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This article covers breaking news and events in May 1998.

Daily events

Friday May 1, 1998

• Bonn / Germany : The alcohol limit value for the leader of a motor vehicle falls in the Federal Republic of 0.8 per thousand to 0.5 per thousand.
• Leipzig / Germany : The NPD holds a mass rally at the Monument to the Battle of the Nations . The Saxon Higher Administrative Court approved the event, to which 5,000 people appear. Some activists of the counter-demonstration “1. May without a Nazi march "violent clashes with the police.
• Schwerin / Germany : The first job parade takes place in the state capital of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania . The host is the local branch of the German Federation of Trade Unions .

Saturday May 2, 1998

• Kaiserslautern / Germany : On the penultimate match day of the 1997/98 season , 1. FC Kaiserslautern won the German soccer championship with a 4-0 win over VfL Wolfsburg . It is the first time since the Bundesliga was introduced 35 years ago that a newly promoted champion has become a champion.

Sunday May 3, 1998

• Brussels / Belgium : After two days of negotiations, the heads of state and government of the European Union decide to introduce the European Monetary Union on January 1, 1999, to which eleven countries will initially belong. The first president of the European Central Bank is Dutchman Wim Duisenberg appointed.

Monday May 4, 1998

• Vatican City : Just a few hours after being appointed 31st Commander of the Pontifical Swiss Guard , Alois Estermann is murdered together with his wife . The perpetrator Cédric Tornay is one of Estermanns officers and commits after the act of suicide . The dismissed commandant Roland Buchs temporarily resumes his old office.

Tuesday May 5, 1998

• Mauthausen / Austria : For the first time in Austria, the Nazi Victims Remembrance Day against violence and racism takes place. On 5 May 1945 liberated troops of the United States Armed Forces , the concentration camp Mauthausen .
• Nouméa / New Caledonia : The French government , representatives of the New Caledonian Canakian and Socialist National Liberation Front and the Movement for the Caledonian Republic sign an agreement on the transfer of competences of French sovereignty to institutions of the former French colony of New Caledonia. The ratification should take place this year. Political currents in New Caledonia regard the agreement as a preliminary stage to full sovereignty .

Wednesday May 6, 1998

Poster with Wim Kok

Territories claimed by Ethiopia and Eritrea in green and blue

• Astana / Kazakhstan : The capital of the country is renamed from Aqmola to Astana. "Astana" is the Kazakh word for "capital".
• The Hague / Netherlands : In the election for the Second Chamber of the States General , the so-called “Paars Coalitie” ( German  “Purple Coalition” ) from the Partij van de Arbeid (PvdA), the Volkspartij voor Vrijheid en Democratie and the Democrats 66 party will be Prime Minister Wim Kok (PvdA) confirmed in office.
• East Africa : Units of the Eritrean armed forces occupy the so-called “ Yirga Triangle”, whose affiliation to Eritrea or Ethiopia is unclear. Ethiopia immediately demands the withdrawal of soldiers from the approximately 400  km² area.
• Paris / France : With a 3-0 win against Lazio Rome , Inter Milan wins the football - UEFA Cup for the third time . For the first time, only one final game will be played.

Thursday May 7, 1998

Logo after the merger

• London / United Kingdom : Daimler AG and Chrysler Corporation announce their new name as DaimlerChrysler AG . The company will be based in Stuttgart .
• London / United Kingdom : In a referendum , the majority of voters in the Greater London region vote in favor of the establishment of a Greater London Authority , consisting of an elected mayor and an elected assembly of representatives.

Friday May 8, 1998

• Zurich / Switzerland : Grasshopper Club Zurich secured the Swiss Football Championship 1998 with a 2-1 win over FC Zurich on the third last match day .

Saturday May 9, 1998

Dana International is controversial in Israel

• Birmingham / United Kingdom : The singer Dana International wins the 43rd Eurovision de la Chanson Grand Prix with the title Diva for Israel . In addition to the transsexual winner, Guildo Horn also caused a stir beforehand . His title Guildo loves you! opposes the seriousness of the competition and is welcomed by the audience in the hall. Horn lands in seventh place.

Sunday May 10, 1998

• Budapest / Hungary : After the first round of parliamentary elections , the Fidesz civic association and its top candidate Viktor Orbán are likely to win. The second round will take place on May 24th.

Monday May 11, 1998

• India : For the first time, the country carries out underground nuclear explosions, there are three detonations that day.

