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1996-1997 strikes in South Korea In December 1996 and January 1997, South Korea experienced the largest organized strike in its history, when workers in the automotive and shipbuilding industries refused to work in protest against a law which was to make firing employees easier for employers and curtail labor organizing rights.
1996-97 Calgary Flames season The 1996-97 Calgary Flames season was the 17th National Hockey League season in Calgary. It was another season of decline, as the Flames began the rebuilding process after remaining near the top of the league standings for nearly a decade.
1996-97 Cuban National Series Pinar del RĂo dominated the 1996-97 Cuban National Series, posting the league's best regular season record. In the playoffs, the Vegueros, led by Omar Linares, went undefeated, sweeping both best-of-seven series.
1996-97 Heineken Cup The 1996-97 Heineken Cup (the rugby union club championship of Europe) is the second of the series. Competing teams, from France, Ireland, Italy, Wales and for the first time England and Scotland, were divided into four pools of five, in which teams played each other only once, meaning two home and two away games per team.
1996-97 NBA season The 1996-97 NBA season was the 51st season of the National Basketball Association. The league used this season to mark its 50th anniversary, which included the unveiling of the league's list of its 50 greatest players.
1996-97 United States network television schedule (Saturday morning) This was the United States broadcast television schedule on all four commercial television networks on Saturday mornings for the season beginning in the fall of 1996 and ending in the spring of 1997. All times are Eastern and Pacific.
1997 American League Division Series The 1997 American League Division Series (ALDS), the opening round of the 1997 American League playoffs, began on Tuesday, September 30, and ended on Monday, October 6, with the champions of the three AL divisions – along with a "wild card" team – participating in two best-of-five series. The teams were:
1997 American League Championship Series The 1997 American League Championship Series pitted the Cleveland Indians, who won coming back against the New York Yankees in the AL Division Series, and the Baltimore Orioles, who went wire-to-wire and beat the Seattle Mariners in the Division Series. The Indians stunned the Orioles, winning on bizarre plays or remarkable comebacks, and won the Series 4 games to 2, but went on to lose to the Florida Marlins in the well-fought, seesaw, seven-game battle of the 1997 World Series.
1997 Atlantic hurricane season The 1997 Atlantic hurricane season officially began on June 1, 1997, and lasted until November 30, 1997. These dates conventionally delimit the period of each year when most tropical cyclones form in the Atlantic basin.
1997 British Lions tour to South Africa The 1997 British Lions tour to South Africa was the first after the end of apartheid in that country, and the first professional tour. South Africa were world champions, having won the World Cup, but were in decline at the time.
1997 East Asian financial crisis The East Asian financial crisis was a period of economic unrest that started in July 1997 in Thailand and affected currencies, stock markets, and other asset prices in several Asian countries, many considered East Asian Tigers. It is also commonly referred to as the East Asian currency crisis or locally as the IMF crisis although the latter is somewhat controversial.
1997 FIA GT Championship season The 1997 FIA GT Championship season was the 1st season of FIA GT Championship. It is a series comprised of Grand Touring style cars broken into two classes based on power and manufacturer involvement, called GT1 and GT2.
1997 FIA Sportscar Championship season The 1997 FIA Sportscar Championship season was the first season of International Sportscar Racing Series (later known as the FIA Sportscar Championship). It was a series comprised of sportscar style prototypes broken into two classes based on power and weight involvement, called SR1 and SR2.
1997 FIFA U-17 World Championship The FIFA U-17 World Championship 1997 was held in the cities of Cairo, Ismailia, Alexandria, and Port Said in Egypt between 4 September and 21 September 1997. Players born after 1 January 1980 could participate in this tournament.
1997 FIS Nordic World Ski Championships The 1997 FIS Nordic World Ski Championships took place February 21-March 2, 1997 in Trondheim, Norway. This event was the first time in consecutive championships that the number or type of events did not change since 1966 and 1970.
1997 Golden Raspberry Awards The 18th Golden Raspberry Awards were held on March 22, 1998 at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel to recognise the worst the movie industry had to offer in 1997. The list of nominees follows, with recipients denoted in bold.
1997 Israeli helicopter disaster The 1997 Israeli helicopter disaster, occurring on February 4, 1997, left 73 IDF soldiers dead after 2 Sikorsky CH-53 collided over Moshav Sha'ar Yishuv in Northern Israel. The helicopters were supposed to have crossed the border into Israel's "security zone" in Lebanon, but they were hovering while waiting for official clearance to go.
1997 Masters Snooker The 1997 Benson and Hedges Masters took place between February 2 and February 9, 1997 at the Wembley Conference Centre. Steve Davis wins his third title and his first since 1988 as well as his 1982 title beating Ronnie O'Sullivan 10-8 who had made his third final in a row and was 8-4 up before losing to Davis.
1997 Memorial Cup The 1997 Memorial Cup occurred May 10-18 at the Robert Guertin Arena in Hull, Quebec. Participating teams were the host Hull Olympiques, who were also the champions of the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League, as well as the QMJHL runner-up Chicoutimi Saguenéens, and the winners of the Ontario Hockey League and Western Hockey League, which were the Oshawa Generals and the Lethbridge Hurricanes.
1997 Men's Champions Trophy (field hockey) The 19th edition of the Men's Champions Trophy took place from Saturday October 11 until Sunday October 19 1997 in the Pines Hockey Stadium in Adelaide, South Australia. It was the toughest tournament of the year, and a prelude to the 1998 Men's Hockey World Cup in Utrecht next year.
1997 Michigan Wolverines football team The 1997 Michigan Wolverines football team represented the University of Michigan in the college football season of 1997-1998. Michigan went undefeated winning the Big Ten Conference championship outright on their way to a victory in the Rose Bowl over Washington State and an AP national championship.
1997 Minnesota Twins The 1997 Minnesota Twins will not be remembered as the strongest team the Twins ever fielded. Manager Tom Kelly's team consisted of a few solid players, but mainly past-their-prime veterans and never-to-be-established prospects.
1997 MLB Expansion Draft The 1997 MLB Expansion Draft was held November 18, 1997. This expansion draft was conducted by Major League Baseball to stock the major league rosters of the Tampa Bay Devil Rays and Arizona Diamondbacks, new major league expansion franchises that were set to start play in the 1998 season.
1997 National League Division Series The 1997 National League Division Series (NLDS), the opening round of the 1997 National League playoffs, began on Tuesday, September 30, and ended on Friday, October 3, with the champions of the three NL divisions – along with a "wild card" team – participating in two best-of-five series. They were:
1997 NBA All-Star Game 47th NBA All-Star Game. Date: February 9, 1997, at Gund Arena in Cleveland; Coaches: Doug Collins, Detroit Pistons (Eastern Conference) and Rudy Tomjanovich, Houston Rockets (Western Conference); MVP: Glen Rice, Charlotte (25 minutes, 26 points).
