Historical Events In 1998

Jan 23 Pope John Paul II condemns US embargo against Cuba

Jan 28 Michelangelo, "Christ &the Woman of Samaria," sold for $7.4 million

Jan 17 President Clinton faces sexual harassment charges from Paula Jones

Jan 27 Crane crashes into Roosevelt Is (New York City NY) Tram, injuring 10

Jan 09 Hockey News selects Wayne Gretzky best NHL player ever

Jan 08 National Defence deploys 4,000 soldiers to help Hydro-Quebec with the worst ice storm damage; 1.3 million households will lose power in Eastern Ontario and Quebec.

Jan 21 Pope John Paul II arrived in Havana for his first-ever visit to Cuba.

Jan 09 Over 100 teams of linemen arrive from Detroit and other parts of the US to help clean up after the ice storm; 1.3 million homes still without electricity in Quebec and Eastern Ontario

Jan 01 US Census Bureau estimates population at 268,921,733

Jan 31 STS 89 (Endeavour 12) lands

Jan 21 U.S. President Bill Clinton denies reports of an affair with former intern Monica Lewinsky and that he influenced her to lie about it.

Jan 26 President Clinton goes on TV and says "I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Miss Lewinsky."

Jan 29 Singers Bobby Brown found guilty of DWI in Fort Lauderdale FL

Jan 14 100th episode of "Ellen," airs

Jan 05 Sonny Bono, half of the Sonny and Cher pop duo and politician, dies in a skiing accident in Lake Tahoe, California at age 62.

Jan 19 Rock 'n' roll pioneer Carl Perkins, whose hit song Blue Suede Shoes helped lift Elvis Presley to stardom, dies aged 65.

Jan 09 Decapitated head of Danish Little Mermaid is returned

Jan 09 Anatoly Solovyov & Pavel Vinogradov spacewalk record 3 hours 8 minutes

Jan 29 Woman's Clinic in Birmingham AL bombed, 1 killed

Jan 26 Intel launches 333 MHz Pentium II chip

Jan 08 Unabomber suspect Theodore Kaczynski asks to act as his own lawyer

Jan 11 US female Figure Skating championship won by Michelle Kwan

Jan 05 Sonny Bono, half of the Sonny and Cher pop duo and politician, dies in a skiing accident in Lake Tahoe, California at age 62.

Jan 30 The U.S. and Japan sign a pact allowing Americans to fly to Japan and other Asian destinations from more U.S. cities.

Jan 29 Thick Fog causes highway carnage in Belgium &Netherlands, 6 die

Jan 01 Mongolia switches from a 46 hour to 40 hour work week

Jan 25 Britain's Queen Mother, 97, gets an emergency hip replacement

Jan 29 Soyuz TM-27 launches to MIR

Jan 05 Vandals decapitate Copenhagen's Little Mermaid

Jan 16 Investigators for special counsel Kenneth Starr questioned former White House intern Monica Lewinsky about allegations that she had an affair with President Clinton.

Jan 05 Vandals decapitate Copenhagen's Little Mermaid

Jan 26 U.S. President Bill Clinton categorically denies having an affair with White House intern Monica Lewinsky, saying "I did not have sexual relations with that woman ... Miss Lewinsky."

Jan 01 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.

Jan 19 The CN line bewteen Moncton, NB and Mont-Joli, Que is transferred to the Quebec Railway Corporation, through its wholly owned subsidiaries as follows: New Brunswick East Coast Railway between Pacific Junction, near Moncton, and Campbellton, NB. Matapedia Railway between Campbellton, NB and Mont-Joli, QC.

Jan 20 Warner Brothers TV Network begins Tuesday night programming

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