Tuesday May 12, 1998

• Cold Spring Harbor / United States : The parties to the Human Genome Project to fully decipher the nucleic -Abfolge in human deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) show themselves appalled by the foundation of the company at their annual symposium Celera , all of it discovered parts of human DNA patenting leave want. Nobody should have patents to commercialize the treatment of genetic diseases.
• Hamburg / Germany : The regional court ruled on liability on the Internet . This judgment is spontaneously misinterpreted by many people to the effect that the operator of a linked website is no longer liable for the content of the linked website through a disclaimer on his website if the disclaimer includes the words "distance me from the content of the linked pages" contains. The district court ruled that a disclaimer of this kind, as used by the defendant in the specific case, is insufficient.

Wednesday May 13, 1998

• Solna / Sweden : Chelsea FC wins the European Cup Winners' Cup in football . The Londoners win the final 1-0 against VfB Stuttgart .

Friday May 15, 1998

In blue the states of the group of eight, in turquoise the states only represented by the EU

• Birmingham / United Kingdom : The leaders of the Group of Eight and the European Commission president will meet for the 24th World Economic Summit . The format follows the principle of “heads only” ( German  “ only the supreme ” ). This time only the heads of government of the states hold the talks, while the most important ministers also traveled to the previous meetings . Russia is participating as a “full member” for the first time.
• Vienna / Austria : At the 9th presentation of the Romy TV Prize , the Austrian Hansi Hinterseer received the prize for the best showmaster .

Saturday May 16, 1998

• Berlin / Germany : The Bayern Munich wins in the finals of the German Cup men against MSV Duisburg with 2: 1.
• L'Eliana / Spain : The handball players from Hypo Niederösterreich from Maria Enzersdorf win the final second leg of the EHF Champions League against the club Mar El Osito L'Eliana with 28:26 and secure the title of European championship champions for the seventh time.

Sunday May 17, 1998

• Birmingham / United Kingdom : In the final declaration of the world economic summit, the participants emphasize that the most important common goals are that the economies of the developing countries will show higher growth rates in the future , that the economy in the Far Eastern " tiger states " will pick up again and that world trade will be more liberalized becomes.
• Potsdam / Germany : The eligible voters of the Brandenburg state capital vote in a referendum with 87.5% for the impeachment of the mayor Horst Gramlich ( SPD ), who hit the headlines because of the so-called "construction felt affair".
• Zurich / Switzerland : Sweden becomes ice hockey world champion with two wins in the final against Finland .

Monday May 18, 1998

• United States : The delivery of Microsoft - operating system Windows 98 starts.
• Washington, DC / United States : The US government and twenty states have announced a lawsuit against Bill Gates on suspicion of abuse of a monopoly on the Internet .

Tuesday May 19, 1998

• Vienna / Austria : SV Ried surprisingly wins the ÖFB Cup . In the final at the Gerhard Hanappi Stadium , the outsider prevailed 3-1 against the champions SK Sturm Graz .

Wednesday May 20, 1998

• Amsterdam / Netherlands : Real Madrid will win the football - Champions League with a 1: 0 final victory against Juventus .

Thursday May 21, 1998

Swearing in of Bacharuddin Jusuf Habibie

• Aachen / Germany : The Charlemagne Prize is presented to the Polish Foreign Minister Bronisław Geremek for his commitment to the “unity of Europe”.
• Jakarta / Indonesia : After 31 years in office, President Haji Mohamed Suharto is stepping down, succeeded by Bacharuddin Jusuf Habibie , who takes his oath of office on the same day. Suharto had come under pressure in the past few days due to ongoing student protests.
• Springfield / United States : In Oregon , 15-year-old Kip Kinkel shoots two students in a rampage at Thurston High School, and 21 other students are wounded. Before that, Kinkel killed his parents.

Friday May 22, 1998

Construction of the Torres Vasco da Gama on the occasion of Expo 98

• Belfast / United Kingdom , Dublin / Ireland : The agreements of the so-called Good Friday Agreement are confirmed in two separate referendums in Northern Ireland and in the Republic of Ireland . The aim of the treaty is to enable peace and cooperation on the two-part island. Northern Ireland will also have its own parliament .
• Cochabamba / Bolivia : An earthquake measuring 6.4 to 6.8 M _w kills around 200 people.
• Lisbon / Portugal : The world exhibition Expo 98 opens. The motto of the event is: "The oceans: A home of the future."
• London / United Kingdom : The former President of the German Savings Banks and Giro Association Horst Köhler becomes the new President of Osteuropabank .

Saturday May 23, 1998

• Germany , Uzbekistan : The investment protection treaty between the two countries comes into force.