1997 NBA Finals The 1997 NBA Finals was the concluding series of the 1997 NBA Playoffs that determined the champion of the 1996–97 NBA season. The Utah Jazz of the Western Conference took on the Chicago Bulls of the Eastern Conference for the title, with the Bulls holding home court advantage.
1997 NBA Playoffs The 1997 NBA Playoffs was the postseason tournament of the National Basketball Association's 1996-1997 season. The tournament concluded with the Eastern Conference champion Chicago Bulls winning their fifth NBA championship of the decade by defeating the Western Conference champion Utah Jazz four games to two.
1997 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament The 1997 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament involved 64 schools playing in single-elimination play to determine the national champion of men's NCAA Division I college basketball. It began on March 13, 1997, and ended with the championship game on March 31 in Indianapolis, Indiana.
1997 PDC World Darts Championship The 1997 Red Band World Darts Championship was held between 29 December, 1996 and 5 January, 1997 at the Circus Tavern in Purfleet, Essex. It was the fourth World Championship organised by the World Darts Council, which had acrimoniously split from the British Darts Organisation in 1992/93.
1997 Rugby World Cup Sevens The 1997 Rugby World Cup Sevens was the second edition of the tournament and held in Hong Kong, China, Fiji defeated South Africa 24-21 to take the title for the first time. The match is still considered one of the best Sevens matches of all time.
1997 Southeast Asian haze The 1997 Southeast Asian haze was a large-scale air quality disaster which occurred during the second half of 1997, its after-effects causing widespread atmospheric visibility and health problems within Southeast Asia. The total costs of the Southeast Asian have are estimated at nine billion dollars(US) due mainly to health care and disruption of air travel and business activities.
1997 Super 12 season The 1997 season of the international rugby union competition, the Super 12, was the second of its kind, with the 1996 season being the first that the tournament had run. New Zealand side, the Auckland Blues finished at the top of the table after regular rounds, and went onto defeat the ACT Brumbies in the final.
1997 Tour de France The 1997 Tour de France was the 84th Tour de France, it took place July 5–27, 1997. Jan Ullrich's victory margin, of 9' 09" was the largest margin of victory since the internationalisation and popularisation of the Tour brought about by the simultaneous events of Greg LeMond's groundbreaking victories, the first by a non-European, and also the ending of the Cold War.
1997 UEFA Women's Championship The 1997 UEFA Women's Championship, also referred to as WOMEN'S EURO 1997 was a football tournament held in 1997 in Norway and Sweden. The UEFA Women's Championship is a regular tournament involving European national teams from countries affiliated to UEFA, the European governing body, who have qualified for the competition.
1997 WNBA Season The 1997 WNBA Season was the Women's National Basketball Association's first in existence. It started off with 8 franchises: Charlotte Sting, Cleveland Rockers, Houston Comets, Los Angeles Sparks, New York Liberty, Phoenix Mercury, Sacramento Monarchs, and the Utah Starzz.
1997 Women's Field Hockey World Cup Qualifier The ninth Women's Hockey World Cup Qualifier for the World Cup in Utrecht, The Netherlands was held in the Magamba Stadium in Harare, Zimbabwe, from August 1 until August 12, 1997. Twelve nations took part, and they were divided into two groups of six in the preliminary round.
1997 World Air Games 1997 World Air Games (1997 WAG) was an international competition of air sports, held between September 15 - September 21, 1997 in Turkey, hosted by Turkish Aeronautical Association (THK). It was the first of World Air Games organized by Fédération Aéronautique Internationale (World Air Sports Federation - FAI) once every four years.
1997 World Amateur Boxing Championships The Men's 1997 World Amateur Boxing Championships were held in Budapest, Hungary from October 18 to October 26. The ninth edition of this competition, a year after the Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia, was organised by the world governing body for amateur boxing AIBA.
1997-98 Calgary Flames season The 1997-98 Calgary Flames season was the 18th National Hockey League season in Calgary. After a disappointing 1996-97 season, the Flames looked to newly hired coach Brian Sutter to return the Flames to the playoffs.
1997-98 Heineken Cup The 1997-98 Heineken Cup (the rugby union club championship of Europe) is the third of the series. Competing teams, from England, France, Ireland, Italy, Scotland and Wales, were divided into five pools of four, in which teams played home and away matches against each other.
1997-98 NBA season The 1997-98 NBA season was the 52nd season of the National Basketball Association. The season ended with the Chicago Bulls winning their third straight championship and sixth in the last eight years, beating the Utah Jazz 4 games to 2 in the 1998 NBA Finals.
1997-98 United States network television schedule (Saturday morning) This was the United States broadcast television schedule on the three commercial television networks airing entertainment programming on Saturday mornings for the season beginning in the fall of 1997 and ending in the spring of 1998. All times are Eastern and Pacific.
1998 AFL Draft The 1998 AFL Draft consisted of a pre-season draft, a national draft, a trade period and a rookie elevation. The AFL Draft is the annual draft of talented players by Australian rules football teams that participate in the main competition of that sport, the Australian Football League.
1998 American League Division Series The 1998 American League Division Series (ALDS), the opening round of the 1998 American League playoffs, began on Tuesday, September 29, and ended on Saturday, October 3, with the champions of the three AL divisions – along with a "wild card" team – participating in two best-of-five series. The teams were:
1998 American League Championship Series The 1998 American League Championship Series, the second round of the 1998 American League playoffs, was played between the Eastern Division champion New York Yankees and the Central Division champion Cleveland Indians.
1998 Asian Games The 13th Asian Games were held from December 6, 1998 to December 20, 1998 in Bangkok, Thailand. This was the first time that Thailand bid for the event after it shouldered the two postponed hosting rights in 1970 and 1978.
1998 Atlantic hurricane season The 1998 Atlantic hurricane season officially began on June 1, 1998, and lasted until November 30, 1998. These dates conventionally delimit the period of each year when most tropical cyclones form in the Atlantic basin; however, the season extended through December 1 as Hurricane Nicole remained active.
1998 Australian waterfront dispute The Australian waterfront dispute of 1998 was a severe and protracted industrial relations dispute mainly between the Maritime Union of Australia (MUA) and Patrick Corporation, a stevedoring and transportation company led by chief executive officer Chris Corrigan that had the support of the Australian federal Howard government, particularly the then Workplace Relations Minister Peter Reith. The dispute, which became the most contentious industrial relations battle fought in Australia for many years, centred around attempts by Patrick and the Federal Government to improve efficiency on Australia's wharves, primarily by reducing worker entitlements and the power of the MUA.
1998 Belgian Grand Prix The 1998 Belgian Grand Prix was a Formula One race held at Spa-Francorchamps on 30 August 1998. It was run in extremely wet weather and was notable for a multiple collision on the first lap involving at least 13 cars.
