* In 1998, Benoît Lecomte was the first man to swim across the northern Atlantic Ocean without a kick board, stopping for only one week in the Azores.

Kid Rock released several studio albums that mostly went unnoticed before his 1998 record Devil Without a Cause, released with Atlantic Records, sold 11 million albums behind the hits, " Bawitdaba ", " Cowboy ", and " Only God Knows Why ".

In 1997, Kid Rock added drummer / vocalist Stefanie Eulinberg to his band, joining Kenny Olson, Jason Krause, Jimmie Bones, Uncle Kracker, Misty Love, Shirley Hayden and Joe C .. On August 18, 1998, Atlantic released Devil Without a Cause behind the single " Welcome 2 The Party.

* 1998 – Hurricane Mitch, the second deadliest Atlantic hurricane in history, makes landfall in Honduras.

The 1998 & 1999 Atlantic hurricane season produced 3 hurricanes which battered St. Kitts & Nevis.

Amos would later reveal that a stimulus for the album was to end her contract with Atlantic without giving them new original songs ; Amos felt that since 1998, the label had not been properly promoting her and had trapped her in a contract by refusing to sell her to another label.

* On 2 September 1998 Swissair Flight 111 ( SR-111 ), a McDonnell-Douglas MD-11, crashed into the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Nova Scotia near the towns of Peggys Cove and Bayswater, killing 229.

This idea of an unequal relationship was however contested by John Thornton ( 1998 ), who argued that " the Atlantic slave trade was not nearly as critical to the African economy as these scholars believed " and that " African manufacturing this period was more than capable of handling competition from preindustrial Europe.

Image: Sahara dust plume Nov 1998. jpg | Dust from the Sahara desert being sucked into a Extratropical Cyclone over the northeast Atlantic Ocean.

In 1998 he hired Lodwrick Cook, former CEO of Atlantic Richfield Company ( ARCO ), as co-chairman.

From 1998 to 2006, the Surf played in the South Division of the Atlantic League of Professional Baseball.

While in the Atlantic League, the Surf won the first-ever Atlantic League championship in 1998 while also hosting the inaugural Atlantic League All-Star game.

In 1998, the independent Atlantic League of Professional Baseball placed a team in Atlantic City called the Surf.

They lost to Atlantic City ( 1998 ), Newark ( 2002 ) Lancaster ( 2006 ) and to York ( 2010 ).

The Nashua Pride was one of the founding members of the Atlantic League of Professional Baseball in 1998.

The Somerset Patriots were one of the founding members of the Atlantic League in 1998.

The mascot debuted on July 11, 1998 at the Atlantic League's first All-Star Game at Bernie Robbins Stadium in Atlantic City, New Jersey.

In the 1998 Nicolas Cage mystery / thriller film " Snake Eyes ," Margate is the main character's place of residence, alluded to as a pleasant suburban town, in contrast to the grittier Atlantic City, which forms the backdrop of the story.

* " Sink to the Bottom " – How I Met Your Mother ( Episode 2. 8 – " Atlantic City "); Commercial for Norwegian soda brand Mozell ( 1998 ); VH1's I Love the ' 90s Part Deux ; Scrubs ; Bongwater ( 1997 )

In 1981, a split-season format forced the first ever divisional playoff series, in which the New York Yankees won the Eastern Division series over the Milwaukee Brewers ( who were in the American League until 1998 ) in five games while the Oakland Athletics swept the Kansas City Royals in three games in the Western Division.

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.

* Transfer of the Milwaukee Brewers from the American League to the National League ( 1998 )

That mark set an American League record for wins which stood for 44 years until the Yankees won 114 games in 1998 ( a 162-game regular season ).

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Gullit was replaced by Gianluca Vialli, who led the team to victory in the League Cup Final and the Cup Winners ' Cup Final in 1998, the FA Cup in 2000 and their first appearance in the UEFA Champions League.

In Canadian football ( and, until 1998, the National Football League ), the drop kick can be taken from any point on the field, unlike placekicks, which must be attempted behind the line of scrimmage.

The FA Cup winners qualify for the following season's UEFA Europa League ( formerly named the UEFA Cup ; until 1998 they entered the Cup Winners ' Cup instead ).

* Charles Johnson ( 1994 – 1998, 2001 – 2002 ) — A four-time Gold Glove Award winner, in 1997 Johnson set a Major League single-season record for catchers by playing in 123 games without committing a single error.

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.

Following a 1998 Arab League meeting in which fellow Arab states decided not to challenge U. N. sanctions, Gaddafi announced that he was turning his back on pan-Arab ideas, one of the fundamental tenets of his philosophy.

In 1998 – 99, the club won a Treble of the Premier League, the FA Cup and the UEFA Champions League, an unprecedented feat for an English club.