Sunday May 24, 1998

Roberto Benigni

• Budapest / Hungary : The right-wing conservative civic association Fidesz under Viktor Orbán has been chosen as the winner after the second round of parliamentary elections.
• Cannes / France : The film Eternity and a Day by the Greek director Theo Angelopoulos wins the Palme d'or at the 51st International Film Festival . The Italian actor and director Roberto Benigni received the Grand Jury Prize for the film Life is Beautiful .
• Dakar / Senegal : In the election for the National Assembly reaches Parti Socialiste of President Abdou Diouf 50.2% of the vote, which is a decrease of 5.2% over the election 1,993th

Monday May 25, 1998

• Johannesburg / South Africa : The FirstRand banking group, founded in April, is listed on the stock exchange for the first time.
• Paris / France : Four education ministers from European countries specify the Sorbonne Declaration . For Germany , Jürgen Rüttgers is in favor of a uniform European university policy. The eponymous University of Sorbonne celebrates its 800th birthday on this day.

Tuesday May 26, 1998

• Magdeburg / Germany : One month after the state elections in Saxony-Anhalt , the MPs re - elect Reinhard Höppner ( SPD ) as Prime Minister. His second cabinet is then sworn in. It is a minority government of the SPD, which is tolerated by the PDS , and thus a continuation of the Magdeburg model .

Wednesday May 27, 1998

• Brussels / Belgium : The European Commission stops the merger plans of Bertelsmann and the Kirch Group on pay TV .
• Düsseldorf / Germany : Johannes Rau ( SPD ) resigns as Prime Minister of North Rhine-Westphalia after around twenty years . The state parliament elects his party colleague Wolfgang Clement as the new head of the state government.

Thursday May 28, 1998

• Koh Kambaran / Pakistan : With the explosion of five warheads in the “Chagai-I” project, Pakistan is completing its first successful nuclear weapon tests in the mountains of Balochistan . The United States caused the first atomic bomb explosion in 1945, followed by the Soviet Union , the United Kingdom , France , China, and India .
• Copenhagen / Denmark : In a referendum, 55.1% of voters approve the Amsterdam Treaty reforming the Maastricht Treaty on the European Union and the three founding treaties of the European Communities .

Friday May 29, 1998

Gregor Gysi

• Bonn / Germany : One day after a ruling by the Federal Constitutional Court , the Committee on Election Review, Immunity and Rules of Procedure of the Bundestag found that Gregor Gysi ( PDS ) was an unofficial employee of the Ministry for State Security of the GDR .

Saturday May 30, 1998

• Afghanistan , Tajikistan : An earthquake with a magnitude of 6.6 M _w shakes the region. The number of dead is estimated at around 4,000. The greatest damage occurs in the eastern Afghan provinces of Badachschan and Tachar .
• Wazir Khan Khoso / Pakistan : The successful firing of nuclear warheads in the project "Chagai-II" confirmed Pakistan two days after the first successful detonation his ability to nuclear testing .

See also

• Nekrolog May 1998 for deaths that month
• List of annually recurring commemorative and action days in May
• Category for commemorative days, holidays or action days in May

