September 1998 calendar

Events

• 01 Sep 1998 Second Congo War:: The Democratic Republic of the Congo says that the rebels are surrounded by forces loyal to President Laurent Kabila in the west. (BBC)The rebels gain control over Goma, Kabila's home area. (BBC)
• 02 Sep 1998 A McDonnell Douglas MD-11 airliner carrying Swissair Flight 111 crashes near Peggys Cove, Nova Scotia, after taking off from New York City en-route to Geneva. All 229 people on board are killed.
• 04 Sep 1998 Larry Page and Sergey Brin, two students at Stanford University in California, found Google.
• 05 Sep 1998 The Government of North Korea adopts a military dictatorship on its 50th anniversary.
• 06 Sep 1998 Safeway LPGA Golf Championship
• 07 Sep 1998 Google, Inc. is founded, in Menlo Park, California, by Stanford University Ph.D. candidates Larry Page and Sergey Brin.
• 09 Sep 1998 Kenneth Starr submits his report and 18 boxes of supporting documents to the House of Representatives, outlining a case for impeaching Clinton on 11 grounds.
• 12 Sep 1998 Bosnian general election, 1998: Votes in Bosnia and Herzegovina go to the polls for a general election.
• 13 Sep 1998 112th US Womens Tennis
• 14 Sep 1998 At the end of the day's stock market trading Microsoft stands as America's most valuable company, at US$261.1 billion. Microsoft and General Electric were both valued at over US$300 billion in July, but Microsoft survived a stock market plunge better, putting it on top.
• 15 Sep 1998 With the landmark merger of WorldCom and MCI Communications completed the day prior, the new MCI WorldCom opens its doors for business.
• 18 Sep 1998 ICANN is formed.
• 24 Sep 1998 The Federal Reserve releases to circulation Series 1996 $20 notes with new designs.
• 25 Sep 1998 (to September 28) Major creditors of Long-Term Capital Management, a Greenwich, Connecticut-based hedge fund, after days of tough bargaining and some informal mediation by Federal Reserve officials, agree on terms of a re-capitalization.
• 27 Sep 1998 Core States Betsy King Golf Classic
• 29 Sep 1998 The U.S. Congress passes the "Iraq Liberation Act", which states that the United States wants to remove Saddam Hussein from power and replace the government with a democratic institution.

Famous Birthday

• Brino quadruplets

  American actor/actresses.

• Victoria Brenner

  Brazilian noted family, the daughter of actor Gerson Brenner and his mistress.

• Egypt Criss

  American noted family member, the father is rapper Treach (Anthony Criss) of Naughty by Nature and the mother is Rapper Pepa (Sandra...

• Elijah Holyfield

  American noted family, the son of boxing heavyweight champion Evander Holyfield and his wife Janice, a physician.

• Steffan Argus

  Pop Singer.

• Jamie Corbett

  Vine Star.

• Bindlebeautyx

  YouTube Star.

• Elizabeth Elias

  TV Actress.

• Maddi Jane

  YouTube Star.

• Helena Barlow

  Movie Actress.

• Dee Breezy

  Vine Star.

• BigNik

  Vine Star.

• Makenna Cowgill

  Voice Actor.

• Gill Trill

  Vine Star.

• Grayson Goss

  TV Actor.

• Maddie Welborn

  YouNow Star.

• Lolo Rodriguez

  R&B Singer.

• Margaux Hakkaart

  YouTube Star.

• Danielle Marie

  YouTube Star.

• Simrin Player

  Dancer.

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Famous Deaths

• Florence Griffith Joyner

  American athlete (Born 1959).

• Mary Frann

  American actress (Born 1943).

• Verner Panton

  Danish designer (Born 1926).

• Cary Middlecoff

  American golfer and sportscaster (d. 1998).

• Betty Carter

  American singer-songwriter (d. 1998).

• Leo Penn

  American actor director and screenwriter (d. 1998).

• Ric Segreto

  Filipino Pop-Balladeer (Born 1952).

• Charlie Foxx

  American singer (Born 1939).

• Muriel Humphrey Brown

  American politician (Born 1912).

• Jeff Moss

  American puppeteer (Born 1942).

• Doak Walker

  American football player, who played professionally in the National Football League (NFL) with the Detroit Lions for six seasons, from 1950...

• Louis Rasminsky

  Canadian economist, governor of the Bank of Canada (Born 1908).

• Dane Clark

  American actor and director (d. 1998).

• Bill Cratty

  American modern dancer and choreographer (Born 1951).

• Fernando Balzaretti

  Mexican actor (Born 1946).

• Ray Bowden

  English footballer (Born 1909).

• Harry Lumley

  Canadian ice hockey player (Born 1926).

• Gustav Nezval

  Czech actor (Born 1907).

• Dan Quisenberry

  baseball pitcher (Kansas City Royals).

• Allen Drury

  American writer who wrote the 1959 political novel "Advise and Consent," for which he won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1960.

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Top #5 songs in the USA

1. Aerosmith - I Don't Want To Miss A Thing
2. Monica - The First Night
3. Jennifer Paige - Crush
4. Barenaked Ladies - One Week
5. Usher - My Way

Top #5 songs in the UK

1. Boyzone - No Matter What
2. The Spice Girls - Viva Forever
3. Steps - One For Sorrow
4. Pras Michel featuring ODB & Mya - Ghetto Supastar (That Is What You Are)
5. Robbie Williams - Millennium