1998 Coimbatore bombings The 1998 Coimbatore bombings occurred on Saturday, February 14 1998, in the city of Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India. 46 persons - 35 men, 10 women and one child - were killed and over 200 injured in 13 bomb attacks in 11 places , all of them within a 12km radius, 4 bombs were planted at R S Puram area, two near Bus Stand, 1 near Coimbatore Medical College Hospital and at Ukkadam area.
1998 Commonwealth Games The 1998 XVI Commonwealth Games were held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia from September 11 to September 21 making it the first Asian country to act as host and the last Commonwealth Games for the 20th Century. A record 70 nations (34 of which collected medals) supplied 3638 athletes.
1998 Commonwealth Games medal count This is the full table of the medal count of the 1998 Commonwealth Games, including nations which participated but which did not win any medals. These rankings sort by the number of gold medals earned by a country.
1998 CONCACAF's Women's Championship The 1998 CONCACAF's Women's Championship determined the CONCACAF's qualifiers for the FIFA Women's World Cup 1999 (USA was qualified as host) — the winner Canada. The runner-up Mexico qualified in two playoff-matches against Argentina.
1998 Denver Broncos season In 1998 the Denver Broncos had a record of 14-2, second best in the NFL, and won Super Bowl XXXIII. It was John Elway's final season and the season Terrell Davis ran for 2,008 yards, making him only the fourth player to rush for over 2,000 yards in a single season.
1998 Esso Longford gas explosion The 1998 Esso Longford gas explosion was a catastrophic industrial accident which occurred at the Esso natural gas plant at Longford in the Australian state of Victoria's Gippsland region. On 25 September 1998, an explosion took place at the plant, killing two workers and injuring eight.
1998 European Amateur Boxing Championships The Men's 1998 European Amateur Boxing Championships were held in Minsk, Belarus from May 17 to May 24. The 32nd edition of the bi-annual competition, in which 180 fighters from 38 countries participated this time, was organised by the European governing body for amateur boxing, EABA.
1998 FIA GT Championship season The 1998 FIA GT Championship season was the 2nd season of FIA GT Championship. It is a series comprised of Grand Touring style cars broken into two classes based on power and manufacturer involvement, called GT1 and GT2.
1998 FIA Sportscar Championship season The 1998 FIA Sportscar Championship season was the 2nd season of International Sportscar Racing Series (later known as the FIA Sportscar Championship). It was a series comprised of sportscar style prototypes broken into two classes based on power and weight involvement, called SR1 and SR2, as well as a class comprised of hillclimb-style sportscars, called CN.
1998 FIFA World Cup qualification (CAF) Listed below are the dates and results for the 1998 FIFA World Cup qualification rounds for the African zone (CAF). For an overview of the qualification rounds, see the article 1998 FIFA World Cup qualification.
1998 FIFA World Cup qualification (CONCACAF) Listed below are the dates and results for the 1998 FIFA World Cup qualification rounds for the North, Central American and Caribbean zone (CONCACAF). For an overview of the qualification rounds, see the article 1998 FIFA World Cup qualification.
1998 FIFA World Cup qualification (CONMEBOL) Listed below are the dates and results for the 1998 FIFA World Cup qualification rounds for the South American zone (CONMEBOL). For an overview of the qualification rounds, see the article 1998 FIFA World Cup qualification.
1998 FIFA World Cup qualification (OFC) Listed below are the dates and results for the 1998 FIFA World Cup qualification rounds for the Oceanian zone (OFC). For an overview of the qualification rounds, see the article 1998 FIFA World Cup qualification.
1998 FIFA World Cup qualification (UEFA) Listed below are the dates and results for the 1998 FIFA World Cup qualification rounds for the European zone (UEFA). For an overview of the qualification rounds, see the article 1998 FIFA World Cup qualification.
1998 Golden Raspberry Awards The 19th Golden Raspberry Awards were held on March 20, 1999 at the Huntley Hotel Garden Room in Santa Monica, California to recognise the worst the movie industry had to offer in 1998. The list of nominees follows, with recipients denoted in bold.
1998 Hungarian Grand Prix Results from the 1998 Formula One Hungarian Grand Prix held at the Hungaroring on August 16, 1998. Mika Häkkinen's gearbox problem allowed Michael Schumacher to win the race after using a 3-stop strategy, which was seen as a masterstroke by tactician Ross Brawn.
1998 Christmas Single 1998 Christmas Single is the first Christmas single by the American punk rock/punk pop band MxPx, released in 1998 (see 1998 in music). This single was sent out to all members of the MxPx Fanclub at the time, and being a member was the only way to get one.
1998 in IRL The 1998 Indy Racing League season was one of relative stability compared to the previous two seasons. For the first time the season consisted of a single and complete spring, summer, and fall like all other forms of motorsport.
1998 Klang Valley water crisis The 1998 Klang Valley water crisis occurred in Malaysia in February 1998 when the three reservoir dams in Klang Valley, Klang Gates Dam, Batu Dam and Semenyih Dam suffered a substantial drop in water level following the El Niño phenomenon. The subsequent water shortage affected almost all the residents in the Klang Valley causing the government to impose water rationing prior to the 1998 Commonwealth Games in Kuala Lumpur.
1998 KY26 The asteroid (also written 1998 KY26) was discovered on June 2, 1998 by Spacewatch and observed until June 8 while it passed 800,000 kilometers (half a million miles) away from Earth (a little more than twice the Earth-Moon distance). The object could also be classified as a meteoroid, although the most common definition uses a diameter of 10 m as the demarcation.
1998 Masters Snooker The 1998 Benson and Hedges Masters took place between February 1 and February 8, 1998 at the Wembley Conference Centre. The final frame between Mark Williams and Stephen Hendry turned into a re-spotted black in the final for the first time since Ray Reardon and John Spencer in the first ever final in 1975.
1998 Memorial Cup The 1998 Memorial Cup occurred May 9-17 at the Spokane Veterans Memorial Arena in Spokane, Washington. Participating teams were the host Spokane Chiefs and the winners of the Ontario Hockey League, Quebec Major Junior Hockey League and Western Hockey League which were the Guelph Storm, Val-d'Or Foreurs and Portland Winter Hawks.
1998 Men's Champions Trophy (field hockey) The 20th edition of the Men's Champions Trophy took place from Saturday October 31 until Sunday November 8 1998 in the National Hockey Stadium in Lahore. Participating nations were Australia, titleholders Germany, The Netherlands, hosting nation Pakistan, South Korea and Spain.
1998 National League Division Series The 1998 National League Division Series (NLDS), the opening round of the 1998 National League playoffs, began on Tuesday, September 29, and ended on Sunday, October 4, with the champions of the three NL divisions – along with a "wild card" team – participating in two best-of-five series. The teams were:
1998 National League Championship Series The 1998 National League Championship Series, to determine the champion of Major League Baseball's National League, was played from October 7 to October 14 between the East Division champion Atlanta Braves and the West Division champion San Diego Padres.
