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1998 occurs as common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, and was intended a International Month of the Ocean.
Events
January
January 1998 - A massive ice storm, caused by El Niño, strikes New England, southern Ontario and Quebec, resulting within far flung power failures, severe damage to forests, & the total of deaths.
January 1 - Smoking is banned in all California bars and eating house.
January 2
Russia begins to circulate new rubles to stem inflation and promote confidence.
Gunman shoots Antario Teodoro Filho, Brazilian politician and radio presenter, around the middle of his broadcast.
January 4 - Wilaya of Relizane massacres of 4 January 1998 in Algeria; over 170 flushed inside deuce-ace remote villages.
January 6 - The Lunar Prospector spacecraft is launched into orbit around a Moon and later incurred grounds to believe for frozen a water system around soil within for good umbrageous craters touching a Moon's poles.
January 8
Ramzi Yousef is sentenced to life in prison for planning the World Trade Center bombing.
Cosmologists announce that a expansion rate of the universe is increasing.
January 11 - Sidi-Hamed massacre in Algeria; over One c population flushed.
January 12 - 19 European nations agree to forbid human cloning.
January 13 - A holidaymaker camping a White House sprays paint on to marble busts of Giuseppe Ceracchi
January 14 - Researchers inside Dallas, Texas present findings about an enzyme that slows aging and cell dying (apoptosis).
January 15 - The stalker of Howard Stern, Lance Carvin, is sentenced to 2 1/2 years for threatening to defeat Stern and his family.
January 16 - NASA announces that John Glenn will return to space once Space Shuttle Discovery blasts off within October 1998.
January 17 - Paula Jones accuses President Bill Clinton of sexual harassment.
January 20 - Nepalese police intercepts the shipment of 272 mortal skulls in Kathmandu
January 22 - Suspected "Unabomber" Theodore Kaczynski pleads guilty & accepts a phrase of life forswearing the possibility of parole.
January 26
Lewinsky scandal: On Western television, Bill Clinton denies he had "sexual relations" using previous White House intern Monica Lewinsky.
Compaq buys Digital Equipment Corporation.
January 26 - Monkeys attack people around Ito, Japan
January 27 - American 1st Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton appears on the Today show calling the attacks against her married man section of the "vast right-wing conspiracy."
January 28
Ford Motor Company announces the buyout of Volvo Cars for $6.45 billion.
Gunmen hang on to at least 400 tykes & teachers surety for many hours at an simple school within Manila, Philippines.
January 29 - In Birmingham, Alabama a bomb explodes at an abortion clinic killing one and severely wounding another. Serial bomber Eric Rudolph is suspected as a perpetrator.
February
February - Iraq disarmament crisis: The United States Senate passes resolution 71, which urged President Bill Clinton to "take all necessary and appropriate actions to respond to the threat posed by Iraq's refusal to end its weapons of mass destruction programs."
February 3 - Cavalese cable-car disaster: a United States Military pilot causes a demise of Twenty skiers within Trento, Italy riding on a cable-suspended lift after his on line-flying plane severs the cable.
February 3 - Karla Faye Tucker is executed in Texas becoming the number one woman executed in the United States since 1984.
February 4 - An earthquake measuring 6.Unity on the Richter Scale in northeast Afghanistan kills more than 5,000.
February 6 - Washington National Airport is renamed Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport.
February 6 - The French prefect Claude Erignac is assassinated in the streets of Ajaccio (Corse) by a commando of Corsican insurgents, among the babies Yvan Colonna (test june 2).
February 7 - Roger Nicholas Angleton committed suicide within the cell in Houston, Texas by cutting himself with razor blades. He admitted to murdering socialite Doris Angleton in her River Oaks home in his suicide note.
February 10 - A college dropout becomes the foremost individual to become convicted of the hate crime committed in cyberspace.
February 10 - Voters in Maine repeal a gay rights law passed in 1997 becoming the first U.S. state to abandon such a law.
February 12 - The presidential line-item veto is declared unconstitutional by a United States federal judge.
February 14 - Authorities in the United States announce that Eric Rudolph is a suspect in an Alabama abortion clinic bombing.
