1998

Events

• 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.
• April 10 - The Troubles end with the signing of the Good Friday Agreement.
• May 28 - Brynn Hartman kills her husband, actor and comedian Phil Hartman, before committing suicide.
• 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 terrorist Osama bin Laden, an exile of Saudi Arabia.

Births

Villain births

• April 20 - David Sonboly
• April 27 - Samuel Woodward
• July 27 – Patrick Crusius
• September 24 – Nikolas Cruz
• November 24 - Brooke Houts

Victim births

• April 8 - Blaze Bernstein

Deaths

Villain deaths

• April 15 - Pol Pot
• April 23 - James Earl Ray
• May 29 - Jerry Stone & Orlando Anderson
• May 30 - Michael Stone
• September 13 - George Wallace
• November 17 - Kenneth McDuff
• December 16 - Larry Loveless

Victim deaths

• May 20 - William Philip Kinkel & Faith Marie Zuranski Kinkel (Kip Kinkel's Parents)
• May 28 - Phil Hartman
• October 12 - Matthew Shepard