The Diamondbacks ' first major league game was played against the Colorado Rockies on March 31, 1998, at Bank One Ballpark before a standing-room only crowd of 50, 179.

After the charge of monetary and exchange rate policies was shifted in 1998 to the European Central Bank, within the European institutional framework, the bank implements the decisions, issues euro banknotes and withdraws and destroys worn pieces.

Under the terms of the Bank of England Act 1998 ( which came into force on 1 June 1998 ), the bank's Monetary Policy Committee was given sole responsibility for setting interest rates to meet the Government's stated Retail Prices Index ( RPI ) inflation target of 2. 5 %.

In other areas of the West Bank, transfer of powers took place pursuant to the Israel-PLO 28 September 1995 Interim Agreement, the Israel-PLO 15 January 1997 Protocol Concerning the Redeployment in Hebron, the Israel-PLO 23 October 1998 Wye River Memorandum, and the 4 September 1999 Sharm el-Sheikh Agreement.

Organizations such as the National Bureau of Economic Research and the European Central Bank have charged that hedge funds pose systemic risks to the financial sector, and following the failure of hedge fund Long-Term Capital Management ( LTCM ) in 1998 there was widespread concern about the potential for systemic risk if a hedge fund failure led to the failure of its counterparties.

* 1998 – The European Central Bank is founded in Brussels in order to define and execute the European Union's monetary policy.

In September 2005, Nigeria, with the assistance of the World Bank, began to recover US $ 458 million of illicit funds that had been deposited in Swiss banks by the late military dictator Sani Abacha, who ruled Nigeria from 1993 to 1998.

He was divorced from Sabiha Rumani Malik in 1998 and married Elena Ochoa Foster, Lady Foster of Thames Bank.

State Street Bank v. Signature Financial Group is the landmark case in which the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit ruled ( July 23, 1998 ) that a computer algorithm can be patented to the extent that it produces " a useful, concrete and tangible result ".

Suriname became a member of the Islamic Development Bank in 1998, under the Wijdenbosch government.

Since 1998, it has also held a meeting each April with finance ministers heading key committees of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund ( IMF ).

According to Central Bank of Venezuela, the government received from 1998 to 2008 around 325 billion USD through oil production and export, and according to the International Energy Agency, to June 2010 has production of 2. 2 million of barrels per day, 800, 000 of which go to the United States of America.

With financial assistance from the World Bank, in 1998, Bangladesh Government created the Dhaka Transport Coordination Board.

Under the Bank of England Act 1998 the Chancellor has the power of appointment of four out of nine members of the Bank's Monetary Policy Committee — the so-called ' external ' members.

He was the first President of the European Central Bank from 1 July 1998 until 31 October 2003.

Owing to the success of his monetary policy, he became well known in other European countries, and this led to his appointment in 1998 as the first president of the new European Central Bank in Frankfurt, much to the chagrin of France, who wanted a French candidate.

The Bank of Canada has no specific target value for the Canadian dollar and has not intervened in foreign exchange markets since 1998.

In 1998, the Red Bank Armory was converted to an ice rink.

The White & Company Bank building, a local landmark since 1898, was severely damaged in the tornado but was rebuilt, and in 1998 reopened as headquarters for the Lancaster Economic Development Corporation.

* Bank Underground station, London, 13 July 1998.

* Foss Bank Bridge, rebuilt in 1998, now carries South-east bound Inner Ring Road traffic.

The 1998 event was pitched as the " last Greenbelt of its kind ", with two festivals planned for 1999: a youth-oriented event " Freestate " in partnership with Spring Harvest to be held the August Bank Holiday weekend and a more family-oriented " Greenbelt " to be held over the last weekend in July at Cheltenham Racecourse.

The administration then launched a four-day bombing campaign named Operation Desert Fox, lasting from December 16 to December 19, 1998.

A digital text service had been available since the launch of digital terrestrial television in November 1998, but the BBC Text service was not publicly launched until November 1999, due to a lack of availability of compatible set-top boxes.

There has been only one major installation of DECT for public access: in early 1998 Telecom Italia launched a DECT network known as " Fido " after much regulatory delay, covering major cities in Italy.

In April 1998, Egypt launched its own satellite known as NileSat 101.

RotoNews. com launched the Web's first free commissioner service in 1998, quickly becoming the largest league management service.

Takashi Miike launched a prolific career with titles such as Audition ( 1999 ), Dead or Alive ( 1999 ) and The Bird People in China ( 1998 ).

Pre-paid GSM SIM cards were launched in 1996 and worldwide GSM subscribers passed 100 million in 1998.

Orange Moldova launched its network in October 1998 under the brand of Voxtel and was the first and only carrier at the time.

The second generation MX-5 ( NB ) was launched in 1998 and the current ( NC ) model has been in production since 2006.

In 1998, North Korea tested a Taepondong-1 Space Launch Vehicle, which successfully launched but failed to reach orbit.

* 1998 – The first module of the International Space Station, Zarya, is launched.

Počasíčko ( diminutive of " weather ") was Czech TV Nova's past-10PM featurette launched in January 1998 where a nude woman ( or occasionally, a man ) got dressed in clothing appropriate for the next day's weather forecast.

As a campaign of sorts, " open source " was launched in 1998 by Jon " maddog " Hall, Larry Augustin, Eric S. Raymond, Bruce Perens, and others.

The Sega Dreamcast followed in 1998, and launched with the return of Sonic the Hedgehog in Sonic Adventure.

In a government-led initiative to connect the island in a high-speed broadband network using various mediums such as fibre, DSL and cable, the Singapore ONE project was formally announced in June 1996, and commercially launched in June 1998.

In 1998, Twain launched her first major concert tour, aided by her manager Jon Landau, a veteran of many large-scale tours with Bruce Springsteen.

After the Serbian government launched a major offensive against the ethnic Albanian population in Kosovo in 1998, the UAE called for international intervention and commenced a major program of humanitarian relief through its Red Crescent Society.

In 1998, the Unification Movement launched its operations in North Korea with the approval of the Government of South Korea, which had prohibited business relationships between North and South before ; and built a church there.

* 13. 300 Mm — Length of roads being rehabilitated and widened under the National Highway Development Project ( launched in 1998 ) in India

The first Hall thruster to fly on a western satellite was a Russian D-55 built by TsNIIMASH, on the NRO's STEX spacecraft, launched on October 3, 1998.

Foreign Secretary Robin Cook launched an official historical review of the Zinoviev letter in 1998

The new digital broadcaster was launched on 15 November 1998, with a lineup of 18 channels, including many channels developed in-house by Carlton and Granada.

After FNC launched in 1996, the network tried again in 1998 with Fox Files, hosted by Fox News anchors Catherine Crier and Jon Scott, as well as a team of correspondents.

The core module of the International Space Station was launched in 1998.