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40 unusual facts about 1998


1998 Klang Valley water crisis

The 1998 Klang Valley water crisis occurred in Malaysia in February 1998 when the three reservoir dams in Klang Valley, Klang Gates Dam, Batu Dam and Semenyih Dam suffered a substantial drop in water level following the El Niño phenomenon.

1998 Royal Bank Cup

The 1998 Royal Bank Cup is the 28th Junior "A" 1998 ice hockey National Championship for the Canadian Junior A Hockey League.

2000 Speedway Grand Prix

The system first used in 1998 continued to be adopted with 24 riders, divided into two classes.

2008 Coupe de France Final

This was PSG's 10th appearance in the Coupe de France final, having won the cup in 1982, 1983, 1993, 1995, 1998, 2004, and 2006.

Appointment in Samarra

In 1998, the Modern Library ranked Appointment in Samarra 22nd on its list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century.

Aviavilsa

It was established in 1998 and started operations in 1999 and operates scheduled and charter cargo services.

Borg-Warner T-56 transmission

The transmission was originally designed and built by Borg-Warner for the Dodge Viper later being used by GM in 1992 for the generation II and later engines, but as of 1998, is built by Tremec, though nothing changed internally.

Bubba Wells

His NBA career came to an abrupt end in 1998, after he was traded to the Phoenix Suns along with Martin Müürsepp, the draft rights to Pat Garrity, and a future first-round draft pick in exchange for point guard Steve Nash.

California lieutenant gubernatorial election, 1998

State Assemblyman and Speaker of the Assembly Cruz Bustamante, the Democratic nominee, decisively defeated the Republican nominee, State Senator Tim Leslie, for the office previously held by incumbent Gray Davis, who chose not to seek re-election in favor of running for governor.

Central Financial Work Commission

The Central Financial Work Commission (CFWC, Zhongyang jinrong gongzuo weiyuanhui (traditional 中央金融工作委員會) (simplified 中央金融工作委员会)) was created in 1998 to supervise the Chinese financial system on behalf of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and to prevent deviations on the part of CCP-appointed managers.

Cigarettes Will Kill You

It was voted number 2 in the Triple J Hottest 100, 1998 and reached number 46 on the Australian singles chart.

Cindy Fazey

She has been Professor of International Drug Policy at the University of Liverpool since 1998.

Colonie Center

However, the opening of Boscov's and Christmas Tree Shops in 1998 rejuvenated the mall, and the 2007 redesign increased traffic even further to the point where it rivals Crossgates Mall.

Controlled Developments

The track, "Call & Response", appeared in a scene from the 1998 film "Blade" in which the track is being listened to, on headphones, by the villain, Deacon Frost (Stephen Dorff), whilst he searches a library's archives.

Corporación Trebol Gas C.A.

Trebol was founded in 1998 and is a chain of gas stations, each operated by a franchisee.

Craters of the Sac

Because Elektra Records released Paintin' the Town Brown, which was to be Ween's first online independent release, Dean Ween leaked the "album" to the Internet in 1999 to succor their fans and show them how much Ween appreciated them.

Dragon'98 Special Live

Dragon'98 Special Live is an album of a live concert featuring a few of the solo artist who contributed song for the anime Dragon Ball Z which was held at Shibuya back in 1998.

El Limonar International School, Villamartin

El Limonar International School, Villamartin - ELIS Villamartin (established in 1998), is a private profit-making coeducational international school located in Villamartín, Spain (not to be confused with the small city Villamartín in the province of Cádiz).

Eugene Aserinsky

Eugene Aserinsky (May 6, 1921July 22, 1998), a pioneer in sleep research, was a graduate student at University of Chicago in 1953 when he discovered REM sleep.

Fergal Caraher

In 1996 Fergal Caraher's sister Maria was elected to the Northern Ireland Forum in Newry and Armagh, but she did not stand in the subsequent Northern Ireland Assembly election, 1998.

L'Avenir Ensemble

Leroux led the NO campaign in the Nouméa Accord referendum in 1998.

Mobile Civic Center

The 1998 opening of the Mitchell Center on the campus of the University of South Alabama sent most first-tier concert tours to the new arena.

