In late 1998, Slaughter relinquished the role of commissioner to Shawn Michaels and largely disappeared from television.

After dropping the WWF title to Austin at WrestleMania XIV in 1998, Michaels was forced into retirement for four years due to serious neck and back injuries.

Annan and other proponents of global warming state they have challenged other skeptics to bets over global warming that were not accepted, including Annan's attempt in 2005 to accept a bet that had been offered by Patrick Michaels in 1998 that temperatures would be cooler after ten years .. Annan made a bet in 2011 with Doctor David Whitehouse that the Met Office temperature would set a new annual record by the end of the year.

Jones was trained by Rick Michaels and debuted in 1998.

The faction would continue to feud with Michaels throughout late 1998, with Michaels reversing Billy Gunn's Intercontinental Championship victory against Ken Shamrock, costing The Outlaws the Tag Team Titles and even managing to lure the New Age Outlaws to The Corporation on the December 7 edition of Raw is War.

On December 14, 1998, they would turn their attention to The Corporation with Triple H again appearing as " The Crock ", Road Dogg playing Mr McMahon ( with two midgets representing Gerald Brisco and Pat Patterson kissing his behind throughout ); Billy Gunn, playing Shane McMahon wearing an adult diaper ; X-Pac playing Ken Shamrock ; Chyna as The Big Boss Man ; and Sensation returning to play Michaels.

Besides his career as lead singer, he has several solo albums to his credit, including a soundtrack album to the movie A Letter from Death Row in which Michaels starred, wrote and directed in 1998, and a classic Poison-style rock album, Songs of Life, in 2003.

Rivera would headline the No Way Out of Texas: In Your House pay-per-view in February 1998, when he replaced the injured Shawn Michaels in the main event, teaming with Triple H and the New Age Outlaws in a losing effort.

* Sharon Michaels ( 1998 – 2008, was known on-air as B.

* Shawn Michaels ( 1998 )

In June 1998, Michaels was selected for the fourth time in the baseball amateur draft, this time by the Phillies in the 4th round.

In the Phillies farm system from 1998 through, Michaels played for the Batavia Muckdogs of the short-season, single-A New York-Penn League ( 1998 ), the Clearwater Phillies ( now Clearwater Threshers ) of the advanced single-A Florida State League (), the Reading Phillies of the double-A Eastern League () and the Scranton / Wilkes-Barre Red Barons of the triple-A International League ( 2001 ).

After Kane surprisingly saved Undertaker from an attack by D-Generation X, the duo had a brief partnership which ended after Kane betrayed Undertaker by costing Undertaker a casket match against WWF Champion Shawn Michaels for the WWF Championship at Royal Rumble 1998.

Valentine's other movie credits include a supporting role in the 1998 movie A Letter From Death Row, written and co-directed by Bret Michaels of the rock group Poison.

Canadian scholar Richard Toporoski theorised in 1998 that " if, let us say, an alteration were to be made in the United Kingdom to the Act of Settlement 1701, providing for the succession of the Crown ... t is my opinion that the domestic constitutional law of Australia or Papua New Guinea, for example, would provide for the succession in those countries of the same person who became Sovereign of the United Kingdom.

The firm made no U. S. buys in 1998, but doubled its employee base with purchases including Spain's largest retail insurance broker, Gil y Carvajal, and the formation of Aon Korea, the first non-Korean firm of its kind to be licensed there.

That made 14 consecutive losing seasons for this franchise at that point dating back to 1998.

In 1998, CDR Patrick Driscoll made the first " Blue Jet " landing on a " haze gray and underway " aircraft carrier, USS Harry S. Truman ( CVN-75 ).

* AFI's 100 Years ... 100 Laughs ( 1924 – 1998, list made in 2000 )

Dr. Wijdicks studied 30 films ( made between 1970 and 2004 ) that portrayed actors in prolonged comas, and he concluded that only two films accurately depicted the state of a coma victim and the agony of waiting for a patient to awaken: Reversal of Fortune ( 1990 ) and The Dreamlife of Angels ( 1998 ).

In 1998, the Indians made the playoffs for the fourth straight year.

Kaikō made many unmanned descents to the Mariana Trench during three expeditions in 1995, 1996 and 1998.

In 1981, this episode was made into anime ( called " Doraemon Comes Back "), and in 1998, this was released as an anime movie.

* 1998: BMW made history by winning the 24 Hour Nürburgring race with the 320d, powered by a two-litre, four-cylinder diesel engine.

Her 1998 country-rock album Hungry Again was made up entirely of her own compositions.

* Gary Sheffield ( 1993 – 1997 ) — Sheffield hit 112 home runs with the Marlins from 1994 to 1998, including a club record 42 in 1996, and made the All-Star Game in 1996.

In 1998, a movie version of Endless Waltz was made, with additional footage, alterations of the music scores, and a different ending theme song.

An Australian telemovie made in 1998, The Day of the Roses, describes the coronial investigation into the incident.

In 1998 another attempt was made with the Service Plus and Dignite for student and teacher.

In King Leopold's Ghost ( 1998 ), Adam Hochschild argues that literary scholars have made too much of the psychological aspects of Heart of Darkness while scanting the horror of Conrad's accurate recounting of the methods and effects of colonialism.

Every Mac made between 1986 and 1998 has a SCSI port on the back, making external expansion easy ; also, " toaster " Compact Macs did not have easily accessible hard drive bays ( or, in the case of the Mac Plus, any hard drive bay at all ), so on those models, external SCSI disks were the only reasonable option.