February 15 - Dale Earnhardt wins the Daytona 500 in his 20th attempt when numerous unsucsessful tries.
February 16 - China Airlines Flight 676 crashed into a residential district nigh by Chiang Kai-shek International Airport, killing 202 people, involved a lot 196 in board & hexad on the ground.
February 18 - Two white separatists were arrested in Nevada and accused of plotting a biological attack on New York City subways.
February 19 - 66-day blackout begins in Auckland, New Zealand.
February 19 - Larry Wayne Harris of the Aryan Nations and William Leavitt are arrested in Henderson, New York for possession of military grade anthrax
February 20 - Iraq disarmament crisis: Iraqi President Saddam Hussein negotiates a treat sustaining U.North. secretary-general Kofi Annan, allowing weapons inspectors to go to to Baghdad, preventing military action per U.S. and Britain.
February 23 - Tornadoes in central Florida destroy or damage 2,600 structures & obliterate 42 (view Florida El Niño Outbreak).
February 23 - Osama bin Laden publishes fatwa declaring jihad against all Jews and Crusaders.
February 24 - Hustler publisher Larry Flynt is acquitted of charges of defamation of Jerry Falwell.
February 24 - A human strains to hijack Turkish Airlines passenger plane claiming that he has a bomb in his teddy bear. Rider disapprove & apprehend him
February 28 - Serbian police start to kill and so-alleged "terrorist gangs" within Kosovo.
March
March 1 - Attack Submarine USS Sea Devil (now ex-Sea Devil (SSN-664)) starts to be deactivated
March 2 - Data sent from either a Galileo probe indicates that Jupiter's moon Europa has a liquid ocean under a heavy crust of ice
March 4 - Gay rights: The Supreme Court of the United States rules that federal laws banning on-a-job sexual harassment also apply whilst each parties come a equivalent sex.
March 5 - NASA announced that the Clementine probe orbiting the Moon had found plenty the water supply inside polar craters to trend lines a man colony & rocket fueling station
March 5 - NASA announces the guide of United States Air Force Lt. Gap. Eileen Collins as commander of a first Space Shuttle Columbia mission to launch an X-ray telescope making Collins the foremost woman commander of the space shuttle mission.
March 6 - Closure of the South Crofty tin mine
March 6 - The Imperial Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan is fined for burning a cross inside his garden & infringing air regulations inside California
March 10 - American troops stationed in the Persian Gulf begin to receive the number one vaccinations against anthrax.
March 11 - Danish parliamentary election held, unexpectedly returning Prime Minister Poul Nyrup Rasmussen to power.
March 14 - An earthquake measuring 6.Niner on the Richter scale hits southeastern Iran
March 23 - At the Academy Awards ceremony Titanic wins 11 Oscars
March 24 - In Jonesboro, Arkansas, two young boys (aged 11 & 13 years) fire upon students at Westside Middle School while hidden in forest touching a school. 4 students & 1 teacher come flushed & X injured
March 26 - Oued Bouaicha massacre in Algeria; 5Deuce people flushed by using axe & knives, 32 of a children new borns under the age of 2.
March 27 - The FDA approves Viagra for use as a coarse of action for male impotence, becoming the number one pill to become approved to handle this affliction in the United States.
April
April 1 - Ukrainian serial killer Anatoly Onoprienko is sentenced to death for 52 murders
April 5 - In Japan, the Akashi-Kaikyo Bridge linking Shikoku with Honshu and costing cost just about Me$3.8 billion, opens to traffic, becoming a big suspension bridge in the world.
April 6 - Pakistan tests medium-range missiles capable of hitting India
April 7 - Citicorp and Travelers Group announce plans to merge creating the big financial-services conglomerate in the globe, Citigroup
April 8 - Iraq disarmament crisis: UNSCOM reports to the UN Security Council that Iraq's declaration on its bioarm program is uncomplete & short.
April 10 - Good Friday: 18 hours fallowing a prevent of talks deadline a Belfast Agreement is signed between the Irish & British governments & virtually all Northern Ireland political parties, with a notable exception of the Democratic Unionist Party.