Olympic weightlifting

There are eight male divisions and seven female divisions since 1998.

R. Clarke Cooper

In 1998, Cooper served as a field coordinator for former Florida Governor Jeb Bush's successful 1998 gubernatorial campaign against Buddy MacKay and was subsequently appointed Deputy Director of the State of Florida's Washington Office.

Salvador Moncada

He gained notoriety for his discoveries related to nitric oxide function and metabolism, and his exclusion from the 1996 Lasker Award and the 1998 Nobel Prize in medicine was strongly polemic.

Serb Democratic Forum

Forum has won numerous awards for his work in affirmation of human rights and civil society, most notably the Democracy and Civil Society Award in 1998, awarded by the U.S. and EU for promotion of democratic values.

Six-year itch

In 1998, his party made small gains in the House of Representatives and the Senate was unchanged.

The Greatest Songs of the Sixties

The classics performed in this album includes Frankie Valli's "Can't Take My Eyes Off You", Elvis Presley's #1 hit "Can't Help Falling in Love", Beatles' "And I Love Her" and Frank Sinatra's "Strangers in the Night" (the latter first appeared on Manilow's Sinatra-tribute album Manilow Sings Sinatra in 1998).

The Hoppers

In addition member Connie Hopper won the career Marvin Norcross Award in 1998.

The Very Best of 1989–1998

The Very Best of 1989–1998 is an international compilation album by popular Greek artist Eleftheria Arvanitaki that was released in 1999 by Verve Records under the EmArcy label in many markets around the world.

The Young Person's Guide to Becoming a Rock Star

The Young Person's Guide to Becoming a Rock Star is a British comedy series, which aired on Channel 4 in 1998.

Thorsten Schmitt

Thorsten Scmitt (born September 20, 1975 in Villingen-Schwenningen, Baden-Württemberg) is a German nordic combined skier who has been competing since 1998.

Toronto municipal election, 1997

The vote was held November 10, 1997, and the winning candidates took office on January 1, 1998, the day of the amalgamation.

United States elections, 1998

In the United States Senate elections, no party made gains, as Republicans won Senate seats from Illinois, Kentucky, and Ohio.

United States House of Representatives elections in Arizona, 1998

The 1998 congressional elections in Arizona were elections for Arizona's delegation to the United States House of Representatives, which occurred along with congressional elections nationwide on November 7, 1998.

United States House of Representatives elections in California, 1998

The United States House of Representatives elections in California, 1998 was an election for California's delegation to the United States House of Representatives, which occurred as part of the general election of the House of Representatives on November 3, 1998.

United States House of Representatives elections in Georgia, 1998

These elections were held concurrently with the United States Senate elections of 1998 (including one election in Georgia), the United States House elections in other states, and various state and local elections.

United States House of Representatives elections in North Carolina, 1998

The United States House of Representative elections of 1998 in North Carolina were held on 3 November 1998 as part of the biennial election to the United States House of Representatives.

United States Pacifist Party

In 1998, Gary Swing ran in the 1998 Colorado Senate election as a member of the Pacifist Party but got the fewest votes of any candidate.

We Take the Chance

The song was used as the Nationalist Party's anthem for the 1998 Malta elections.


1998 Estoril Open

Both the men's and the women's events took place at the Estoril Court Central, in Oeiras, Portugal, from April 6 through April 13, 1998.

AbsInt

The company was founded in 1998 as a technology spin-off from the Department of Programming Languages and Compiler Construction of Prof. Reinhard Wilhelm at Saarland University.

Advisors Asset Management

In 1998, Scott Colyer founded Sterling Resources, a fixed income and wealth preservation company for high net worth clients and institutions in Monument, Colorado.

American Teenage Rock 'n' Roll Machine

American Teenage Rock 'n' Roll Machine is the second studio album by American rock band band The Donnas, released in 1998 (See 1998 in music) on Lookout!.

Anna-Jane Casey

Casey made her first appearance in Chicago as Velma Kelly in 1998, a role she has reprised on numerous occasions.