In the 1998 – 99 season, Manchester United became the first team to win the Premier League, FA Cup and UEFA Champions League – " The Treble " – in the same season.

In March 1995, two new franchises — the Arizona Diamondbacks and Tampa Bay Devil Rays — were awarded by Major League Baseball, to begin play in 1998.

Martínez paid immediate dividends in 1998, with a 19 – 7 record, and finishing second in the American League in ERA, WHIP, strikeouts, and the Cy Young voting.

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.

* 1998 Major League Baseball home run record chase

In May 1998, three white supremacists were arrested for allegedly planning a nationwide campaign of assassinations and bombings targeting " Morris Dees, an undisclosed federal judge in Illinois, a black radio-show host in Missouri, Dees's Southern Poverty Law Center in Alabama, the Simon Wiesenthal Center in Los Angeles, and the Anti-Defamation League in New York.

Founded in 1969, the Padres have won the National League Pennant twice, in 1984 and 1998, losing in the World Series both times.

In the 1998 NLCS, the Padres faced the Atlanta Braves, who had won the National League East with an astonishing 106 – 56 record.

Super Bowl XXXIII was an American football game between the American Football Conference ( AFC ) champion Denver Broncos and the National Football Conference ( NFC ) champion Atlanta Falcons to decide the National Football League ( NFL ) champion for the 1998 season.

* Member ( 1998 – 2007 ), Chair ( 2003 – 2005 ) IEEE Computer Society Professional Practices Committee

Professional baseball would not be played in Bridgeport for about another half-century, until the arrival of the Bluefish in 1998.

He owned the Baltimore Spirit of the National Professional Soccer League from the franchise's inception in 1992 until he sold it to Edwin F. Hale, Sr. in 1998.

* Hunt, G. ( ed ) Whistleblowing in the Social Services: Public Accountability & Professional Practice, Arnold ( Hodder ), 1998.

In 1998, the students of Tulane University voted by referendum to split the Associated Student Body ( ASB ) Senate into two separate houses, the Undergraduate Student Government ( USG ) and the Graduate and Professional Student Association ( GAPSA ).

* Vernon Edward Holland ( 1948 – 1998 ), Professional football player Cincinnati Bengals, New York Giants and Detroit Lions

* Canadian-born players in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League ( 1998 )

Sweden's The Genetic Integrity Act ( 2006: 351 ), The Biobanks in Medical Care Act ( 2002: 297 ), Health and Medical Services ( Professional Activities ) Act ( 1998: 531 ), and The Health and Medical Services Act ( 1982: 763 ) all express concern for " the integrity of the individual " or " human dignity.

In 1998, Sargent joined the ZDTV ( later TechTV ) TV show Call For Help as the show's " Resident Craft Professional " and substitute co-host.

KoDT has won the Origins Awards for Best Professional Game Magazine of 1998 and 1999.

In 1998, Roufus was sanctioned as the first world champion of IKF Professional International rule at heavyweight as he requested to shift his title and he met IKF's conditions.

* The Professional ( album ), a 1998 DJ Clue album

Cervantes was inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame in 1998, and in 2000, he was declared by the Colombian Boxing Federation and National Association of Professional Boxing as Colombia's Fighter of the Century.

The 1998 season and the Royals were featured in the book " Unlucky: A Season of Struggle in Minor League Professional Soccer " by Dave Ungrady, who trained and played briefly for the Royals as well.

He also won a Nippon Professional Baseball MVP award in Japan during the 1998 season.

In 1998, he joined Kerry Kayes to work for the newly named bodybuilding supplement company " Chemical Nutrition " ( originally " Chemical Warfare ", now " CNP Professional "), with their Dorian Yates Approved range for launch in the United States.

Coca-Cola Field was also home to the Buffalo Nighthawks of the short-lived Ladies Professional Baseball League in 1998, when known as North Americare Park.

It was then re-branded as the Canadian Professional Soccer League in 1998, primarily as a result of the restructuring in conjunction with the OSA ; and subsequently as Canadian Soccer League in 2006 as a representative of a brand poised for national expansion.

In 1998, ViewSonic announced that two of its Professional Series monitors achieved TCO ' 99 certification.

While the AFL asserted throughout the 1990s that the patent covered virtually every aspect of the game ( from the 50-yard field to the eight-man format ), a 1998 lawsuit ( Arena Football League v. Professional Indoor Football League ) established that the patent specifically covered the rebound net feature, meaning that competitors and imitators who attempted to copy the game couldn't use this aspect of the rules.

On 19 October 1998 Richard F. Suess ( of the originial Professional Indoor Football League ) filed for and was subsequently awarded U. S. patent number 6045466 for his version of Indoor Football ; Suess's proprietary version, which included rebound nets in the middle of the field instead of the ends, has never been played, and Suess never used rebound nets in the original PIFL.