1st » Rear Admiral Lillian E. Fishburne becomes the first female African American to be promoted to rear admiral.
3rd » Karla Faye Tucker is executed in Texas, becoming the first woman executed in the United States since 1984.
3rd » Cavalese cable car disaster (1998) or Cavalese cable car disaster: a United States Military pilot causes the death of 20 people when his low-flying plane cuts the cable of a cable-car near Trento, Italy.
4th » An February 4, 1998 Afghanistan earthquake called earthquake measuring 6.1 on the Richter Scale in northeast Afghanistan kills more than 5,000.
6th » Washington National Airport is renamed Ronald Reagan National Airport.
10th » Voters in Maine repeal a LGBT rights in the United States e.g gay rights law passed in 1997 becoming the first U.S. state to abandon such a law.
14th » An oil tanker train collides with a freight train in Yaoundé, Cameroon, spilling fuel oil. One person scavenging the oil created Yaoundé train explosion known as a massive explosion which kills 120.
16th » China Airlines Flight 676 crashes into a road and residential area near Chiang Kai-shek International Airport in Taiwan, killing all 196 aboard and seven more on the ground.
20th » American figure skater Tara Lipinski becomes the youngest gold-medalist at the Winter Olympics in Nagano, Japan.
23rd » In the United States, Kissimmee Tornado Outbreak e.g tornadoes in central Florida destroy or damage 2,600 structures and kill 42.
28th » First flight of RQ-4 Global Hawk, the first unmanned aerial vehicle certified to file its own flight plans and fly regularly in U.S. civilian airspace.
28th » Kosovo War: Serbia and Montenegro e.g Serbian police begin the offensive against the Kosovo Liberation Army in Kosovo.