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 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 16 - [[Theodore Sindikubwabo]]
*March 23 - [[Gerald Stano]]
*March 30 - [[Judy Buenoano]]
*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