Happiness
Release year: 1998
Directed by: Todd Solondz
Starring: Jane Adams, Jon Lovitz, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Dylan Baker
April 1998 calendar
Learn the most interesting events and historical facts that happened in April 1998.
The US president was Bill Clinton (Democrat), the UK Prime Minister was Tony Blair (Labour), Pope St John Paul II was leading the Catholic Church.
But much more happened on April 1998: find out below
Historical Events
Which were the important events of April 1998?
Events
- 01 Apr 1998 World Ice Pairs Figure Skating Championship in Minneapolis, Minnesota; Russians Yelena Berezhnaya and Anton Sikharulidze win.
- 02 Apr 1998 World Mens Figure Skating Championship in Minneapolis, Minnesota; Russian Alexei Yagudin wins.
- 03 Apr 1998 World Ice Dance Figure Skating Championship in Minneapolis, Minnesota; Russians Anjelika Krylova and Oleg Ovsyannikov win.
- 04 Apr 1998 NFL Europe (formerly WLAF), kicks off season.
- 05 Apr 1998 10th Seniors Golf Tradition
- 06 Apr 1998 Pakistan tests medium-range missiles capable of reaching India.
- 07 Apr 1998 Citicorp and Travelers Group announce plans to merge, creating the largest financial-services conglomerate in the world, Citigroup.
- 08 Apr 1998 A Force 5 tornado strikes the western portion of the Birmingham, Alabama area, killing 32.
- 12 Apr 1998 62nd Golf Masters Championship: Mark O'Meara wins.
- 15 Apr 1998 Intel announces the 266 MHz Celeron processor with 32 kB Level 1 cache. The Celeron is a Pentium II processor with no secondary cache, making it cheaper and slightly less powerful, targeting home computer users.
- 16 Apr 1998 A Force 3 tornado passes through downtown Nashville, Tennessee - the first tornado in 11 years to directly hit a major city. An F5 tornado travels through rural portions south of Nashville.
- 18 Apr 1998 The Walt Disney Company launches the Toon Disney cable television network in the USA.
- 19 Apr 1998 59th PGA Seniors Golf Championship
- 20 Apr 1998 German terrorist group the Red Army Faction announces their dissolution after 28 years.
- 22 Apr 1998 Disney's Animal Kingdom opens at Walt Disney World near Orlando, Florida, United States.
- 23 Apr 1998 The Yugoslav Army ambushes a group of Kosovo Liberation Army fighters attempting to smuggle weapons from Albania into Kosovo, killing 19.
- 26 Apr 1998 Wins Chick-fil-A Golf Charity Championship
- 29 Apr 1998 15th Miss Hawaiian Tropic crowned
Famous Birthday
American noted family, the daughter of Michael Jackson and his wife, Debbie Rowe, their second child.
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Famous Deaths
Peruvian-American anthropologist and author (d. 1998).
American singer (Plasmatics) (Born 1949).
American-German singer and dancer (Milli Vanilli and Rob & Fab) (d. 1998).
American actor with a career that spanned four decades.
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Music charts
Which were the top hits in April 1998?
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Top #5 songs in the USA
- K-Ci & JoJo - All My Life
- Next - Too Close
- Madonna - Frozen
- Montell Jordan - Let's Ride
- Shania Twain - You're Still The One
Top #5 songs in the UK
- Celine Dion - My Heart Will Go On
- Run-DMC vs Jason Nevins - It's Like That
- Madonna - Frozen
- Savage Garden - Truly Madly Deeply
- Sash! - La Primavera
Movies
Which were the most popular Movies released in that month?
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Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Release year: 1998
Directed by: Terry Gilliam
Starring: Johnny Depp, Benicio Del Toro, Tobey Maguire, Michael Lee Gogin
Country: United States of America
I Stand Alone
Release year: 1998
Directed by: Gaspar Noé
Starring: Philippe Nahon, Blandine Lenoir, Frankie Pain, Martine Audrain
My Name Is Joe
Release year: 1998
Directed by: Ken Loach
Starring: Peter Mullan, Louise Goodall, Gary Lewis, Lorraine McIntosh
He Got Game
Release year: 1998
Directed by: Spike Lee
Starring: Denzel Washington, Milla Jovovich, Ray Allen, Rosario Dawson
Books
Which were the most popular books released in April 1998?
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Guilty Pleasures
By: Lawrence Sanders
Lawrence Sanders was the only person who could have written this story about a family that defies all rules, both God's and men's. Guilty Pleasures takes readers from the seventies into the nineties.
Into Thin Air
By: Jon Krakauer
National Bestseller A bank of clouds was assembling on the not-so-distant horizon, but journalist-mountaineer Jon Krakauer, standing on the summit of Mt. Everest saw nothing that suggested that a deadly storm was coming down.
With This Ring
By: Amanda Quick
Leo Drake, known as the "Mad Monk" of Monkcrest, is unquestionably eccentric and reclusive. He is also an expert in antiquities, so Beatrice Poole reluctantly asked for his assistance.
An Instance Of The Fingerpost
By: Iain Pears
An Instance of The Fingerpost, a national bestseller and one New York Public Library's Books to Remember is a historical mystery by Iain Pears. "It
Singing In The Comeback Choir
By: Bebe Moore Campbell
Maxine McCoy is a success. She overcame the obstacles she faced growing up in a Philadelphia black neighborhood to become a successful TV producer in Los Angeles.