Editing 1998

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== 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.

== Births ==
=== Villain births===
*January 7 - [[David Argueta]]
*January 22 - [[Silentó]]
*April 20 - [[David Sonboly]]
*April 27 - [[Samuel Woodward]]
*July 27 - [[Patrick Crusius]]
*August 18 - [[Nick Fuentes]]
*September 24 - [[Nikolas Cruz]]
*October 31 - [[Amos Yee]]
*November 24 - [[Brooke Houts]]
*December 13 - [[Chan Tong-kai]]

=== Victim births ===
*January 4 - Tia Rigg
* January 6 - Nikki Coontz 
* January 16 - Kayla VanWert
*January 21 - Akyra Murray 
*January 23 - Jahseh "XXXTentacion" Onfroy
*January 23 - Lauren Smith-Fields 
* February 24 - Erica Parsons
*March 4 - Kaitlynne Schoenborn
*April 2 - Corriann Cervantes 
* April 8 - Blaze Bernstein
*April 20 - Kristina Morisette 
* May 8 - Mollie Tibbetts 
*May 16 - Madelyn Lindsey  
*June 4 - Camille Hebert
* June 23 - David Brandhorst 
* July 18 - Nixzmary Brown
*July 1 - Markis Hart
* July 21 - Dana Falkenberg 
* November 20 - Christopher Thomas Jr.
*December 10 - Kennedy LeRoy
*December 18 - Alex Spourdalakis
*Unknown - Larissa dos Santos Atanásio

== Deaths ==
=== Villain deaths ===
*January 18 - [[Benjamin Paddock]]
*March 23 - [[Gerald Stano]]
*March 16 - [[Theodore Sindikubwabo]]
*April 15 - [[Pol Pot]]
*April 23 - [[James Earl Ray]]
*April 24 - [[Froduald Karamira]]
*April 27 - [[Nguyễn Văn Linh]]
*May 1 - [[Eldridge Cleaver]]
*May 19 - [[Hank Earl Carr]]
*May 28 - [[Gary Rowe]] & [[Brynn Hartman]]
*May 29 - [[Jerry Stone]] & [[Orlando Anderson]]
*May 30 - [[Michael Stone]]
*June 8 - [[Sani Abacha]]
*August 5 - [[Todor Zhivkov]]
*August 7 - [[Azzam (suicide bomber)|Azzam]]
*September 13 - [[George Wallace]]
*October 10 - [[Marvin Gay Sr.]]
*October 23 - [[Winnie Ruth Judd]]
*November 17 - [[Kenneth McDuff]]
*December 14 - [[Nguyễn Ngọc Loan]]
*December 16 - [[Larry Loveless]]
*Unknown - [[Rita Zucca]]

=== Victim deaths ===
* March 24 - Shannon Dawn Wright, Stephanie Dawn Johnson, Paige Ann Herring, Natalie Danielle Brooks and Britthney Ryen Varner
* May 20 - William & Faith Kinkel
* May 21 - Ben Walker & Mikael Nickolauson
* May 28 - Phil Hartman
* June 7 - James Byrd Jr.
** Judith Johnson
* July 14 - Martin Puye
* August 15 - Victims of the [[1998 Omagh bombing]]:
** Fernando Blasco Baselga 
** Rocio Abad Ramos
** James Barker
** Geraldine Breslin
** Debra Cartwright
** Gareth Conway
** Breda Devine
** Oran Doherty
** Adrian Gallagher
** Esther Gibson
** Mary Grimes
** Olive Hawkes
** Julia Hughes
** Breanda Logue
** Anne McCombe
** Brian McCrory
** Samantha McFarland
** Sean McLaughlin
** Jolene Marlow
** Avril Monaghan
** Maura Monaghan
** Alan Radford
** Elizabeth Rush
** Veda Short
** Philomena Skelton
** Fred White
** Bryan White
** Lorraine Wilson
* September 5 - Sean McGrath
* October 12 - Matthew Shepard
* October 19 - Tommy Burks
* November 3 - Maddie Clifton