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Learn the most interesting events and historical facts that happened in June 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 June 1998: find out below

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Historical Events

Which were the important events of June 1998?


Events

  • 02 Jun 1998 California voters approve Proposition 227, abolishing the state's bilingual education program.
  • 03 Jun 1998 Eschede train disaster: an ICE high speed train derails in Lower Saxony, Germany, causing 101 deaths.
  • 04 Jun 1998 Terry Nichols is sentenced to life in prison for his role in the Oklahoma City bombing.
  • 05 Jun 1998 A strike begins at the General Motors parts factory in Flint, Michigan, that quickly spreads to five other assembly plants (the strike lasted seven weeks).
  • 06 Jun 1998 130th Belmont
  • 07 Jun 1998 68th French Mens Tennis
  • 11 Jun 1998 Compaq Computer pays $9 billion for Digital Equipment Corporation in the largest high-tech acquisition.
  • 12 Jun 1998 A jury in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, convicts 17-year-old Luke Woodham of killing two students and wounding 7 others at Pearl High School.
  • 13 Jun 1998 In Portales, New Mexico, USA a meteorite penetrates a barn roof.
  • 14 Jun 1998 Comic Relief benefit comedy show
  • 15 Jun 1998 32nd TNN Music City News Country Awards
  • 19 Jun 1998 Disney releases the Walt Disney Pictures animated feature film Mulan to theaters in the USA.
  • 21 Jun 1998 98th US Golf Open: at Olympic Club San Francisco
  • 23 Jun 1998 Paul Reitsma resigns his seat in the British Columbia legislature; the first elected politician in the British Commonwealth to be removed from office by legally-binding petition.
  • 25 Jun 1998 Microsoft releases the Windows 98 operting system. It features integrated Internet Explorer 4.0 Web browser, and Universal Serial Bus support. Code-name during development was Memphis. Total sales on the first day are 271,000 units.
  • 28 Jun 1998 Wins ShopRite LPGA Classic
  • 30 Jun 1998 Philippine Vice President Joseph Estrada was sworn in as the 13th President of the Philippines.

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Music charts

Which were the top hits in June 1998?
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Top #5 songs in the USA

  1. - The Boy Is Mineyoutube
  2. - Too Closeyoutube
  3. - You're Still The One
  4. - My Allyoutube
  5. - I Get Lonely

Top #5 songs in the UK

  1. - C'est La Vie
  2. - Horny
  3. - Three Lions '98
  4. - The Boy Is Mineyoutube
  5. - My Allyoutube

Movies

Which were the most popular Movies released in that month?
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Release year: 1998

Directed by: Hans-Christian Schmid

Starring: August Diehl, Fabian Busch, Dieter Landuris, Jan-Gregor Kremp

Safe House

Safe House

Release year: 1998

Directed by: Eric Steven Stahl

Starring: Patrick Stewart, Kimberly Williams-Paisley, Hector Elizondo, Joy Kilpatrick

The X Files

The X Files

Release year: 1998

Directed by: Rob Bowman

Starring: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, John Neville, William B. Davis

Country: United States of America

Out of Sight

Out of Sight

Release year: 1998

Directed by: Steven Soderbergh

Starring: George Clooney, Jennifer Lopez, Ving Rhames, Steve Zahn

Country: United States of America

Edge of Seventeen

Edge of Seventeen

Release year: 1998

Directed by: David Moreton

Starring: Chris Stafford, Tina Holmes, Andersen Gabrych, Stephanie McVay

Books

Which were the most popular books released in June 1998?
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Unspeakable by Sandra Brown

Unspeakable

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Carl Herbold, a psychopath and cold-blooded criminal, has just been released from the penitentiary. He was currently serving a life sentence. He is determined to get revenge and will return to the place he started--Blewer County in Texas...

Summer Sisters by Judy Blume

Summer Sisters

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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER For author chats, join the Random House Reader's Circle. Victoria Leonard's life is forever changed by Caitlin Somers, who chooses Victoria as a friend in the summer 1977.

Breath, Eyes, Memory by Edwidge Danticat

Breath, Eyes, Memory

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This 20th anniversary edition Edwidge Danticat’s pioneering debut is now a classic. It has been revised and includes a new introduction from the author. Sophie Caco, twelve years old, is sent to New York by her poor Haitian village to …

Cities Of The Plain by Cormac McCarthy

Cities Of The Plain

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The National Book Award-winning author, All the Pretty Horses and The Crossing, has created a stunning new novel that is a beautiful elegy about the American frontier. The

Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden

Memoirs of a Geisha

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This is the story of a literary sensation and a runaway bestseller.