April 16 - A massive tornado occurred within Nashville, Tennessee. These are the foremost tornado within Xi years to produce the directly hit in a major city. (look at Nashville Tornado of 1998)
April 25 - A wild reservoir at Los Frailes mine within Andalusia, Spain, ruptures, discharging heavy metal waste into a Guadiamar River. A pollution threatens a sensitive ecosystem & endangered mintage of Doñana National Park, Spain's largest nature and severity reserve, however is diverted into a Guadalquivir River. As much as Hundred km² of farmland come ruined per spill. [http://edition.cnn.com/EARTH/9804/25/spain.disaster.reut/]
May
May 2 - Japanese rock star hide (Hideto Matsumoto) mysteriously dies of asphyxiation.
May 7 - Apple Computer unveils the iMac.
May 9 - Dana International, a transexual singer from either Israel, wins a 1998 Eurovision Song Contest inside Birmingham,UK.
May 11 - Nuclear testing: In the Rajasthan Desert, India conducts its second series of underground nuclear tests (a number 1 were around 1974) and inflaming its rival neighbor Pakistan (who already has nuclear weapons).
May 13 - Following India's second around of nuclear tests the United States and Japan impose economic sanctions on the nation.
May 15 - Iraq disarmament crisis: UNSCOM learns that an Iraqi delegation has travelled to Bucharest to meet by having man of science world health organization could provide a united states with missile guidance device.
May 18 - United States v. Microsoft: The United States Department of Justice and 20 U.S. states file an antitrust case against Microsoft
May 21 - School shooting: At Thurston High School in Springfield, Oregon, Kipland Kinkel (who was suspended for bringing the gun to school) shoots a semi-automatic rifle into a room filled sustaining students killing Deuce wounding Twenty-five others fallowing killing his parents at home
May 21 - Reproductive rights: In Miami, Florida, five abortion clinics are hit by the butyric acid attacker
May 21 - Suharto resigns, after 32 years as Indonesian President and 7th sequentially re-election per Indonesian Parliament (MPR). Suharto's hand-picked Vice President, B. J. Habibie, became Indonesia's third president.
May 21 to September 30 - Expo '98 is held in Lisbon, Portugal, with the title "Oceans, an Heritage for the Future". UNESCO had previously declared 1998 to exist as a International Season of the Oceans due to the Exhibition. 12 million population attend the world fair
May 22 - Lewinsky scandal: A federal judge system that United States Secret Service agents can be compelled to testify prior to the grand jury concerning the scandal
May 27 - Oklahoma City bombing: Michael Fortier is sentenced to 12 years in prison and fined $200,000 for failing to warn authorities all about a terrorist plot.
May 28 - Nuclear testing: In response to the series of Indian nuclear tests, Pakistan explodes six nuclear equipment of its have in a Chaghai hills of Baluchistan, prompting the United States, Japan and other nations to inflict economic sanctions.
May 30 - Nuclear testing: Pakistan conducts two further nuclear explosions charted its number one trial.
May 30 - A 6.Sextuplet magnitude earthquake hits northern Afghanistan killing up to 5,000.
May 30 - Geri Halliwell, better known as "Ginger Spice", announced her depature from either a large marketing girl class action ever, a Spice Girls
June
June 2 - The CIH virus is discovered inside Taiwan.
June 2 - Voters in California approved California Proposition 227, abolishing that state's bilingual education program.
June 3 - Eschede train disaster: an ICE high speed train derails, causing 101 deaths.
June 4 - Terry Nichols is sentenced to life in prison for his role in the Oklahoma City bombing
July 5 - Japan launches a probe to Mars, and so joins a United States and Russia as a space exploring nation
June 5 - A strike begins at the General Motors parts factory within Flint, Michigan that quickly spreads to five more assembly plants (a strike lasted 7 weeks)
June 8 - Charlton Heston assumes the presidency of the National Rifle Association.
June 8 - President Sani Abacha of Nigeria dies of apparent heart failure
June 12 - A jury around Hattiesburg, Mississippi, convicts 17-year-old Luke Woodham of killing two students & wounding 7 others at Pearl High School [http://www.cnn.com/US/9806/12/school.shooting.verdict/]
June 12 - 13-year old Christina Marie Williams was kidnapped in Seaside, California while taking her run for a hike.
