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| 1998 |
| | | The TV quiz Who Wants to be a Millionaire?, hosted by Chris Tarrant, has its first transmission in the UK | |
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| 1998 |
| | | Violent gangs, calling themselves the Mugabe War Veterans Association, start to 'liberate' more than 100,000 sq km of white-owned farmland in Zimbabwe | |
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| 1998 |
| | | Michael Frayn's play Copenhagen dramatizes the visit of Werner Heisenberg to Niels Bohr in wartime Denmark | |
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| 1998 |
| | | The Akashi Kaikyo Bridge, linking Shikoku and Honshu in Japan, creates a new record as the longest suspension bridge | |
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| 1998 |
| | | 224 deaths in simultaneous attacks on US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania are linked to al-Qaeda | |
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| 1998 |
| | | The Taliban recapture Mazar-e-Sharif, giving them control of 90% of Afghanistan | |
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| 1998 |
| | | A sudden collapse of the Brazilian stock market follows the earlier slump in the Asian markets | |
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| 1998 |
| | | The Real IRA kills 26 people and injures about 200 with a bomb planted in Omagh, in northern Ireland | |
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| 1998 |
| | | President Clinton admits to having had an inappropriate relationship with Monica Lewinsky | |
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| 1998 |
| | | US cruise missiles attack al-Qaeda bases in Afghanistan and a suspected chemical factory in Khartoum | |
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