✦ History

Explore July 2, 1997 – December 31, 1998

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Events

Basque conflict 1959-07-31 - 2011-10-20
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
Republic of the Congo Civil War (1997–1999) 1997-06-05 - 1999-12-29
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
Eritrean–Ethiopian War 1998-05-06 - 2000-06-18
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

Tony Tan Keng Yam age 57
Micheline Calmy-Rey age 52
Sébastien Lecornu age 11
Tariq Aziz age 61
Andrew Cuomo age 39
Bob Geldof age 45
James Baker age 67
Alfred Moisiu age 67
Zillur Rahman age 68
Iliana Iotova age 32
François Bozizé age 50
Mirek Topolánek age 41
Petr Nečas age 32
Konstantinos Karamanlis age 90
Tamás Sulyok age 41
V. P. Singh age 66
Masoud Barzani age 50
Abdulla Yameen age 38
Mohamed Nasheed age 30
Jakov Milatović age 10
Thein Sein age 52
Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah age 44
Bill English age 35
Zoran Zaev age 22
Alenka Bratušek age 27
Doris Leuthard age 34
Volodymyr Hroisman age 19
Luis Lacalle Pou age 23
Hakainde Hichilema age 35
Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed age 35
Bakir Izetbegović age 41
Jim Mattis age 46
Princess Madeleine, Duchess of Hälsingland and Gästrikland age 15
James Comey age 36
Fernando de la Rúa age 59
Alfred Gusenbauer age 37
Ali Asadov age 40
Raman Halowchanka age 23
Girma Wolde-Giorgis age 72
Gordon Bajnai age 29
Ruud Lubbers age 58
Bounnhang Vorachit age 59
Andris Bērziņš age 52
Hilda Heine age 46
Vladimir Voronin age 56
George Tupou V of Tonga age 49
Nguyễn Minh Triết age 54
Toshiki Kaifu age 66
Kiichi Miyazawa age 77
Tsutomu Hata age 61
Jean-Pierre Raffarin age 48
Édouard Balladur age 68
David Petraeus age 44
Daniel Cohn-Bendit age 52
Igor Girkin age 26
Queen Mary of Denmark age 25
Rick Perry age 47
Greg Abbott age 39
Eduardo Duhalde age 55
Malcolm Fraser age 67
Wolfgang Schüssel age 52
José Maria Neves age 37
Ricardo Lagos age 59
Taavi Rõivas age 17
Irakli Kobakhidze age 18
Umaro Sissoco Embaló age 24
Fatmir Sejdiu age 45
Fayez al-Sarraj age 37
Khurelsukh Ukhnaa age 29
Luísa Diogo age 39
Mohamed Bazoum age 37
Gordana Siljanovska-Davkova age 44
Viorica Dăncilă age 33
Chan Santokhi age 38
Nguyễn Tấn Dũng age 47
Tô Lâm age 40
Michael Sata age 60
Pedro Pablo Kuczynski age 58
Martín Vizcarra age 34
José Sarney age 67
Brian Cowen age 37
Stanislav Shushkevich age 62
Empress Masako age 33
George Shultz age 76
Christian Kern age 31
Kristen Michal age 21
Juha Sipilä age 36
Kostas Karamanlis age 40
Jimmy Morales age 28
Haider Al-Abadi age 45
Catherine Connolly age 41
Emilio Colombo age 77
Choummaly Sayasone age 61
Michel Suleiman age 48
Inga Ruginienė age 16
Joseph Muscat age 23
George Abela age 49
José López Portillo age 77
Carlos Salinas de Gortari age 49
Hifikepunye Pohamba age 61
Pedro Passos Coelho age 32
Ernest Bai Koroma age 43
Viola Amherd age 35
Mohamed Ghannouchi age 55
Levy Mwanawasa age 48
Gotabaya Rajapaksa age 48
Anura Kurankan Dissanayake age 28
Michel Rocard age 66
Paul Wolfowitz age 53
Kemi Badenoch age 17
Empress Michiko age 62
Prince Henrik of Denmark age 63
Abulfaz Elchibey age 59
Zhelyu Zhelev age 62
Hissène Habré age 54
Nicos Christodoulides age 23
Adly Mansour age 51
Nino Burjanadze age 32
Georgios Papadopoulos age 78
Jean-Bertrand Aristide age 43
Ferenc Mádl age 66
Sigmundur Davíð Gunnlaugsson age 22
Laimdota Straujuma age 46
Joseph Aoun age 33
Min Aung Hlaing age 41
Ivica Dačić age 31
Tharman Shanmugaratnam age 40
Lawrence Wong age 24
Ingvar Carlsson age 62
Francisco Guterres age 42
Olexii Honcharuk age 12
Juan Carlos Varela age 33
Alejandro Toledo age 52
Hwang Kyo-ahn age 40
Željko Komšić age 33
Noboru Takeshita age 73
Jaap de Hoop Scheffer age 49
Prince Carl Philip, Duke of Värmland age 18
Queen Mette-Marit of Norway age 23
Tim Kaine age 39
Iajuddin Ahmed age 66
Mohammad Shahabuddin age 47
Luis Guillermo Solís age 39
Jan Fischer age 46
Danilo Medina age 45
Hailemariam Desalegn age 31
Giorgi Kvirikashvili age 29
Isaac Navon age 76
Dries van Agt age 66
Thongloun Sisoulith age 51
Krišjānis Kariņš age 32
Marc Ravalomanana age 47
Hery Rajaonarimampianina age 38
Lazarus Chakwera age 42
Luis Echeverría age 75
Miguel de la Madrid age 62
Natalia Gavrilița age 19
Ne Win age 86
Ram Chandra Poudel age 52
Sher Bahadur Deuba age 51
Luís Montenegro age 24
Ueli Maurer age 46
Ricardo Martinelli age 45
Haris Silajdžić age 51
Abdel Fattah al-Burhan age 37
Morihiro Hosokawa age 59
João Figueiredo age 79
Priti Patel age 25
Jerry Brown age 59
Warren Christopher age 71
Reynaldo Bignone age 69
Ayaz Mutallibov age 59
John Turner age 68
David Dacko age 67
Catherine Samba-Panza age 43
Bohuslav Sobotka age 25
Salvador Sánchez Cerén age 53
Antti Rinne age 34
H. D. Deve Gowda age 64
Abdul Rahman Arif age 81
Portia Simpson-Miller age 51
George William Vella age 55
Win Myint age 45
Baron Waqa age 37
Mamadou Tandja age 58
S. R. Nathan age 73
Igor Matovič age 24
Didier Burkhalter age 37
Taur Matan Ruak age 40
Fouad Mebazaa age 64
Rupiah Banda age 60
Canaan Banana age 61
Han Duck-soo age 48
Nikolai Ryzhkov age 67
Raymond Barre age 73
Mohamed Bouazizi age 13
Simon Harris age 10
Jim Yong Kim age 37
Norman Schwarzkopf Jr. age 62
Tarana Burke age 23