November 1998

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November 1998 was the eleventh month of that common year. The month, which began on a Sunday, ended on a Monday after 30 days.

Portal:Current events

This is an archived version of Wikipedia's Current events Portal from November 1998.

November 1, 1998 (Sunday)

November 3, 1998 (Tuesday)

November 5, 1998 (Thursday)

Lewinsky scandal: As part of the impeachment inquiry, House Judiciary Committee chairman Henry Hyde sends a list of 81 questions to U.S. President Bill Clinton.
The journal Nature publishes a genetic study showing compelling evidence that Thomas Jefferson fathered his slave Sally Hemings' son Eston Hemings Jefferson.
Myra Hindley loses her second appeal in 11 months against her whole life tariff.

November 7, 1998 (Saturday)

November 8, 1998 (Sunday)

U.S. and now defunct energy company Unocal signed an agreement with Petrobangla to develop Bangladesh's largest gas field. (BBC)

November 9, 1998 (Monday)

In the largest civil settlement in United States history, a federal judge approves a US$1.03 billion settlement requiring dozens of brokerage houses (including Merrill Lynch, Goldman Sachs, and Salomon Smith Barney) to pay investors who claim they were cheated in a widespread price-fixing scheme on the NASDAQ.
The United Kingdom formally abolishes the death penalty.

November 12, 1998 (Thursday)

Daimler-Benz completes a merger with Chrysler Corporation to form Daimler-Chrysler.

November 13, 1998 (Friday)

Theglobe.com goes public, opening up 1000% and setting a stock market record for highest rising IPO in history. This became one of the first and most widely publicized IPOs of the internet boom.
Iraq disarmament crisis: U.S. President Bill Clinton orders airstrikes on Iraq, then calls them off at the last minute when Iraq promises once again to "unconditionally" cooperate with UNSCOM.

November 19, 1998 (Thursday)

November 20, 1998 (Friday)

A court in Taliban-controlled Afghanistan declares accused terrorist Osama bin Laden "a man without a sin" in regard to the 1998 U.S. embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania.
Galina Starovoitova, Russian legislator and democracy advocate, is assassinated in Saint Petersburg, Russia.

At the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, the first component for the International Space Station (Zarya, or sunrise) is launched.

November 22, 1998 (Sunday)

November 23, 1998 (Monday)

Iraq disarmament crisis: According to UNSCOM, Iraq once again ends cooperation with the United Nations inspectors, alternately intimidating and withholding information from them.

November 24, 1998 (Tuesday)

Second Congo War: Reports from the Republic of the Congo say that twelve people drowned in a Congolese river when a marine patrol boat tried to intercept a canoe in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. River traffic was suspended between the two countries for security reasons after the Second Congo War began. (BBC)
America Online announces it will acquire Netscape Communications in a stock-for-stock transaction worth US$4.2 billion.

November 26, 1998 (Thursday)

Tony Blair becomes the first Prime Minister of the United Kingdom to address the Dáil Éireann, the Republic of Ireland's parliament.
Japan and China sign the Japan-China Joint Declaration On Building a Partnership of Friendship and Cooperation for Peace and Development.

November 28, 1998 (Saturday)

November 30, 1998 (Monday)

Deutsche Bank announces a US$10 billion deal to buy Bankers Trust, thus creating the largest financial institution in the world.

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