1998 NBA Finals The 1998 NBA Finals was the championship round of the 1997-98 National Basketball Association season. The Chicago Bulls of the Eastern Conference played against the Utah Jazz of the Western Conference, with the Jazz holding home-court advantage.
1998 NBA Playoffs The 1998 NBA Playoffs was the postseason tournament of the National Basketball Association's 1997-1998 season. The tournament concluded with the Eastern Conference champion Chicago Bulls winning their sixth championship of the decade by defeating the Western Conference champion Utah Jazz four games to two for the second straight year.
1998 NCAA Division I-A football season The 1998 NCAA Division I-A football season was the first of the Bowl Championship Series, which crowned Tennessee its national champion, the school's first since the 1950s and one year after mega star quarterback Peyton Manning left for the NFL.
1998 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament The 1998 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament involved 64 schools playing in single-elimination play to determine the national champion of men's NCAA Division I college basketball. It began on March 12, 1998, and ended with the championship game on March 30 at the Alamodome in San Antonio, Texas.
1998 NLL season Before the 1998 season, the Major Indoor Lacrosse League was renamed to be the National Lacrosse League. The first season as the NLL began on January 3, 1998 and concluded with the second championship game on April 28.
1998 OFC Nations Cup The Oceania Nations Cup 1998 was held in Brisbane, Australia. The six participating teams were Australia and New Zealand who qualified as of right, Fiji and Vanuatu who qualified from the Melanesia Cup, and Tahiti and the Cook Islands who qualified from the Polynesia Cup.
1998 Pacific hurricane season The 1998 Pacific hurricane season officially started on May 15, 1998 in the eastern Pacific, and on June 1, 1998 in the central Pacific, and lasted until November 30, 1998. These dates conventionally delimit the period of each year when most tropical cyclones form in the northeastern Pacific Ocean.
1998 PBA Centennial Cup The 1998 PBA Centennial Cup was a special tournament held by the Philippine Basketball Association during the 1998 PBA season. The event was a reference to the Philippines celebration of the Centennial year of the country's independence.
1998 PBA season The 1998 PBA season was the twenty-fourth season of the Philippine Basketball Association (PBA). Alaska won two titles during the season and the Philippine Centennial Team represented the country in the 1998 Asian Games.
1998 PDC World Darts Championship The 1998 Skol World Darts Championship was held between 29 December, 1997 and 4 January, 1998 at the Circus Tavern in Purfleet, Essex. Skol, who sponsored the inaugural event in 1994 returned as title sponsors - which they were to fulfil for the next five years.
1998 Petit Le Mans The 1998 Petit Le Mans was the seventh race for the 1998 IMSA season, then known as the Professional SportsCar Racing series. It was also the first race of Don Panoz's American Le Mans Series developed with the backing of the Automobile Club de l'Ouest (ACO), the ruling body of the 24 Hours of Le Mans.
1998 reasons of the Supreme Court of Canada The table below lists the reasons delivered from the bench by the Supreme Court of Canada during 1998. The table illustrates what reasons were filed by each justice in each case, and which justices joined each reason.
1998 South American Games The VI South American Games (Spanish: Juegos Sudamericanos; Portuguese: Jogos Sul-Americanos) were a multi-sport event held in 1998 in Cuenca, Ecuador, with some events in Gualaceo, Paute, Guayaquil, Salinas and Quito. The Games were organized by the South American Sports Organization (ODESUR).
1998 Sudamericano Femenino The 1998 Sudamericano Femenino was held in Mar del Plata, Argentina between March 2 & 15. It was the third staging of the Sudamericano Femenino and determined the CONMEBOL's qualifiers for the FIFA Women's World Cup 1999.
1998 Sudan famine The famine in Sudan in 1998 was a humanitarian disaster caused mainly by human rights abuses, as well as drought and the failure of the international community to react to the famine risk with adequate speed. Famine In Sudan, 1998 Human Rights Watch, Acccessed May 25 2006 The worst affected area was Bahr El Ghazal in southwestern Sudan.
1998 Super 12 season The 1998 Super 12 season was won by New Zealand side, the Canterbury Crusaders after defeating the Auckland Blues in the final. It was the first Super 12 to be won by a team other than the Auckland Blues, who won the Super 12 in 1996 and 1997.
1998 Tour de France The 1998 Tour de France, also dubbed the Tour de Dopage (Tour of Doping), was marred by doping scandals throughout, starting with the arrest of Willy Voet, a soigneur in the French Festina team. Voet was traveling into France when he was arrested and found with large quantities of doping products.
1998 Winter Olympic bids Five cities were finalists to host the 1998 Winter Olympics which were awarded to Nagano, Japan on June 15, 1991. The other cities were Salt Lake City (United States), Ostersund (Sweden), Jaca (Spain) and Aosta (Italy).
1998 Winter Olympics The 1998 Winter Olympics, officially known as the XVIII Olympic Winter Games, were celebrated in 1998 in Nagano, Japan. Other candidate cities were Aosta, Italy; Jaca, Spain; Ă–stersund, Sweden; and Salt Lake City, USA.
1998 Women's African Football Championship The 1998 Women's African Football Championship was the third staging of the CAF Women's Championship. It determined the CAF's two qualifiers for the FIFA Women's World Cup 1999 — the winner Nigeria and the runner-up Ghana.
1998 Women's Rugby World Cup The 1998 Women's Rugby World Cup was the first world cup fully sanctioned by the International Rugby Board (IRB) and the third world cup in history. The tournament took place in Amsterdam, in The Netherlands and was the first women's world cup held outside of the United Kingdom.
1998 World Lacrosse Championship Final The 1998 World Lacrosse Championship final between Canada and the United States was the deciding match in the 1998 World Lacrosse Championship and has been often cited as the best field lacrosse match of all time.
1998 World Series The 1998 World Series matched the New York Yankees against the San Diego Padres marking the first time the Yankees had ever faced an expansion team in the Series. The Yankees swept the Series in four games to capture their second championship in three years, and their 24th overall.
1998-99 Calgary Flames season The 1998-99 Calgary Flames season was the 19th National Hockey League season in Calgary. The Flames opened their season up at "home", in Tokyo, Japan, as the NHL scheduled a two game series in the Asian country between the Flames and the San Jose Sharks.
1998-99 Heineken Cup The 1998-1999 Heineken Cup (the rugby union club championship of Europe) is the fourth of the series. Competing teams, from France, Ireland, Italy, Scotland and Wales - apart from Cardiff and Swansea, who were in dispute with the union -(Teams from England did not compete due to a dispute between European Rugby and the RFU), were divided into four pools of four, in which teams played home and away matches against each other.
