1998

Centuries: Year in Review 20th Century

19th century - 20th century - 21st century

Decades: 1890s - 1900s - 1910s - 1920s - 1930s - 1940s - 1950s - 1960s - 1970s - 1980s - 1990s - 2000s

1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003

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International Year of the Ocean

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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

Births

Deaths

• September 6 - Akira Kurosawa, Japanese film director
• Pol Pot - Cambodian dictator

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]?