✦ History

Explore July 2, 1997 – December 31, 1998

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Events

The Troubles 1968-10-05 - 1998-04-10
Human Genome Project 1990-10-01 - 2003-04-14
Yugoslav Wars 1991-03-31 - 2001-11-12
North American Free Trade Agreement 1994-01-01 - 2020-07-01
Dot-com bubble 1995 - 2002-10-09
1997 Asian financial crisis 1997-07-02 - 1998-12-31
Death of Diana, Princess of Wales 1997-08-31
Kyoto Protocol 1997-12-11
Kosovo War 1998-02-28 - 1999-06-11
Good Friday Agreement 1998-04-10
Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court 1998-07-17
Second Congo War 1998-08-02 - 2003-07-18
Launch of the International Space Station 1998-11-20

People

Julio María Sanguinetti age 61
President - Uruguay
Didier Ratsiraka age 60
President - Madagascar
Pascal Lissouba age 65
President - Republic of the Congo
Michal Kováč age 66
President - Slovakia
Tāufaʻāhau Tupou IV of Tonga age 79
King - Tonga
Hugo Banzer age 71
President - Bolivia
Ange-Félix Patassé age 60
President - Central African Republic
Glafcos Clerides age 78
President - Cyprus
Sam Hinds age 53
President - Guyana
Janet Jagan age 76
President - Guyana
Bakili Muluzi age 54
President - Malawi
Abdulsalami Abubakar age 55
President - Nigeria
Milan Milutinović age 54
President - Serbia
France-Albert René age 61
President - Seychelles
Ahmed Tejan Kabbah age 65
President - Sierra Leone
Pierre Buyoya age 47
President - Burundi
Andrés Pastrana Arango age 42
President - Colombia
Liamine Zéroual age 56
President - Algeria
Isa II of Bahrain age 64
Emir - Bahrain
Shahabuddin Ahmed age 67
President - Bangladesh
Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada age 67
President - Bolivia
Elias Hrawi age 70
President - Lebanon
Antonio Mascarenhas Monteiro age 53
President - Cape Verde
Ernesto Samper age 46
President - Colombia
Maaouya Ould Sid'Ahmed Taya age 55
President - Mauritania
Petru Lucinschi age 57
President - Moldova
Momir Bulatović age 40
President - Montenegro
Ruth Perry age 58
President - Liberia
Jules Wijdenbosch age 56
President - Suriname
A. N. R. Robinson age 70
President - Trinidad and Tobago
Kamisese Mara age 77
President - Fiji
Natsagiin Bagabandi age 47
President - Mongolia
Jamil Mahuad age 47
President - Ecuador
Negasso Gidada age 53
President - Ethiopia
Ibrahim Baré Maïnassara age 48
President - Niger
Ong Teng Cheong age 61
President - Singapore
José María Figueres Olsen age 42
President - Costa Rica
Arnoldo Alemán age 51
President - Nicaragua
Wasim Sajjad age 56
President - Pakistan
Miguel Trovoada age 60
President - São Tomé and Príncipe
Armando Calderón Sol age 49
President - El Salvador
Ugo Mifsud Bonnici age 64
President - Malta
Momčilo Krajišnik age 52
President - Bosnia and Herzegovina
Miguel Ángel Rodríguez Echeverría age 57
President - Costa Rica
Nouhak Phoumsavanh age 83
President - Laos
Flavio Cotti age 57
President - Switzerland
Jacob Nena age 55
President - Federated States of Micronesia
Kuniwo Nakamura age 53
President - Palau
Fabián Alarcón age 50
President - Ecuador
Carlos Roberto Flor age 47
President - Honduras
Carlos Roberto Reina age 71
President - Honduras
Bernard Dowiyogo age 51
President - Nauru
Teburoro Tito age 43
President - Kiribati
Imata Kabua age 54
President - Marshall Islands
Arnold Koller age 63
President - Switzerland
Johnny Paul Koroma age 37
President - Sierra Leone
Dragan Tomić age 61
President - Serbia
Rosalio Lara age 74
President - Vatican City
Mohamed Taki Abdoulkarim age 61
President - Comoros
Vernon Shaw age 67
President - Dominica