1998-99 NBA season The 1998-99 NBA season was the 53rd season of the National Basketball Association. Due to a lockout, the season didn't start until February 5 1999 after a new six year Collective Bargaining Agreement was reached between the NBA and the National Basketball Players Association.
1996-97 Calgary Flames season The 1996-97 Calgary Flames season was the 17th National Hockey League season in Calgary. It was another season of decline, as the Flames began the rebuilding process after remaining near the top of the league standings for nearly a decade.
1996-97 Cuban National Series Pinar del RĂo dominated the 1996-97 Cuban National Series, posting the league's best regular season record. In the playoffs, the Vegueros, led by Omar Linares, went undefeated, sweeping both best-of-seven series.
1996-97 Heineken Cup The 1996-97 Heineken Cup (the rugby union club championship of Europe) is the second of the series. Competing teams, from France, Ireland, Italy, Wales and for the first time England and Scotland, were divided into four pools of five, in which teams played each other only once, meaning two home and two away games per team.
1996-97 NBA season The 1996-97 NBA season was the 51st season of the National Basketball Association. The league used this season to mark its 50th anniversary, which included the unveiling of the league's list of its 50 greatest players.
1996-97 United States network television schedule (Saturday morning) This was the United States broadcast television schedule on all four commercial television networks on Saturday mornings for the season beginning in the fall of 1996 and ending in the spring of 1997. All times are Eastern and Pacific.
1997 American League Division Series The 1997 American League Division Series (ALDS), the opening round of the 1997 American League playoffs, began on Tuesday, September 30, and ended on Monday, October 6, with the champions of the three AL divisions – along with a "wild card" team – participating in two best-of-five series. The teams were:
1997 American League Championship Series The 1997 American League Championship Series pitted the Cleveland Indians, who won coming back against the New York Yankees in the AL Division Series, and the Baltimore Orioles, who went wire-to-wire and beat the Seattle Mariners in the Division Series. The Indians stunned the Orioles, winning on bizarre plays or remarkable comebacks, and won the Series 4 games to 2, but went on to lose to the Florida Marlins in the well-fought, seesaw, seven-game battle of the 1997 World Series.
1997 Atlantic hurricane season The 1997 Atlantic hurricane season officially began on June 1, 1997, and lasted until November 30, 1997. These dates conventionally delimit the period of each year when most tropical cyclones form in the Atlantic basin.
1997 British Lions tour to South Africa The 1997 British Lions tour to South Africa was the first after the end of apartheid in that country, and the first professional tour. South Africa were world champions, having won the World Cup, but were in decline at the time.
1997 East Asian financial crisis The East Asian financial crisis was a period of economic unrest that started in July 1997 in Thailand and affected currencies, stock markets, and other asset prices in several Asian countries, many considered East Asian Tigers. It is also commonly referred to as the East Asian currency crisis or locally as the IMF crisis although the latter is somewhat controversial.
1997 FIA GT Championship season The 1997 FIA GT Championship season was the 1st season of FIA GT Championship. It is a series comprised of Grand Touring style cars broken into two classes based on power and manufacturer involvement, called GT1 and GT2.
1997 FIA Sportscar Championship season The 1997 FIA Sportscar Championship season was the first season of International Sportscar Racing Series (later known as the FIA Sportscar Championship). It was a series comprised of sportscar style prototypes broken into two classes based on power and weight involvement, called SR1 and SR2.
1997 FIFA U-17 World Championship The FIFA U-17 World Championship 1997 was held in the cities of Cairo, Ismailia, Alexandria, and Port Said in Egypt between 4 September and 21 September 1997. Players born after 1 January 1980 could participate in this tournament.
1997 FIS Nordic World Ski Championships The 1997 FIS Nordic World Ski Championships took place February 21-March 2, 1997 in Trondheim, Norway. This event was the first time in consecutive championships that the number or type of events did not change since 1966 and 1970.
1997 Golden Raspberry Awards The 18th Golden Raspberry Awards were held on March 22, 1998 at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel to recognise the worst the movie industry had to offer in 1997. The list of nominees follows, with recipients denoted in bold.
1997 Israeli helicopter disaster The 1997 Israeli helicopter disaster, occurring on February 4, 1997, left 73 IDF soldiers dead after 2 Sikorsky CH-53 collided over Moshav Sha'ar Yishuv in Northern Israel. The helicopters were supposed to have crossed the border into Israel's "security zone" in Lebanon, but they were hovering while waiting for official clearance to go.
1997 Masters Snooker The 1997 Benson and Hedges Masters took place between February 2 and February 9, 1997 at the Wembley Conference Centre. Steve Davis wins his third title and his first since 1988 as well as his 1982 title beating Ronnie O'Sullivan 10-8 who had made his third final in a row and was 8-4 up before losing to Davis.
1997 Memorial Cup The 1997 Memorial Cup occurred May 10-18 at the Robert Guertin Arena in Hull, Quebec. Participating teams were the host Hull Olympiques, who were also the champions of the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League, as well as the QMJHL runner-up Chicoutimi Saguenéens, and the winners of the Ontario Hockey League and Western Hockey League, which were the Oshawa Generals and the Lethbridge Hurricanes.
1997 Men's Champions Trophy (field hockey) The 19th edition of the Men's Champions Trophy took place from Saturday October 11 until Sunday October 19 1997 in the Pines Hockey Stadium in Adelaide, South Australia. It was the toughest tournament of the year, and a prelude to the 1998 Men's Hockey World Cup in Utrecht next year.
1997 Michigan Wolverines football team The 1997 Michigan Wolverines football team represented the University of Michigan in the college football season of 1997-1998. Michigan went undefeated winning the Big Ten Conference championship outright on their way to a victory in the Rose Bowl over Washington State and an AP national championship.
1997 Minnesota Twins The 1997 Minnesota Twins will not be remembered as the strongest team the Twins ever fielded. Manager Tom Kelly's team consisted of a few solid players, but mainly past-their-prime veterans and never-to-be-established prospects.
1997 MLB Expansion Draft The 1997 MLB Expansion Draft was held November 18, 1997. This expansion draft was conducted by Major League Baseball to stock the major league rosters of the Tampa Bay Devil Rays and Arizona Diamondbacks, new major league expansion franchises that were set to start play in the 1998 season.
1997 National League Division Series The 1997 National League Division Series (NLDS), the opening round of the 1997 National League playoffs, began on Tuesday, September 30, and ended on Friday, October 3, with the champions of the three NL divisions – along with a "wild card" team – participating in two best-of-five series. They were:
1997 NBA All-Star Game 47th NBA All-Star Game. Date: February 9, 1997, at Gund Arena in Cleveland; Coaches: Doug Collins, Detroit Pistons (Eastern Conference) and Rudy Tomjanovich, Houston Rockets (Western Conference); MVP: Glen Rice, Charlotte (25 minutes, 26 points).
