September 1998 in History

Events in History

Sep 2 Swissair Flight 111 crashes near Peggys Cove, Nova Scotia. All 229 people on board are killed.
Sep 2 The International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda finds Jean-Paul Akayesu, the former mayor of a small town in Rwanda, guilty of nine counts of genocide

Sep 4 Google is formally incorporated by Larry Page and Sergey Brin, two students at Stanford University

Sep 11 16th Commonwealth Games open in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia making Malaysia the first Asian country to host the games

Sep 11 Independent counsel Ken Starr sends a report to the U.S. Congress accusing President Bill Clinton of 11 possible impeachable offenses.

Sep 14 Telecommunications companies MCI Communications and WorldCom complete their $37 billion merger to form MCI WorldCom.
Sep 15 With the landmark merger of WorldCom and MCI Communications completed the day prior, the new MCI WorldCom opens its doors for business.
Sep 18 Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) is formed.

Sep 27 German Chancellor Helmut Kohl's CDU/CSU party suffers a heavy defeat in federal elections to Gerard Schroder's SPD party

Sep 1 Józef Krupiński, Polish poet (Marsz żałobny), dies at 67
Sep 1 Petar Šegedin, Croatian novelist (Holy Devil), dies at 89
Sep 1 Vere Harmsworth, 3rd Viscount Rothermere, English press magnate (The Mail on Sunday), dies of a heart attack at 73
Sep 2 Allen Drury, American author (Advise & Consent - 1960 Pulitzer Prize), dies at 80
Sep 2 Jonathan Mann, American physician and AIDS activist, dies in the 1998 crash of Swissair Flight 111 at 51
Sep 4 Elizabeth Kata, Australian writer, A Patch of Blue (b. 1912)
Sep 5 Verner Panton, Danish designer (b. 1926)
Sep 7 John Hayes, British Naval Officer and Naval Secretary, dies at 85
Sep 11 Frank Ereaut, British Bailiff of Jersey (1975-85), dies at 79