Kinza Clodumar age 52
President - Nauru
Tadjidine Ben Said Massounde age 63
President - Comoros
Cassam Uteem age 56
President - Mauritius
Hussein Farrah Aidid age 34
President - Somalia
Skënder Gjinushi age 47
President - Albania
Krešimir Zubak age 50
President - Bosnia and Herzegovina
Jean-Marie Léyé age 65
President - Vanuatu
Živko Radišić age 59
President - Bosnia and Herzegovina
Loris Francini age 34
Captain Regent - San Marino
Ante Jelavić age 33
President - Bosnia and Herzegovina
Paolo Bollini age 37
Captain Regent - San Marino
Carlos Lemos Simmonds age 63
President - Colombia
Pasteur Bizimungu age 47
President - Rwanda
Alberto Cecchetti age 53
Captain Regent - San Marino
Luigi Mazza age 36
Captain Regent - San Marino
Marino Zanotti age 45
Captain Regent - San Marino
Paride Andreoli age 41
Captain Regent - San Marino
Pier Marino Mularoni age 34
Captain Regent - San Marino
Pietro Berti age 30
Captain Regent - San Marino
Fahd bin Abdulaziz Al Saud age 76
King - Saudi Arabia
Mahathir Mohamad age 72
Prime Minister - Malaysia
António Guterres age 48
Prime Minister - Portugal
Viktor Orbán age 34
Prime Minister - Hungary
Sheikh Hasina age 49
Prime Minister - Bangladesh
Jean-Claude Juncker age 42
Prime Minister - Luxembourg
Hassanal Bolkiah age 51
Prime Minister - Brunei
Miloš Zeman age 52
Prime Minister - Czech Republic
Sirimavo Bandaranaike age 81
Prime Minister - Sri Lanka
Václav Klaus age 56
Prime Minister - Czech Republic
Nawaz Sharif age 47
Prime Minister - Pakistan
John Howard age 57
Prime Minister - Australia
Victor Chernomyrdin age 59
Prime Minister - Russia
José María Aznar age 44
Prime Minister - Spain
Meles Zenawi age 42
Prime Minister - Ethiopia
Filip Vujanović age 42
Prime Minister - Montenegro
Hun Sen age 44
Prime Minister - Cambodia
Rafiq Hariri age 52
Prime Minister - Lebanon
Jean Chrétien age 63
Prime Minister - Canada
Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta age 52
Prime Minister - Mali
Janez Drnovšek age 47
Prime Minister - Slovenia
Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj age 34
Prime Minister - Mongolia
Göran Persson age 48
Prime Minister - Sweden
Evgeny Primakov age 67
Prime Minister - Russia
Wim Kok age 58
Prime Minister - Netherlands
Hage Geingob age 55
Prime Minister - Namibia
Thorbjørn Jagland age 46
Prime Minister - Norway
Artur Rasizade age 62
Prime Minister - Azerbaijan
Gyula Horn age 65
Prime Minister - Hungary
Goh Chok Tong age 56
Prime Minister - Singapore
Girija Prasad Koirala age 73
Prime Minister - Nepal
Costas Simitis age 61
Prime Minister - Greece
Jenny Shipley age 45
Prime Minister - New Zealand
Kjell Magne Bondevik age 49
Prime Minister - Norway
Khalifa bin Salman Al Khalifa age 61
Prime Minister - Bahrain
Poul Nyrup Rasmussen age 54
Prime Minister - Denmark
Fatos Nano age 44
Prime Minister - Albania
Davíð Oddsson age 49
Prime Minister - Iceland
Jean-Luc Dehaene age 56
Prime Minister - Belgium
Eddie Fenech Adami age 63
Prime Minister - Malta
Paavo Lipponen age 56
Prime Minister - Finland
Tuilaʻepa Saʻilele Malielegaoi age 52
Prime Minister - Samoa
Mesut Yılmaz age 49
Prime Minister - Turkey
Jigme Thinley age 44
Prime Minister - Bhutan
Sergei Kirienko age 34
Prime Minister - Russia
Sitiveni Rabuka age 48
Prime Minister - Fiji
Maktoum bin Rashid Al Maktoum age 53
Prime Minister - United Arab Emirates
Pakalitha Mosisili age 52
Prime Minister - Lesotho
Radu Vasile age 54
Prime Minister - Romania
Viktor Klima age 50
Chancellor - Austria
Keith Mitchell age 50
Prime Minister - Grenada
Owen Arthur age 47
Prime Minister - Barbados