1997 NBA Finals The 1997 NBA Finals was the concluding series of the 1997 NBA Playoffs that determined the champion of the 1996–97 NBA season. The Utah Jazz of the Western Conference took on the Chicago Bulls of the Eastern Conference for the title, with the Bulls holding home court advantage.
1997 NBA Playoffs The 1997 NBA Playoffs was the postseason tournament of the National Basketball Association's 1996-1997 season. The tournament concluded with the Eastern Conference champion Chicago Bulls winning their fifth NBA championship of the decade by defeating the Western Conference champion Utah Jazz four games to two.
1997 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament The 1997 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament involved 64 schools playing in single-elimination play to determine the national champion of men's NCAA Division I college basketball. It began on March 13, 1997, and ended with the championship game on March 31 in Indianapolis, Indiana.
1997 PDC World Darts Championship The 1997 Red Band World Darts Championship was held between 29 December, 1996 and 5 January, 1997 at the Circus Tavern in Purfleet, Essex. It was the fourth World Championship organised by the World Darts Council, which had acrimoniously split from the British Darts Organisation in 1992/93.
1997 Rugby World Cup Sevens The 1997 Rugby World Cup Sevens was the second edition of the tournament and held in Hong Kong, China, Fiji defeated South Africa 24-21 to take the title for the first time. The match is still considered one of the best Sevens matches of all time.
1997 Southeast Asian haze The 1997 Southeast Asian haze was a large-scale air quality disaster which occurred during the second half of 1997, its after-effects causing widespread atmospheric visibility and health problems within Southeast Asia. The total costs of the Southeast Asian have are estimated at nine billion dollars(US) due mainly to health care and disruption of air travel and business activities.
1997 Super 12 season The 1997 season of the international rugby union competition, the Super 12, was the second of its kind, with the 1996 season being the first that the tournament had run. New Zealand side, the Auckland Blues finished at the top of the table after regular rounds, and went onto defeat the ACT Brumbies in the final.
1997 Tour de France The 1997 Tour de France was the 84th Tour de France, it took place July 5–27, 1997. Jan Ullrich's victory margin, of 9' 09" was the largest margin of victory since the internationalisation and popularisation of the Tour brought about by the simultaneous events of Greg LeMond's groundbreaking victories, the first by a non-European, and also the ending of the Cold War.
1997 UEFA Women's Championship The 1997 UEFA Women's Championship, also referred to as WOMEN'S EURO 1997 was a football tournament held in 1997 in Norway and Sweden. The UEFA Women's Championship is a regular tournament involving European national teams from countries affiliated to UEFA, the European governing body, who have qualified for the competition.
1997 WNBA Season The 1997 WNBA Season was the Women's National Basketball Association's first in existence. It started off with 8 franchises: Charlotte Sting, Cleveland Rockers, Houston Comets, Los Angeles Sparks, New York Liberty, Phoenix Mercury, Sacramento Monarchs, and the Utah Starzz.
1997 Women's Field Hockey World Cup Qualifier The ninth Women's Hockey World Cup Qualifier for the World Cup in Utrecht, The Netherlands was held in the Magamba Stadium in Harare, Zimbabwe, from August 1 until August 12, 1997. Twelve nations took part, and they were divided into two groups of six in the preliminary round.
1997 World Air Games 1997 World Air Games (1997 WAG) was an international competition of air sports, held between September 15 - September 21, 1997 in Turkey, hosted by Turkish Aeronautical Association (THK). It was the first of World Air Games organized by Fédération Aéronautique Internationale (World Air Sports Federation - FAI) once every four years.
1997 World Amateur Boxing Championships The Men's 1997 World Amateur Boxing Championships were held in Budapest, Hungary from October 18 to October 26. The ninth edition of this competition, a year after the Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia, was organised by the world governing body for amateur boxing AIBA.
1997-98 Calgary Flames season The 1997-98 Calgary Flames season was the 18th National Hockey League season in Calgary. After a disappointing 1996-97 season, the Flames looked to newly hired coach Brian Sutter to return the Flames to the playoffs.
1997-98 Heineken Cup The 1997-98 Heineken Cup (the rugby union club championship of Europe) is the third of the series. Competing teams, from England, France, Ireland, Italy, Scotland and Wales, were divided into five pools of four, in which teams played home and away matches against each other.
1997-98 NBA season The 1997-98 NBA season was the 52nd season of the National Basketball Association. The season ended with the Chicago Bulls winning their third straight championship and sixth in the last eight years, beating the Utah Jazz 4 games to 2 in the 1998 NBA Finals.
1997-98 United States network television schedule (Saturday morning) This was the United States broadcast television schedule on the three commercial television networks airing entertainment programming on Saturday mornings for the season beginning in the fall of 1997 and ending in the spring of 1998. All times are Eastern and Pacific.
1998 AFL Draft The 1998 AFL Draft consisted of a pre-season draft, a national draft, a trade period and a rookie elevation. The AFL Draft is the annual draft of talented players by Australian rules football teams that participate in the main competition of that sport, the Australian Football League.
1998 American League Division Series The 1998 American League Division Series (ALDS), the opening round of the 1998 American League playoffs, began on Tuesday, September 29, and ended on Saturday, October 3, with the champions of the three AL divisions – along with a "wild card" team – participating in two best-of-five series. The teams were:
1998 American League Championship Series The 1998 American League Championship Series, the second round of the 1998 American League playoffs, was played between the Eastern Division champion New York Yankees and the Central Division champion Cleveland Indians.
1998 Asian Games The 13th Asian Games were held from December 6, 1998 to December 20, 1998 in Bangkok, Thailand. This was the first time that Thailand bid for the event after it shouldered the two postponed hosting rights in 1970 and 1978.
1998 Atlantic hurricane season The 1998 Atlantic hurricane season officially began on June 1, 1998, and lasted until November 30, 1998. These dates conventionally delimit the period of each year when most tropical cyclones form in the Atlantic basin; however, the season extended through December 1 as Hurricane Nicole remained active.
1998 Australian waterfront dispute The Australian waterfront dispute of 1998 was a severe and protracted industrial relations dispute mainly between the Maritime Union of Australia (MUA) and Patrick Corporation, a stevedoring and transportation company led by chief executive officer Chris Corrigan that had the support of the Australian federal Howard government, particularly the then Workplace Relations Minister Peter Reith. The dispute, which became the most contentious industrial relations battle fought in Australia for many years, centred around attempts by Patrick and the Federal Government to improve efficiency on Australia's wharves, primarily by reducing worker entitlements and the power of the MUA.
1998 Belgian Grand Prix The 1998 Belgian Grand Prix was a Formula One race held at Spa-Francorchamps on 30 August 1998. It was run in extremely wet weather and was notable for a multiple collision on the first lap involving at least 13 cars.
