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.

Sosa won the National League Most Valuable Player Award for leading the Cubs into the playoffs in 1998, earning every first-place vote except for the two cast by St. Louis writers, who voted for McGwire.

This was also the only Super Bowl to date between two teams who had losing records the previous season, although Super Bowl XXXIV matched a team that had a losing record in 1998 ( St. Louis Rams ) vs. a team that finished a mediocre 8-8 that year ( Tennessee Titans ).

After the success of Cruyff, another Dutchman-Ajax manager Louis van Gaal-arrived at the Camp Nou, and with the talents of Luís Figo, Luis Enrique, and Rivaldo, Barcelona again won the title in 1998 and 1999.

In 1998, some critics raised the possibility that Heller's book had questionable similarities to Louis Falstein's 1950 novel, Face of a Hero.

Buck is honored with a star on the St. Louis Walk of Fame, and a bronze statue of him was erected at the entrance to Busch Memorial Stadium in 1998 ( and moved to a new location outside the current Busch Stadium in 2007 ).

The magazine was founded by American journalist Louis Rossetto and his partner Jane Metcalfe and Ian Charles Stewart in 1993 with initial backing from software entrepreneur Charlie Jackson and eclectic academic Nicholas Negroponte of the MIT Media Lab, who was a regular columnist for six years, through 1998 and wrote the book Being Digital.

* Louis Dumont ( anthropologist ) ( 1911 – 1998 ), French sociologist and anthropologist

1998 saw the release of Parks ' first live album, Moonlighting: Live at the Ash Grove, which shows a love of the work of 19th-century American pianist Louis Moreau Gottschalk as well as performances of several of Parks ' better ( and lesser ) known songs.

* Most opponents ' fumbles recovered for touchdowns, season: 4 ; Detroit Lions, 1937 ; Chicago Bears, 1942 ; Boston ( AAFC ), 1948 ; Los Angeles Rams, 1952 ; San Francisco 49ers, 1965 ; Denver Broncos, 1984 ; St. Louis Cardinals, 1987 ; Minnesota Vikings, 1989 ; Atlanta Falcons, 1991 and 1998 ; Philadelphia Eagles, 1995 ; New Orleans Saints, 1998 ; Kansas City Chiefs, 1999.

* Louis Kessler-Robby London Interview ( April 1998 )

A notable landmark ( until it was razed in 1998 ), was the old Twenty Five Mile House-so named because of its distance from downtown St. Louis.

In July 1997, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported that Ailes was engaged to Elizabeth Tilson ( born December 1960 ), whom he married on February 14, 1998.

He was the son of Count André de Laborde de Monpezat ( Mont-de-Marsan, 6 May 1907 – Le Cayrou, 23 February 1998 ) and his wife, Renée Doursenot ( Périgueux, 26 October 1908 – Le Cayrou 11 February 2001 ), ( married religiously Cahors, 6 January 1934 and civilly Cahors 22 January 1948 ), who was previously married firstly civilly in Paris on 29 September 1928 and divorced at the Tribunal Civil Français de Saigon on 21 September 1940 Louis Leuret ( Châteauneuf-sur-Loire, 18 March 1881 – Saigon, South Vietnam, 29 December 1962 ).

Edwin Thompson Jaynes ( Waterloo, Iowa, July 5, 1922 – St. Louis, Missouri, April 30, 1998 ) was Wayman Crow Distinguished Professor of Physics at Washington University in St. Louis.

His claim was disproven in 1998 when DNA tests showed that his grandfather, Karl Wilhelm Naundorff, was not Louis XVII of France.

There have been retrospectives and exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art ( 1995 ) and the Guggenheim Museum ( 1996 ) in New York, and the principal museums of Rome ( 1996 ), Valencia ( 1996 ), Madrid ( 1997 ), Zurich ( 1998 ), St. Louis — which holds the largest public collection of Beckmann paintings in the world —( 1998 ), Munich ( 2000 ), Frankfurt ( 2006 ) and Amsterdam ( 2007 ).

* 86 Tyji Armstrong TE ( Mississippi ) A NFL vet of six seasons Armstrong played four seasons in Tampa Bay 1992-95 then a season in Dallas in 1996 before returning in 1998 with St. Louis

George Louis Costanza is a character in the American television sitcom Seinfeld ( 1989 – 1998 ), played by Jason Alexander.

