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This article covers breaking news and events in October 1998.

Daily events

Thursday October 1, 1998

• New York , Washington, DC / United States : The United Nations Security Council calls on Serbian President of Yugoslavia Slobodan Milošević to protect all civilians of all ethnicities . The United States government has announced "military strikes " soon in the event of further Serb attacks on Kosovar Albanians .

Friday October 2, 1998

• Moscow / Russia : In a conversation with the Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi , the Prime Minister of Russia Yevgeny Primakov affirmed that a military intervention in the Kosovo conflict should only be possible with a mandate from the United Nations Security Council . The possibility of the Security Council granting such a mandate can be ruled out because Russia would then have to vote for the mandate in the Council.

Saturday 3rd October 1998

• Kailua-Kona / United States : Natascha Badmann from Switzerland wins the women’s competition in the Ironman Hawaii triathlon competition , making her the first European female winner in the history of this event. In the men's rankings, in which Thomas Hellriegel was the first time a European came out on top last year , this time a North American wins with the Canadian Peter Reid .
• Riga / Latvia : In the third parliamentary election after independence was restored in 1990 , the People's Party received the most votes with 21.2%. 18.1% of voters vote for the Latvian Way party . The previous government, led by the Tēvzemei ​​un Brīvībai / LNNK party, has been voted out of office.

Wednesday October 7, 1998

• Stockholm / Sweden : The Foundation of the Right Livelihood Award chooses the Croatian anti-war campaign around Katarina Kruhonja and Vesna Teršelič , the British environmental medicine specialist Samuel Epstein , the International Action Network for Baby Food and the support group of the indigenous people in the Chilean Bío-Bío region .

Thursday October 8, 1998

Oslo Airport

• Oslo / Norway : The new area for passenger aviation at the previous Gardermoen military airfield is opened. Architecture and technology are state-of-the-art in a European comparison.
• Stockholm / Sweden : The Portuguese José Saramago receives the Nobel Prize for Literature this year . One of his most famous works is The Stone Raft .

Sunday October 11, 1998

• Frankfurt am Main / Germany : The author of the novel A Fleeing Horse Martin Walser from Germany receives the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade .

Monday October 12, 1998

• Stockholm / Sweden : This year the Americans Robert Francis Furchgott , Louis J. Ignarro and Ferid Murad will receive the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for their research into the cardiovascular system .

Tuesday October 13, 1998

• Stockholm / Sweden : The American citizen Walter Kohn, born in Vienna in 1923, and the Briton John Anthony Pople will receive the Nobel Prize in Chemistry this year . The foundation honors her work in molecular research . The Nobel Prize in Physics this year will be at the American Robert B. Laughlin , the Sino americans Daniel Chee Tsui and the German Horst Ludwig Störmer for their work in the field of quantum fluids awarded.

Wednesday October 14, 1998

• Stockholm / Sweden : The Indian Amartya Sen will receive the Alfred Nobel Memorial Prize for Economics this year for his contributions to welfare economics .
• Vaduz / Liechtenstein : More than 16 years after their first international match Liechtensteinische finished Football - National Team of Men a game with a victory. The competitive game against the selection of Azerbaijan in the qualification phase for the European Football Championship 2000 won the team of coach Ralf Loose with 2: 1.

Friday October 16, 1998

• Germany , Venezuela : The investment protection treaty between the two countries comes into force.
• Oslo / Norway : The Northern Irish John Hume and David Trimble will receive this year's Nobel Peace Prize . The committee wants to recognize the politicians for their efforts to find a peaceful solution to the Northern Ireland conflict.

Saturday 17th October 1998

• Bishkek / Kyrgyzstan : In the constitutional referendum, voters will vote for the proposed land reform . It allows individuals the first time the acquisition of basic and floor . With the acceptance of the referendum, the Kyrgyz President also receives an even larger share of state power .
• Darmstadt / Germany : The German Academy for Language and Poetry awards the Georg Büchner Prize to the Austrian Elfriede Jelinek .
• Texas / United States : The Central Texas Flood claims the first deaths.

