Following public demonstrations against Ter-Petrosyan's policies on Nagorno-Karabakh, the President resigned in January 1998 and was replaced by Prime Minister Robert Kocharyan, who was elected President in March 1998.

* 1998 – Lewinsky scandal: US President Bill Clinton admits in taped testimony that he had an " improper physical relationship " with White House intern Monica Lewinsky.

" In the 1998 film Deep Impact fictional astronaut Spurgeon " Fish " Tanner, portrayed by Robert Duvall, was described at a Presidential Press Conference as the " Last man to walk on the moon " by the President of the United States, portrayed by Morgan Freeman.

In 1998, a constitutional reform, led by the government of the President Fernando Henrique Cardoso, introduced regulatory agencies as a part of the executive branch.

President Rodriguez assumed office May 8, 1998.

The administration of President Andrés Pastrana Arango, when it took office on 7 August 1998, faced an economy in crisis, with the difficult internal security situation and global economic turbulence additionally inhibiting confidence.

On August 7, 1998, Andrés Pastrana was sworn in as the President of Colombia.

Grande Comore had experienced troubles of its own in the late 1990s, when President Taki died on November 6, 1998.

Colonel Azali Assoumani seized power in a bloodless coup in April 1999, overthrowing Interim President Tadjidine Ben Said Massounde, who himself had held the office since the death of democratically elected President Mohamed Taki Abdoulkarim in November, 1998.

Announcements from the Vice President and the White House in 1998 initiated these changes.

President Bongo coasted to easy re-elections in December 1998 and November 2005, with large majorities of the vote against a divided opposition.

Facing a divided opposition, President Omar Bongo was re-elected in December 1998, with 66 % of the votes cast.

President Bongo coasted to an easy re-election in December 1998 with 66 % of the vote against a divided opposition.

PLH's Carlos Roberto Flores took office on 27 January 1998, as Honduras ' fifth democratically elected President since free elections were restored in 1981, with a 10 % margin over his main opponent PNH nominee Nora Gúnera de Melgar ( the widow of former leader Juan Alberto Melgar ).

This may even lead to an institutional variability, as in North Korea, where, after the presidency of party leader Kim Il-Sung, the office was vacant for years, the late president being granted the posthumous title ( akin to some ancient Far Eastern traditions to give posthumous names and titles to royalty ) of " Eternal President " ( while all substantive power, as party leader, itself not formally created for four years, was inherited by his son Kim Jong Il, initially without any formal office ) until it was formally replaced on 5 September 1998, for ceremonial purposes, by the office of Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme People's Assembly, while the party leader's post as Chairman of the National Defense Commission was simultaneously declared " the highest post of the state ", not unlike Deng Xiaoping earlier in the People's Republic of China.

" Following the Indonesian riots of May 1998 and the resignation of President Suharto, several political reforms were set in motion via amendments to the Constitution of Indonesia, which resulted in changes to all branches of government.

The rupiah remained weak, however, and President Soeharto was forced to resign in May 1998.

In August 1998, Indonesia and the IMF agreed on an Extended Fund Facility ( EFF ) under President B. J Habibie that included significant structural reform targets.

While an influx of new residents from different cultures presents some challenges, " the United States has always been energized by its immigrant populations ," said President Bill Clinton in 1998.

He was President of Germany from 1 July 1999 until 30 June 2004, and Minister-President of North Rhine-Westphalia from 1978 to 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.

In 1998, Menem's attempt to stand for re-election a second time, by means of an ad hoc interpretation of a constitutional clause, met with strong resistance among Peronist rank-and-file, who were finding themselves under increasing pressure due to the highly controversial policies of the Menem administration and its involvement in corruption scandals.

In October 1998 the IMF invited Argentine President Carlos Menem, to talk about the successful Argentine experience, at the Annual Meeting of the Board of Governors.

Supported by close Menem adviser José Luis Manzano, Toma was appointed Secretary of Security by Menem in 1998.

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.