Some highlights of 1998 include:

• The impeachment trial of US President Bill Clinton
• The bombing of the US embassy in Nairobi, Kenya
• Google was founded
• The release of the film Titanic
• The Good Friday Agreement was signed in Northern Ireland
• The release of the first game in the popular Grand Theft Auto series
• The discovery of the complementary DNA structure by researchers
• The ice skating scandal at the Nagano Winter Olympics
• The launch of the iMac computer by Apple
• The declaration of the first state of emergency in Japan in over 50 years.