Sunday October 18, 1998

Flood in Texas

• Pristina / Yugoslavia : The first 15 OSCE observers arrive in the capital of the province of Kosovo . They should check whether some of the Serbian police and military forces withdraw from Kosovo as requested by the United Nations Security Council . The NATO announced air strikes on Serbia if it does not reduce its military presence in Kosovo.
• Texas / United States : The number of people killed during the Central Texas Flood rises to at least 30.

Tuesday October 20, 1998

• Bonn / Germany : The parliamentary groups of the SPD and Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen in the Bundestag conclude a coalition agreement and thus seal the first red-green federal government . According to the agreement, Gerhard Schröder (SPD) will be the new Federal Chancellor and Joseph Fischer (Greens) Federal Minister for Foreign Affairs and Vice-Chancellor.

Saturday October 24, 1998

• Bucharest / Romania : The south-eastern European country and France sign an agreement on military cooperation. The French Foreign Minister Alain Richard assures his hosts of his country's support for Romania's entry into NATO .

Monday October 26, 1998

• Bergen / Norway : The TV channel TV 2 starts broadcasting the soap opera Hotel Cæsar .
• Hanover / Germany : The Lower Saxony state parliament receives the resignation letter from Minister President Gerhard Schröder ( SPD ) , who has been in office since 1990 .

Tuesday October 27, 1998

Column of trucks in Panmunjeom

• Bonn / Germany : The members of the Bundestag elect Gerhard Schröder ( SPD ) as Federal Chancellor with 351 out of 669 possible votes . The vote for Schröder is six votes above the number of mandate holders belonging to the governing parties SPD and Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen .
• Panmunjeom / Korea : 50 trucks with 501 cattle arrive in the demilitarized zone between North and South Korea . The vehicles and pets are a gift from the South Korean entrepreneur Chung Ju-yung , founder of the Hyundai Group , to the population of the totalitarian ruled neighboring country and follow a delivery of 500 animals from June, making Ju-yung 1,001 in total so-called "reunification cows" handed over to North Korea.

Wednesday October 28, 1998

• Hanover / Germany : The state parliament elects Gerhard Glogowski ( SPD ) as the new Prime Minister of Lower Saxony . His predecessor in office, Gerhard Schröder, is now Federal Chancellor .

Thursday October 29, 1998

John Glenn returns to space

• Amrum / Germany : The cargo ship Pallas runs aground on the German North Sea coast . As a result, over 240 t of oil run into the area of ​​the Schleswig-Holstein Wadden Sea National Park .
• Bratislava / Slovakia : Mikuláš Dzurinda from the SDK party becomes the new prime minister of the country at the head of a four-party coalition .
• Cape Canaveral / United States : John Glenn returns to space after 36 years as part of the STS-95 mission aboard the space shuttle Discovery and, at 77, becomes the oldest astronaut in history. In 1962 , the current Senator from Ohio orbited the earth three times in the Mercury Atlas 6 mission.
• Guanaja / Honduras : The tall ship Fantome from 1927 is lost with a crew of 31 on the Caribbean coast off Honduras.

Friday October 30, 1998

• Tirana / Albania : On the last day of the Tirana International Conference , the Austrian chairman of the Council for General Affairs of the European Union, Wolfgang Schüssel, asked Albania to work towards a political solution to the Kosovo conflict . Albania must work for a dialogue between Serbs and Kosovar Albanians .

