July 1998

Saturday 04:

Lin "Spit" Newborn and Daniel Shersty are murdered by neonazis in the desert just outside Las Vegas.

Sunday 05:

Japan launches a probe to Mars, and thus joins the United States and Russia as a space exploring nation.

Friday 10:

Catholic priests' sex abuse scandal: The Diocese of Dallas agrees to pay $23.4 million to nine former altar boys who claimed they were sexually abused by former priest Rudolph Kos.

Sunday 12:

KDE 1.0 released.

Friday 17:

Biologists report in the journal Science how they sequenced the genome of the bacterium that causes syphilis, Treponema pallidum.

Saturday 18:

A 23-foot tidal wave kills nearly 3,000 people in Papua New Guinea.

Friday 24:

Russel Eugene Weston Jr. bursts into the United States Capitol and opens fire killing two police officers. He is later ruled to be incompetent to stand trial.

Saturday 25:

The United States Navy commissions the aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman and puts her into service.

Tuesday 28:

Monica Lewinsky scandal: Ex-White House intern, Monica Lewinsky receives transactional immunity in exchange for her grand jury testimony concerning her relationship with US President Bill Clinton.