1998 what was happening

Perkins passes away from throat cancer at 65 in Tennessee, after suffering a series of strokes. Legend has it that U.

It Couple "Posh and Becks" met at a charity soccer game in It's only a year later that the soccer star proposes to the Spice Girl at the height of her fame. The Spice Girls are the biggest winners of the night, racking up three honors -- though the absent group only appear singing in a pre-taped segment. Portland, Ore. This time, Brown is convicted two years later of driving under the influence, as well as causing property damage, and he serves five days in jail before being released on probation.

Notably, Braxton still manages to make history that year, becoming the first black woman to portray Belle in a Broadway production of Beauty and the Beast that September. Goofy alt-rock trio The Presidents of the United States of America briefly disband in when lead vocalist Chris Ballew calls it quits to spend more time with family.

Fans bid the group goodbye as they play a farewell show in their hometown of Seattle They retire again, presumably for real, in After a hard-fought year, the leader of the seminal surf band passes away in Los Angeles on Feb 6, , just two months after the death of his mother, Audree Wilson. The punk-rock tale of a German rock diva who is the victim of a botched gender-reassignment surgery turns heads, with Patti LuPone , David Bowie and Glenn Close reportedly among its attendees.

The show comes to Broadway in , where it picks up a Tony for the best revival of a musical, racking up eight total nominations. Jones suffered two strokes after his second show performance at the Grand Ole Opry in January , passing away one month later. He is remembered in the Country Music Hall of Fame, where he became a member in Eventually, it scores the diva a Grammy for record of the year, and wins best original song at the Academy Awards in March.

Thankfully, all three members survive --and in , they release their first studio album in a decade, Ram 6: Manmanm Se Ginen. The singer and music exec had married back in with a grand ceremony, modeled after the royal wedding of Princess Diana and Prince Charles.

After the couple divorce in '98, it is revealed that Mottola was physically and emotionally abusive in the relationship. Hard rock heroes Van Halen earn their 13th No.

The record is only just matched in March , when Three Days Grace notch their own 13th list-topper with "The Mountain. After the then-fledgling Detroit rapper placed second in the annual Rap Olympics that year, a copy of his Slim Shady EP is said to have made its way to Dr.

The decision solidifies Em as the cornerstone of the label, and just the next year, his Slim Shady LP goes platinum in five quick weeks. March The first mass-produced portable MP3 player is launched at a German trade fair. The simple move makes The Beastie Boys one of the first acts to embrace the then-controversial MP3 audio format.

The Rascalz become one of the first to launch the conversation of diversity in awards ceremonies, refusing their Juno honor for best rap recording. Elliott Smith was still gigging at Brooklyn coffee shops when filmmaker Gus Van Sant asked to use the singer's music in his film Good Will Hunting. Soompi has since been bought out by Tokyo-based e-commerce company Rakuten, and remains a huge destination for K-pop heads all over the world.

March: Britney Spears begins recording her debut album, Baby One More Time would launch the then-teenaged singer into pop superstardom for decades to come. But in , the soon-to-be icon had just begun work on the LP, recording half the album in the pop hub of Sweden with Max Martin, including its Hot topping title track. The union lasted only a year, but the drama between J. Lo and her first husband -- who was working as a waiter when they first met -- hasn't stopped since.

Lo later sues Noa to prevent him from publishing a book about their short-lived marriage; in , Noa threatens to release a sex tape with the star which never materializes. Four years later, he departs over creative differences, as cited by frontman Anthony Kiedis in a label statement.

For what was the first time in eight years, Lollapalooza is forced to cancel its annual Chicago music festival in due to its failure to sign a major headliner.

In one of the darker news stories to surface in , rock star Tommy Lee serves four months of a six month sentence in Los Angeles County Jail for battering his wife, actress Pamela Anderson Lee, after pleading no contest to a felony charge of spousal battery. Keith Richards might be unsinkable, but you can sidetrack him for a moment. In April, Keif tumbles like dice off a ladder in his library, injuring his ribs and chest and forcing the Stones to reschedule part of their European tour.

That affects the whole damn planet. April An Indigo Girls concert at a South Carolina high school is canceled after parents complain about its singers, who are openly gay. The controversial decision sparks debate among several southern high schools, where the band was set to perform a mini-tour. May 8: The Beatles are awarded full rights to Live! George Harrison offers in-person testimony to win over rights to the famous bootleg tapes of live performances by the English rock group during their final pre-fame Hamburg residency in May 9: Israeli singer Dana International becomes the first-ever trans winner of Eurovision.

With "Diva," her pounding dance-pop ode to mortal and immortal women throughout history from Cleopatra to Aphrodite , Dana International becomes the first ever trans winner of the Eurovision Song Contest. The Tel Aviv-born singer represents Israel in the competition. Concert promoters across the U. I'm sure the group will continue to be successful and I wish them all the best PS, I'll be back.

