The downfall in this system began on August 17, 1998, when Russia defaulted on its ruble debt and domestic dollar debt.

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

No major revamps happened from then until 1998, when Dennis ' baby sister Bea was born.

The French succeeded in helping it to quell the disturbances, and an African peacekeeping force ( MISAB ) occupied Bangui until 1998 when they were relieved by a United Nations peacekeeping mission ( MINURCA ).

EU accession negotiations started on 31 March 1998, and concluded when Cyprus joined the organization as a full member in 2004.

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.

Another example occurs in the 1998 film Waking Ned, when two of the film's characters, Jackie and Michael, are walking through a storm towards Ned's house.

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

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.

Although the concept of consilience in Whewell's sense was widely discussed by philosophers of science, the term was unfamiliar to the broader public until the end of the 20th century, when it was revived in Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge, a 1998 book by the humanist biologist Edward Osborne Wilson, as an attempt to bridge the culture gap between the sciences and the humanities that was the subject of C. P. Snow's The Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution ( 1959 ).

It was wound up in 1998 when control of the Docklands area was handed back to the respective local authorities.

The parties deferred this issue, and finally a settlement was reached in 1998, when the jurors awarded Coppola $ 20 million as compensation for losing the film project, Pinocchio.

This ambiguity began in 1998 when people started to use the term “ open source software ” rather than “ free software .” People in the community of free software used these separate terms as a way to differentiate what they did.

Another exploit was in 1998 when Roberto Benigni won three oscars for his movie Life Is Beautiful ( La vita è bella ) ( Best Actor, Best Foreign Film, Best Music ).

In 1998, when the Taliban captured the northern Afghan city of Mazar-e-Sharif, several Iranian diplomats were executed on espionage charges.

Albanian Socialist Party Chairman Fatos Nano was elected Prime Minister, a post which he held until October 1998, when he resigned as a result of the tense situation created in the country after the assassination of Azem Hajdari, a prominent leader of the Democratic Party.

The Irish Government acknowledged this interpretation — although it did not acknowledge any legal obligations to persons in this larger diaspora — when Article 2 of the Constitution of Ireland was amended in 1998 to read " urthermore, the Irish nation cherishes its special affinity with people of Irish ancestry living abroad who share its cultural identity and heritage.

NTIA received more than 650 comments as of March 23, 1998, when the comment period closed.

Prime Minister Hashimoto headed a loose coalition of three parties until the July 1998 Upper House election, when the two smaller parties cut ties with the LDP.

* 1998 – James Byrd, Jr. of Texas is killed when white supremacists drag him behind a pickup truck along an asphalt pavement.

In 1998 she appeared in her first film-a six part documentary called " The Legend of Atlantis " by Elia The Prophet and it wasn't until 2010 when she landed roles in the documentaries, 3 Magic Words ( 2010 ) and " In the Beginning There Was Light "( 2010 )

The release of the 266 MHz version of this chip was not until the second quarter of 1998 when AMD was able to move to the 0. 25 micrometre manufacturing process.

Conditions remained tumultuous, including an August 1994 coup by Letsie III, until 1998 when the Lesotho Congress for Democracy ( LCD ) came to power in elections which were deemed fair by international observers.

Instead, he became one of the youngest winners of an Association of Tennis Professionals ( ATP ) tournament when, as an almost unknown youngster, he won the 1998 Next Generation Adelaide International, defeating Andre Agassi in the semifinals.

There was a brief exchange that occurred when the surviving members reunited in Aspen, Colorado, in 1998 for a show that was broadcast on HBO and has since become available on video.

* The Damien Walsh Memorial Lecture by Roy Greenslade, 4 August 1998 " Some time later, political analysts Paul Bew and Gordon Gillespie, commented that the Warrington bombing created ' a wave of revulsion throughout the British Isles against terrorist killings.

* Dorien Wilson – Warrington Steele ( 1998 – 1999 )

Halton and Warrington became unitary authorities independent of Cheshire County Council on 1 April 1998, but remain part of Cheshire for ceremonial purposes and also for fire and policing.

Tessella opened its Warrington branch in 1998 and its Burton upon Trent branch in 2000.

On 1 April 1998, the Warrington unitary authority was created of which Culcheth is a part.

Previously the borough was divided into 26 wards and 6 areas, used for elections from 1978 to 1998.

On May 31, 1998 an F3 tornado damaged or destroyed many businesses and homes in the borough.

In 1998 he took an 81 % share of the vote, a record for a Conservative in a London borough.

It was a semi-autonomous borough within the overall municipality of Metropolitan Toronto until 1998, when it was amalgamated into the new " megacity " of Toronto in 1998.

This in turn became a borough in 1984 and then the Thurrock Unitary Authority in 1998.

From 1974 Tenbury was in the borough of Leominster until it became part Malvern Hills District when Leominster District Council was taken over by Herefordshire Council in April 1998.

The two of them merged to become the new City of Bromptonville on December 30, 1998 ; that city merged into the new City of Sherbrooke on January 1, 2002 and became the borough of Brompton ( however, a part of the former city was annexed to Stoke instead ).

North York later became a borough, and then a city, and was merged with five other municipalities and a regional government to form the new " City of Toronto " in 1998.

Enskede-Årsta was a so-called borough ( stadsdelsområde ) in the southern part of Stockholm, Sweden from 1998 to 1 January 2007.

From 1990 to 1998, she served as Manhattan borough president, an office she gave up to unsuccessfully run for mayor in the 1997 election.

Prior to December 30, 1998, " Brompton " referred to a township municipality which occupied some of the territory of the modern-day borough of Brompton.