| USA Copyright Term Extension is passed | |
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| | Diamond Rio M3P debuts. |
| Sex, lies and President: House of Representatives approve articles of impeachment against President Clinton for lying about illicit affair
with 21 year-old intern, Monica Lewinsky. | |
| | India and Pakistan detonate nuclear weapons. |
| U.S. Embassies in Tanzania and Kenya bombed. United States retaliates and bombs terrorist camps in Afghanistan
allegedly run by Osama Bin Laden. | |
| | The Dow Jones Industrial Average closes as 9203.57. |
| John Glenn, the first U.S. Astronaut to orbit the earth in 1962 becomes the oldest person at age 77 to go into space in 1998. | |
| | United States and England bomb Iraq over failure to allow U.N. weapons inspections. |
| AOL buys Netscape. | |
| | Exxon and Mobil announce plans to merge. |
| Swiss Air Flight 111 crashes into the Atlantic, no survivors. | |
| | The "Sex Drug," Viagra is introduced. |
| Legends Frank Sinatra, Gene Autry, Sonny Bono, Roy Rogers and Tammy Wynette pass away. | |