He is charged with criminal trespassing and criminal possession of a controlled substance. June 5: Mulan hits theaters, kicking off the career of Christina Aguilera. Several thousand activists, musicians and politicians engage in protests at the United States Capitol for President Clinton to negotiate between Tibet and China in mid-June June Johnny Cash returns to the stage following a life-threatening bout with pneumonia.

In early July, Barbra Streisand and actor James Brolin are married in a private ceremony -- but don't think that means it was a no-frills affair. The soon-to-be-megastar is born to Karen and Manuel Mendes; by age 13, he begins learning guitar through YouTube videos. The charge, brought against him by an exotic dancer, gets dropped after a DNA test. A former member of The Fugees , Hill graces the world with her debut album The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill , a confessional opus that garnered a whopping 11 Grammy nominations and five wins including album of the year.

Within its pages, the tome includes a note to the president from Monica Lewinsky recognizing their joint love for Sarah McLachlan. Dolittle soundtrack. The crowd was made up of 62, spectators. Image: Wikimedia Commons. They defeat the Giants in Phoenix, Arizona in one of the main April events in sport. The bridge cost around 3. April 6: In Pakistan, medium-range missiles are tested which have the capability of hitting India.

April 6: American country singer Tammy Wynette passes away at the age of She suffered from a lot of health problems but continued to perform, and her doctor claimed she died from a blood clot in her lung.

This agreement ended most of the Troubles violence, a political conflict that had been taking place in Northern Ireland since the late s. The agreement is not signed by the Democratic Unionist Party and is signed by the agreeing parties an hour after the talks deadline had ended. April In Slovenia, an earthquake measuring 5. April Cambodian dictator and revolutionary Pol Pot passes away at the age of April After 28 years, the Red Army Faction, a German terrorist group, declares their dissolution.

May 4: In Sacramento, California, unabomber Ted Kaczynski is given 4 life sentences by a federal judge, plus another 30 years after. Kaczynski accepted a plea agreement which spared him the death penalty. Wood threw a one-hotter and in his 5th career start, he did not walk a batter.

May 7: The largest industrial merger in history at the time takes place when Mercedes-Benz buys Chrysler for 40 billion US dollars, forming DaimlerChrysler. May In India, three nuclear tests are conducted underground in Pokhran, which includes a thermonuclear device.

May In Pessac, France, the first euro coins are minted. Since the final specifications for the coins were not finished this year, the coins have to be melted down and minted once again in May In Jakarta, Indonesia, race riots break out and shops that are owned by Indonesians of Chinese descent are looted, and women are raped.

Around people are killed by the riots. May Two more nuclear tests are carried out at Pokhran in India, following the three tests carried out on May May American singer Frank Sinatra passes away at the age of He was one of the most influential and popular music artists of the 20th century. May The very last episode of Seinfield airs. Ballard, a former US Navy Officer. May Five abortion clinics in Miami, Florida, are hit by a butyric acid attacker.

May After 31 years in power, the president of Indonesia, Suharto, resigns. His resignation ends the New Order period after his 7th consecutive re-election by the Indonesian Parliament, and his hand-picked Vice President B.

May In the ongoing Lewinsky scandal, it is ruled by a federal judge that agents of the United States Secret Service can be compelled to testify before a grand jury regarding the scandal involving US President Bill Clinton. May Pakistan holds five nuclear tests in response to the ones done by India earlier in the month, which prompts Japan, the United States and other nations to impose economic sanctions. May Canadian actor and comedian Phil Hartman is killed by his wife in his sleep at the age of May Up to 5, people are killed in northern Afghanistan when a magnitude 6.

American singer Frank Sinatra in , who would pass away this year Image: Pixabay. June 1: Susie Maroney from Australia is the first person to swim to Cuba from Mexico, across the shark and jellyfish-infested Yucatan Straits.

She swims the mile distance in 38 hours and 33 minutes in a cage. June 5: In Flint, Michigan, a strike begins at the General Motors parts factory, which rapidly spreads to five other assembly plants.

The strike would continue for 7 weeks. June A resolution is passed by the Organisation of African Unity, stating its members will not comply with punitive sanctions that are applied by the UN Security Council against Libya. City of New York. The Line Veto Act was a federal law granting the President the power to line-item veto budget bills that had been passed by Congress.

June The first on-demand video game service, Sega Channels, closes down. July 1: After no agreement is made with players about salary issues, the NBA begins a player lockout. This lasts days and the basketball season is cut short by 50 games. July After nine former altar boys claim they were sexually abused by former priest Rudolph Kos, the Diocese of Dallas agrees to pay The final score was July A year after Giovanni Maria Versace was murdered, his sister Donatella Versace launches her first couture collection for his Versace label.

The family were killed back in by the Bolsheviks. July nations vote for the creation of a permanent International Criminal Court at a conference in Rome, to prosecute people for genocide, war crimes, crimes against humanity and the crime of aggression.

July The region near Aitape is shaken by the 7. The earthquake had a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII Severe and was a submarine earthquake that triggered a landslide, resulting in an extremely destructive tsunami. More than 2, people lost their lives and thousands were injured. The crisis involved the suspected contamination by cryptosporidium and giardia, microscopic pathogens, of the water supply. Later on, he is deemed to be incompetent to stand trial. August 4: 5. August 7: The Yangtze river in China floods, with the river breaking through the main bank.