June 14 - The Chicago Bulls win their sixth NBA title in Octad years while it beat a Utah Jazz, 87-86 in Stake Six. This is besides Michael Jordan's last game as a Bull.
June 16 - The Detroit Red Wings sweep the Washington Capitals in 4 games in the 1998 Stanley Cup Finals.
June 25 - In Clinton v. City of New York, the United States Supreme Court decides that the Line Item Veto Act of 1996 is unconstitutional.
July
July 6 - The newly Hong Kong International Airport at Chek Lap Kok opens.
July 10 - The DNA-identified remains of United States Air Force 1st Lt. Michael Joseph Blassie arrive home to his personal in St. Louis, Missouri after being in the Tomb of the Unknowns since 1984
July 10 - Catholic priests' sex abuse scandal: The Diocese of Dallas agrees to pay $23.4 million to nine previous altar boys world health organization claimed it were sexually abused by former priest Rudolph Kos
July 12 - France defeats Brazil 3-0 to win the Football World Cup 1998
July 17 - In St. Petersburg, Nicholas II of Russia and his family are buried in St. Catherine Chapel 80 years after he and his personal were flushed by Bolsheviks
July 17 - A tsunami triggered by an undersea earthquake destroys 10 villages around Papua New Guinea killing an estimated 1,500, allowing 2,000 other unaccounted for & hundreds to thousands further homeless
July 17 - Biologists report in the journal Science how they sequenced a genome of the bacterium that causes syphilis, Treponema pallidum
July 24 - Russel Eugene Weston Jr. bursts into the United States Capitol and opens fire killing two police officers. He is late ruled to become incompetent person to have trial
July 25 - The United States Navy commissions the aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman and puts her into service
July 25 - Wakayama Arsenic poison case - 63 poisoned and Tetrad dead by arsenic within a festival in the town in Wakayama Prefecture in Japan - Masumi Hayashi is arrested for murder
July 28 - Monica Lewinsky scandal: Ex-White House intern, Monica Lewinsky receives transactional immunity in exchange for her grand jury testimony concerning her relationship by having US President Bill Clinton.
July 31 - UK import ban on landmines
August
August 5 - Iraq disarmament crisis: Iraq officially suspends all cooperation by using UNSCOM teams
August 7 - 1998 U.S. embassy bombings: Bombing of the United States embassies in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, and Nairobi, Kenya kills 224 people and injures over 4,500. A bombings were linked to Osama Bin Laden.
August 15 - The Real IRA detonate a car bomb in Omagh, County Tyrone, Ireland, killing 29 & injuring on top 200 - a greatest loss of life inside one incident of The Troubles.
August 16 - Silk-Miller police murders: Australian police officers murdered around Moorabbin, Victoria.
August 17
Monica Lewinsky scandal: US President Bill Clinton admits in taped testimony that he got an "improper physical relationship" by using White House intern Monica Lewinsky. On a equivalent day he admits prior to the united states that he "misled people" just about his relationship
Russian financial crisis: Devaluation of the rouble. A ruble wasted 70% of its value against The states dollar inside Sextuplet months resulting August 1998. Many big Russians banks collapsed, & hundreds to thousands of population misused their economy.
August 20 - The Supreme Court of Canada states Quebec can not legally secede from either Canada without the federal government's approval
August 20 - 1998 U.S. embassy bombings: The United States military launches cruise missile attacks against alleged Al-Qaeda camps in Afghanistan and a suspected chemical plant in Sudan in retaliation for the August 7 bombings of American embassies in Kenya and Tanzania. A al-Shifa pharmaceutical factory in Khartoum is destroyed in the attack
August 26 - Iraq disarmament crisis: Scott Ritter resigns from UNSCOM, sharply criticized the Clinton administration and a U.North. Security Council for non existence vigorous plenty just about insisting that Iraq's weapons of mass destruction become destroyed. Ritter told newsman that "Iraq is not disarming," "Iraq retains the capability to launch a chemical strike."
