* 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.

A paper published at the same time as the 2009 classification proposed seven subfamilies for the families recognized in the very first APG classification of 1998.

* 1998 – North Korea reportedly launches Kwangmyŏngsŏng-1, its first satellite.

In April 1998, American photographer John S Callahan organized the first surfing project in the Andamans, starting from Phuket in Thailand with the assistance of Southeast Asia Liveaboards ( SEAL ), a UK owned dive charter company.

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.

In 1984, the first official representative matches of International Rules were played, and these were played annually each October between the AFL and the Gaelic Athletic Association, also known as the GAA, between 1998 and 2006.

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.

In 1998, Nobel laureate Toni Morrison called Clinton " the first Black president ", saying, " Clinton displays almost every trope of blackness: single-parent household, born poor, working-class, saxophone-playing, McDonald's-and-junk-food-loving boy from Arkansas ".

In 1998 the first six kilometers of an often-interrupted 52-kilometer standard gauge subway project ( Sofia Metro ) opened in Sofia.

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.

The Orioles finished the first half of the 2012 season with a winning record for only the second time since 1998, with a record of 45-40 before the All-Star break.

Lara captained the West Indies from 1998 to 1999, when West Indies suffered their first whitewash at the hands of South Africa.

The passenger-miles figure, after being flat from 1965 – 1995, surpassed the 1947 figure for the first time in 1998 and continues to rise steeply.

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 ).

The Big Lebowski ( 1998 ) was a flop on its initial release, yet became a cult classic and has been called " the first cult film of the Internet era.

On 10 March 2009 the CIRA claimed responsibility for the fatal shooting of a PSNI officer in Craigavon, County Armagh — the first police fatality in Northern Ireland since 1998.

The most comprehensive history is still Hubert Jedin's The History of the Council of Trent ( Geschichte des Konzils von Trient ) with about 2500 pages in four volumes: The History of the Council of Trent, The fight for a Council ( Vol I, 1951 ); The History of the Council of Trent The first Sessions in Trent ( 1545 – 1547 ) ( Vol II, 1957 ); The History of the Council of Trent Sessions in Bologna 1547 – 1548 and Trent 1551 – 1552 ( Vol III, 1970, 1998 ); The History of the Council of Trent Third Period and Conclusion ( Vol IV, 1976 ).

Prints of their photographs of the fairies, along with a few other items including a first edition of Conan Doyle's book The Coming of the Fairies, were sold at auction in London for £ 21, 620 in 1998.

Park quit in 1998, after deciding that he had done what he intended to do ; he maintained that his biggest achievement was the introduction of Hayley Patterson ( Julie Hesmondhalgh ), the first transsexual character in a British soap.

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 1998, the Eritrean Church gained its autocephelacy from the Coptic Orthodox Church when its first Patriarch was enthroned by Pope Shenouda III of Alexandria.

The Eritrean Orthodox Tewahedo Church obtained autocephaly on 7 May 1998, and Abune Phillipos was subsequently consecrated as first Patriarch of Eritrea.

The first such CODATA set was published in 1973, later in 1986, 1998, 2002 and the fifth in 2006.

Among the first desktop LCD computer monitors was the Eizo L66 in the mid-1990s, the Apple Studio Display in 1998, and the Apple Cinema Display in 1999.

ClearType was first announced at the November 1998 COMDEX exhibition.

Intensive development began following a September 1998 letter from the Fraunhofer Society announcing plans to charge licensing fees for the MP3 audio format.

* The first MP3 Player, the MPMan, is released in late spring of 1998.

Thanks to a precedent established in a 1998 lawsuit involving the Rio PMP300 player, most MP3 players are deemed " computer peripherals " and are not subject to a royalty of this type in the U. S.

eMusic and Nordic Music ( owned by Kent Kiefer ) formed a joint venture in February 1998 to become the first digital media retailer and sold the first MP3 players on the internet.

" ( 1998 )-Download-only single in Windows Media format ( later available as an MP3 )

Tonspion is the first MP3 blog in Germany and started in 1998 with reviews and downloads that international artists and labels gave out for free on the web.

