Natascha Kampusch is abducted by Wolfgang Priklopil (she will remain in his captivity until August 2006).Data sent from the Galileo probe indicates that Jupiter's moon Europa has a liquid ocean under a thick crust of ice.Secretary General Kofi Annan, allowing weapons inspectors to return to Baghdad, preventing military action by the United States and Britain. February 20 – Iraq disarmament crisis: Iraqi President Saddam Hussein negotiates a deal with U.N.February 16 – China Airlines Flight 676 crashes into a residential area near Chiang Kai-shek International Airport, killing 202 people (all 196 on board and 6 on the ground).February 7– 22 – The 1998 Winter Olympics are held in Nagano, Japan.February 4 – An earthquake measuring 6.1 on the Richter scale in northeast Afghanistan kills more than 5,000 people.February 3 – Cavalese cable car disaster: a United States Military pilot causes the deaths of 20 people near Trento, Italy, when his low-flying plane severs the cable of a cable-car.President Bill Clinton to 'take all necessary and appropriate actions to respond to the threat posed by Iraq's refusal to end its weapons of mass destruction programs.' The United States Senate passes Resolution 71, urging U.S.

January 28 – Gunmen hold at least 400 children and teachers hostage for several hours, at an elementary school in Manila, Philippines.January 22 – Suspected ' Unabomber' Theodore Kaczynski pleads guilty, and accepts a sentence of life without the possibility of parole.

January 20 – Nepalese police intercept a shipment of 272 human skulls in Kathmandu.

January 12 – Nineteen European nations agree to forbid human cloning.

January 11 – Over 100 people are killed in the Sidi-Hamed massacre in Algeria.

January 8 – Ramzi Yousef is sentenced to life in prison for planning the first World Trade Centre bombing.

January 6 – The Lunar Prospector spacecraft is launched into orbit around the Moon, and later finds evidence for frozen water, in soil in permanently shadowed craters near the Moon's poles.

January 4 – Wilaya of Relizane massacres of 4 January 1998 in Algeria: Over 170 are killed in 3 remote villages.

January 2 – Russia begins to circulate new rubles to stem inflation and promote confidence.

The year 1998 was designated International Year of the Ocean by UNESCO. In the Gregorian calendar, it was the 1998th year of Anno Domini the 998th year of the 2nd millennium the 98th year of the 20th century and the 9th of the 1990s. Can you help their work in Africa? 1998 : January ġ9th century – 20th century – 21st centuryġ960s 1970s 1980s – 1990s – 2000s 2010s 2020sĮstablishments and disestablishments categoriesġ998 in other calendars Gregorian calendarġ998 ( MCMXCVIII) was a common year that started on a Thursday.

SOS Children has looked after children in Africa for forty years. wiki-commons:Special:FilePath/Ōsama_during_a_gig_in_Tokyo_in_October_2012.SOS Children, an education charity, organised this selection.Ōsama during a gig in Tokyo October 2012.wiki-commons:Special:FilePath/Ōsama_during_a_gig_in_Tokyo_in_October_2012.jpg?width=300.He is from Nishinomiya in Hyōgo Prefecture. Ōsama (王様, Ōsama, born Ōsama Jirō (王様治郎, Ousama Jirou)) is a Japanese musician and guitarist born on 7 July 1960.

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