* 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 )

The Big Lebowski received its world premiere at the 1998 Sundance Film Festival on January 18, 1998 at the 1, 300 capacity Eccles Theater.

The low-budget, $ 60, 000 production, starring Sean Gullette, was sold to Artisan Entertainment for $ 1 million, and grossed over $ 3 million ; Aronofsky won the Directing Award at the 1998 Sundance Film Festival and an Independent Spirit Award for best first screenplay.

Producing the film with an initial budget of $ 60, 000, Aronofsky premiered Pi at the 1998 Sundance Film Festival, where he won the Best Director award.

It is Aronofsky's directorial debut, and earned him the Directing Award at the 1998 Sundance Film Festival, the Independent Spirit Award for Best First Screenplay and the Gotham Open Palm Award.

Critic Joe Balthai wrote she was " the darling of the 1998 Sundance Film Festival " and Internet movie writer Harry Knowles said she was the " discovery of the fest ", but the film was not commercially released in the U. S. and went direct-to-video.

While visiting Redford's " Sundance " home in Utah, Barnicle was asked to write a column in the Boston Globe, and his column ran for 24 years between 1973 and 1998.

The first documentary film made on the subject of the Kindertransport was " My Knees Were Jumping: Remembering the Kindertransports " which was shown, and nominated for the Grand Jury Prize, at the Sundance Film Festival in 1996 and released theatrically in 1998.

Polenzani has performed in Lilith Fair in 1998, and the Sundance Film Festival in 1999.

* 1992: Sean Dugan, actor, Oz ( TV series ) 1998 – 2003 ; Sundance Film Festival movie Overnight Sensation

Justin Burnett scored his first feature film " Possums ( film )" which was featured in 1998 at the Sundance Film Festival.

The film premiered at the 1998 Sundance Film Festival and was also screened at the Cannes Film Festival and the Chicago Underground Film Festival.

* Tomorrow Night ( 1998 )-Man Caught in Rain ( Director: Louis CK, 1998 Sundance selection )

Frat House premiered at the 1998 Sundance Film Festival and won the Grand Jury Prize for documentary features.

Frat House won two Sundance Film Festival awards in 1998, but has been attacked for containing sequences that were staged for the cameras.

She also served on the dramatic film jury at the 1998 Sundance Film Festival.

The Nancy Lee and Perry R. Bass Performance Hall in Fort Worth, Texas is located in downtown Fort Worth near Sundance Square, occupies a whole city block, and was opened in 1998.

The drama about a closeted gay construction worker in New York City was nominated for the Grand Jury Prize at the 1998 Sundance Film Festival and received the Festival's Cinematography award for the camera work of Declan Quinn ( Leaving Las Vegas, Vanya on 42nd Street, Kama Sutra: A Tale of Love ).

At the January 1998 Sundance Film Festival, the film was nominated for the Grand Jury Prize and Declan Quinn won the Cinematography Award.

Additional credits include 2x4, ( which won him the Cinematography Award at the 1998 Sundance Film Festival ), Vanya on 42nd Street, Leaving Las Vegas, One True Thing, In America, Cold Creek Manor, The Lucky Ones, Rachel Getting Married, The Private Lives of Pippa Lee and The Reluctant Fundamentalist ( 2012 ).

In 1998 he won some cult and critical acclaim for his film Blood, Guts, Bullets and Octane which premiered in September 1997 at the New York Independent Feature Film Market and later at the 1998 Sundance Film Festival.