Sonique debuted in January 1998 at the first annual MP3 Summit to enormous excitement, receiving several acquisition offers the same day.

Rogue Amoeba began in 1998 when Alex Lagutin and Paul Kafasis began working together, first on the release of a small shareware add-on to the MacAMP MP3 player, and then at @ soft Software, developers of MacAMP itself.

Foster started his own group, Hy-Tech, in 1989, but two CDs went relatively unnoticed, as did a solo MP3 CD in 1998 called " Foster Vs.

The world's first mass-produced hardware MP3 player was created in 1997 by Saehan Information Systems, which domestically sold its “ MPMan ” player in April 1998.

* kobn-tich-ey ( 1998 ) ( independent MP3 release )

Founded in 1998, the same year as MP3. com, MP3 Newswire is the oldest active news site devoted to digital media technology.

Minsk has a digital metropolitan network ; waiting lists for telephones are long ; fixed line penetration is improving although rural areas continue to be undeserved ; intercity-Belarus has developed fibre-optic backbone system presently serving at least 13 major cities ( 1998 ); Belarus's fibre optics form synchronous digital hierarchy rings through other countries ' systems ; an inadequate analogue system remains operational.

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.

This coverage was improved in 1998 with the advent of digital television in the United Kingdom allowing satellite and digital terrestrial television viewers to also view the service.

Beginning with Sans Soleil, he developed a deep interest in digital technology, which led to his film Level 5 ( 1996 ) and Immemory ( 1998, 2008 ), an interactive multimedia CD-ROM, produced for the Centre Pompidou ( French language version ) and from Exact Change ( English version ).

* Radio broadcast stations: AM 124, FM 290, shortwave 4 ( 1998 ), 4 on Freeview digital satellite.

Syndication did not exist as such in Britain until the arrival of satellite, cable and later, from 1998 on, digital television, although it could be argued that many ITV programs up to the early 1990s, particularly imported programming was syndicated in the sense that each ITV region bought in some programs independently of the ITV Network, and in particular many programs out of prime time made by smaller ITV stations were " part-networked " where some regions would show them and others would not.

The use of silver in photography has rapidly declined, due to the lower demand for consumer color film from the advent of digital technology ; since 2007, of the 907 million ounces of silver in supply, just 117. 6 million ounces ( 13 %) were consumed by the photographic sector, about 50 % of the amount used in photography in 1998.

Examples are second-generation ( 1991 ) and later cellular telephony, video conferencing, digital TV ( 1998 ), digital radio ( 1999 ), telemetry, etc.

Since then, Recordable CDs, flash memory and HDD-based digital audio players introduced in 1998 have become increasingly popular as playback devices.

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.

The performance was released as a digital single, returning Newton-John to the Billboard Hot 100 ( No. 89 ) for the first time since her 1998 re-release of " I Honestly Love You ".

Since the launch of the platform in 1998, all of the ITV franchises have received gifted capacity on the digital terrestrial television platform.

DigiCash declared bankruptcy in 1998, and subsequently sold its assets to Ecash, another digital currency company, which was acquired by InfoSpace on Feb. 19, 2002.

By 1991, Sky had changed to a conditional access pay model, and launched a digital service, Sky Digital, in 1998, with analogue transmission ceasing in 2001.

* 555 ELD ( 1998 – 2006, introduced new mirror mechanics and electronic contacts for communication with digital backs )

Dunn ( 1998 ) examined the performance of digital converters to see if these differences in performance could be explained.

With 5 ( 1998 ), Kravitz embraced digital technology such as Pro Tools and samplers for the first time.

The erasure was incomplete, and Archimedes ' work is now readable after scientific and scholarly work from 1998 to 2008 using digital processing of images produced by ultraviolet, infrared, visible and raking light, and X-ray.

Despite a frequency of more than one train every two minutes, made possible by the installation of digital signalling in 1989, and the partial introduction of double-decker trains since 1998, the central stations of Line A are critically crowded at peak times.

Sky Digital, Ireland's first digital television service, launched on October 1998.