* 1998 – Lewinsky scandal: Matt Drudge breaks the story of the Bill Clinton-Monica Lewinsky affair on his website The Drudge Report.

News of the scandal first broke on January 17, 1998, on the Drudge Report, which reported that Newsweek editors were sitting on a story by investigative reporter Michael Isikoff exposing the affair.

From June 1998 to November 1999, Drudge hosted a Saturday night television show called Drudge on the Fox News Channel.

In 1998, Drudge said that his politics are " libertarian except for drugs and abortion ".

* Archives of the Drudge Report at The Internet Archive ( less comprehensive than DrudgeReportArchives. com, but dates back to Dec. 1998 )

* April 1998 Blumenthal v. AOL ( part of the case against Drudge and AOL ) held that the CDA protects AOL for Drudge's writing that Blumenthal, an assistant to the US President, had a spousal abuse background ( retracted in two days ) even though it paid Drudge US $ 3, 000 a month for his columns, had editorial control and might well have been liable if it was not an online publication.

The president was asked to give a deposition, and accusations that he lied about an affair under oath first made national headlines on January 17, 1998, when the story was picked up by the conservative-right e-mail newsletter The Drudge Report.

When conservative news aggregator Matt Drudge failed to register drudge. com for his news and gossip website Drudge Report, Cadenhead registered drudge. com in 1998 and started the Drudge Retort as a liberal alternative to the right-leaning Drudge Report, and as " a send-up of Mr. Drudge's breathless style ".

Before 1998, the United Kingdom profile contained a sentence that asserted the UK had gained independence on 1 January 1801.

In 1998, the Eritrean Church gained its autocephelacy from the Coptic Orthodox Church when its first Patriarch was enthroned by Pope Shenouda III of Alexandria.

Between 1998 and 2004 IQ declined by about the same amount as it gained between 1989 and 1998.

In 1977, Rau became Chairman of the North Rhine-Westphalia SPD, and in 1978 Minister President of the state, were he remained until 1998, with four successful elections for the SPD, which became strongest party in the Landtag each time and gained an absolute majority three times, in 1980, 1985, 1990 and finally 1995.

Girl " in 1993 and gained further recognition as a Victoria's Secret Angel from 1998 to 2000 and as a spokesperson for cosmetics company L ' Oreal.

Judging for ice dancing has been more controversial than other figure skating disciplines in the Olympics, and this gained considerable negative publicity at the 1998 Winter Olympic Games in Nagano, Japan.

She gained critical acclaim for her performances in The Object of My Affection ( 1998 ), a comedy-drama about a woman who falls for a gay man ( played by Paul Rudd ), and in the low-budget 2002 film The Good Girl, playing an unglamorous cashier in a small town.

In 1998, use of the term " concentration camps " gained greater credibility prior to the opening of an exhibit about the American camps at Ellis Island.

He competed for the presidency of the LDP in September 1995 and July 1998, but he gained little support losing decisively to Ryutaro Hashimoto and then Keizō Obuchi, both of whom had broader bases of support within the party.

From late 1998 – 2003, The Sedán Clásico was discontinued and the Sedán City lost its prefix and gained disc brakes, automatic seat belts and optional metallic colors.

In the 1998 election the Social Democrats gained even fewer votes than in the 1991 election, when they got voted out of office.

It gained more than 22 percent of the statewide vote translating to 11 of 89 seats in Queensland's unicameral legislative assembly at the 1998 state election.

These historic buildings gained for the city the title of World Heritage Site, awarded by the UNESCO in 1998.

After its license expired in 1998, Gladstone ceased publishing new material, and there were no more Disney comics in America ( except for occasional graphic novels of the movies put out by Dark Horse Comics ), until 2003, when Gemstone Publishing gained the publishing rights.

The band gained attention with their 1998 release www. pitchshifter. com for its fusion of electronic music like drum ' n bass with metal and rock, which has been compared with other electronic groups like The Prodigy.

Murray gained additional critical acclaim later in his career, starring in Lost in Translation ( 2003 ), that earned him an Academy Award for Best Actor nomination, and a series of films directed by Wes Anderson, including Rushmore ( 1998 ), The Royal Tenenbaums ( 2001 ), The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou ( 2004 ) and Moonrise Kingdom ( 2012 ).

After the fall of the Suharto regime in 1998, both men returned to Indonesia where JI gained a terrorist edge when one of its founders, the late Abdullah Sungkar, established contact with Osama Bin Laden's al-Qaeda network.

Tanker aircraft returned to Beale in 1998 when the 940th Air Refueling Wing ( 940 ARW ), an Air Force Reserve Command ( AFRC ) unit operationally gained by AMC, transferred to Beale with its KC-135R aircraft following the closure of its former home station, Mather AFB, California because of Base Realignment and Closure ( BRAC ) 1988 action.

