✦ History

Explore February 28, 1998 – June 11, 1999

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Events

The Troubles 1968-10-05 - 1998-04-10
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 Asian financial crisis 1997-07-02 - 1998
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
Introduction of the euro 1999-01-01
NATO bombing of Yugoslavia 1999-03-24 - 1999-06-10
Battle of Košare 1999-04-09 - 1999-06-10
Columbine High School massacre 1999-04-20
Kargil War 1999-05-03 - 1999-07-26
Battle of Tololing 1999-05-22 - 1999-06-13

People

Árpád Göncz age 76
President - Hungary
Frederick Chiluba age 54
President - Zambia
Ezer Weizman age 73
President - Israel
Émile Lahoud age 62
President - Lebanon
Benjamin Mkapa age 59
President - Tanzania
Rexhep Meidani age 53
President - Albania
Quett Masire age 72
President - Botswana
Leonel Fernández age 44
President - Dominican Republic
Jean, Grand Duke of Luxembourg age 77
Grand Duke - Luxembourg
Azali Assoumani age 39
President - Comoros
Alpha Oumar Konaré age 52
President - Mali
Petar Stoyanov age 45
President - Bulgaria
Hassan Gouled Aptidon age 81
President - Djibouti
Emil Constantinescu age 58
President - Romania
Muhammad Rafiq Tarar age 68
President - Pakistan
Vladimír Mečiar age 55
President - Slovakia
Rafael Caldera age 82
President - Venezuela
Malam Bacai Sanhá age 50
President - Guinea-Bissau
Guntis Ulmanis age 58
President - Latvia
Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle age 55
President - Chile
Henri Konan Bédié age 63
President - Ivory Coast
Jaber al-Ahmad al-Sabah age 71
Emir - Kuwait
Mikuláš Dzurinda age 43
President - Slovakia
Julio María Sanguinetti age 62
President - Uruguay
Didier Ratsiraka age 61
President - Madagascar
Michal Kováč age 67
President - Slovakia
Tāufaʻāhau Tupou IV of Tonga age 79
King - Tonga
Hugo Banzer age 71
President - Bolivia
Ange-Félix Patassé age 61
President - Central African Republic
Glafcos Clerides age 78
President - Cyprus
Janet Jagan age 77
President - Guyana
Bakili Muluzi age 54
President - Malawi
Abdulsalami Abubakar age 55
President - Nigeria
Milan Milutinović age 55
President - Serbia
France-Albert René age 62
President - Seychelles
Ahmed Tejan Kabbah age 66
President - Sierra Leone
Ruth Dreifuss age 58
President - Switzerland
Pierre Buyoya age 48
President - Burundi
Andrés Pastrana Arango age 43
President - Colombia
Guido de Marco age 66
President - Malta
Liamine Zéroual age 56
President - Algeria
Isa II of Bahrain age 64
Emir - Bahrain
Khamtai Siphandone age 74
President - Laos
Shahabuddin Ahmed age 68
President - Bangladesh
Elias Hrawi age 71
President - Lebanon
Antonio Mascarenhas Monteiro age 54
President - Cape Verde
Ernesto Samper age 47
President - Colombia
Maaouya Ould Sid'Ahmed Taya age 56
President - Mauritania
Petru Lucinschi age 58
President - Moldova
Jules Wijdenbosch age 56
President - Suriname
A. N. R. Robinson age 71
President - Trinidad and Tobago
Kamisese Mara age 77
President - Fiji
Natsagiin Bagabandi age 47
President - Mongolia
Jamil Mahuad age 48
President - Ecuador
Negasso Gidada age 54
President - Ethiopia
Daouda Malam Wanké age 51
President - Niger
Ibrahim Baré Maïnassara age 48
President - Niger
Ong Teng Cheong age 62
President - Singapore
José María Figueres Olsen age 43
President - Costa Rica
Arnoldo Alemán age 52
President - Nicaragua
