these were the times of '98
- Free Willy star Keiko goes to Iceland for eventual release back into the wild.
- Worlds biggest airport in the world opens in Hong Kong
- Windows 98 released by Microsoft on June 26th
- The Search Engine Google is founded.
- 19 European nations agree to forbid human cloning.
- Apple Computer unveils the iMac
- President Bill Clinton Impeached for perjury and obstruction of justice.
- Microsoft becomes biggest Company in the World valued at $261bn on the New York Stock Exchange
- The two oil companies Exxon and Mobil merge to create the worlds largest petroleum company
- New harder to counterfeit $20.00 bills enter circulation
- The Winter Olympic Games are held in Nagano, Japan
- BMW buys Rolls-Royce cars for $570 million
- France Wins 1998 World Cup in France
- Europeans agree on a single currency the Euro
- US Announces first budget surplus in 30 years
- During 1998 with the technology maturing e-commerce started to take off as more and more companies decided to create a presence on the Internet with their own web sites.
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