To hold impeachment proceedings, the Republican leadership called a lame-duck session in December 1998.

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

As of December 1998, the government had licensed 418 banks and trust companies in The Bahamas.

Costa Rican colones (₡) per US $ 1 – 512. 11 ( September 4, 2010 ), US $ 1 – 559. 51 ( October 24, 2008 ), per US $ 1 – 500. 10 ( December 2007 ), 516. 78 ( November 2007 ), 506. 11 ( April 2006 ), 479. 57 ( July 2005 ), 299. 63 ( February 2000 ), 285. 68 ( 1999 ), 257. 23 ( 1998 ), 232. 60 ( 1997 ), 207. 69 ( 1996 ) and 179. 73 ( 1995 )

Colombia was a participant in the December 1994 and April 1998 Summits of the Americas and followed up on initiatives developed at the summit by hosting two post-summit, ministerial-level meetings on trade and science and technology.

In December 1998 there were 20 days without sun recorded at Yeovilton.

The last successful drop kick extra point in the NCAA was by Jason Millgan of the Hartwick College on December 11, 1998, against St. Lawrence University.

Following the Doctor V64's success Bung releases the Doctor V64 Jr. in December 1998.

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Francis Albert " Frank " Sinatra,, ( December 12, 1915 – May 14, 1998 ) was an American singer and film actor.

President Bongo coasted to easy re-elections in December 1998 and November 2005, with large majorities of the vote against a divided opposition.

Facing a divided opposition, President Omar Bongo was re-elected in December 1998, with 66 % of the votes cast.

President Bongo coasted to an easy re-election in December 1998 with 66 % of the vote against a divided opposition.

Irina Krush ( born December 24, 1983 ) is an American chess player who has won the U. S. Women's Chess Championship in 1998, 2007, 2010, and 2012.

Manning's Colts defeated the Chargers in 1998 and 1999, but in 2004 with Leaf long gone from the game the revamped Chargers behind Drew Brees erupted into playoff contention ; on December 26 with both teams at 11-3 the Colts hosted the Chargers with Manning close to matching Dan Marino's touchdown record ; the Chargers stormed to a 31-16 lead, but Dominic Rhodes ' kickoff return put the Colts within eight points, then with one minute remaining Manning rifled a 21-yard touchdown to Brandon Stokley, breaking Marino's record ; the two-point try succeeded, then after Brees was intercepted the game went to overtime and the Colts won 34-31 on a field goal.

It is described in Internet standard document RFC 2460, published in December 1998.

** Bill Clinton, Democrat, was impeached on December 19, 1998, by the House of Representatives on articles charging perjury ( specifically, lying to a federal grand jury ) by a 228 – 206 vote, and obstruction of justice by a 221 – 212 vote.

), 80. 83 ( January 2009 ), 70. 0 ( December 2007 ), 62. 5 ( September 2005 ), 45. 7 ( June 2001 ), 41. 139 ( December 1999 ), 9. 044 ( 1999 ), 36. 550 ( 1998 ), 35. 404 ( 1997 ), 37. 120 ( 1996 )

With the advent of Java 2 ( released initially as J2SE 1. 2 in December 1998 – 1999 ), new versions had multiple configurations built for different types of platforms.

The United States helped the Kyrgyz Republic accede to the World Trade Organization ( WTO ) in December 1998.

In December 1998, the IEC addressed such multiple usages and definitions by creating unique binary prefixes to denote multiples of 1024, such as “ kibibyte ( KiB )”, which represents 2 < sup > 10 </ sup >, or 1024, bytes.

Loach was interviewed by Theodoros Papadopoulos in December 1998.

" In December 1998, while DJ ' ing at a club he met and became friends with MTV host Carson Daly.

He became one of 12 board members of the American Astronautical Society, an organization formed in 1954 to represent the country's 300 leading scientists and engineers in the area of guided missiles — he was one of seven members of the board to resign in December 1956 after a series of disputes about the direction and control of the group.