Miguel Trovoada age 61
President - São Tomé and Príncipe
Edward Natapei age 43
President - Vanuatu
Luis González Macchi age 50
President - Paraguay
Armando Calderón Sol age 49
President - El Salvador
Ugo Mifsud Bonnici age 65
President - Malta
Momčilo Krajišnik age 53
President - Bosnia and Herzegovina
Miguel Ángel Rodríguez Echeverría age 58
President - Costa Rica
Francisco Flores age 38
President - El Salvador
Flavio Cotti age 58
President - Switzerland
Jacob Nena age 56
President - Federated States of Micronesia
René Harris age 50
President - Nauru
Leo Falcam age 62
President - Federated States of Micronesia
Kuniwo Nakamura age 54
President - Palau
Fabián Alarcón age 50
President - Ecuador
Ansumane Mané age 58
President - Guinea-Bissau
Carlos Roberto Flor age 48
President - Honduras
Bernard Dowiyogo age 52
President - Nauru
Teburoro Tito age 44
President - Kiribati
Imata Kabua age 54
President - Marshall Islands
Mohamed Taki Abdoulkarim age 62
President - Comoros
John Bani age 56
President - Vanuatu
Vernon Shaw age 67
President - Dominica
Kinza Clodumar age 53
President - Nauru
Tadjidine Ben Said Massounde age 64
President - Comoros
Cassam Uteem age 56
President - Mauritius
Krešimir Zubak age 51
President - Bosnia and Herzegovina
Jean-Marie Léyé age 66
President - Vanuatu
Živko Radišić age 60
President - Bosnia and Herzegovina
Rosa Zafferani age 37
Captain Regent - San Marino
Antonello Bacciocchi age 40
Captain Regent - San Marino
Loris Francini age 35
Captain Regent - San Marino
Ante Jelavić age 34
President - Bosnia and Herzegovina
Paolo Bollini age 38
Captain Regent - San Marino
Pasteur Bizimungu age 48
President - Rwanda
Alberto Cecchetti age 54
Captain Regent - San Marino
Luigi Mazza age 37
Captain Regent - San Marino
Marino Zanotti age 46
Captain Regent - San Marino
Pietro Berti age 31
Captain Regent - San Marino
Fahd bin Abdulaziz Al Saud age 77
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 50
Prime Minister - Bangladesh
Jean-Claude Juncker age 43
Prime Minister - Luxembourg
Hassanal Bolkiah age 51
Prime Minister - Brunei
Miloš Zeman age 53
Prime Minister - Czech Republic
Sirimavo Bandaranaike age 81
Prime Minister - Sri Lanka
Nawaz Sharif age 48
Prime Minister - Pakistan
John Howard age 58
Prime Minister - Australia
Hashim Thaçi age 29
Prime Minister - Kosovo
Victor Chernomyrdin age 59
Prime Minister - Russia
José María Aznar age 45
Prime Minister - Spain
Meles Zenawi age 42
Prime Minister - Ethiopia
Filip Vujanović age 43
Prime Minister - Montenegro
Bülent Ecevit age 72
Prime Minister - Turkey
Hun Sen age 45
Prime Minister - Cambodia
Rafiq Hariri age 53
Prime Minister - Lebanon
Jean Chrétien age 64
Prime Minister - Canada
Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta age 53
Prime Minister - Mali
Janez Drnovšek age 47
Prime Minister - Slovenia
Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj age 34
Prime Minister - Mongolia
Göran Persson age 49
Prime Minister - Sweden
Evgeny Primakov age 68
Prime Minister - Russia
Wim Kok age 59
Prime Minister - Netherlands
Hage Geingob age 56
Prime Minister - Namibia
Artur Rasizade age 63
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 46
Prime Minister - New Zealand
Kjell Magne Bondevik age 50
Prime Minister - Norway
Khalifa bin Salman Al Khalifa age 62
Prime Minister - Bahrain
Poul Nyrup Rasmussen age 54
Prime Minister - Denmark