From 1975 onwards, University of Dublin degrees were also awarded to graduates at the colleges of the Dublin Institute of Technology ( DIT ); this practice continued until 1998 when DIT gained the ability to award degrees in its own right.

In 1998, the franchise gained national exposure when a fictionalized version of the team was the focus of the film Major League: Back to the Minors, starring Scott Bakula.

From 1993 – 1998, Latifah had a starring role on Living Single, a Fox sitcom, which gained high ratings among black audiences ; she also wrote and performed its theme music.

Orvon Grover Autry ( September 29, 1907 – October 2, 1998 ), better known as Gene Autry, was an American performer who gained fame as a singing cowboy on the radio, in movies, and on television for more than three decades beginning in the early 1930s.

Nagano was host to the 1998 Winter Olympics, which gained the prefecture international recognition and a Shinkansen line to Tokyo.

In 1998, she gained headlines around the world when she clashed with New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani urging the return of the original Winnie the Pooh dolls from Donnell Library Center to the British Museum after she said she " detected sadness " in their display behind bulletproof glass in the United States library.

Mahuad concluded a well-received peace with Peru on October 26, 1998, but increasing economic, fiscal, and financial difficulties drove his popularity steadily lower.

From 1998, the game grew in popularity: a public server was installed that hosted games permanently, archiving them and showing an animated gif replay of each game on its website.

The show's popularity by early 1998 was evident to the cast members, and Hannigan remarked on her surprise specifically.

Willow was noted to be the spirit of the Scooby Gang, and Hannigan attributed Willow's popularity with viewers ( she had by May 1998 seven websites devoted to her ) to being an underdog who develops confidence and is accepted by Buffy, a strong, popular person in school.

Capitalizing on the band's popularity, Mercury released the band's live album, Live From the Middle East in October 1998.

In 1998, capitalizing off Juvenile's popularity off 400 Degreez, a remixed version of Being Myself and reissue of Solja Rags were released.

The popularity of the show helped boost other network shows, such as Buffy, which served as its lead-in on the network's new night of programming also launched in January 1998, known as " New Tuesday ," and 7th Heaven, which enjoyed a massive 81 % increase in viewership that season.

The posthumous memoir A Genius in the Family by Hilary and Piers du Pré later became the subject of the 1998 film adaptation Hilary and Jackie, directed by Anand Tucker, that in turn promoted the popularity of the memoir.

In 1998, the United States Natural Resources Defense Council and SeaWeb hired Fenton Communications to conduct an advertising campaign to promote their assertion that the swordfish population was in danger due to its popularity as a restaurant entree.

Any such reputation has not, however, halted their market popularity ; most internal 56k modems produced since 1998 have been software-based.

PC bangs rose to popularity following the release of the PC game StarCraft in 1998.

The role of Tiffany grew as did McCutcheon's popularity and 22 million viewers tuned in to see her final scenes in Albert Square in 1998 when her character was killed in a special episode screened on New Year's Eve.

After building popularity with their appearance in the movie Mulan, and singing " True to Your Heart " ( a duet with labelmate Stevie Wonder ), their album 98 Degrees and Rising went 4 × platinum in 1998.

According to journalist Lawrence Wright, evidence that bin Laden's accusations have struck a chord among many Muslims was found in the popularity of bin laden T-shirts among Muslims including children in Kenya and Tanzania following the 1998 American embassy bombings, despite the fact that all but a handful 224 people killed were Kenyians and Tanzanians, not Americans.

The site was founded by Chris Nelson on September 1, 1998 just a few months after mozilla. org, which was created on February 23, 1998, and quickly grew in popularity.

* Wget 1. 5. 3, released September 1998, was a milestone in the program's popularity.

" The popularity of the clips led to MTV America offering a half-hour format called The Sifl & Olly Show in July 1998.

In the summer of 1998, due to the website's immense cult popularity, it became too expensive for Ignacio to continue running.

The renewed popularity in the series, encouraged Fox to produce a spin-off Eerie, Indiana: The Other Dimension, lasting only one season in 1998.

Later, its popularity declined, with 14. 6 % of votes in 1995 election and 18. 0 % in 1998.

The party arose as a breakaway from the Party of the Democratic Left ( SDĽ ) in 1999 ( Robert Fico being the most popular SDĽ member at that time ) and quickly became one of the most popular parties in Slovakia, while the SDĽ, which was the successor of the original Communist Party of Slovakia and was the governing party from 1998 to 2002, was steadily decreasing in popularity.

At the height of popularity in 1998, ConFurence 9 boasted the then-largest furry convention attendance of 1250.

Their popularity grew, resulting in a deal with Roadrunner Records, and the band released Breed the Killers in 1998, the first with guitarist Erick Edwards ( bassist Ian Edwards's brother ) replacing Wiechmann.