However, the subsequent period saw the departure of manager van Gaal along with an exodus of many key players including Clarence Seedorf in 1995 ; Edgar Davids, Michael Reiziger, Finidi George, and Nwankwo Kanu in 1996 ; Patrick Kluivert, Marc Overmars, and Winston Bogarde in 1997 ; Ronald de Boer and Frank de Boer in 1998 ; and Edwin van der Sar and Jari Litmanen in 1999.

* On March 7, 1998, Daniel Rudolph, the elder brother of the 1996 Olympics bomber Eric Robert Rudolph, videotaped himself cutting off one of his own hands with an electric saw to " send a message to the FBI and the media.

1998 saw Earnhardt win the Daytona 500 after not winning in the previous 19 attempts.

These included an explosives factory, railway workshops, Fiat Motor works, various food processing plants, electrical engineering workshops, ironworks, water plants, agricultural machinery factories, breweries, distilleries, biscuit factories, a tobacco factory, tanneries, bakeries, lime, brick and cement works, Esparto grass industry, mechanical saw mills, and the Petrolibya Society ( Trye 1998 ).

1998 then saw a further increase of activity, with the signing of Salako, and the release of albums for all three of their signed bands-most notably Belle & Sebastian's ' The Boy With The Arab Strap ', which enjoyed similar approval from reviewers and fans to the band's previous release.

The 1997 – 98 campaign saw Newcastle finish in only 13th place and, despite Dalglish achieving some notable successes during the season ( including a 3 – 2 UEFA Champions League win over Barcelona and an FA Cup final appearance against Arsenal ), he was sacked by Freddie Shepherd after two draws in the opening two games of the subsequent 1998 – 1999 season, and replaced by former Chelsea manager Ruud Gullit.

" Richard Holmes, in 1998, declared the importance of the poem's Preface while describing the reception of the 1816 volume of poems: " However, no contemporary critic saw the larger possible significance of Coleridge's Preface to ' Kubla Khan ', though it eventually became one of the most celebrated, and disputed, accounts of poetic composition ever written.

It saw the light of day on CD in 1998 on Sheet Music: A Collection of Her Favorite Love Songs.

The year 2011 saw over 2, 000 incidents of FARC activity, which was the highest figure recorded since 1998.

More recently, in 1980 and 1987, hurricanes devastated banana and coconut plantations ; 1998 and 1999 also saw very active hurricane seasons, with Hurricane Lenny in 1999 causing extensive damage to the west coast of the island.

Actor John Malkovich first saw the film at the 1998 Cairo International Film Festival and subsequently adopted the film as a kind of post-facto executive producer ( the reissued film's titles read " John Malkovich Presents ").

" When it finally saw official release in 1998, critic Richie Unterberger declared the record " an important document of rock history.

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.

) In spite of the LP's success, soon after its release a contractual dispute with their label, Virgin Records, saw XTC go " on strike " from 1992 through 1998, which finally resulted in the termination of their contract.

A re-instituted ceasefire later followed as part of the negotiations strategy, which saw teams from the British and Irish governments, the Ulster Unionist Party, the SDLP, Sinn Féin and representatives of loyalist paramilitary organizations, under the chairmanship of former United States Senator George Mitchell, produced the Belfast Agreement ( also called the Good Friday Agreement as it was signed on Good Friday, 1998 ).

According to Lönnroth ( 1998 ) in the 19th century and early 20th century, Swedish historians saw their writing in terms of literature and story telling, rather than analysis and interpretation.

1998 saw the beginning of a new record label partnership, and in June of that year Psyche released their eighth official album on the StrangeWays label out of Hamburg, Germany.

Published by Square in 1991 on the original Game Boy, it later saw a North American re-release by Sunsoft in April 1998.

Despite problems with drought, the year 1998 saw a small recovery in GDP.

In February 1998, a complex transaction saw WorldCom purchase online pioneer CompuServe from its parent company H & R Block.

1998 saw Freeman taking a break from running due to injury.

In fact, the first time anyone connected with the Lightning or the NHL even saw Okubo was in the spring of 1998.

This period also saw a number of side projects, including the live jazz performances of 1996's How Long Has This Been Going On, from the same year Tell Me Something: The Songs of Mose Allison, and 2000's The Skiffle Sessions – Live in Belfast 1998, all of which found Morrison paying tribute to his early musical influences.

At the end of 2002 Rosenborg saw the retirement of Nils Arne Eggen after many successful years, during which he was only relieved once, in the 1998 season, by his assistant, Trond Sollied.

1998 also saw the release of Billboard Dad, the first of a new string of direct-to-video films starring the Olsens.

Due to Apple's moves and the mounting debt of Be Inc., BeOS was soon ported to the Intel x86 platform with its R3 release in March 1998.

The Big Lebowski ( 1998 ) was a flop on its initial release, yet became a cult classic and has been called " the first cult film of the Internet era.

A full director's cut is shown on original 1998 release of The Wiggles ' Toot Toot video.

The internal white paper by Frank Hecker that led to the release of the Mozilla ( then Netscape ) source code in 1998 cited The Cathedral and the Bazaar as " independent validation " of ideas proposed by Eric Hahn and Jamie Zawinski.

The American version was released on VHS by GoodTimes Entertainment ( which acquired the license of some of Universal's film catalogue ) in 1987, and then on DVD to commemorate the 35th anniversary of the film's U. S release in 1998.

Programming on GnuCash began in 1997, and its first stable release was in 1998.

* The American Heavy Metal band Virgin Steele take influence from the poem for their 1998 release Invictus ( album ).

* 1998 – During a historic visit to Cuba, Pope John Paul II demands the release of political prisoners and political reforms while condemning US attempts to isolate the country.

The release of the 266 MHz version of this chip was not until the second quarter of 1998 when AMD was able to move to the 0. 25 micrometre manufacturing process.

* First release: January 6, 1998

The first release was based on Red Hat Linux ( version 5. 1 ) and K Desktop Environment 1 in July 1998.

* Version 3. 21: production release 1998, from www. mysql. com

In 1998, Dixit had only one release Wajood opposite Nana Patekar and Mukul Dev.

Wertico played drums on Paul Winter's 1990 Grammy-nominated release, " Earth: Voices Of A Planet "; he has also played on and produced a number of CDs for artists including vocalist Kurt Elling's 1995 Grammy-nominated release " Close Your Eyes ", Elling's 1997 Grammy-nominated release " The Messenger ", Elling's 1998 Grammy-nominated release " This Time It's Love " and Elling's 2003 Grammy-nominated release " Man In The Air.

There were plans in 2005 for paramilitary " on the runs " to receive pardons as part of the Northern Ireland peace process, to supplement the 1998 early release of serving prisoners after the Good Friday Agreement.

As a result, Criterion's 1998 DVD release of the film created much collector's interest.

An early example of this type of fighting game was the 1998 arcade release Marvel vs. Capcom: Clash of Super Heroes, featuring comic book superheroes as well as Street Fighter characters.

On October 27, 1998, Microsoft announced that the name of the final version of the operating system would be Windows 2000, a name which referred to its projected release date.