January 1998

Thursday 01:

Smoking is banned in all bars and restaurants in the State of California.

Friday 02:

Russia begins to circulate new rubles to stem inflation and promote confidence.

Sunday 04:

Wilaya of Relizane massacres in Algeria; over 170 are killed in three remote villages.

Tuesday 06:

The Lunar Prospector spacecraft is launched to survey the moon's surface.

Thursday 08:

Ramzi Yousef is sentenced to life in prison for planning the World Trade Center bombing and for planning Project Bojinka.

Sunday 11:

Sidi-Hamed massacre in Algeria; over 100 people killed.

Monday 12:

Nineteen European nations agree to forbid human cloning.

Tuesday 13:

ABC and ESPN negotiate a $1.15 billion a season contract to keep Monday Night Football.

Wednesday 14:

An Afghan cargo plane crashes into a mountain in southwest Pakistan killing more than 50 people.

Friday 16:

NASA announces that John Glenn will return to space when Space Shuttle Discovery blasts off in October 1998.

Saturday 17:

Paula Jones accuses President Bill Clinton of sexual harassment.

Sunday 18:

Monica Lewinsky affair story on his website The Drudge Report.

Thursday 22:

Suspected Unabomber Theodore Kaczynski pleads guilty and accepts a sentence of life without the possibility of parole.

Sunday 25:

Super Bowl XXXII: The Denver Broncos beat the Green Bay Packers, 31-24.

Monday 26:

Compaq buys Digital Equipment Corporation.

Tuesday 27:

American First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton appears on the Today Show calling the attacks against her husband part of a "vast right-wing conspiracy."

Wednesday 28:

Gunmen hold at least 400 children and teachers hostage for several hours at an elementary school in Manila, Philippines.

Thursday 29:

In Birmingham, Alabama, a bomb explodes at an abortion clinic, killing one and severely wounding another. Serial bomber Eric Robert Rudolph is suspected as the culprit.