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 four 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 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, 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 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

Villain births

January 22 - Silentó
April 20 - David Sonboly
April 27 - Samuel Woodward
July 27 – Patrick Crusius
September 24 – Nikolas Cruz
November 24 - Brooke Houts

Victim births

Janruary 23 - Jahseh "XXXTentacion" Onfroy
April 8 - Blaze Bernstein
June 23 - David Brandhorst (9/11 Victim)
July 21 - Dana Falkenberg (9/11 Victim)
November 20 - Christopher Thomas Jr. (Murder Victim of YNW Melly)

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 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
September 13 - George Wallace
October 10 - Marvin Gay Sr.
October 23 - Winnie Ruth Judd
November 17 - Kenneth McDuff
December 16 - Larry Loveless
Unknown - Rita Zucca

Victim deaths

May 20 - William & Faith Kinkel (Kip Kinkel's Parents)
May 28 - Phil Hartman
June 7 - James Byrd Jr.
August 15- Fernando Blasco Baselga and Rocio Abad Ramos
October 12 - Matthew Shepard
November 3 - Maddie Clifton