August 31 - North Korea reportedly launches Kwangmyongsong, their first satellite. Although Northward Korea reports that it reached stable orbit, NORAD was never able to confirm this assertion
September
September 2 - In Canada, pilots for Air Canada launch the number 1 strike within company's history
September 2 - A McDonnell Douglas MD-11 airliner carrying Swissair flight 111 crashes near Peggys Cove, Nova Scotia after taking off from either New York City en-route to Geneva. Tons 229 humans in board come killed
September 2 - A United Nations court finds Jean-Paul Akayesu, the previous city manager of the settlement around Rwanda, guilty of nine numbers of genocide, marking a 1st period that the 1948 law banning genocide is enforced
September 3 - In Somalia, the southern port of Kismayo is declared the capital of independent Jubaland under Muhamed Said Hersi
September 7 - Google Inc. is founded.
September 8 - St. Louis Cardinals first baseman Mark McGwire breaks baseball's single season homerun record, formerly held by Roger Maris. McGwire hits #62 at Busch Stadium in the fourth frame hit of Chicago Cubs pitcher Steve Trachsel.
September 9 - The United Nations General Assembly elects Didier Opertiri of Uruguay as president for its 53rd session
September 14 - GSPC formed in Algeria, splitting off from either a GIA over its policy of massacring civilians.
September 15 - Telecommunications companies MCI Communications and WorldCom complete their $37 billion merger to form MCI WorldCom.
September 25 - 28 September -- Major creditors of Long-Term Capital Management, a Greenwich, Connecticut based hedge fund, after times of hard bargaining & occasionally informal mediation by officials of the Federal Reserve agree on terms of the re-capitalization -- we.e. it produce a syndicate that requires on top the fund's failing portfolio.
September 26 - The Adelaide Crows do what the critics said was impossible, win their 2d AFL (Australian Football League) Premiership to make it Back2Back.
September 29 - Iraq disarmament crisis: The U.S. Congress passes the "Iraq Liberation Act", which states that the United States wants to remove Saddam Hussein from power and replace the government with a democratic institution.
October
October 3 — In Australia, John Howard's coalition government was re-elected for a second term.
October 4 - Leafie Mason is murdered in her Hughes Springs, Texas house by Angel Maturino Resendiz. She was his 2nd victim within his 2nd incident.
October 6 - Matthew Shepard, a Wyoming college student, is found attached to the fence, the victim of a gay-bashing. He dies in Monday, October 12, becoming a symbol of people of gay-bashing & sparking public reflectiin on homophobia.
October 7 - Oslo Fornebu Airport closes.
October 7 - United States Congress passes, a Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act, which gives right of first publicatiin holders Xx supplementary years of right of first publication privilege on function which it control a copyright. This profits freezes a public domain to works created before 1923 in the United States.
October 8 - Oslo Airport (Gardermoen) opens.
October 8 - Japan-Republic of Korea Joint Declaration A New Japan-Republic of Korea Partnership towards the Twenty-first Century.
October 12 - U.S. Congress passes Digital Millennium Copyright Act
October 14 - Eric Robert Rudolph is charged with Sextet bombings including a 1996 Olympic bombing in Atlanta, Georgia
October 16 - British police place General Augusto Pinochet into house arrest during his medical treatment inside Britain
October 23 - Swatch Internet Time introduced
October 28 - An Air China jetliner is hijacked by disgruntled pilot Yuan Bin & flown to Taiwan. Fallowing landing a plane safely, Yuan Bin was arrested.
October 29 - Apartheid: In South Africa, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission presents its report, which condemns both sides for committing atrocities
October 29 - Space Shuttle Discovery blasts-off with 77-season old John Glenn on board, making him the oldster to last into space. He became a number 1 American to orbit Earth in Tuesday, February 20, 1962.
