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What Happened In August 1998 In History

Historical Events for August, 1998

  • 2nd » The Second Congo War begins.
  • 7th » 1998 United States embassy bombings named The United States embassy bombings in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania and Nairobi, Kenya kill approximately 212 people.
  • 10th » HRH Prince Al-Muhtadee Billah is proclaimed the crown prince of Brunei with a Royal Proclamation.
  • 15th » Omagh bombing in Northern Ireland, the worst terrorism known as terrorist incident of The Troubles.
  • 17th » Lewinsky scandal: President of the United States named US President Bill Clinton admits in taped testimony that he had an "improper physical relationship" with White House intern Monica Lewinsky. On the same day he admits before the nation that he "misled
  • 20th » 1998 United States embassy bombings called U.S. embassy bombings: The United States launches Cruise missile strikes on Afghanistan and Sudan (August 1998) known as cruise missile attacks against alleged al-Qaeda camps in Afghanistan and a suspected chemic
  • 24th » First radio-frequency identification (RFID) human implantation tested in the United Kingdom.
  • 28th » Second Congo War: Armed Forces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo e.g Loyalist troops backed by Angolan and Zimbabwean forces repulse the Rally for Congolese Democracy or RCD and Rwandan offensive on Kinshasa.
  • 30th » Second Congo War: Armed forces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and their Angolan and Zimbabwean allies recapture Matadi and the Inga dams in the western DRC from Rally for Congolese Democracy called RCD and Rwandan troops.
  • 31st » North Korea reportedly launches 'Kwangmyŏngsŏng-1', its first artificial satellite e.g satellite.

Famous Birthdays on August in 1998

  • 1st » Khamani Griffin, American actor
  • 5th » Kanon Suzuki, Japanese singer and actress (Morning Musume)
  • 6th » Jack Scanlon, English actor
  • 8th » Shawn Mendes, Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist
  • 10th » Diptayan Ghosh, Indian chess player
  • 13th » Dalma Gálfi, Hungarian tennis player
  • 19th » Ella Guevara, Filipino actress
  • 24th » Robin (singer) known as Robin, Finnish singer
  • 25th » Abraham Mateo, Spanish singer and actor
  • 25th » China Anne McClain, American actress and singer (McClain (group) e.g McClain)

Famous Deaths for August 1998

  • 1st » Eva Bartok, Hungarian-English actress (b. 1927)
  • 2nd » Shari Lewis, American television host and puppeteer (b. 1933)
  • 3rd » Alfred Schnittke, Russian composer (b. 1934)
  • 4th » Yury Artyukhin, Russian colonel, engineer, and astronaut (b. 1930)
  • 5th » Otto Kretschmer, German commander (b. 1912)
  • 5th » Todor Zhivkov, Bulgarian politician, 36th Prime Minister of Bulgaria (b. 1911)
  • 6th » André Weil, French-American mathematician and academic (b. 1906)
  • 8th » Mahmoud Saremi, Iranian journalist (b. 1968)
  • 13th » Nino Ferrer, Italian-French singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1934)
  • 13th » Julien Green, American author (b. 1900)
  • 13th » Waneta Hoyt, American serial killer (b. 1946)
  • 13th » Edward Ginzton, Ukrainian-American physicist and academic (b. 1915)
  • 13th » Rafael Robles, Dominican-American baseball player (b. 1947)
  • 16th » Phil Leeds, American actor (b. 1916)
  • 16th » Dorothy West, American author (b. 1907)
  • 17th » Władysław Komar, Polish shot putter (b. 1940)
  • 17th » Raquel Rastenni, Danish singer (b. 1915)
  • 17th » Tadeusz Ślusarski, Polish pole vaulter (b. 1950)
  • 18th » Persis Khambatta, Indian actress (b. 1950)
  • 24th » E. G. Marshall, American actor (b. 1910)
  • 25th » Lewis F. Powell, Jr., American jurist (b. 1907)
  • 26th » Jaanus Kuum, Estonian-Norwegian cyclist (b. 1964)
  • 26th » Frederick Reines, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize in Physics called Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1918)
  • 27th » Essie Summers, New Zealand author (b. 1912)

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