Fatos Nano age 45
Prime Minister - Albania
Davíð Oddsson age 50
Prime Minister - Iceland
Jean-Luc Dehaene age 57
Prime Minister - Belgium
Rolandas Paksas age 41
Prime Minister - Lithuania
Eddie Fenech Adami age 64
Prime Minister - Malta
Paavo Lipponen age 56
Prime Minister - Finland
Sergei Stepashin age 46
Prime Minister - Russia
Tuilaʻepa Saʻilele Malielegaoi age 52
Prime Minister - Samoa
Mart Laar age 37
Prime Minister - Estonia
Mesut Yılmaz age 50
Prime Minister - Turkey
Sam Hinds age 54
Prime Minister - Guyana
Jigme Thinley age 45
Prime Minister - Bhutan
Sergei Kirienko age 35
Prime Minister - Russia
Sitiveni Rabuka age 49
Prime Minister - Fiji
Maktoum bin Rashid Al Maktoum age 54
Prime Minister - United Arab Emirates
Pakalitha Mosisili age 52
Prime Minister - Lesotho
Radu Vasile age 55
Prime Minister - Romania
Vuk Drašković age 51
Deputy Prime Minister - Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
Viktor Klima age 50
Chancellor - Austria
Keith Mitchell age 51
Prime Minister - Grenada
Krishna Prasad Bhattarai age 73
Prime Minister - Nepal
Vazgen Sargsyan age 39
Prime Minister - Armenia
Owen Arthur age 48
Prime Minister - Barbados
Denzil Douglas age 45
Prime Minister - Saint Kitts and Nevis
Chuan Leekpai age 59
Prime Minister - Thailand
Saad Al-Abdullah Al-Salim Al-Sabah age 67
Prime Minister - Kuwait
Mart Siimann age 51
Prime Minister - Estonia
Barnabas Sibusiso Dlamini age 55
Prime Minister - Eswatini
Daniel Kablan Duncan age 54
Prime Minister - Ivory Coast
Kenny Anthony age 47
Prime Minister - Saint Lucia
Goh Kun age 60
Prime Minister - South Korea
Pandeli Majko age 30
Prime Minister - Albania
Said Musa age 53
Prime Minister - Belize
Abderrahmane Youssoufi age 74
Prime Minister - Morocco
Hubert Ingraham age 50
Prime Minister - The Bahamas
Apolo Nsibambi age 57
Prime Minister - Uganda
Ivan Kostov age 48
Prime Minister - Bulgaria
Josef Tošovský age 47
Prime Minister - Czech Republic
P. J. Patterson age 62
Prime Minister - Jamaica
Victor Ciorbea age 43
Prime Minister - Romania
Lester Bird age 60
Prime Minister - Antigua and Barbuda
Salim al-Huss age 68
Prime Minister - Lebanon
Fayez al-Tarawneh age 48
Prime Minister - Jordan
Nurlan Balgimbayev age 50
Prime Minister - Kazakhstan
Alfred Sant age 50
Prime Minister - Malta
Pascoal Mocumbi age 56
Prime Minister - Mozambique
Marc Forné Molné age 51
Prime Minister - Andorra
Manuel Esquivel age 57
Prime Minister - Belize
Bujar Bukoshi age 50
Prime Minister - Kosovo
Irena Degutienė age 48
Prime Minister - Lithuania
Ljubčo Georgievski age 32
Prime Minister - North Macedonia
Basdeo Panday age 64
Prime Minister - Trinidad and Tobago
Valerii Pustovoitenko age 51
Prime Minister - Ukraine
Zlatko Mateša age 48
Prime Minister - Croatia
Barkat Gourad Hamadou age 68
Prime Minister - Djibouti
Carlos Correia age 64
Prime Minister - Guinea-Bissau
Gavril Dejeu age 65
Prime Minister - Romania
Serge Vohor age 42
Prime Minister - Vanuatu
França Van-Dúnem age 63
Prime Minister - Angola
Ion Ciubuc age 54
Prime Minister - Moldova
Habib Thiam age 65
Prime Minister - Senegal
Mohammad Rabbani age 42
Prime Minister - Afghanistan
Jacques-Édouard Alexis age 50
Prime Minister - Haiti
Guntars Krasts age 40
Prime Minister - Latvia
Abdullah bin Khalifa Al Thani age 40
Prime Minister - Qatar
Utkir Tukhtamurodovich Sultonov age 58
Prime Minister - Uzbekistan