1998 Coimbatore bombings The 1998 Coimbatore bombings occurred on Saturday, February 14 1998, in the city of Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India. 46 persons - 35 men, 10 women and one child - were killed and over 200 injured in 13 bomb attacks in 11 places , all of them within a 12km radius, 4 bombs were planted at R S Puram area, two near Bus Stand, 1 near Coimbatore Medical College Hospital and at Ukkadam area.
1998 Commonwealth Games The 1998 XVI Commonwealth Games were held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia from September 11 to September 21 making it the first Asian country to act as host and the last Commonwealth Games for the 20th Century. A record 70 nations (34 of which collected medals) supplied 3638 athletes.
1998 Commonwealth Games medal count This is the full table of the medal count of the 1998 Commonwealth Games, including nations which participated but which did not win any medals. These rankings sort by the number of gold medals earned by a country.
1998 CONCACAF's Women's Championship The 1998 CONCACAF's Women's Championship determined the CONCACAF's qualifiers for the FIFA Women's World Cup 1999 (USA was qualified as host) — the winner Canada. The runner-up Mexico qualified in two playoff-matches against Argentina.
1998 Denver Broncos season In 1998 the Denver Broncos had a record of 14-2, second best in the NFL, and won Super Bowl XXXIII. It was John Elway's final season and the season Terrell Davis ran for 2,008 yards, making him only the fourth player to rush for over 2,000 yards in a single season.
1998 Esso Longford gas explosion The 1998 Esso Longford gas explosion was a catastrophic industrial accident which occurred at the Esso natural gas plant at Longford in the Australian state of Victoria's Gippsland region. On 25 September 1998, an explosion took place at the plant, killing two workers and injuring eight.
1998 European Amateur Boxing Championships The Men's 1998 European Amateur Boxing Championships were held in Minsk, Belarus from May 17 to May 24. The 32nd edition of the bi-annual competition, in which 180 fighters from 38 countries participated this time, was organised by the European governing body for amateur boxing, EABA.
1998 FIA GT Championship season The 1998 FIA GT Championship season was the 2nd season of FIA GT Championship. It is a series comprised of Grand Touring style cars broken into two classes based on power and manufacturer involvement, called GT1 and GT2.
1998 FIA Sportscar Championship season The 1998 FIA Sportscar Championship season was the 2nd season of International Sportscar Racing Series (later known as the FIA Sportscar Championship). It was a series comprised of sportscar style prototypes broken into two classes based on power and weight involvement, called SR1 and SR2, as well as a class comprised of hillclimb-style sportscars, called CN.
1998 FIFA World Cup qualification (CAF) Listed below are the dates and results for the 1998 FIFA World Cup qualification rounds for the African zone (CAF). For an overview of the qualification rounds, see the article 1998 FIFA World Cup qualification.
1998 FIFA World Cup qualification (CONCACAF) Listed below are the dates and results for the 1998 FIFA World Cup qualification rounds for the North, Central American and Caribbean zone (CONCACAF). For an overview of the qualification rounds, see the article 1998 FIFA World Cup qualification.
1998 FIFA World Cup qualification (CONMEBOL) Listed below are the dates and results for the 1998 FIFA World Cup qualification rounds for the South American zone (CONMEBOL). For an overview of the qualification rounds, see the article 1998 FIFA World Cup qualification.
1998 FIFA World Cup qualification (OFC) Listed below are the dates and results for the 1998 FIFA World Cup qualification rounds for the Oceanian zone (OFC). For an overview of the qualification rounds, see the article 1998 FIFA World Cup qualification.
1998 FIFA World Cup qualification (UEFA) Listed below are the dates and results for the 1998 FIFA World Cup qualification rounds for the European zone (UEFA). For an overview of the qualification rounds, see the article 1998 FIFA World Cup qualification.
1998 Golden Raspberry Awards The 19th Golden Raspberry Awards were held on March 20, 1999 at the Huntley Hotel Garden Room in Santa Monica, California to recognise the worst the movie industry had to offer in 1998. The list of nominees follows, with recipients denoted in bold.
1998 Hungarian Grand Prix Results from the 1998 Formula One Hungarian Grand Prix held at the Hungaroring on August 16, 1998. Mika Häkkinen's gearbox problem allowed Michael Schumacher to win the race after using a 3-stop strategy, which was seen as a masterstroke by tactician Ross Brawn.
1998 Christmas Single 1998 Christmas Single is the first Christmas single by the American punk rock/punk pop band MxPx, released in 1998 (see 1998 in music). This single was sent out to all members of the MxPx Fanclub at the time, and being a member was the only way to get one.
1998 in IRL The 1998 Indy Racing League season was one of relative stability compared to the previous two seasons. For the first time the season consisted of a single and complete spring, summer, and fall like all other forms of motorsport.
1998 Klang Valley water crisis The 1998 Klang Valley water crisis occurred in Malaysia in February 1998 when the three reservoir dams in Klang Valley, Klang Gates Dam, Batu Dam and Semenyih Dam suffered a substantial drop in water level following the El Niño phenomenon. The subsequent water shortage affected almost all the residents in the Klang Valley causing the government to impose water rationing prior to the 1998 Commonwealth Games in Kuala Lumpur.
1998 KY26 The asteroid (also written 1998 KY26) was discovered on June 2, 1998 by Spacewatch and observed until June 8 while it passed 800,000 kilometers (half a million miles) away from Earth (a little more than twice the Earth-Moon distance). The object could also be classified as a meteoroid, although the most common definition uses a diameter of 10 m as the demarcation.
1998 Masters Snooker The 1998 Benson and Hedges Masters took place between February 1 and February 8, 1998 at the Wembley Conference Centre. The final frame between Mark Williams and Stephen Hendry turned into a re-spotted black in the final for the first time since Ray Reardon and John Spencer in the first ever final in 1975.
1998 Memorial Cup The 1998 Memorial Cup occurred May 9-17 at the Spokane Veterans Memorial Arena in Spokane, Washington. Participating teams were the host Spokane Chiefs and the winners of the Ontario Hockey League, Quebec Major Junior Hockey League and Western Hockey League which were the Guelph Storm, Val-d'Or Foreurs and Portland Winter Hawks.
1998 Men's Champions Trophy (field hockey) The 20th edition of the Men's Champions Trophy took place from Saturday October 31 until Sunday November 8 1998 in the National Hockey Stadium in Lahore. Participating nations were Australia, titleholders Germany, The Netherlands, hosting nation Pakistan, South Korea and Spain.
1998 National League Division Series The 1998 National League Division Series (NLDS), the opening round of the 1998 National League playoffs, began on Tuesday, September 29, and ended on Sunday, October 4, with the champions of the three NL divisions – along with a "wild card" team – participating in two best-of-five series. The teams were:
1998 National League Championship Series The 1998 National League Championship Series, to determine the champion of Major League Baseball's National League, was played from October 7 to October 14 between the East Division champion Atlanta Braves and the West Division champion San Diego Padres.
