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* 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.
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* 1916 – Phil Leeds, American actor ( d. 1998 )
* 1919 – Georgios Mylonas, Greek politician ( d. 1998 )
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* 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 )
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* 1908 – Gene Raymond, American actor ( d. 1998 )
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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 Travelers
A year before the law was passed, Citicorp, a commercial bank holding company, merged with the insurance company Travelers Group in 1998 to form the conglomerate Citigroup, a corporation combining banking, securities and insurance services under a house of brands that included Citibank, Smith Barney, Primerica, and Travelers.
Things culminated in 1998 when Citibank merged with Travelers Insurance creating CitiGroup.
Commentators describe the April 6, 1998, merger announcement between Travelers and Citicorp as the catalyst for the House passing that bill by a single vote ( 214-213 ) on May 13, 1998.
Lane, a former Vice Chairman of Travelers Group who had joined the firm in 1998 as Chief Administrative Officer.
In April 1998, Travelers Group announced an agreement to undertake the $ 76 billion merger between Travelers and Citicorp, and the merger was completed on October 8, 1998.
In April 1998 Travelers Group announced an agreement to undertake a $ 76 billion ($ today ) merger between Travelers and Citicorp, creating Citigroup, which at the time of the merger was the largest single financial services company in the world.
Travelers Express and MoneyGram Payment Systems joined forces in 1998 when Travelers Express ’ parent, Viad, purchased MoneyGram Payment Systems.
In 1998, when playing for the Double-A Arkansas Travelers he led the league with 86 walks and 139 games played.
Eventually Salomon ( NYSE: SB ) was acquired by Travelers Group in 1998, and following the latter's merger with Citicorp that same year, Salomon became part of Citigroup.
However in 1998, Henry Silverman led HFS into what would prove a disastrous merger with CUC International, a direct marketing company that operated Shoppers Advantage and Travelers Advantage ( now part of Affinion Group ).
In 2000, shortly following the 1998 merger of Travelers and Citigroup, Prince was named chief administrative officer of the newly created firm, Citigroup.
* Salomon Brothers, acquired by Travelers Group ( eventually Citi ) in 1998.
In 1998, the Travelers Group merged with Citicorp to form Citigroup.
Under Sanford I. Weill, Willumstad helped to steer the 1998 merger of Travelers Group and Citicorp.
In 1998, Travelers Group and banking giant Citicorp merged creating Citigroup ().
* Northern Arcadia: Foreign Travelers in Scandinavia, 1765-1815 ( 1998 )
1998 and Group
The Angiosperm Phylogeny Group system ( APG ) of 1998 and APG II ( 2003 ) assigned the Alismatales to the monocots, which may be thought of as an unranked clade containing the families listed below.
In 1998 the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group published a phylogeny of flowering plants based on an analysis of DNA sequences from most families of flowering plants.
Chile hosted the second Summit of the Americas in 1998, was the chair of the Rio Group in 2001, hosted the Defense Ministerial of the Americas in 2002, and the APEC summit and related meetings in 2004.
In the 1980s, Colombia broadened its bilateral and multilateral relations, joining the Contadora Group, the Group of Eight ( now the Rio Group ), and the Non-Aligned Movement, which it chaired from 1994 until September 1998.
* 1998: Alibaba Group is established in China.
At the beginning of 1998 the Under Cover Music Group ( UCMG ) took over the rights to use the brand name of the label as well as the trade mark " Harthouse ".
As Area Director of the User Services area, she was a member of the Internet Engineering Steering Group of the IETF from 1990 to March 1998
In 1998, Grammer filed a lawsuit against Internet Entertainment Group, which Grammer claimed had stolen a videotape of him having sex with a woman from his home.
It was introduced in late 1998 and designated a standard for a group of audio and video coding formats and related technology agreed upon by the ISO / IEC Moving Picture Experts Group ( MPEG ) ( ISO / IEC JTC1 / SC29 / WG11 ) under the formal standard ISO / IEC 14496 – Coding of audio-visual objects.
RTSP was developed by the Multiparty Multimedia Session Control Working Group ( MMUSIC WG ) of the Internet Engineering Task Force ( IETF ) and published as RFC 2326 in 1998.
State Street Bank v. Signature Financial Group is the landmark case in which the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit ruled ( July 23, 1998 ) that a computer algorithm can be patented to the extent that it produces " a useful, concrete and tangible result ".
In 1998, PolyGram was in turn sold to Seagram and merged into what is now one of the Big Four record labels, the Universal Music Group, the company that today holds the rights to the entire ABBA back catalogue.
SVG was developed by the W3C SVG Working Group starting in 1998, after Macromedia and Microsoft introduced VML whereas Adobe Systems and Sun Microsystems submitted a competing format known as PGML.
After World War II, Newforge Foods, part of the Fitch Lovell group, were awarded the license to produce the product in the UK ( doing so at its Gateacre factory, Liverpool ), where it stayed until production switched to the Danish Crown Group ( owners of the Tulip Food Company ) in 1998, forcing the closure of the Liverpool factory and the loss of 140 jobs.
Beginning in 1998, a joint working group known as the Austin Group began to develop the combined standard that would be known as the Single UNIX Specification Version 3 and as POSIX: 2001 ( formally: IEEE Std 1003. 1-2001 ).
A 1998 study by South Africa's Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation & the Khulumani Support Group, which surveyed several hundred victims of human-rights abuse during the Apartheid era, found that most felt that the TRC had failed to achieve reconciliation between the black and white communities.
1998 also saw the sale of Rolls-Royce Motors and Cosworth to Volkswagen Group for 430 million pounds beating out BMW's offer of 340 million pounds.
The Open Group released X11R6. 4 in early 1998.
After XFree86 seemed poised to fork, the Open Group relicensed X11R6. 4 under the traditional license in September 1998.
Westport: Greenwood Publishing Group, 1998, ISBN 0-275-96370-5
New York: Abbeville Publishing Group ( Abbeville Press, Inc .), 1998 ( ISBN 0-7892-0459-2 ).
The brand was sold to Chrysler Corporation in 1928, passed through the short-lived DaimlerChrysler merger of 1998 – 2007 as part of the Chrysler Group, was a part of Chrysler LLC owned by Cerberus Capital Management, a private equity investment firm, and is now a part of the Chrysler Group LLC, which has an alliance with Fiat.
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