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  • Thailand
    Jan, 1998
    1997 Asian financial crisis

    The baht reached its lowest point of 56 units to the U.S. dollar

    Thailand
    Jan, 1998

    The baht devalued swiftly and lost more than half of its value. The baht reached its lowest point of 56 units to the U.S. dollar in January 1998. The Thai stock market dropped 75%. Finance One, the largest Thai finance company until then, collapsed.




  • Indonesia
    Friday Jan 9, 1998
    1997 Asian financial crisis

    11,000 rupiah to 1 U.S. dollar

    Indonesia
    Friday Jan 9, 1998

    The rate plunged to over 11,000 rupiah to 1 U.S. dollar on 9 January 1998, with spot rates over 14,000 during 23–26 January and trading again over 14,000 for about six weeks during June–July 1998.




  • U.S.
    Monday Jan 12, 1998
    Impeachment of Bill Clinton

    Commit Perjury

    U.S.
    Monday Jan 12, 1998

    On January 12, 1998, Linda Tripp, who had been working with Jones' lawyers, informed Starr that Lewinsky was preparing to commit perjury in the Jones case and had asked Tripp to do the same. She also said Clinton's friend Vernon Jordan was assisting Lewinsky. Based on the connection to Jordan, who was under scrutiny in the Whitewater probe, Starr obtained approval from Reno to expand his investigation into whether Lewinsky and others were breaking the law.




  • Croatia
    Thursday Jan 15, 1998
    Croatian War of Independence

    The UNTAES mandate ended

    Croatia
    Thursday Jan 15, 1998

    The transitional period was subsequently extended by a year. On 15 January 1998, the UNTAES mandate ended and Croatia regained full control of the area.




  • San Jose, California, U.S.
    Monday Jan 19, 1998
    Dwayne Johnson

    Royal Rumble (1998)

    San Jose, California, U.S.
    Monday Jan 19, 1998

    On January 19, 1998, at Royal Rumble, The Rock defeated Shamrock by disqualification to retain the Intercontinental title. Later that night, he entered the Royal Rumble match and lasted until the final two before he was eliminated by Stone Cold Steve Austin.




  • California, United States
    Wednesday Jan 21, 1998
    Ted Kaczynski

    Kaczynski's items were sold at auction

    California, United States
    Wednesday Jan 21, 1998

    In 2006, Judge Garland Ellis Burrell ordered that items from Kaczynski's cabin be sold at a "reasonably advertised Internet auction"




  • California, United States
    Wednesday Jan 21, 1998
    Ted Kaczynski

    Kaczynski started standing competent to stand trial

    California, United States
    Wednesday Jan 21, 1998

    On January 21, 1998, Kaczynski was declared competent to stand trial by federal prison psychiatrist Johnson, "despite the psychiatric diagnoses".


  • California, United States
    Thursday Jan 22, 1998
    Ted Kaczynski

    Kaczynski judged life imprisonment

    California, United States
    Thursday Jan 22, 1998

    Kaczynski avoided the death penalty by pleading guilty to all charges on January 22, 1998, and accepting life imprisonment without the possibility of parole. He later tried to withdraw this plea, arguing it was involuntary as he had been coerced to plead guilty by the judge.


  • Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S.
    Wednesday Jan 28, 1998
    Dwayne Johnson

    King of the Ring (1998)

    Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S.
    Wednesday Jan 28, 1998

    The Rock and The Nation then feuded with Triple H and D-Generation X, with the two stable leaders first meeting in the quarter-final of the 1998 King of the Ring tournament, which The Rock won. At King of the Ring, The Rock defeated Dan Severn in the semi-final match and lost to rival Ken Shamrock in the final.


  • Afghanistan
    Jan, 1998
    Bin Laden

    Individual Duty

    Afghanistan
    Jan, 1998

    In February 1998, Osama bin Laden and Ayman al-Zawahiri co-signed a fatwa in the name of the World Islamic Front for Jihad Against Jews and Crusaders, which declared the killing of North Americans and their allies an "individual duty for every Muslim" to "liberate the al-Aqsa Mosque (in Jerusalem) and the holy mosque (in Mecca) from their grip".


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