1998 NBA Finals The 1998 NBA Finals was the championship round of the 1997-98 National Basketball Association season. The Chicago Bulls of the Eastern Conference played against the Utah Jazz of the Western Conference, with the Jazz holding home-court advantage.
1998 NBA Playoffs The 1998 NBA Playoffs was the postseason tournament of the National Basketball Association's 1997-1998 season. The tournament concluded with the Eastern Conference champion Chicago Bulls winning their sixth championship of the decade by defeating the Western Conference champion Utah Jazz four games to two for the second straight year.
1998 NCAA Division I-A football season The 1998 NCAA Division I-A football season was the first of the Bowl Championship Series, which crowned Tennessee its national champion, the school's first since the 1950s and one year after mega star quarterback Peyton Manning left for the NFL.
1998 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament The 1998 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament involved 64 schools playing in single-elimination play to determine the national champion of men's NCAA Division I college basketball. It began on March 12, 1998, and ended with the championship game on March 30 at the Alamodome in San Antonio, Texas.
1998 NLL season Before the 1998 season, the Major Indoor Lacrosse League was renamed to be the National Lacrosse League. The first season as the NLL began on January 3, 1998 and concluded with the second championship game on April 28.
1998 OFC Nations Cup The Oceania Nations Cup 1998 was held in Brisbane, Australia. The six participating teams were Australia and New Zealand who qualified as of right, Fiji and Vanuatu who qualified from the Melanesia Cup, and Tahiti and the Cook Islands who qualified from the Polynesia Cup.
1998 Pacific hurricane season The 1998 Pacific hurricane season officially started on May 15, 1998 in the eastern Pacific, and on June 1, 1998 in the central Pacific, and lasted until November 30, 1998. These dates conventionally delimit the period of each year when most tropical cyclones form in the northeastern Pacific Ocean.
1998 PBA Centennial Cup The 1998 PBA Centennial Cup was a special tournament held by the Philippine Basketball Association during the 1998 PBA season. The event was a reference to the Philippines celebration of the Centennial year of the country's independence.
1998 PBA season The 1998 PBA season was the twenty-fourth season of the Philippine Basketball Association (PBA). Alaska won two titles during the season and the Philippine Centennial Team represented the country in the 1998 Asian Games.
1998 PDC World Darts Championship The 1998 Skol World Darts Championship was held between 29 December, 1997 and 4 January, 1998 at the Circus Tavern in Purfleet, Essex. Skol, who sponsored the inaugural event in 1994 returned as title sponsors - which they were to fulfil for the next five years.
1998 Petit Le Mans The 1998 Petit Le Mans was the seventh race for the 1998 IMSA season, then known as the Professional SportsCar Racing series. It was also the first race of Don Panoz's American Le Mans Series developed with the backing of the Automobile Club de l'Ouest (ACO), the ruling body of the 24 Hours of Le Mans.
1998 reasons of the Supreme Court of Canada The table below lists the reasons delivered from the bench by the Supreme Court of Canada during 1998. The table illustrates what reasons were filed by each justice in each case, and which justices joined each reason.
1998 South American Games The VI South American Games (Spanish: Juegos Sudamericanos; Portuguese: Jogos Sul-Americanos) were a multi-sport event held in 1998 in Cuenca, Ecuador, with some events in Gualaceo, Paute, Guayaquil, Salinas and Quito. The Games were organized by the South American Sports Organization (ODESUR).
1998 Sudamericano Femenino The 1998 Sudamericano Femenino was held in Mar del Plata, Argentina between March 2 & 15. It was the third staging of the Sudamericano Femenino and determined the CONMEBOL's qualifiers for the FIFA Women's World Cup 1999.
1998 Sudan famine The famine in Sudan in 1998 was a humanitarian disaster caused mainly by human rights abuses, as well as drought and the failure of the international community to react to the famine risk with adequate speed. Famine In Sudan, 1998 Human Rights Watch, Acccessed May 25 2006 The worst affected area was Bahr El Ghazal in southwestern Sudan.
1998 Super 12 season The 1998 Super 12 season was won by New Zealand side, the Canterbury Crusaders after defeating the Auckland Blues in the final. It was the first Super 12 to be won by a team other than the Auckland Blues, who won the Super 12 in 1996 and 1997.
1998 Tour de France The 1998 Tour de France, also dubbed the Tour de Dopage (Tour of Doping), was marred by doping scandals throughout, starting with the arrest of Willy Voet, a soigneur in the French Festina team. Voet was traveling into France when he was arrested and found with large quantities of doping products.
1998 Winter Olympic bids Five cities were finalists to host the 1998 Winter Olympics which were awarded to Nagano, Japan on June 15, 1991. The other cities were Salt Lake City (United States), Ostersund (Sweden), Jaca (Spain) and Aosta (Italy).
1998 Winter Olympics The 1998 Winter Olympics, officially known as the XVIII Olympic Winter Games, were celebrated in 1998 in Nagano, Japan. Other candidate cities were Aosta, Italy; Jaca, Spain; Ă–stersund, Sweden; and Salt Lake City, USA.
1998 Women's African Football Championship The 1998 Women's African Football Championship was the third staging of the CAF Women's Championship. It determined the CAF's two qualifiers for the FIFA Women's World Cup 1999 — the winner Nigeria and the runner-up Ghana.
1998 Women's Rugby World Cup The 1998 Women's Rugby World Cup was the first world cup fully sanctioned by the International Rugby Board (IRB) and the third world cup in history. The tournament took place in Amsterdam, in The Netherlands and was the first women's world cup held outside of the United Kingdom.
1998 World Lacrosse Championship Final The 1998 World Lacrosse Championship final between Canada and the United States was the deciding match in the 1998 World Lacrosse Championship and has been often cited as the best field lacrosse match of all time.
1998 World Series The 1998 World Series matched the New York Yankees against the San Diego Padres marking the first time the Yankees had ever faced an expansion team in the Series. The Yankees swept the Series in four games to capture their second championship in three years, and their 24th overall.
1998-99 Calgary Flames season The 1998-99 Calgary Flames season was the 19th National Hockey League season in Calgary. The Flames opened their season up at "home", in Tokyo, Japan, as the NHL scheduled a two game series in the Asian country between the Flames and the San Jose Sharks.
1998-99 Heineken Cup The 1998-1999 Heineken Cup (the rugby union club championship of Europe) is the fourth of the series. Competing teams, from France, Ireland, Italy, Scotland and Wales - apart from Cardiff and Swansea, who were in dispute with the union -(Teams from England did not compete due to a dispute between European Rugby and the RFU), were divided into four pools of four, in which teams played home and away matches against each other.
1998-99 NBA season The 1998-99 NBA season was the 53rd season of the National Basketball Association. Due to a lockout, the season didn't start until February 5 1999 after a new six year Collective Bargaining Agreement was reached between the NBA and the National Basketball Players Association.
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