James Chevedden made a written complaint to the Superior General of the Jesuit Order, Peter-Hans Kolvenbach, regarding the promotion of the ideology of the Marxist philosopher, Herbert Marcuse at the 1998 California Jesuit Province Social Pastoral Conference.

Jonathan Bruce Postel (; August 6, 1943 – October 16, 1998 ) was an American computer scientist who made many significant contributions to the development of the Internet, particularly with respect to standards.

JPL has been recognized four times by the Space Foundation: with the Douglas S. Morrow Public Outreach Award, which is given annually to an individual or organization that has made significant contributions to public awareness of space programs, in 1998 ; and with the John L. " Jack " Swigert, Jr., Award for Space Exploration on three occasions – in 2009 ( as part of NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander Team ), 2006 and 2005.

In 1998, Lars von Trier also made history by having his company Zentropa be the world's first mainstream film company to produce hardcore pornographic films.

Three of these films, Constance ( 1998 ), Pink Prison ( 1999 ) and the adult / mainstream crossover-feature All About Anna ( 2005 ), were made primarily for a female audience, and were extremely successful in Europe, with the first two being directly responsible for the March 2006 legalizing of pornography in Norway.

* Legion ( 1998 film ) a 1998 made for television film

Lemmy made an appearance in the music videos for the 1986 Boys Don't Cry song " I Wanna Be A Cowboy " and the 1998 Rap song " Freak of the Week " by adult film star Ron Jeremy.

Allan Huber " Bud " Selig (; born July 30, 1934 ) is the ninth and current Commissioner of Major League Baseball, having served in that capacity since 1992 as the acting commissioner, and as the official commissioner since 1998.

Nigerian officers have served as chiefs of defence in other countries, with Brigadier General Maxwell Khobe serving as Sierra Leone chief of staff in 1998 – 1999, and Nigerian officers acting as Command Officer-in-Charge of the Armed Forces of Liberia from at least 2007.

Following that dogma in 1998, he conceived, wrote and directed ( and also had a small acting role in ) the first of the Dogme movies, The Celebration ( Festen ).

However, after Kovač's term expired in March 1998 the Slovak parliament was unable to elect a successor, so Mečiar also temporarily assumed the role of acting president.

Since 1998 this is the Minister of the Interior and Kingdom Relations ; when he is acting in this capacity the council has the status of the Government of the Realm to treat minor issues.

By 1998, when he was indicted on racketeering, John Gotti Jr. was believed to be the acting boss of the family.

One major exception was the situation comedy Home Improvement's Jonathan Taylor Thomas, who played Randy Taylor from 1991 – 1998 ; " JTT " ( as he would come to be known during this time ), uncomfortable with his teen idol status, left the show ( and, for the most part, the entire acting scene ) one year shy of the show's last year on the air.

* Carolyn S. Griner-( acting ) January 3, 1998 to September 11, 1998

Between 1982 and 1998, Prokhorov served as acting director of the General Physics Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, and after 1998 as honorary director.

Ritts also worked on other projects, including directing and acting, on Mariah Carey's video collection # 1's ( 1999 ), Jennifer Lopez's sepia video " Ain't It Funny ", Janet Jackson's Design of a Decade 1986 / 1996 ( 1996 ), Intimate Portrait: Cindy Crawford ( 1998 ), Murder in the First ( 1995 ), and Britney Spears ' " Don't Let Me Be The Last To Know ( 2001 ).

; Donnie Wahlberg: Wahlberg has followed in the footsteps of his younger brother Mark Wahlberg, forging a career in acting and has appeared in movies such as Ransom ( 1996 ), Southie ( 1998 ), The Sixth Sense ( 1999 ), Dreamcatcher ( 2003 ), and the Saw film series, as well as the critically acclaimed mini-series Band of Brothers.

In addition to his singing career, Travis pursued an acting career, appearing in numerous films and television series, including The Rainmaker ( 1997 ) with Matt Damon, Black Dog ( 1998 ) with Patrick Swayze, Texas Rangers ( 2001 ) with James Van Der Beek, and seven episodes of the Touched by an Angel television series.

After beginning to date actor Andrew Keegan in 1998, Rimes said to the press that she had some ideas about possibly getting involved in an acting career.

In 1998, he stepped up to serve as acting chairman of the troubled company, and led it through a merger with Family Restaurants ( owner of Chi-Chi's and El Torito ).

The Royal Shakespeare Company did an adaptation in 1998, for which the acting edition has been published.

Wilson is known for his long assocation with the film maker Wes Anderson, having shared co-writing and acting credits in a number of his films including Bottle Rocket ( 1996 ) which was his acting début, Rushmore ( 1998 ) and The Royal Tenenbaums ( 2001 ), which was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay, as well as acting in Anderson's The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou ( 2004 ) and The Darjeeling Limited ( 2007 ).

However, Todd Hunter, who served as National Coordinator since February 1994 and as acting Director of the Vineyard at the time of Wimber's death, became the National Director in January 1998 and served in that capacity until he resigned in May 2000.

Pinsky made his acting debut in " Terminal ," a 1998 episode of the TV show Space Ghost Coast to Coast, and later appeared on Dawson's Creek and Family Guy.

Recognised for her acting prowess, Koirala was noted for her performances in films such as Bombay, Akele Hum Akele Tum ( both 1995 ), Khamoshi: The Musical ( 1996 ), Dil Se .. ( 1998 ), and Company ( 2002 ).

Outside basketball, Mureșan has dabbled in acting, playing the title character in 1998 feature film My Giant starring comedian Billy Crystal.