In South Africa, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission presents its report, which condemns both sides for committing atrocities.
Tag: 1998
3 February 1998
Cavalese cable car disaster: a United States military pilot causes the death of 20 people when his low-flying plane cuts the cable of a cable-car…
26 January 1998
Lewinsky scandal: On American television, U.S. President Bill Clinton denies having had “sexual relations” with former White House intern Monica Lewinsky.
29 December 1998
Leaders of the Khmer Rouge apologize for the 1970s genocide in Cambodia that claimed over one million lives.
20 November 1998
A court in Taliban-controlled Afghanistan declares accused terrorist Osama bin Laden “a man without a sin” in regard to the 1998 U.S. embassy bombings in…
31 October 1998
Iraq disarmament crisis begins: Iraq announces it would no longer cooperate with United Nations weapons inspectors.
27 September 1998
The Google internet search engine retroactively claims this date as its birthday
23 October 1998
Israel and the Palestinian Authority sign the Wye River Memorandum. [rdp-wiki-embed url=’https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wye_River_Memorandum’]
11 May 1998
India conducts three underground atomic tests in Pokhran. At 6pm on May 11, 1998 the Indian Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee announced the successful completion…