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Matthew Wayne Shepard was an American student at the University of Wyoming who was beaten, tortured, and left to die near Laramie on October 6, 1998. He was transported by rescuers…
Matthew Shepard, American murder victim (born 1976)
Frank John Yankovic was an American accordion player and polka musician. Known as "America's Polka King", Yankovic was considered the premier artist to play in the Slovenian style …
Frankie Yankovic, American accordion player (born 1916)
Dmitry Filippov was a Soviet and Russian politician and businessman. An influential member of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and the Lensovet before 1991, Filippov establi…
Dmitry Nikolayevich Filippov, Russian businessman and politician (born 1944)
Cleveland Amory was an American author, reporter, television critic, commentator and animal rights activist. He wrote a series of popular books poking fun at the pretensions and cu…
Cleveland Amory, American author and activist (born 1917)
Jonathan Bruce Postel was an American computer scientist who made many significant contributions to the development of the Internet, particularly with respect to standards. He is k…
Jon Postel, American computer scientist and academic (born 1943)
Joan Bogle Butler, known professionally as Joan Hickson, was an English actress of theatre, film and television. She was known for her role as Agatha Christie's Miss Marple in the …
Joan Hickson, English actress (born 1906)
Hakeem Muhammad Saeed was a Pakistani medical researcher, author, scholar, and philanthropist. He served as governor of Sindh Province from 19 July 1993 until 23 January 1994. Saee…
Hakim Said, Pakistani scholar and politician, 20th Governor of Sindh (born 1920)
Francis Williams Sargent was an American politician who served as the 64th governor of Massachusetts from 1969 to 1975. A member of the Republican Party, he previously served as th…
Francis W. Sargent, American soldier and politician, 64th Governor of Massachusetts (born 1915)
Barnett Abba Slepian was an American physician and abortion provider who was assassinated in his home by James Charles Kopp, a militant member of the US anti-abortion movement.
Barnett Slepian, American physician (born 1946)
Eric Clifford Ambler OBE was an English author of thrillers, in particular spy novels. Also working as a screenwriter, Ambler used the pseudonym Eliot Reed for books written with C…
Eric Ambler, English author, screenwriter, and producer (born 1909)
Kenkichi Iwasawa was a Japanese mathematician who is known for his influence on algebraic number theory.
Kenkichi Iwasawa, Japanese mathematician and academic (born 1917)
Edward James Hughes was an English poet, translator, and children's writer. Critics frequently rank him as one of the best poets of his generation and one of the twentieth century'…
Ted Hughes, English poet and playwright (born 1930)
Paul Misraki was a French composer of popular music and film scores. Over the course of over 60 years, Misraki wrote the music to 130 films, scoring works by directors like Jean Re…
Paul Misraki, Turkish-French pianist and composer (born 1908)
Steven Paul Jobs was an American businessman, inventor, and investor. A pioneer of the personal computer revolution of the 1970s and 1980s, Jobs co-founded Apple Inc. with his earl…
Steve Jobs unveiled the iMac G3' personal computer
Pokhran-II was a series of five nuclear weapon tests conducted by India in May 1998. The bombs were detonated at the Indian Army's Pokhran Test Range in Rajasthan. It was the secon…
India began the Pokhran-II nuclear-weapons test, its first since the Smiling Buddha test 24 years earlier
The Trisakti shootings, also known as the Trisakti tragedy, took place at Trisakti University, Jakarta, Indonesia, on 12 May 1998. At a demonstration demanding President Suharto's …
Four students were shot and killed by Indonesian soldiers at Trisakti University in Jakarta, which led to widespread rio
Suharto was an Indonesian military officer and politician who served as the second president of Indonesia from 1967 to 1998. He is the longest serving president of Indonesia at 31 …
Indonesian president Suharto resigned after a collapse of support for his presidency amid economic and political crises,
Public Prosecutor v. Taw Cheng Kong is a landmark case decided in 1998 by the Court of Appeal of Singapore which shaped the landscape of Singapore's constitutional law. The earlier…
In Public Prosecutor v Taw Cheng Kong, the Court of Appeal of Singapore overruled a High Court decision in the only time
An earthquake occurred in northern Afghanistan on May 30, 1998, at 06:22 UTC in Takhar Province, with a moment magnitude of 6.5 and a maximum modified Mercalli intensity of VIII (S…
A magnitude-6
Terry Lynn Nichols is an American domestic terrorist who was convicted for conspiring with Timothy McVeigh in the Oklahoma City bombing plot.
Terry Nichols was sentenced to life in prison for his role in the Oklahoma City bombing
White supremacy is the belief that white people are superior to those of other races. The belief favors the maintenance and defense of any power and privilege held by white peop…
White supremacists murdered James Byrd Jr
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets is a fantasy novel by British author J. K. Rowling. The second novel in the Harry Potter series, it chronicles Harry Potter's second year at…
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J. K. Rowling, the second novel of the Harry Potter series, was published.
A monster movie, monster film, or creature feature is a film that focuses on one or more characters struggling to survive attacks by one or more antagonistic monsters. Such may be …
The monster movie Pulgasari, the most-widely-seen North Korean film ever made, premiered in Tokyo, Japan.
The France national football team represents France in men's international football. It is controlled by the French Football Federation, the governing body for football in France. …
France defeated the defending champions Brazil 3–0 to win their first FIFA World Cup title.