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.

His next film was the challenging, controversial dark comedy of sex and perversion in American suburbia — titled Happiness ( 1998 ).

After he and Conrad separated in 1998, Conrad moved into a house next door to the mansion.

Polian in turn hired Jim Mora to become the next head coach of the team and would go on to draft Tennessee Volunteer quarterback Peyton Manning, the son of New Orleans Saints legend Archie Manning, with the first overall pick in the 1998 draft.

After a winning season in 1992, the Twins fell into a years-long stretch of mediocrity, posting a losing record each year for the next eight years: 71 – 91 in 1993, 50 – 63 in 1994, 56 – 88 in 1995, 78 – 84 in 1996, 68 – 94 in 1997, 70 – 92 in 1998, 63 – 97 in 1999 and 69 – 93 in 2000.

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.

The next album, BTTB ( 1998 ) – an acronym for " Back to the Basics " – was a fairly opaque reaction to the prior year's multilayered, lushly orchestrated Discord.

A few years later, back in their own countries, and notably in France, they began to occupy all kinds of places, from state-owned sites (" Lycee Diderot ", where 300 artists worked for 2 years in so-called " Pôle Pi ", dismantled by police in 1998 ), to institutional properties ( Galerie Matignon, almost next door to Prime Minister's Hotel Matignon, and wealthy art galleries ).

The next American space station project was Space Station Freedom, which was never completed, although it eventually led to the construction of the US Orbital Segment of the International Space Station, starting in 1998.

The next season, Gretzky broke Gordie Howe's career goal-scoring record and won the scoring title, but the team began a long slide, and despite numerous player and coaching moves, they failed to qualify for the playoffs again until 1998.

* The video games Resident Evil 0, Resident Evil, Resident Evil 2, Resident Evil 3: Nemesis, Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City, and Resident Evil Code: Veronica all take place in 1998, July for the first two, September for the next three, and December CV.

Fatboy Slim's next work was the single " The Rockafeller Skank ", released prior to the album You've Come a Long Way, Baby, both of which were released in 1998.

Palm vs. Microsoft ( 1998 ) In 1998, Microsoft planned to name the next version of their handheld computing platform " Palm PC ".

He next appeared in Barry Levinson's adaptation of Sphere ( 1998 ), opposite Sharon Stone, Samuel L. Jackson, Peter Coyote, Queen Latifah and Liev Schreiber.

She died in 1998 at the age of 86 and is interred next to Hubert Humphrey.

In October 1998, Netscape announced that its next browser would use Gecko ( which was still called NGLayout at the time ) rather than the old layout engine, requiring large parts of the application to be rewritten.

Davenport's next victory on tour was her first Grand Slam singles title at the 1998 US Open, defeating fifth-ranked Venus Williams in the semifinals and top-ranked Hingis in the final.

The Space Games took FreeFlying to the next level from 1998.

Four volumes were planned, but it has since reached 89 volumes ( including several which were planned for the next years, but put on hold in 1998 ).

Sections 54 to 59 of the Access to Justice Act 1999 and Part 52 of the Civil Procedure Rules 1998 came into force on 2 May 2000, and created one universal appeals system ; not all of these are to the Court of Appeal, with the principle used that an appeal should go to the next highest court in the hierarchy.

The International Tennis Federation moved to Roehampton from Barons Court in 1998, and in 2007 the Lawn Tennis Association made the same short journey across London to their newly built headquarters next door to the ITF.

The next two censuses found none, and in 1998, reporter John Brummett noted that the city remained all white.

The next spacecraft to monitor the solar wind at the point was WIND from 1994 to 1998.

For decades, employment in the area was dominated by a large Fruit of the Loom plant, formerly known as Union Underwear, which closed in 1998, along with, shortly thereafter, the Indiana-based Batesville Casket Company. Amazon. com soon moved to fill the employment void, and ten other businesses either located or relocated to Taylor County over the next several years.

In 1998, Rossford's centennial, the town built a memorial next to the run-down Ford Club in memory of the foundation of the town.