Portal:Current events/January 1998

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January 1998 was the first month of that common year. The month, which began on a Thursday, ended on a Saturday after 31 days.

Portal:Current events[edit]

This is an archived version of Wikipedia's Current events Portal from January 1998.

January 1, 1998 (1998-01-01) (Thursday)
Law and crime
  • Smoking is banned in all California bars and restaurants.

Politics and elections
  • Toronto and six other communities in Canada are merged to form a new megacity. The next day Mel Lastman is sworn in as its first mayor.
January 2, 1998 (1998-01-02) (Friday)
January 4, 1998 (1998-01-04) (Sunday)
January 5, 1998 (1998-01-05) (Monday)
January 6, 1998 (1998-01-06) (Tuesday)
  • Alan Eagleson pleads guilty to fraud in Canada.
  • The Lunar Prospector spacecraft is launched into orbit around the Moon, and later finds evidence for frozen water, in soil in permanently shadowed craters near the Moon's poles.
January 8, 1998 (1998-01-08) (Thursday)
January 11, 1998 (1998-01-11) (Sunday)
January 12, 1998 (1998-01-12) (Monday)
January 14, 1998 (1998-01-14) (Wednesday)
January 17, 1998 (1998-01-17) (Saturday)
January 20, 1998 (1998-01-20) (Tuesday)
January 22, 1998 (1998-01-22) (Thursday)
January 28, 1998 (1998-01-28) (Wednesday)
  • Gunmen hold at least 400 children and teachers hostage for several hours, at an elementary school in Manila, Philippines.
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