1998 The Ontario Southland Railway takes over the operation of the Guelph Junction Railway (formerly the Goderich subdivision) which had been leased by CP from the City of Guelph since 1888. The Ontario Southland also took over the 3.1 mile remnant of the CP owned Guelph and Goderich Railway.

1998 US Census Bureau estimates population at 268,921,733

1999 International Year of Elderly

1622 Papal Chancery adopts January as beginning of the year

1660 Englishman Samuel Pepys begins his famous diary

1700 Russia replaces Byzantine with Julian calendar

1862 US income tax goes into effect (3% of incomes > $600,% of incomes > $10,000)

1863 Emancipation Proclamation (ending slavery) issued by Lincoln

1901 Australia declares independence from federation of UK colonies

1923 Union of Socialist Soviet Republics (USSR) established

1934 Federal Deposit Insurance Corp (FDIC US bank guarantor) goes into effect

1934 Alcatraz officially becomes a federal prison

1946 ENIAC, first computer, finished by Mauchly/Eckert

1948 General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) goes into effect

1958 European Community (later to become the European Union) is born

1973 Britain becomes a member of the European Economic Community

1981 Greece becomes the tenth member of the Europen Economic Community

1993 Czechoslovakia split into two separate states

1729 The birth of Edmund Burke, British Author

1752 The birth of Betsy Ross, American flagmaker

1863 The birth of Baron Pierre de Coubertin, founder of the modern olympics

1864 The birth of Alfred Stiglitz, American photographer

1879 The birth of William Fox, Founder of 20th Century Fox film studios

1879 The birth of E.M Forester, English novelist

1895 The birth of J. Edgar Hoover, Former head of American F.B.I

2005 Death of Shirley Chisholm, U.S. Congresswoman (b. 1924)

2005 Death of Bob Matsui, U.S. Congressman from California (b. 1941)2006 Sydney, Australia, has its hottest day on record, when the city swelters in 45°C (113° F) heat.

2006 Russia cuts natural gas to Ukraine over a price dispute.

2007 Bulgaria and Romania join the European Union.

2007 Slovenia adopts the euro as its official currency, replacing the tolar.

2007 South Korea's Ban Ki-moon becomes the new United Nations Secretary-General, replacing Kofi Annan.

2007 Hong Kong's new smoking law starts. From this day onwards, smoking is prohibited in clubs, karaoke bars, restaurants, and all public places.

2007 Adam Air Flight 574, a routine domestic flight in Indonesia, disappears; debris are found 10 days later, but the aircraft remains missing.

2007 Angola joins OPEC.

2007 War in Somalia: Fighters of the Islamic Courts Union abandon their last stronghold in Kismayo and flee for the Kenyan border.

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