7th » 1998 United States embassy bombings named The United States embassy bombings in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania and Nairobi, Kenya kill approximately 212 people.
10th » HRH Prince Al-Muhtadee Billah is proclaimed the crown prince of Brunei with a Royal Proclamation.
15th » Omagh bombing in Northern Ireland, the worst terrorism known as terrorist incident of The Troubles.
17th » Lewinsky scandal: President of the United States named US President Bill Clinton admits in taped testimony that he had an "improper physical relationship" with White House intern Monica Lewinsky. On the same day he admits before the nation that he "misled
20th » 1998 United States embassy bombings called U.S. embassy bombings: The United States launches Cruise missile strikes on Afghanistan and Sudan (August 1998) known as cruise missile attacks against alleged al-Qaeda camps in Afghanistan and a suspected chemic
24th » First radio-frequency identification (RFID) human implantation tested in the United Kingdom.
28th » Second Congo War: Armed Forces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo e.g Loyalist troops backed by Angolan and Zimbabwean forces repulse the Rally for Congolese Democracy or RCD and Rwandan offensive on Kinshasa.
30th » Second Congo War: Armed forces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and their Angolan and Zimbabwean allies recapture Matadi and the Inga dams in the western DRC from Rally for Congolese Democracy called RCD and Rwandan troops.
31st » North Korea reportedly launches 'Kwangmyŏngsŏng-1', its first artificial satellite e.g satellite.