He was a postdoctoral fellow in the Philosophy-Neuroscience-Psychology program directed by Andy Clark at Washington University in St. Louis from 1993 to 1995, and his first professorship was at UC Santa Cruz, from August 1995 to December 1998.

The Lindsay Award is considered to be the companion of the Hart Memorial Trophy — fourteen players have won both trophies for the same season: Guy Lafleur ( 1976 – 77 and 1977 – 78 ), Wayne Gretzky ( 1981 – 82, 1982 – 83, 1983 – 84, 1984 – 85 and 1986 – 87 ), Mario Lemieux ( 1987 – 88 and 1992 – 93 and 1995 – 96 ), Mark Messier ( 1989 – 90 and 1991 – 92 ), Brett Hull ( 1990 – 91 ), Sergei Fedorov ( 1993 – 94 ), Eric Lindros ( 1994 – 95 ), Dominik Hasek ( 1996 – 97 and 1997 – 98 ), Jaromir Jagr ( 1998 – 99 ), Joe Sakic ( 2000 – 01 ), Martin St. Louis ( 2003 – 04 ), Sidney Crosby ( 2006 – 07 ), Alexander Ovechkin ( 2007 – 08 and 2008 – 09 ) and Evgeni Malkin ( 2011 – 12 ).

The missing steps in the signaling process were filled in by Robert F. Furchgott and Louis J. Ignarro, for which the three shared the 1998 Nobel Prize ( and for which Murad and Furchgott received the Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research in 1996 ).

The rainforest was also greatly destroyed from the forest fires of 1997 to 1998, which were started by the locals to clear the forests for crops and perpetuated by an exceptionally dry El Niño season during that period.

EU accession negotiations started on 31 March 1998, and concluded when Cyprus joined the organization as a full member in 2004.

This ambiguity began in 1998 when people started to use the term “ open source software ” rather than “ free software .” People in the community of free software used these separate terms as a way to differentiate what they did.

The tax regime which started in 1998 had a single rate but since September 2007 entered into a multiple rate regime.

This was started in 1998 to distribute that year's surplus prizes ; this additional contest has remained unchanged since then, even without the original reason for its existence.

Interest in letterboxing in the U. S. is generally considered to have started with a feature article in the Smithsonian Magazine in April 1998.

Von Trier's use of sexually explicit images in The Idiots ( 1998 ) started a wave of arthouse mainstream films with unsimulated sex, such as Catherine Breillat's Romance ( 1999 ), Baise-Moi ( 2000 ), Intimacy ( 2001 ), Vincent Gallo's The Brown Bunny ( 2003 ) and Michael Winterbottom's 9 Songs ( 2004 ).

The trial started on May 18, 1998 with the U. S. Justice Department and the Attorneys General of twenty U. S. states suing Microsoft for illegally thwarting competition in order to protect and extend its software monopoly.

In late 1998, the group started looking for Terminator X's permanent replacement.

The bombings started in 1998, and included nine bombings in 2000.

And, since the program has started in 1998, over 77, 000 scholarships have been granted.

The band started drifting back together in 1998. and officially re-formed to record a song for the soundtrack of Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me, at the behest of the film's director ( and Hoffs ' husband ) Jay Roach.

However, this system has been sidelined following the initial 1998 election of current president Hugo Chávez, which started the Bolivarian Revolution.

The 1998 season started with a seven-game losing streak, and the Redskins finished with a 6 – 10 record.

A project at Brown University started by Jeff Stibel, James A. Anderson, Steve Reiss and others called Applied Cognition Lab created a disambiguator using WordNet in 1998.

* Construction started in 1998 on the International Space Station.

1998 ( MCMXCVIII ) was a common year that started on a Thursday.

The United Nations Foundation started up in 1998 with a $ 1 billion grant from Ted Turner in order to support the United Nations in executing its programs worldwide.

Williams and Chambers started writing the second album in Jamaica in early 1998.

In 1998, the Dakota pickup started production in a new plant in Campo Largo, Paraná by Mercedes-Benz, which belongs to its former partner Daimler AG.

In Russia in 1998 the Institute of the Human Brain ( Russian Academy of Sciences ) started a programme of stereotactic cingulotomy for the treatment of drug addiction.

In reality the train traffic started in 1997 and road traffic in 1998.

It was not started until 1998, and is still in the process of development.

The global recession of 1998, which started with the Asian financial crisis in July 1997, exacerbated Russia's economic crisis.

Davenport started 1998 by reaching the singles semifinals of the Australian Open, which was her second consecutive Grand Slam singles semifinal.