October 29 - While on the way from either Adana to Ankara, a Turkish Airlines flight with the crew of 6 & 33 rider is hijacked by the Kurdish militant world health organization orders a pilot to fly to Switzerland. A plane instead lands within Ankara fallowing a pilot tricked a highjacking into thinking that he was landing in the Bulgarian capital of Sofia to refuel
October 29 - In Freehold Borough, New Jersey, Melissa Drexler pleads guilty to aggravated manslaughter for killing her baby moments fallowing redeeming him in the bathroom at her senior prom, and is sentenced to 15 years imprisonment
October 29 - In Göteborg, Sweden two arsonists burn down the disco of the local Macedonian Society - 63 dead, ended 200 wounded, virtually all of the babies babies of refugees
October 31 - Iraq disarmament crisis begins: Iraq announces it would no protracted cooperate by using United Nations weapons inspectors.
November
November 1 - The European Court of Human Rights is instituted.
November 3 - Former professional wrestler, Jesse Ventura is elected Governor of Minnesota.
November 5 - Lewinsky scandal: As a share of the impeachment inquiry, House Judiciary Committee chairwoman Henry Hyde sends a listings of 81 questions to U.s. President Bill Clinton
November 5 - The journal Nature publishes a transmitted survey showing compelling grounds to believe that Thomas Jefferson fathered his slave Sally Hemings' son Eston Hemings Jefferson
November 9 - within the largest civil personal injury settlement in United States history, the federal judge approves a United states$1.03 billion personal injury settlement requiring xii of brokerage (including Merrill Lynch, Goldman Sachs, and Salomon Smith Barney) to pay investors who claim it were cheated inside the wide-spread price-fixing scheme on the NASDAQ
November 12 - Daimler-Benz completes a merger by having Chrysler to form Daimler-Chrysler.
November 13-14 - Iraq disarmament crisis: U.S. President Clinton orders airstrikes on Iraq. Clinton then calls it off at a eleventh hour whilst Iraq promises once again to "unconditionally" cooperate by owning UNSCOM
November 18 - Iraq disarmament crisis: UNSCOM inspectors return to Iraq.
November 19 - Lewinsky scandal: The United State House of Representatives' Judiciary Committee begins impeachment hearings against US President Bill Clinton.
November 20 - A court inside Taliban-controlled Afghanistan declares accused terrorist Osama bin Laden "a man without a sin" in regards to the 1998 U.S. embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania.
November 20 - Galina Starovoitova, Russian legislator and democracy advocate, is assassinated inside St Petersburg, Russia
November 23-26 - Iraq disarmament crisis: According to UNSCOM, Iraq once again ends cooperation by using a U.N. inspectors, alternately intimidating and withholding information from them
November 24 - America Online announces it will get Netscape Communications in a commodity index-for-stock dealing worth United states$4.Two billion.
November 26 - Tony Blair becomes the foremost Prime Minister of the United Kingdom to address a Republic of Ireland's parliament
November 26 - Japan-China Joint Declaration On Building a Partnership of Friendship and Cooperation for Peace and Development
November 30 - Deutsche Bank announces a Me$10 billion treat to purchase Bankers Trust, thus creating a big financial institution in the globe.
December
December 1 - Exxon announces a United states$73.7 billion treat to purchase Mobil, thus creating Exxon-Mobil, the big company on the planet.
December 5 - D.C. United defeats Vasco da Gama 2 – 1 on aggregate to win the Interamerican Cup and is one of the greatest triumphs in the history of U.S. club association football.
December 6 - Hugo Chávez Frías, Venezuelan military & politician, is elected President of Venezuela.
December 8 - Tadjena massacre in Algeria; 81 villagers killed.
December 11 - Iraq disarmament crisis: Iraq announces that U.N. weapons inspections will no longer take place on Friday, the Muslim day of rest. Iraq also refuses to provide test information from either a production of missiles & engines
December 16-19 - Iraq disarmament crisis: U.S. President Clinton orders American and British airstrikes on Iraq. UNSCOM withdraws totally weapons inspectors from either Iraq
December 17 - Claudia Benton, of West University Place, Texas, is murdered in her home by Angel Maturino Resendiz, She is his third victim in his third incident.
December 19 - Iraq disarmament crisis: Iraqi vice-president Taha Yassin Ramadan announces that Iraq will no protracted cooperate & declares that UNSCOM's "mission is over."