Denzil Douglas age 44
Prime Minister - Saint Kitts and Nevis
Chuan Leekpai age 58
Prime Minister - Thailand
Pavlo Lazarenko age 44
Prime Minister - Ukraine
Bashkim Fino age 34
Prime Minister - Albania
Saad Al-Abdullah Al-Salim Al-Sabah age 67
Prime Minister - Kuwait
Mart Siimann age 50
Prime Minister - Estonia
Barnabas Sibusiso Dlamini age 55
Prime Minister - Eswatini
Daniel Kablan Duncan age 54
Prime Minister - Ivory Coast
Jim Bolger age 62
Prime Minister - New Zealand
Kenny Anthony age 46
Prime Minister - Saint Lucia
Goh Kun age 59
Prime Minister - South Korea
Pandeli Majko age 29
Prime Minister - Albania
Said Musa age 53
Prime Minister - Belize
Norodom Ranariddh age 53
Prime Minister - Cambodia
Abderrahmane Youssoufi age 73
Prime Minister - Morocco
Hubert Ingraham age 49
Prime Minister - The Bahamas
Ivan Kostov age 47
Prime Minister - Bulgaria
Josef Tošovský age 46
Prime Minister - Czech Republic
P. J. Patterson age 62
Prime Minister - Jamaica
Victor Ciorbea age 42
Prime Minister - Romania
Lester Bird age 59
Prime Minister - Antigua and Barbuda
Salim al-Huss age 67
Prime Minister - Lebanon
Julius Chan age 57
Prime Minister - Papua New Guinea
Fayez al-Tarawneh age 48
Prime Minister - Jordan
Abdellatif Filali age 69
Prime Minister - Morocco
Lokendra Bahadur Chand age 57
Prime Minister - Nepal
Nurlan Balgimbayev age 49
Prime Minister - Kazakhstan
Alfred Sant age 49
Prime Minister - Malta
Pascoal Mocumbi age 56
Prime Minister - Mozambique
Marc Forné Molné age 50
Prime Minister - Andorra
Manuel Esquivel age 57
Prime Minister - Belize
Abdelsalam al-Majali age 72
Prime Minister - Jordan
Bujar Bukoshi age 50
Prime Minister - Kosovo
Ljubčo Georgievski age 31
Prime Minister - North Macedonia
Chawalit Yongchaiyut age 65
Prime Minister - Thailand
Basdeo Panday age 64
Prime Minister - Trinidad and Tobago
Valerii Pustovoitenko age 50
Prime Minister - Ukraine
Zlatko Mateša age 48
Prime Minister - Croatia
Barkat Gourad Hamadou age 67
Prime Minister - Djibouti
Carlos Correia age 63
Prime Minister - Guinea-Bissau
Gavril Dejeu age 64
Prime Minister - Romania
Serge Vohor age 42
Prime Minister - Vanuatu
França Van-Dúnem age 62
Prime Minister - Angola
Ion Ciubuc age 54
Prime Minister - Moldova
Habib Thiam age 64
Prime Minister - Senegal
Mohammad Rabbani age 41
Prime Minister - Afghanistan
Akejan Kajegeldin age 45
Prime Minister - Kazakhstan
Guntars Krasts age 39
Prime Minister - Latvia
Abdullah bin Khalifa Al Thani age 39
Prime Minister - Qatar
Utkir Tukhtamurodovich Sultonov age 58
Prime Minister - Uzbekistan
Syarhei Linh age 60
Prime Minister - Belarus
Hamed Karoui age 69
Prime Minister - Tunisia
Ismail Hamdani age 67
Prime Minister - Algeria
Adrien Houngbédji age 55
Prime Minister - Benin
Vilis Krištopans age 43
Prime Minister - Latvia
Andris Šķēle age 39
Prime Minister - Latvia
Vasyl Durdynets age 59
Prime Minister - Ukraine
Donald Kalpokas age 53
Prime Minister - Vanuatu
Armen Darbinyan age 32
Prime Minister - Armenia
Paulin Obame-Nguema age 62
Prime Minister - Gabon
Rosny Smarth age 56
Prime Minister - Haiti
James Fitz-Allen Mitchell age 66
Prime Minister - Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
Peter Mafany Musonge age 54
Prime Minister - Cameroon
Bikenibeu Paeniu age 41
Prime Minister - Tuvalu
Kadré Désiré Ouedraogo age 43
Prime Minister - Burkina Faso
Francisco Fadul age 43
Prime Minister - Guinea-Bissau
Apas Jumagulov age 62
Prime Minister - Kyrgyzstan
Tantely Andrianarivo age 43
Prime Minister - Madagascar
Solomon Mamaloni age 54
Prime Minister - Solomon Islands