Autobiography of Red

Autobiography of Red (1998) is a verse novel by Anne Carson, based loosely on the myth of Geryon and the Tenth Labor of Herakles, especially on surviving fragments of the lyric poet Stesichorus' poem Geryoneis.

Beacon Fell, Lancashire

The fell features a number of sculptures by local artist Thompson Dagnall, including Black Tiger and Kissing Seat (2006), Walking Snake (1998), Hanging Bat (1998), Spruced up Heron (1996) and Orme Sight (1996).

Bromsgrove Rovers F.C.

The most successful period in the club's history is without doubt between 1991 and 1998, particularly under the management of Bobby Hope.

Buckingham Nicks

Another song from the album, "Crystal", was recorded by the revamped Fleetwood Mac for the group's 1975 breakthrough LP, Fleetwood Mac, and was also recorded by Stevie herself for the soundtrack to the 1998 film Practical Magic.

Chandra Kintala

He received 6 US patents and a Smithsonian medal sponsored by Computer World in 1998.

Cho-yun Hsu

He is an Emeritus Professor of History and Sociology at the University of Pittsburgh where he taught from 1970 until his retirement in 1998, and has served in honorary positions in several universities including Duke University, Nanjing University, and Chinese University of Hong Kong.

Collin Peterson

In 1998, Peterson gained attention by proposing a constitutional amendment that would allow the residents of Minnesota's Northwest Angle to vote on whether they wanted to secede from the United States and join the Canadian province of Manitoba.

Craig Hignett

His stay at Aberdeen was short lived, only lasting six months, before signing for Barnsley for £800,000 in 1999.

Dédé Fortin

Dehors Novembre (1998), the last LP from the group, was written and performed with the help of the Diouf brothers, whose background from Senegal added a new element to the band's music.

Diocese of Cahul and Comrat

The Diocese of Cahul and Comrat was established on July 17, 1998, by the Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church to shepherd the Orthodox Church in southern Moldova.

Elton Welsby

Welsby is name-checked by the Birkenhead band Half Man Half Biscuit in the song "A Country Practice", found on their 1998 album Four Lads Who Shook the Wirral.

Evander Holyfield vs. Vaughn Bean

Evander Holyfield vs. Vaughn Bean, billed as "The Power and the Glory", was a professional boxing match contested on September 19, 1998 for the WBA and IBF heavyweight titles.

Front Row

Front Row Club Issue 1, a 1998 live album by British rock group Marillion

Giovanni Passannante

In 1998, the then Italian Minister of Justice, Oliviero Diliberto, authored a decree allowing for the displacement of his remains to Savoia di Lucania, but it wasn't acted on until 2007.

Go Ask Malice

These months precede Faith's first appearance in the Buffy the Vampire Slayer episode "Faith, Hope & Trick" in autumn 1998.

Halsbury's Laws of England

The Editor-in-Chief of volumes reissued from August 1998 onwards was Lord Mackay of Clashfern.

Har Gilo

Archaeological excavations in 1998 revealed the remains of two buildings and a rock-cut winepress, both dating back to the Iron age III (586-539 BCE).

Honey to the B

Honey to the B is the debut album album by pop singer Billie Piper, released in 1998 (see 1998 in music).

Hriday Lani

He has written dialogues for commercially successful films like Agni Sakshi (1996), Yeshwant (1997), Yugpurush (1998), Sarfarosh (1999).

Intercollegiate Taiwanese American Students Association

In 1998, Taiwanese American students at Harvard University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Tufts University established the Boston Intercollegiate Taiwanese Students Association (BITSA) to serve the many campuses in the Boston area.

Ja jesam odavde

The album was recorded on Galija concert held on March 8, 1998 in Čair Sports Center, Niš.

Jimbo Mathus

Over the years they also performed on television programs, including The Tonight Show, Late Night with David Letterman, Conan O'Brien and Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve in 1998.

John Stasko

John Stasko, John Domingue, Marc H. Brown, Marc and Blaine Price,(editors), Software Visualization: Programming as a Multimedia Experience, MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 1998.

