Chapter 16 - 1998 Hot News Articles, TV, Movies and MORE!

World Events World Statistics Population: 4.378 billion population by decade Nobel Peace Prize: John Hume and David Trimble (Northern Ireland) More World Statistics... Serbs battle ethnic Albanians in Kosovo (March 5 et seq.). Serbs renew attack on Kosovo rebels (June 1). NATO, on verge of air strikes, reaches settlement with Milosevic on Kosovo (Oct. 12). Good Friday Accord is reached in Northern Ireland (April 10). Irish Parliament backs peace agreement (April 22). Background: N. Ireland Peace Negotiations Europeans agree on single currency, the euro (May 3). India conducts three atomic tests despite worldwide disapproval (May 11, 13). Pakistan stages five nuclear tests in response (May 29, 30). Indonesian dictator Suharto steps down after 32 years in power (May 21). US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania bombed (Aug. 7). US cruise missiles hit suspected terrorist bases in Sudan and Afghanistan (Aug. 20). Russia fights to avert financial collapse (Aug. 17). Former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet arrested in London (Oct. 16). Wye Mills Agreement between Netanyahu and Arafat moves Middle East peace talks forward (Oct. 23). Background: Middle East Peace Negotiations Iraq ends cooperation with UN arms inspectors (Aug. 5). Clinton orders air strikes (Dec. 16–19). U.S. Events U.S. Statistics President: William J. Clinton Vice President: Albert Gore, Jr. Population: 270,298,524 More U.S. Statistics... President accused in White House sex scandal; denies allegations of affair with White House intern, Monica Lewinsky (Jan. 21 et seq.). President outlines first balanced budget in 30 years (Feb. 3). US Supreme Court rules line-item veto unconstitutional (Feb. 12). Unabomber sentenced to four life terms (May 4). Life sentence meted out to Terry Nichols, convicted in Oklahoma City bombing fatal to 168 (June 4). Starr Report by independent counsel outlines case for impeachment proceedings against President (Sept. 11). Matthew Shepard, gay Wyoming student, fatally beaten in hate crime; two arrested (Oct. 6 et seq.). House impeaches President Clinton along party lines on two charges, perjury and obstruction of justice. (Dec. 19). Economics Federal spending: $1675.88 billion Federal debt $5750.4 billion Consumer Price Index: $163 Unemployment: 4.5% Cost of a first-class stamp: $0.32 More Economics... Sports Sports Links Pro Football Summary Pro Basketball Summary Pro Baseball Summary Super Bowl Denver d. Green Bay World Series New York Yankees d. San Diego NBA Championship Chicago d. Utah Stanley Cup Detroit d. Washington Wimbledon Women: Jana Novotna d. N. Tauziat (6-4 7-6) Men: Pete Sampras d. G. Ivanisevic (6-7 7-6 6-4 3-6 6-2) Kentucky Derby Champion Real Quiet NCAA Basketball Championship Kentucky d. Utah World Cup France d. Brazil Entertainment Entertainment Awards Pulitzer Prizes Fiction: American Pastoral, Philip Roth Music: String Quartet No. 2, Musica Instrumentalis, Aaron Jay Kernis Drama: How I Learned to Drive, Paula Vogel Academy Award, Best Picture: Titanic, James Cameron and Jon Landau, producers (Paramount and 20th Century Fox) Nobel Prize for Literature: José Saramago (Portugal) Album of the Year: Time Out of Mind, Bob Dylan (Columbia Records) Song of the Year: "Sunny Came Home," Shawn Colvin Song of the Year: "Sunny Came Home," Shawn Colvin and John Leventhal, songwriters Miss America: Katherine Shindle (IL) More Entertainment Awards... Events Titanic becomes the highest-grossing film of all time, raking in more than $580 million domestically. An estimated 76 million viewers watch the last episode of Seinfeld. Legendary crooner Frank Sinatra dies of a heart attack at age 82. NBC agrees to fork over $13 million an episode for the next three years for broadcast rights to the top-rated series ER. The total dollar figure, $850 million, eclipses any price ever paid for a television show. Titanic captures a record-tying 11 Academy Awards, including those for Best Picture and Best Director (James Cameron). The American Film Institute announces its list of the top 100 films of all time. Citizen Kane tops the list. Tina Brown, editor of The New Yorker sends shockwaves through the publishing world with her resignation from the venerable weekly. David Remnick is hired to replace her. Movies Affliction, American History X, Elizabeth, Shakespeare in Love, There's Something about Mary Books Edward Ball, Slaves in the Family Russell Banks, Cloudsplitter Michael Cunningham, The Hours Donald Hall, Without Alice McDermott, Charming Billy Gerald Stern, This Time: New and Selected Poems Science Nobel Prizes in Science Chemistry: Walter Kohn (US) and John A. Pople (UK), for their developments in the study of the properties of molecules and the chemical processes in which they are involved Physics: Robert B. Laughlin (US), Horst L. Störmer (Germany), and Daniel C. Tsui (US), for their discovery of a new form of quantum fluid with fractionally charged excitations Physiology or Medicine: Robert F. Furchgott, Louis J. Ignarro, and Ferid Murad (all US), for discovering that nitric oxide acts as a signal in the cardiovascular system More Nobel Prizes in 1998... The Athena probe finds frozen water on moon. Scientists say ice crystals mixed with soil could provide fuel for rockets exploring solar system (Mar. 5). Background: US Unstaffed Planetary and Lunar Programs The FDA approves the male impotence drug Viagra (Mar. 27). Background: New Medicines Astronomers detect giant explosion, second in force only to the "Big Bang," in deep space (May 6). Background: Astronomy Dow Corning Corporation agrees on $3.2 billion settlement for tens of thousands of women claiming injury from manufacturer's silicone breast implants (July 8). Background: Health & Nutrition 77-year-old Senator John Glenn, the first American to orbit the earth, returns to orbit in the space shuttle Discovery (Oct. 29). Background: US Staffed Space Flights The crew of the space shuttle Endeavour connects first two modules of the international space station (Dec. 6). Background: Space Exploration Death Gene Autry Sonny Bono Florence Griffith Joyner Akira Kurosawa Octavio Paz Frank Sinatra Junior Wells The Philosopher's Stone (1997) The Chamber of Secrets (1998) The Prisoner of Azkaban (1999) The Goblet of Fire (2000) The Order of the Phoenix (2003) The Half-Blood Prince (2005) The Deathly Hallows (2007) 3.1 Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (2001) 3.2 Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002) 3.3 Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004) 3.4 Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005) 3.5 Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2007) 3.6 Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2009) 3.7 Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1 (2010) 3.8 Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2 (2011 There were a total of 7 Horcruxes in the whole series, Tom Riddle's diary. Marvolo Gaunt's ring. Salazar Slytherin's locket. Helga Hufflepuff's cup. Rowena Ravenclaw's diadem. Nagini, the snake. Harry Potter himself.