About the day » Thursday June 18, 1998Calender converter

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• Aaltina van Voorbergen (53), Leidschendam
• Arnoldus Gerardus Jozef van Dijk (88), Voorburg
• Camille PONCIN (78)
• Antonius Joannes Ludovicus SMID (71), Tilburg,,Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Dan Crawford Kilpatrick (47)
• Antonetta Maria van Ham (91), Bloemendaal
• Aleida Petronella Wennekes (83), Terborg
• Alida Brinksma (76), 's Gravenhage/Leiden
• Catharina Maria Goudsblom (87), Schagen
• Baukje Heringa (84), -

• 1990 » Luke Adam, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1993 » Dennis Lloyd, Israeli musician, producer, singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist
• 1994 » Sean McMahon, Australian rugby player
• 1994 » Takeoff, American rapper
• 1995 » Maxim Kovtun, Russian figure skater
• 1996 » Alen Halilović, Croatian footballer
• 1996 » Niki Wories, Dutch figure skater
• 1997 » Katharina Hobgarski, German tennis player
• 1997 » Latrell Mitchell, Australian rugby league player
• 1999 » Trippie Redd, American rapper

• 1992 » Kofoworola Abeni Pratt, the first black Chief Nursing Officer of Nigeria (b. 1910)
• 1992 » Mordecai Ardon, Polish-Israeli painter and educator (b. 1896)
• 1992 » Peter Allen, Australian singer-songwriter and pianist (b. 1944)
• 1993 » Craig Rodwell, American activist, founded the Oscar Wilde Bookshop (b. 1940)
• 1996 » Endel Puusepp, Estonian-Soviet military pilot and politician (b. 1909)
• 1997 » Lev Kopelev, Ukrainian-German author and academic (b. 1912)
• 1998 » Felix Knight, American actor and tenor (b. 1908)
• 2000 » Nancy Marchand, American actress (b. 1928)
• 2003 » Larry Doby, American baseball player and manager (b. 1923)
• 2005 » Mushtaq Ali, Indian cricketer (b. 1914)

• Koningin Beatrix (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from April 30, 1980 till April 30, 2013 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from Monday, August 22, 1994 to Monday, August 3, 1998 the cabinet a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kabinet-Kok_I" class="extern">Kok I, with W. Kok (PvdA) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from Monday, August 3, 1998 to Monday, July 22, 2002 the cabinet Kok II, with W. Kok (PvdA) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 15.7 million citizens.
• May 26 » The first "National Sorry Day" was held in Australia, and reconciliation events were held nationally, and attended by over a million people.
• July 10 » Catholic Church sexual abuse cases: The Diocese of Dallas agrees to pay $23.4million to nine former altar boys who claimed they were sexually abused by Rudolph Kos, a former priest.
• August 8 » Iranian consulate in Mazar-i-Sharif, Afghanistan is raided by Taliban leading to the deaths of ten Iranian diplomats and a journalist.
• September 4 » Google is founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin, two students at Stanford University.
• October 29 » While en route from Adana to Ankara, a Turkish Airlines flight with a crew of six and 33 passengers is hijacked by a Kurdish militant who orders the pilot to fly to Switzerland. The plane instead lands in Ankara after the pilot tricked the hijacker into thinking that he is landing in the Bulgarian capital of Sofia to refuel.
• November 20 » A court in Taliban-controlled Afghanistan declares accused terrorist Osama bin Laden "a man without a sin" in regard to the 1998 U.S. embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania.

The temperature on June 18, 1998 was between 12.1 °C and 15.8 °C and averaged 14.0 °C. There was 11.2 mm of rain during 9.2 hours. There was 0.2 hours of sunshine (1%). The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest.