Historical Events In 1998
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
Jan 17 President Clinton faces sexual harassment charges from Paula Jones
Jan 26 25th American Music Award Spice Girls &Babyface win
Jan 26 President Clinton says "I want to say one thing to the American people, I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Miss Lewinsky"
Jan 15 NASA announces John Glenn, 76, may fly in space again
Oct 17 A pipeline explodes in Nigeria when villagers try to siphon off oil. At least 700 die
Oct 01 Southern Rails Cooperative takes over operation of CN Avonlea subdivision from Avonlea to Moose Jaw, SK.
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