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* February 23 - [[Osama bin Laden]] issues a ''fatwa'' calling for global jihad against Jews and Christians.
* February 23 - [[Osama bin Laden]] issues a ''fatwa'' calling for global jihad against Jews and Christians.
* February 25 - Beginning of the [[Kosovo War]].
* 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 four people and injure 10 others.
* 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 10 - [[The Troubles]] end with the signing of the Good Friday Agreement.
* April 24 - [[Andrew Wurst|Parker Middle School dance shooting]]
* April 24 - [[Andrew Wurst|Parker Middle School dance shooting]]
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* June 22 - The [[Khmer Rouge]]'s Provisional Government of National Union and National Salvation of Cambodia (PGNUNSC) collapses.
* 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  
* 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.
* 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.
* July 6 - [[Viktor Orbán]] is elected Prime Minister of Hungary for the first time.
* August 2 - Beginning of the Second Congo War.
* 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 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 [[Irish Republican Army|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 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.
* 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 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.
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== Births ==
== Births ==
=== Villain births===
=== Villain births===
* January 7 - [[David Argueta]]
*January 7 - [[David Argueta]]
*January 22 - [[Silentó]]
*January 22 - [[Silentó]]
* April 20 - [[David Sonboly]]
*April 20 - [[David Sonboly]]
* April 27 - [[Samuel Woodward]]
*April 27 - [[Samuel Woodward]]
* July 27 - [[Patrick Crusius]]
*July 27 - [[Patrick Crusius]]
* August 18 - [[Nick Fuentes]]
*August 18 - [[Nick Fuentes]]
* September 24 - [[Nikolas Cruz]]
*September 24 - [[Nikolas Cruz]]
* October 31 - [[Amos Yee]]
*October 31 - [[Amos Yee]]
* November 24 - [[Brooke Houts]]
*November 24 - [[Brooke Houts]]
*December 13 - [[Chan Tong-kai]]


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


== Deaths ==
== Deaths ==
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*April 24 - [[Froduald Karamira]]
*April 24 - [[Froduald Karamira]]
*April 27 - [[Nguyễn Văn Linh]]
*April 27 - [[Nguyễn Văn Linh]]
*May 1 - [[Eldridge Cleaver]]
*May 19 - [[Hank Earl Carr]]
*May 19 - [[Hank Earl Carr]]
*May 28 - [[Gary Rowe]] & [[Brynn Hartman]]
*May 28 - [[Gary Rowe]] & [[Brynn Hartman]]
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=== Victim deaths ===
=== Victim deaths ===
* May 20 - William & Faith Kinkel  
* 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 21 - Ben Walker & Mikael Nickolauson
* May 28 - Phil Hartman
* May 28 - Phil Hartman
* June 7 - James Byrd Jr.
* June 7 - James Byrd Jr.
** Judith Johnson
* July 14 - Martin Puye
* July 14 - Martin Puye
* August 15 - Fernando Blasco Baselga & Rocio Abad Ramos
* 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 12 - Matthew Shepard
* October 19 - Tommy Burks
* October 19 - Tommy Burks
* November 3 - Maddie Clifton
* November 3 - Maddie Clifton

Latest revision as of 05:39, 25 December 2022

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Events edit

  • 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 - Parker Middle School dance shooting
  • May 21 - 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 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, tortured, and brutally murdered in Laramie, Colorado by Aaron McKinney and Russell Henderson, in what is considered to be the first 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 edit

Villain births edit

Victim births edit

  • 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 edit

Villain deaths edit

Victim deaths edit

  • 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
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