See also

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

Web links

Mississippi in October 1998

Commons : October 1998  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ US, Alarmed by Kosovo Warns of strikes "Soon". In: bndlg.de, Bürgernetz Dillingen, material from Reuters . October 1, 1998, accessed November 18, 2016 . 
2. ↑ No violent solution in Kosovo. In: bndlg.de, Citizens Network Dillingen, material from dpa . October 2, 1998, accessed November 18, 2016 . 
3. ↑ Natascha Badmann. In: athlinks.com. Retrieved June 14, 2019 . 
4. ↑ trinews.at, Stefan Leitner: Gentlemen ( Memento from March 1, 2020 in the Internet Archive )
5. ↑ cvk.lv, Centrālā vēlēšanu komisija: 7th Saeima elections ( Memento from December 24, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) (English)
6. ↑ Eric Langer, Elena Muñoz (Ed.): Contemporary Indigenous Movements in Latin America . Scholarly Resources , Wilmington 2003, ISBN 0-8420-2680-0 , pp. 216 : "[…] October 7, 1998, it was awarded the Alternative Nobel Prize […]"
7. ↑ Kampen om flyplassen. In: nrk.no . October 8, 2008, accessed on June 14, 2019 (Norwegian): "Fra og med October 8, 1998 het hovedflyplassen på Østlandet Oslo Lufthavn Gardermoen" 
8. ^ The 1998 Nobel Prize for Literature. In: nobelprize.org . October 8, 1998, accessed December 19, 2016 . 
9. ↑ friedenspreis-des-deutschen-buchhandels.de : Martin Walser ( Memento from June 18, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
10. ^ The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. In: nobelprize.org . October 12, 1998, accessed June 15, 2019 . 
11. ^ The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1998. In: nobelprize.org . October 13, 1998, accessed November 20, 2016 . 
12. ^ The Nobel Prize in Physics 1998. In: nobelprize.org . October 13, 1998, accessed November 27, 2016 . 
13. ^ The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 1998. In: nobelprize.org . October 14, 1998, accessed December 11, 2016 . 
14. ^ Liechtenstein - Azerbaijan 2: 1. In: uefa.com . Retrieved August 20, 2018 . 
15. ↑ 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 . 
16. ^ The Nobel Peace Prize for 1998. In: nobelprize.org . October 16, 1998, accessed December 20, 2016 . 
17. ↑ About Kyrgyzstan. In: kirgistan-oesterreich.at, Austrian-Kyrgyz Society. Retrieved November 18, 2016 . 
18. ↑ Elfriede Jelinek. In: deutscheakademie.de . October 17, 1999, accessed August 18, 2019 . 
19. ^ Rain onslaught in 1998, surprised experts. In: mysanantonio.com. October 16, 2013, accessed April 13, 2017 . 
20. ^ OSCE advance command arrived in Pristina, the capital of Kosovo. In: bndlg.de, Citizen Network Dillingen, material from dpa . October 18, 1998, accessed November 18, 2016 . 
21. ↑ South Central Texas October, 1998. In: floodsafety.com, The Flood Safety Education Project. Retrieved April 13, 2017 (English). 
22. ↑ gruene.de : Awakening and Renewal - Germany's Path into the 21st Century ( Memento from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
23. ^ Romania and France agree on military cooperation. In: bndlg.de, Citizen Network Dillingen, material from dpa . October 24, 1998. Retrieved November 18, 2016 . 
24. ^ Hotel Cæsar: 1998. In: imdb.com . Retrieved May 5, 2017 . 
25. ^ The election of the Prime Ministers in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Lower Saxony and Schleswig-Holstein. In: nomos.de , material from NordÖR . September 2013, accessed on October 21, 2017 : "Day of the Prime Minister's Election, Name of the Prime Minister" 
26. ↑ List of all elections for chancellor / questions of confidence. In: Wahlrecht.de . Retrieved March 2, 2017 . 
27. ^ Who Received the World's Attention. In: asanrah.com, material from hyundaiheavy.com . 2015, accessed on June 15, 2019 (English): “Panmunjeom, Oct. 27, 1998 " 
28. ↑ Entries for the year 1998. In: braunschweig.de . Retrieved October 21, 2017 . 
29. ↑ The last journey of the Pallas. In: feuerwehrmagazin.de . November 1, 2018, accessed June 15, 2019 . 
30. ^ Coalition government agreement signed. In: spectator.sme.sk . November 2, 1998, accessed November 18, 2016 . 
31. ^ John Glenn Returns to Space. In: nasa.gov . March 20, 2008, accessed April 14, 2017 . 
32. ↑ Fantome, Windjammer Schooner. In: schoonerman.com, Tom van Oosterhout. Retrieved November 19, 2016 . 
33. ↑ Albania may play a positive role for the solution of Kosova crisis, Schuessel. In: bndlg.de, Citizens Network Dillingen, material from Agjencia Telegrafike Shqiptare. October 30, 1998, accessed November 18, 2016 .