✦ History

Explore July 2, 1997 – December 31, 1998

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Events

The Troubles 1968-10-05 - 1998-04-10
Angolan Civil War 1975-11-11 - 2002-04-04
Internal conflict in Peru 1980-05-17 - 2000
Sri Lankan Civil War 1983-07-23 - 2009-05-18
Human Genome Project 1990-10-01 - 2003-04-14
Yugoslav Wars 1991-03-31 - 2001-11-12
Algerian Civil War 1991-12-26 - 2002-02-08
North American Free Trade Agreement 1994-01-01 - 2020-07-01
Dot-com bubble 1995 - 2002-10-09
1997 Albanian civil unrest 1997-01-16 - 1997-08-11
1997 Asian financial crisis 1997-07-02 - 1998
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

Stefan Löfven age 39
Johannes Rau age 66
Yasuo Fukuda age 61
Dominique de Villepin age 43
Manuel Valls age 34
Malcolm Turnbull age 42
Charles Michel age 21
Pierre Nkurunziza age 32
Óscar Arias Sánchez age 55
Giorgi Marghvilashvili age 27
Katerina Sakellaropoulou age 41
Frederik X of Denmark age 29
Najib Razak age 43
Helen Clark age 47
Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani age 17
Lee Hsien Loong age 45
Samia Suluhu Hassan age 37
Emmerson Mnangagwa age 54
Lee Myung-bak age 55
Franjo Tuđman age 75
Jorge Rafael Videla age 71
Nana Akufo-Addo age 53
Prabowo Subianto age 45
Isaac Herzog age 36
Henri I, Grand Duke of Luxembourg age 42
Tomislav Nikolić age 45
Boris Tadić age 39
José Ramos-Horta age 47
Juan Guaidó age 13
Adolfo Suárez age 64
François Englert age 64
Gustavo Petro age 37
Toomas Hendrik Ilves age 43
John Evans Atta Mills age 52
Reuven Rivlin age 57
Hashim Thaçi age 29
Almazbek Atambaev age 40
Roza Otunbayeva age 46
Haakon VIII of Norway age 23
Magdalena Andersson age 30
Denys Shmyhal age 21
Trương Tấn Sang age 48
Kenneth Kaunda age 73
Alan García age 48
Salva Kiir Mayardit age 45
Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus age 32
Janet Yellen age 50
Anne, Princess Royal age 46
Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor age 37
Armen Sarkissian age 44
Boyko Borissov age 38
Jovenel Moïse age 29
Katrín Jakobsdóttir age 21
Yair Lapid age 33
Joyce Banda age 47
Felipe Calderón age 34
John Key age 35
Goodluck Jonathan age 39
Ana Brnabić age 21
Halimah Yacob age 42
Ahmet Necdet Sezer age 55
Binali Yıldırım age 41
Karol Nawrocki age 14
Constantine II of Greece age 57
Robert G. Edwards age 71
Laura Chinchilla age 38
Zoran Milanović age 30
Nikos Anastasiades age 50
Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir age 54
Laurent Gbagbo age 52
Ingrida Šimonytė age 22
Shehbaz Sharif age 45
Macky Sall age 35
Fredrik Reinfeldt age 31
Kenan Evren age 80
Benigno Aquino III age 37
Jean Castex age 32
Hibatullah Akhundzada age 29
Stjepan Mesić age 62
Alexander Stubb age 29
Katalin Novák age 19
Isaac Shamir age 81
Michel Aoun age 63
Gitanas Nausėda age 33
Aníbal Cavaco Silva age 58
Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum age 47
Mahinda Rajapaksa age 51
Yasuhiro Nakasone age 79
Leo Varadkar age 18
Sam Altman age 12
Katalin Karikó age 42
Ivo Josipović age 39
Petr Pavel age 35
Mengistu Haile Mariam age 60
Jan Peter Balkenende age 41
Umaru Musa Yar'Adua age 45
Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa age 48
Ion Iliescu age 67
Janez Janša age 38
Bülent Ecevit age 72
Beata Szydło age 34
Jean-Marc Ayrault age 47
Péter Magyar age 16
Evika Siliņa age 21
Anwar Ibrahim age 49
Gjorge Ivanov age 37
Tabaré Vázquez age 57
Walter Scheel age 78
Victoria, Crown Princess of Sweden age 19
Félix Tshisekedi age 34
Jalal Talabani age 63
Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah age 68
Vicente Fox age 55
Olusegun Obasanjo age 60
Beji Caid Essebsi age 70
Trần Đại Quang age 40
Mateusz Morawiecki age 29
Alfredo Stroessner age 84
Édouard Philippe age 26
Aslan Maskhadov age 45
Hua Guofeng age 76
Karl Nehammer age 24
Yves Leterme age 36
Alpha Condé age 59
Ehud Barak age 55
Giuliano Amato age 59
Uhuru Kenyatta age 35
Helle Thorning-Schmidt age 30
Lars Løkke Rasmussen age 33
Ma Ying-jeou age 47
Faure Essozimna Gnassingbé age 31
Dina Boluarte age 35
Bongbong Marcos age 39
Otto von Habsburg age 84
Bujar Nishani age 30
Abdul Hamid age 53
Kim Campbell age 50
Andrej Babiš age 42
Lenín Moreno age 44
Mauno Koivisto age 73
Mari Kiviniemi age 28
Giorgos Papandreou age 45
Karolos Papoulias age 68
Juliana of the Netherlands age 88
Ulf Kristersson age 33
Lai Ching-te age 37
John Magufuli age 37
Milton Obote age 71
Horacio Cartes age 41
Shigeru Ishiba age 40
Abolhassan Banisadr age 64
Patrice Talon age 39
Prokopis Pavlopoulos age 47
Bettino Craxi age 63
Mamnoon Hussain age 56
Andrej Kiska age 34
Abdrabbuh Mansour Hadi age 51
Michael I of Romania age 75
Élisabeth Borne age 36
Thomas Bach age 43
Manuel Noriega age 63
Raúl Alfonsín age 70
Khaleda Zia age 50
Thomas Boni Yayi age 45
Georgi Parvanov age 40
Ibrahim Traoré age 9
Paul Martin age 58
Mwai Kibaki age 65
Xavier Bettel age 24
Oleksandr Turchynov age 33
Ollanta Humala age 35
Chun Doo-hwan age 66
Zhao Ziyang age 77
Rex Tillerson age 45
Alexander Schallenberg age 28
Mia Mottley age 31
Elio Di Rupo age 45
Faustin-Archange Touadéra age 40
Andrej Plenković age 27
John Kufuor age 58
P. V. Narasimha Rao age 76
Vjosa Osmani age 15
Atifete Jahjaga age 22
Nguyễn Phú Trọng age 53
Keiko Fujimori age 22
Gabriel Attal age 8
Jacques Delors age 72
Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon age 66
João Lourenço age 43
Werner Faymann age 37
Guy Verhofstadt age 44
Dimitris Christofias age 50
Alar Karis age 39
Giovanni Leone age 88
Igor Dodon age 22
Peter Pellegrini age 21
Paetongtarn Shinawatra age 10
Necmettin Erbakan age 70
Morgan Tsvangirai age 45
Felipe González age 55