1997 ; New Zealand, Australia, and the Philippines in 1998 ; Malaysia, Tanzania, South Africa, the United States, and Canada in 2000 ; and India, Pakistan, France, Italy, Germany, Britain, Hong Kong, Australia, and New Zealand in 2001.

A protest of RAWA in Peshawar, Pakistan on April 28, 1998

He took four wickets in a Second Test in Lahore that sealed the series 2-0, the last time Australia would win a Test in Pakistan until Mark Taylor's men in 1998, 37 years later.

After the reactor went critical in April 1998, Mahmood in an interview had said :" this reactor ( which can produce enough plutonium for two to three nuclear weapons per year ) Pakistan had " acquired the capability to produce.

In 1998, following the country's nuclear tests ( See Chagai-I and Chagai-II ), Mehmood was honored and awarded the civilian decoration, the Sitara-e-Imtiaz, in a colourful ceremony by the Prime Minister of Pakistan, Nawaz Sharif.

* Gold medal, Pakistan Academy of Sciences ( 1998 )

In 1998, Iran accused Pakistan of sending its air force to bomb Mazar-i-Sharif in support of Taliban forces and directly accused Pakistani troops for " war crimes at Bamiyan ".

In the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province of Pakistan, Pashto speakers constitute above 73 percent of the population as of 1998.

* Ahmed, Feroz ( 1998 ) Ethnicity and politics in Pakistan.

In the second half of the 1990s, Telenor became involved in mobile operations in a number of countries: Russia ( 1994 ), Bangladesh, Greece, Ireland, Germany and Austria ( 1997 ), Ukraine ( 1998 ), Malaysia ( 1999 ), Denmark and Thailand ( 2000 ), Hungary ( 2002 ), Montenegro ( 2004 ), Pakistan ( 2004 ), Slovakia, Czech Republic, Serbia ( 2006 ).

Later in 1998, Taylor led his team to Pakistan, where a convincing win in the First Test at Rawalpindi by an innings and 99 runs was Australia's first Test victory in the country for 39 years.

Non-signatories India and Pakistan last tested nuclear weapons in 1998.

In late 1998 and early 1999, Vajpayee began a push for a full-scale diplomatic peace process with Pakistan.

In April 1998, Pakistan flight-tested the Ghauri MRBM, which is based on North Korea's Nodong missile.

* Chagai-I: ( Youm-e-Takbir ) Within half a month of Pokhran-II, on 28 May 1998 Pakistan detonated 5 nuclear devices to reciprocate India in the nuclear arms race.

* Chagai-II: Two days later, on 30 May 1998, Pakistan detonated a 6th nuclear device completing its own series of underground tests with this being the last test the two nations have carried out to date.

* 28 May ( since 1998 ) as Youm-e-Takbir ( The day of Greatness ) in Pakistan.

Expansion led to the opening of the Kuala Lumpur city campus in 1997, followed by campuses in Karachi, Pakistan ( 1998 ), Colombo, Sri Lanka ( 2000 ), Lahore, Pakistan ( 2000 ), Panipat, India ( 2001 ) and Perth, Australia ( 2004 ).