1998

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Centuries: Year in Review 20th Century (19th century - 20th century - 21st century)

Decades: 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s - 1990s - 2000s 2010s 2020s 2030s 2040s

Years: 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 - 1998 - 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003

International Year of the Ocean

Births

Deaths

September 6 - Akira Kurosawa, Japanese film director
Pol Pot - Cambodian dictator
May 29 - Barry M. Goldwater, Arizona Senator

Events

The entertainment industry frantically lobbies for, and the United States Congress passes, the Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act, which gives the entertainment industry 20 more years of exclusive monopoly on all of its works created since 1923.
France wins Football World Cup on home ground

Sport

January 25 - Super Bowl XXXII Denver Broncos (31) def. Green Bay Packers (24)

Nobel Prizes

Physics - Robert B. Laughlin, Horst L. Störmer, Daniel C. Tsui
Chemistry - Walter Kohn, John A Pople
Medicine - Robert F Furchgott, Louis J Ignarro, Ferid Murad
Literature - José Saramago
Peace - John Hume and David Trimble
Economics - Amartya Sen

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