Johnnie Crutchfield

He served in the Oklahoma Senate from 1998 to 2010, representing District 14, which included Carter, Garvin, Love and Murray counties.

Józef Stala

After studies at the Warsaw Theological Academy (now: Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University in Warsaw he earned at May 15, 1995 the Licentiate, at June 8, 1998 the Doctorate and in 2005 the Habilitation with his book: "Katecheza o małżeństwie i rodzinie w Polsce po Soborze Watykańskim II." (Religious education in the Families in Poland after the Second Vatican Council) at the Pontifical University of John Paul II.

Kellyn Tate

She later played professional softball for the Orlando Wahoos (1998), Akron Racers (1999-2000), WPSL All-Stars (2001), and California Sunbirds (2004).

Ken Sabourin

Sabourin then spent five seasons with the Milwaukee Admirals before finishing his playing career following the 1998–99 IHL season after one year with the Orlando Solar Bears.

Kent Music Report

The Kent Music Report was a weekly record chart of Australian music singles and albums which was compiled by music enthusiast David Kent from May 1974 through to 1998.

KSJL

KYTY, a radio station (810 AM) licensed to serve Somerset, Texas, United States, which held the call sign KSJL from 1998 to 2007

Leon Baptiste

On 10 October 2010 Baptiste won the 200 m gold medal at the 2010 Commonwealth Games in New Delhi, ensuring England's first sprint gold at the games for 12 years since Julian Golding in 1998.

Livent

By 1997, the company was losing money (a loss of $44.1 million that year alone), and in June, 1998, shareholders approved a deal which saw American actors' agent and ex-Disney executive Michael Ovitz take charge.

Luci mie traditrici

It was first performed under the German title Die tödliche Blume (The Deadly Flower) on 19 May 1998 in the Schlosstheater Schwetzingen at the Schwetzingen Festival.

Marc Hunter

For the last few months of his life, Hunter underwent various forms of treatment including several alternative medicine remedies but none were successful and he died in Berry near Kiama on 17 July 1998.

Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays

Gary Coleman, dressed as an elf, summons 'N Sync to take over. The boys deliver toys, presents, and good cheer throughout. The video debuted on TRL December 14, 1998. A reference to Coleman's classic sitcom Diff'rent Strokes is made when after Coleman tells 'N Sync to deliver the presents, they say, "Whatchu talkin' about, Gary?", a play on the classic line, "Whatchu talkin' about, Willis?".

Omkar Goswami

He has held the position of Chief Economist with the Indian business association Confederation of Indian Industry from August 1998 up to March 2004,.

Ooh It's Kinda Crazy

The song was originally released in 1998 as an independent single when the band was known as Indecision.

Reto-Moto

The Reto-Moto development team was originally founded by members of Zyrinx and Lemon in 1998 and was responsible for the creation of IO Interactive and the Hitman series of video games.

River Cottage

From 1998 it was used by Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall as a setting for three television series: Escape to River Cottage, Return to River Cottage and River Cottage Forever, in which viewers follow Hugh's adventures as a downsized smallholder.

Rolling Hills Preparatory School

In early 1998 the school submitted a "notice of interest" for a portion of the former Palos Verdes Naval Housing Site, which became available after the closure of the Long Beach Naval Shipyard.

Scott Beason

In 1998, won the primary runoff in Alabama's House District 51 against State Representative Jim Townsend with 53% of the vote.

Sultan Choudhury

From 1998 to 2003 Choudhury was Director of brokerage operations at Charles Schwab Europe.

Sustainable national income

A critical review of the method used by Robert Costanza et al. (1997) is given by Roefie Hueting et al (1998).

Tonia Kwiatkowski

Due to an illness, Tara Lipinski withdrew from the 1998 World Championships following the Olympics, and Kwiatkowski skated in her place.

Villas Boas

Villas-Bôas brothers, Orlando (1914–2002), Cláudio (1916–1998) and Leonardo Villas-Bôas (1918–1961), Brazilian activists regarding indigenous peoples

WRRS

WYDE-FM, a radio station (101.1 FM) licensed to serve Cullman, Alabama, United States, which used the call sign WRRS from November 1998 to July 2002