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- From left to right, top to bottom:
* the 1998 Winter Olympics are held in Nagano, Japan;
* U.S. President Bill Clinton is impeached over the Clinton–Lewinsky scandal;
* a poster advocates for a "yes" vote on the Good Friday Agreement in Northern Ireland, which eventually prevails and ends most of the violence associated with The Troubles;
* the U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania are bombed by Al-Qaeda;
* Google is launched;
* SwissAir Flight 111 crashes off the coast of Nova Scotia after an in-flight fire;
* the 1998 FIFA World Cup is held in France;
* protests erupt in Indonesia over the Fall of Suharto, which lead to 1,000 fatalities;
* China Airlines Flight 676 crashes upon attempted landing at Chiang Kai-shek International Airport, killing 203, the second-deadliest air crash in Taiwan;
*Hurricane Mitch at peak intensity as a powerful Category 5 before making landfall on Honduras as a weakening category 1, becoming one of the deadliest Atlantic hurricanes on record, killing over 11,000 people in Central America;
* Rwanda and Uganda invaded the Democratic Republic of the Congo, triggering the Second Congo War;
* the severe destruction of Eschede train disaster, which killed 101 people. (en)
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