* 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 American Film Institute operated the National Film Theatre in Washington D. C .' s Kennedy Center until 1998.

The Daily of the University of Washington, 1998.

During Selig's terms as Executive Council Chairman ( from 1992 – 1998 ) and Commissioner, new stadiums have opened in Arizona, Atlanta, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Colorado, Detroit, Houston, Milwaukee, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, San Diego, San Francisco, Seattle, Arlington, St. Louis, Washington, D. C., New York City ( Flushing, Queens and the Bronx ), Minneapolis, and Miami.

* Rhapsodies in Black: Art of the Harlem Renaissance, group show, 1998, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D. C.

* Samy Swayd: The Druzes: An Annotated Bibliography, Kirkland, Washington: ISES Publications ( 1998 ).

In August 2007 Newsweek reported that in April 1998 a dozen people from what it called " the denial machine " met at the American Petroleum Institute's Washington headquarters.

Washington, DC: Federal Research Division, Library of Congress, 1998.

* Petranka, James W. ( 1998 ) Salamanders of the United States and Canada, Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press.

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.

In 1998 he received Washington State's highest honor, The Washington Medal of Merit.

He pushed the political status dilemma in Washington, D. C. and sponsored two local non-binding referendums, one in 1993 and another in 1998.

The most well-known building on campus is the Chapel of St. Ignatius, designed by New York architect Steven Holl, born in Bremerton, Washington: the 1997 building won a national Honor Award from the American Institute of Architects in 1998.

From 1973 to 1987 he directed the conservation program at World Wildlife Fund-U. S., and from 1987 to 1998 he served as Assistant Secretary for Environmental and External Affairs for the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D. C., and in 1994 became Counselor to the Secretary for Biodiversity and Environmental Affairs.

" The number of interest groups has mushroomed, with more and more of them operating offices in Washington, D. C., and representing themselves directly to Congress and federal agencies ," says Michael Schudson in his 1998 book The Good Citizen: A History of American Civic Life.

** Washington Quarter 1931 – 1964, 1992 – 1998 ( Proof Only )

** Washington Quarter 1965 – 1974, 1977 – 1998

Washington: Library of Congress, 1976 – 1998.

In Proceedings of The International Emergency Management Society ’ s Fifth Annual Conference ( TIEMS 98 ), May 19 – 22, Washington DC, USA ( 1998 ).

* MV Chinook, a passenger ferry in Washington State built in 1998

* Saint Martin ’ s College Library, Lacey, Washington, 1998

Two teams were added in 1998 ( Detroit and Washington ) and two more in 1999 ( Orlando and Minnesota ), bringing the number of teams in the league up to twelve.

* Sue Magnier – Entrepreneur ( 1997 ), King of Kings ( 1998 ), Rock of Gibraltar ( 2002 ), Footstepsinthesand ( 2005 ), George Washington ( 2006 ), Henrythenavigator ( 2008 ), Camelot ( 2012 )

U. S. troops used flamethrowers on the streets of Washington, D. C. ( mentioned in a December 1998 article in the San Francisco Flier ), as one of several clearance methods used for the surprisingly large amount of snow that fell before the presidential inauguration of John F. Kennedy.