✦ 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

George F. Kennan age 93
Itamar Franco age 67
Jacques Rogge age 55
Kirsty Coventry age 13
Abu Musab al-Zarqawi age 30
Bamir Topi age 40
Ilir Meta age 28
Alexander De Croo age 21
Sophie Wilmès age 22
Luis Arce age 33
Jeanine Áñez age 30
Simeon II of Bulgaria age 60
Jüri Ratas age 19
Dick Schoof age 40
Rob Jetten age 10
Kurmanbek Bakiyev age 47
Saad Harirị age 27
Andry Rajoelina age 23
Peter Mutharika age 56
Mário Soares age 72
Zoran Đinđić age 44
Abhisit Vejjajiva age 32
Adama Barrow age 32
Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan age 36
Fernando Lugo age 46
Kgalema Motlanthe age 47
Shamil Basayev age 32
Gough Whitlam age 81
Ismail Omar Guelleh age 49
Arnold Rüütel age 69
Nouri al-Maliki age 47
Moshe Katsav age 51
Ibrahim Rugova age 52
Sadyr Japarov age 28
Amadou Toumani Touré age 48
Ameenah Gurib-Fakim age 37
Ram Baran Yadav age 49
Stevo Pendarovski age 34
Desi Bouterse age 51
Xanana Gusmão age 51
Serdar Berdimuhamedow age 15
Arsenii Yatseniuk age 23
Armand Fallières age 155
Pierre Mauroy age 69
Laurent Fabius age 50
Édith Cresson age 63
Michel Barnier age 46
Enda Kenny age 46
Queen Sofía of Spain age 58
Prince Edward, Duke of Edinburgh age 33
Queen Letizia of Spain age 24
Robert McNamara age 81
Ivo Sanader age 44
Andrus Ansip age 40
Loukas Papademos age 49
László Sólyom age 55
Edgars Rinkēvičs age 23
Valdis Zatlers age 42
Bingu wa Mutharika age 63
Khadga Prasad Sharma Oli age 45
Violeta Chamorro age 67
Bola Tinubu age 45
Nikola Gruevski age 26
Egor Gajdar age 41
Carl Bildt age 47
Prayut Chanocha age 43
Delcy Rodriguez age 28
Sadi Carnot (statesman) age 159
Lloyd Austin age 43
Kim Yo Jong age 9
John Roberts age 42
Roch Marc Christian Kaboré age 40
Brian Mulroney age 58
Álvaro Uribe Vélez age 45
Matti Vanhanen age 41
R. Venkataraman age 86
William Ruto age 30
Vaira Vīķe-Freiberga age 59
Mohamed Agha age 41
Marie-Louise Coleiro Preca age 38
Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz age 40
Nicolae Timofti age 48
Chris Hipkins age 18
Danilo Türk age 45
Tupou VI of Tonga age 38
Mykola Azarov age 49
Edgar Lungu age 40
Pedro Castillo age 27
Lee Jae Myung age 33
Yoshirō Mori age 60
Nguyễn Văn Thiệu age 74
Queen Silvia of Sweden age 53
Vahagn Khachatryan age 38
Bob Hawke age 67
Sandra Mason age 48
Iván Duque age 20
Jadranka Kosor age 44
Daniel Noboa age 9
Irakli Garibashvili age 15
Guðni Jóhannesson age 29
Gulzarilal Nanda age 99
Raimonds Vējonis age 31
Abdullah Ahmad Badawi age 57
Jonas Gahr Støre age 36
Haitham bin Tarik Al Said age 41
Abdoulaye Wade age 71
Iveta Radičová age 40
Chen Shui-bian age 46
Yulia Svyrydenko age 11
Tadeusz Mazowiecki age 70
Bernard Cazeneuve age 34
P. W. Botha age 81
Ed Miliband age 27
Queen Sonja of Norway age 60
Gavin Newsom age 29
Paul Keating age 53
Mokgweetsi Masisi age 35
Petr Fiala age 32
Mauricio Funes age 37
Bidzina Ivanishvili age 41
Manuel Zelaya age 44
Ferenc Gyurcsány age 36
Pál Schmitt age 55
Amintore Fanfani age 89
Sooronbay Jeenbekov age 38
Egils Levits age 42
Filipe Nyusi age 38
Saara Kuugongelwa age 29
Sushila Karki age 45
Mahamadou Issoufou age 45
Arif Alvi age 47
Yusuf Raza Gilani age 45
Nicușor Dan age 27
Viktor Zubkov age 55
Vojislav Koštunica age 53
Robert Golob age 30
Ewa Kopacz age 40
Li Qiang age 37
Maithripala Sirisena age 45
Milorad Dodik age 38
Tomiichi Murayama age 73
Micheál Martin age 36
Pete Hegseth age 17
Soong Mei-ling age 99
Sarah Ferguson age 37
Brigitte Bierlein age 48
Bart De Wever age 26
Rosen Plevneliev age 33
José Antonio Kast age 31
Tassos Papadopoulos age 63
Petteri Orpo age 27
Antonis Samaras age 46
Lamberto Dini age 66
Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah age 60
Valdis Dombrovskis age 25
Guillaume V, Grand Duke of Luxembourg age 15
Pushpa Kamal Dahal age 42
José Sócrates age 39
Victor Ponta age 24
Prem Tinsulanonda age 76
Roh Tae-woo age 64
Ranil Wickremesinghe age 48
François Bayrou age 46
Egon Krenz age 60
Fernando Collor de Mello age 47
Kim Jong-nam age 26
Robert Mueller age 52
Ramiz Alia age 71
Leopoldo Galtieri age 71
Seretse Khama Ian Khama age 44
Jorge Carlos Fonseca age 46
Jyrki Katainen age 25
Giorgi Gakharia age 22
Juan Orlando Hernández age 28
Barham Salih age 36
Karim Massimov age 32
Albin Kurti age 22
Robert Abela age 19
Agatha Barbara age 74
Branko Crvenkovski age 34
Emil Boc age 30
Nataša Pirc Musar age 29
Simonetta Sommaruga age 37
Jakaya Mrisho Kikwete age 46
Moncef Marzouki age 52
Kais Saied age 39
Nguyễn Xuân Phúc age 42
Hassan Sheikh Mohamud age 41
Jean Casimir-Perier age 149
Alain Juppé age 51
Robert Gates age 53
Bajram Begaj age 30
Mulatu Teshome age 40
Jean-Claude Duvalier age 46
Xiomara Castro age 37
Chandra Shekhar age 70
Fuad Masum age 59
Andrius Kubilius age 40
Mikhhail Fradkov age 46
Tony Tan Keng Yam age 57