Youtube star GameplayWorldXL

Events in 1998 and 24-9

Events in the world in the birth year of GameplayWorldXL

• Serbs battle ethnic Albanians in Kosovo (March 5 et seq.). Serbs renew attack on Kosovo rebels (June 1). NATO, on verge of air strikes, reaches settlement with Milosevic on Kosovo (Oct. 12).
• Good Friday Accord is reached in Northern Ireland (April 10). Irish Parliament backs peace agreement (April 22). Background: N. Ireland Peace Negotiations
• Europeans agree on single currency, the euro (May 3).
• India conducts three atomic tests despite worldwide disapproval (May 11, 13). Pakistan stages five nuclear tests in response (May 29, 30).
• Indonesian dictator Suharto steps down after 32 years in power (May 21).
• Iraq ends cooperation with UN arms inspectors (Aug. 5). Clinton orders air strikes (Dec. 16–19).
• US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania bombed (Aug. 7). US cruise missiles hit suspected terrorist bases in Sudan and Afghanistan (Aug. 20).
• Russia fights to avert financial collapse (Aug. 17).
• Former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet arrested in London (Oct. 16).
• Wye Mills Agreement between Netanyahu and Arafat moves Middle East peace talks forward (Oct. 23). Background: Middle East Peace Negotiations

Birthday GameplayWorldXL (24-9) in history

• Day 24-9 year 1789: Congress passed the First Judiciary Act which provided for a U.S. attorney general and the Supreme Court.
• Day 24-9 year 1957: The Brooklyn Dodgers played their last game at Ebbets Field.
• Day 24-9 year 1960: The Enterprise, the first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, was launched.
• Day 24-9 year 1969: The trial of the "Chicago Eight," radical antiwar and counterculture activists accused of conspiring to incite riots at the 1968 Democratic convention, began.
• Day 24-9 year 1991: Children's author Theodor Seuss Geisel, better known as Dr. Seuss, died at age 87.
• Day 24-9 year 1996: The United States and the world's other major nuclear powers signed a treaty to end all testing and development of nuclear weapons.