August 7: One of the major news events brought us was the bombing of the United States embassies in Tanzania and Kenya. She had apparently misused or failed to return government property after she had been dismissed in as Deputy Minister of Arts, Culture, Science and Technology, with the two million rand supposedly being equivalent in value to the property. August In Northern Ireland, the Omagh bombing results in the deaths of 29 people and injures around This was the worst terrorist event of the Troubles.

August In the US embassy bombings, alleged al-Qaida camps and a suspected Sudan chemical plant are attacked by the US military who launch cruise missiles. This was in retaliation for the bombings of August 7, in which American embassies in Kenya and Tanzania were bombed.

Botha, is found guilty of contempt. August In Sumatra, Borneo and the Pacific, an annular solar eclipse was visible. At this point, the moon was 5. August For the trial of the two Libyan suspects of the Pan Am bombing, the Netherlands is chosen as the site for the trial. September 2: The former mayor of a small town in Rwanda, Jean-Paul Akayesu, is found guilty of nine counts of genocide by the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda.

This is the first time that the law of banning genocide is enforced. Later, he charged as sodomy trial in court. September 5: On its 50th anniversary, the Government of North Korea adopts a military dictatorship.

September 9: First baseman for the St. Louis Cardinals , Mark McGwire, hits his 62nd home run of the season. By doing so, he breaks the single season record of 61, which had been achieved and held by Roger Maris since September Aboard an Akula -class nuclear-powered attack submarine of the Russian navy, a shooting takes place at midnight.

At the time, the submarine was docked in the northern Russian port city of Severomorsk. September In Miami, the Cuban Five intelligence agents are arrested and convicted of espionage.

The agents claim they were spying against the Cuban exile community in Miami, not against the United States government. September American politician and presidential candidate George Wallace passes away from septic shock at the age of Back in , Martin Luther King Jr. October 1: When the Europol Convention being signed by all its members comes into force, the Europol is formed.

October 2: Australian cricket batsman smashes an astounding to guide the tourists to an innings and 99 run win over Pakistan in the 1st Test in Rawalpindi. This came when the team was struggling at 28 for 3. He catches Wasim Akram off Colin Miller to reach the record. October 7: In one of the most devastating events, a gay student at the University of Wyoming, Matthew Shepard, is discovered tied to a fence after being savagely beaten in Laramie, Wyoming by two young adults.

He was beaten, tortured and left to die, and 5 days later he died from severe head injuries. The British police place him under house arrest 6 days later, during his medical treatment in the UK.

The case becomes leading in the law of universal jurisdiction. October In London, General Augusto Pinochet, former Chilean dictator, is arrested on a Spanish warrant which requests his extradition on charges of murder. October In Nigeria, at Jesse in the Niger Delta, villagers are killed when a petroleum pipeline explodes. Some of those killed were scavenging gasoline. October The Vail Mountain ski resort in Colorado is set on fire by the Earth Liberation Front, which leads to 12 million dollars worth of damage.

October Following a landslide defeat in elections and after 16 years in power, German Chancellor Helmut Kohl resigns. October The Truth and Reconciliation Commission in South African presents its report condemning both sides for committing atrocities in Apartheid.

October A Turkish Airlines flight that was being flown from Adana to Ankara with 6 crew members and 33 passengers is hijacked by a Kurdish militant. The militant orders the pilot to fly the plane to Switzerland, but luckily the pilot managed to land in Ankara after tricking the hijacker that he was landing to refuel in Sofia. October The second deadliest Atlantic hurricane in history, Hurricane Mitch, makes landfall in Honduras. October John Glenn becomes the oldest person to travel into space at the age of 77 when he boards the Space Shuttle Discovery.

October In Iraq, the disarmament crisis begins, with Iraq declaring that it would no longer cooperate with the United Nations weapon inspectors. He wins the title by 14 points from Michael Schumacher.

It would go on to win the award for Best Picture in November 9: To compensate for price fixing, brokerage houses are ordered to pay 1. November 9: While already abolished for murder, capital punishment in the United Kingdom is abolished completely for all capital offences that are remaining.

November As the most distant man-made object from the Solar System, Voyager 1 overtakes Pioneer 10, at a distance of November Marc Hodler, a Swiss International Olympic official, reveals in his declassified report that bribes had been used to bring the Winter Olympic Games to Salt Lake City in the bidding process of An investigation into the scandal is immediately launched. November In Albania, the people vote for their new Constitution in a referendum.

November It is announced by Deutsche Bank that a 10 billion US dollar deal has been made to buy Bankers Trust, making it the biggest financial institution in the world. December 8: In Algeria, armed groups kill 81 people in what is known as the Tadjena massacre.

December 9: American light-heavyweight boxing champion Archie Moore passes away at the age of December For the development of new drugs, James W. Black, Gertrude B. Elton and George H.