Web links

Utah in May 1998

Commons : May 1998  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Even at 0.3 per mille there is a penalty. In: general-anzeiger-bonn.de . May 2, 2003, accessed June 7, 2017 . 
2. ^ Riots at the Leipzig NPD rally. In: Welt Online . May 2, 1998, accessed August 1, 2017 . 
3. ↑ job Parade 1998-2005. In: dgb.de . Retrieved August 1, 2017 . 
4. ↑ 1. Bundesliga, 1997/98, 33rd matchday, 1. FC Kaiserslautern - VfL Wolfsburg 4: 0. In: kicker.de . Retrieved January 24, 2017 . 
5. ^ Hermann Ribhegge: European economic and social policy . 2nd Edition. Springer-Verlag , Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-642-19190-9 , pp. 9 .
6. ^ Investigation report on the assassination attempt on Colonel Estermann. (No longer available online.) In: schweizergarde.ch . 1999, archived from the original on April 14, 2016 ; accessed on June 7, 2017 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
7. ^ First memorial day for victims of National Socialism on May 5, 1998. In: gedenkdienst.at . 1998, Retrieved June 7, 2017 . 
8. ↑ Matt Qvortrup: referendum and Ethnic Conflict . University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia 2014, ISBN 978-0-8122-4580-6 , pp. 37 .
9. ↑ About Astana. (No longer available online.) In: energyministerial.kz. Archived from the original on August 1, 2017 ; accessed on August 1, 2017 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
10. ^ Baggio & Pagliuca. Milan and Bologna, driven by a dream. In: inter.it . September 23, 2016, accessed April 5, 2018 . 
11. ↑ bankruptcy according to textbook. In: Süddeutsche.de . May 7, 2013, accessed December 23, 2017 . 
12. ↑ Super League: The 34th matchday 97/98. In: transfermarkt.de . Retrieved April 5, 2018 . 
13. ^ Eurovision Song Contest in Birmingham. In: eurovision.de, ARD . Retrieved May 16, 2017 . 
14. ^ Hungary, Parliamentary Chamber: Orszaggyules, elections held in 1998. In: ipu.org . Retrieved September 12, 2017 (English). 
15. ↑ Helix and Genome. In: nytimes.com . June 27, 2000, accessed September 14, 2017 . 
16. ↑ Liability for links. In: heise online . May 22, 1998. Retrieved April 5, 2018 . 
17. ↑ Exclusion of liability on the internet via "Disclaimer" is problematic. In: frankfurt-main.ihk.de . Retrieved April 3, 2018 . 
18. ↑ Luck Zola disenchanted VfB Stuttgart. In: kicker.de . Retrieved February 20, 2017 . 
19. ↑ Impressions of the Birmingham Summit. In: g8.utoronto.ca, University of Toronto . Retrieved April 5, 2018 . 
20. ↑ Michele Fratianni, Paolo Savona, John J. Kirton (Eds.): Corporate, Public and Global Governance: The G8 Contribution . Ashgate Publishing , Farnham 2007, ISBN 0-7546-4046-9 , pp. 172 .
21. ^ Romy Gala, Austria. In: imdb.com . Retrieved September 22, 2017 (English). 
22. ↑ Salou has forgiven “evildoers” Tarnat. In: reviersport.de . March 11, 2011, accessed January 5, 2017 . 
23. ↑ 1997/98 Women's EHF Champions League: Finals. In: eurohandball.com . Retrieved August 14, 2017 . 
24. ↑ 1998 Birmingham Summit: Communiqué. In: g8.utoronto.ca, University of Toronto . May 17, 1998, accessed April 3, 2017 . 
25. ↑ Potsdam's citizens drop Gramlich. In: The daily newspaper . May 19, 1998. Retrieved December 17, 2017 . 
26. ↑ 62nd Ice Hockey World Championship 1998 in Switzerland. In: ifosta.de, Jörg Thomas. Retrieved February 22, 2017 . 
27. ↑ What happened to the cup heroes of 1998? In: Upper Austrian news . May 28, 2011, accessed April 5, 2017 . 
28. ↑ Real against Juventus - In 1998 Heynckes and Illgner won 1-0. (No longer available online.) In: ruhrnachrichten.de . June 2, 2017, archived from the original on April 5, 2018 ; accessed on April 5, 2018 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
29. ^ The 1998 Charlemagne Prize laureate Bronislaw Geremek. In: karlspreis.de . Retrieved November 30, 2018 . 
30. ↑ After more than thirty years in office, President Suharto leaves a difficult legacy. In: Zeit Online . May 20, 1998. Retrieved September 17, 2016 . 
31. ↑ Leaders welcome 'yes' vote for N. Ireland. In: BBC News . May 23, 1998, accessed May 22, 2017 . 
32. ↑ Bolivia: Earthquake Relief. In: kfw-entwicklungsbank.de . 2005, accessed May 22, 2017 . 
33. ^ EXPO 1998 Lisbon. In: bie-paris.org . Accessed May 2, 2017 . 
34. ↑ Investment protection in bilateral trade agreements between the Federal Republic of Germany and developing and emerging countries. In: bmwi.de . March 27, 2015, accessed November 20, 2018 . 
35. ↑ Tamed savages. In: Der Spiegel . June 1, 1998, accessed September 17, 2016 . 
36. ↑ Palmarčs du Festival 1998. In: ina.fr . Retrieved May 23, 2017 (French). 
37. ↑ Senegal, Parliamentary Chamber: Assemblée nationale, elections held in 1998. In: ipu.org . Accessed October 1, 2017 . 
38. ↑ The Career of Super Minister Clement. In: Süddeutsche.de . December 19, 2007, accessed May 27, 2017 . 
39. ^ Pakistan's Nuclear Weapons Program. In: nuclearweaponarchive.org. September 10, 2001, accessed December 16, 2016 . 
40. ↑ usgs.gov : 1998 ( Memento from May 12, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) (English)
41. ↑ Wazir Khan Khoso Test Site. In: nti.org . March 1, 2011, accessed April 5, 2018 .