Editing 1998 (section)

== Events ==
* February 6 - [[Johnny Paul Koroma]] is removed as head of state of Sierra Leone by ECOMOG.
* February 23 - [[Osama bin Laden]] issues a ''fatwa'' calling for global jihad against Jews and Christians.
* February 25 - Beginning of the [[Kosovo War]].
* March 24 - The Jonesboro massacre occurs when [[Mitchell Johnson and Andrew Golden]], both students at Westside Middle School in Jonesboro Arkansas, kill five people and injure 10 others.
* April 10 - [[The Troubles]] end with the signing of the Good Friday Agreement.
* April 24 - [[Andrew Wurst|Parker Middle School dance shooting]]
* May 21 - [[Kip Kinkel|Thurston High School shooting]]
* May 21 - [[Suharto]] resigns as President of Indonesia.
* June 7 - Beginning of the Guinea-Bissau Civil War.
* June 7 - African-American man James Byrd, Jr. is abducted by [[White supremacy|white supremacists]] [[John William King]], [[Lawrence Russell Brewer]], and [[Shawn Allen Berry]] in Jasper, Texas. The three men [[torture]] Byrd before chaining him to the back of their pickup truck and dragging him three miles, during which Byrd remained alive until his head and arm were severed when his body struck a culvert.
* June 22 - The [[Khmer Rouge]]'s Provisional Government of National Union and National Salvation of Cambodia (PGNUNSC) collapses.
* June 30 - [[Joseph Estrada]] is elected as President of the Philippines 
* May 28 - [[Brynn Hartman]] kills her husband, actor and comedian Phil Hartman, at their home in Los Angeles, California, before committing suicide.
* July 6 - [[Viktor Orbán]] is elected Prime Minister of Hungary for the first time.
* August 2 - Beginning of the Second Congo War.
* August 7 – [[1998 US Embassy bombings]]: the bombings of the United States embassies in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, and Nairobi, Kenya, kill 224 people and injure over 4,500; they are linked to [[Al-Qaeda]].
* August 15 - Omagh bombing: The [[Real IRA]] detonates a car bomb originally intended for a courthouse in front of a store in Omagh, Northern Ireland, killing 29 (including two Spanish tourists) and injuring at least 220.
* August 22 - The [[Irish National Liberation Army]] goes on ceasefire.
* October 12 - Gay college student Matthew Shepard is kidnapped, [[torture]]d, and brutally [[murder]]ed in Laramie, Colorado by [[Aaron McKinney and Russell Henderson]], in what is considered to be the first [[Homophobia|homophobic]] [[hate crime]] to gain national attention.
* October 16 - [[Augusto Pinochet]] is arrested in London after being indicted by a Spanish court for human rights violations committed during his rule of Chile.
* Unknown - The [[National Congress Party]] is founded by [[Omar al-Bashir]] to serve as the ruling party of Sudan.