In December 1965, The New York Times reported on a conference Singer hosted in Miami Beach during which five groups of scientists, working independently, presented research identifying what they believed was the remains of a primordial flash that occurred when the universe was born.

In December 2009, after the release of thousands of e-mails from the University of East Anglia's Climatic Research Unit — a controversy that came to be known as " Climategate "— Singer wrote an opinion piece for Reuters in which he said the scientists had misused peer review, pressured editors to prevent publication of alternative views, and smeared opponents.

Retrieved on 2008-03-01 </ ref > The synthesis of the important isotope < sup > 270 </ sup > Hs was published in December 2006 by the team of scientists from the Technical University of Munich .< ref >" Doubly magic < sup > 270 </ sup > Hs ", Turler et al., GSI report, 2006.

In December 1998, scientists at the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research working in Dubna, Russia bombarded plutonium ( Pu ) with calcium ( Ca ) to produce a single atom of element 114 ,< ref > flerovium ( Fl ).

* Al-Farabi, a Muslim polymath and one of the greatest scientists and philosophers ( c. 872 – between 14 December, 950 and 12 January, 951 ).

Based on data retrieved by Astron, the largest ultraviolet space telescope of the time, during its Halley's Comet observations in December 1985, a group of Soviet scientists developed a model of the comet's coma.

In December 1929, Soviet leader Joseph Stalin gave a famous speech praising " practice " above " theory ", elevating the political bosses above the scientists and technical specialists.

In December 2000, tens of thousands of people were evacuated by the government based on the warnings of scientists.

Even before the Bulletin was established in December 1945, there was an effort by the scientists working inside the United States to prevent atomic warfare from ever taking place.

* In December, the first quantum byte, or qubyte, is announced to have been created by scientists at The Institute of Quantum Optics and Quantum Information at the University of Innsbruck in Austria, with the formal paper published in the December 1 issue of Nature.

In December 2010, scientists at the Berlin Technical University in Germany revealed they have grown the world's first artificial hair follicles from stem cells.

The football field at Susquehanna University is named Amos Alonzo Stagg Field in honor of both Stagg Sr. and Jr. Stagg was the namesake of the University of Chicago's old Stagg Field where, on December 2, 1942, a team of Manhattan Project scientists led by Enrico Fermi created the world's first controlled, self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction under the west stands of the abandoned stadium.

Due to financial difficulties, the magazine converted to a monthly publication in December 2004, and simultaneously switched to an arrangement whereby most articles were contributed by non-staff writers who had expertise in a given field, such as economists, business-community figures, government policymakers, social scientists and others.

On December 11, 2006, the UCS issued a statement signed by 10, 600 leading scientists including Nobel laureates.

In December 2006 hassium-270 (), with 108 protons and 162 neutrons, was discovered by an international team of scientists led by the Technical University of Munich having the unusually long half-life of 22 seconds.

The local hotel Aurora has been used by tourists since December 2007, who want to spend time at the only rocket base allowing tourists to sleep in the hotels, which are normally meant for scientists and engineers.

It was founded in December 1987, open to visiting scholars and scientists from both within China and abroad.

Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc ( 1 December 1580 – 24 June 1637 ), often known simply as Peiresc, or by the Latin form of his name Peirescius, was a French astronomer, antiquary and savant, who maintained a wide correspondence with scientists, and was a successful organizer of scientific inquiry.

By December 26, 2003, St. Stephen's Day, Project Steve had grown to 400 scientists.

In December 1972, Abdus Salam led the establishment of Theoretical Physics Group ( TPG ) as he called scientists working at ICTP to report to Munir Ahmad Khan.

These results appear in a special collection of 10 articles, by scientists in Japan, Europe and the United States, in the 7 December issue of the journal Science.

In December 2011 scientists at Italy's National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and Sustainable Development ENEA announced that their series of tests demonstrated the image on the shroud could, in their opinion, only have been created by " some form of electromagnetic energy " such as a flash of light at short wavelength.