December 21 - Iraq disarmament crisis: UN Security Council members France, Germany and Russia call for sanctions to end against Iraq. A terzetto Sc members likewise require UNSCOM to either become disbanded or even for its role to exist as recast. A U.S. says it may veto any such proposal
December 26 - Iraq disarmament crisis: Iraq announced its intention to fire upon US and British warplanes that patrol the northern & southern "no-fly zones".
December 29 - Leaders of the Khmer Rouge apologize for the genocide in Cambodia that claimed over One million in the 1970s.
December 31 - The number 1 leap second since June 30, 1997.
Unknown Dates
The third World Parliament of Religions is held in Cape Town on 1 - 8 December 1999.
fourth generation of VW's Passat automobile goes on sale in North America.
Ibrahim Hanna, the last native speaker of Mlahsö, dies in Qamishli, Syria, making the language effectively extinct. In that same year, the last native speaker of related Bijil Neo-Aramaic dies in Jerusalem.
Births
February 25 - Brendon Baerg, child actor
March 5 - Eddy Wild, child actor
March 22 - Sara Remling, child actress
April 9 - Elle Fanning, actress
September 21 - Lorenzo, Nikolas, Zachary and Myrinda Brino, child actors/actress
Deaths
January-February
January 1 - Helen Wills Moody, American tennis player (b. 1905)
January 4 - Mae Questel, American actress (b. 1908)
January 5 - Sonny Bono, American singer, actor, and politician (b. 1935)
January 8 - Michael Tippett, English composer (b. 1905)
January 11 - Klaus Tennstedt, German conductor (b. 1926)
January 15 - Junior Wells, American harmonica player (b. 1934
January 19 - Carl Perkins, American guitarist (b. 1932)
January 21 - Jack Lord, American actor (b. 1920)
February - Roger Nicholas Angleton, American murderer (b. 1942)
February 6 - Falco, Austrian musician (b. 1957)
February 6 - Carl Wilson, American musician (b. 1946)
February 7 - Lawrence Sanders, American author (b. 1920)
February 8 - Halldór Laxness, Icelandic writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1902)
February 8 - Julian Lincoln Simon, American economist and author (b. 1932)
February 18 - Harry Caray, American television and radio broadcaster (b. 1917)
February 24 - Henny Youngman, English born American comedian (b. 1906)
February 27 - J.T. Walsh, American actor (b 1943)
February 28 - Dermot Morgan, Irish actor and comedian (b. 1952)
March-July
March 8 - Ray Nitschke, American football player (b. 1936)
March 10 - Lloyd Bridges, American actor (b. 1913)
March 12 - Beatrice Wood, American artist and ceramicist (b. 1893)
March 13 - Bill Reid, Canadian artist (b. 1920)
March 13 - Risen Star, racehorse (b. 1985)
March 15 - Benjamin Spock, American athlete, pediatrician, and author (b. 1903)
March 31 - Bella Abzug, American politician (b. 1920)
April 6 - Tammy Wynette, American musician (b. 1942)
April 15 - Pol Pot, Cambodian Khmer Rouge leader (b. 1925)
April 19 - Octavio Paz, Mexican diplomat and writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1914)
April 23 - Constantine Caramanlis, Greek politician (b. 1907)
May 1 - Eldridge Cleaver, American activist (b. 1935)
May 7 - Eddie Rabbitt, musician (b. 1941)
May 9 - Alice Faye, American entertainer (b. 1915)
May 14 - Frank Sinatra, American entertainer (b. 1915)
May 15 - Earl Manigault, basketball player (b. 1944)
May 19 - Sosuke Uno, Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1922)
May 28 - Phil Hartman, Canadian-born artist, writer, actor, and comedian (b. 1948)
May 29 - Barry M. Goldwater, American politician (b. 1909)
June 10 - Hammond Innes, English author (b. 1914)
June 11 - Catherine Cookson, English author (b. 1906)
June 13 - Birger Ruud, Norwegian athelete (b. 1911)
July 3 - Danielle Bunten Berry, American software developer (b. 1949)
July 6 - Roy Rogers, American singer and actor (b. |
