Chronopin: upcoming release dates, events and other important dates

Cantonese and regional dishes with local seafood at Shangri-La Qingdao.

Dalian seafood with Cantonese preparations, backed by a currently linked branch menu and signature photographs.

MV Solitaire, converted from a 1972 bulk carrier into a 300-metre pipelaying ship, entered service for Allseas in 1998 and became the world's largest and most powerful pipelay vessel.

Water begins flowing from the newly completed Katse Dam through the Lesotho Highlands Water Project to Johannesburg, the first payment on a 1986 treaty that turns Lesotho’s rainfall into its biggest export.

The stretched 70 to 78-seat Dash 8 Q400 flew for the first time on 31 January 1998, three years after the programme launch, with 5,071 shp PW150A engines and a 360-knot maximum cruise.

Artland releases the first episode of the Legend of the Galactic Heroes Gaiden OVA, a collection of side stories set before the main series that trace Reinhard von Lohengramm's rise through the Galactic Empire's command.

At the 40th Grammy Awards on 25 February 1998 at Radio City Music Hall, Bob Dylan's Time Out of Mind won Album of the Year, Shawn Colvin won Record and Song of the Year and Paula Cole Best New Artist, in a show remembered for Aretha Franklin's last-minute "Nessun Dorma" and a shirtless "Soy Bomb" intruder on Dylan's performance.

Perfect Blue releases in Japanese theaters, Satoshi Kon's directorial debut for Madhouse, a psychological thriller about a retiring pop idol whose grip on reality frays as a stalker and an impersonator blur the line between her old and new selves.

Andoni Luis Aduriz opened his Basque restaurant in Gipuzkoa in March 1998. Restaurant Magazine has counted it among the world's best since 2006, ranking it as high as fourth.

Sunrise's Cowboy Bebop begins airing, a genre-blending space-western following bounty hunters Spike Spiegel, Jet Black, and their crew aboard the ship Bebop.

On Monday 6 April 1998 Citicorp and Travelers Group announced a merger valued at about US$70 billion in stock, then the largest in history, creating the world's largest financial services company, Citigroup.

One day, Kinomoto Sakura, a 4th grader stumbles upon the mysterious book of Clow. Upon opening it and reading the name of The Windy aloud, Sakura scatters the cards to the winds.

Sergey Brin and Lawrence Page present Google, a search-engine prototype that ranks pages by the link structure of the web rather than by page text alone. The paper describes PageRank and a prototype indexing 24 million pages.

The 33rd Academy of Country Music Awards were held on 22 April 1998 at the Universal Amphitheatre on CBS; Garth Brooks took Entertainer of the Year and Tim McGraw and Faith Hill's "It's Your Love" won four awards.

Mulan is a 1998 American animated musical coming-of-age action-adventure film based on the Chinese legend of Hua Mulan, and produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation. It reached US theaters on 19 June 1998.

Triangle Staff's Serial Experiments Lain begins airing, a psychological sci-fi series following withdrawn teenager Lain Iwakura as she is drawn into the Wired, a networked reality blurring into the physical world.

The stretched Boeing 757-300 took off from Renton at 10:08 a.m. PDT on 2 August 1998 and flew for 2 hours 25 minutes, with the flight webcast live. Launch customer Condor had ordered 12 in September 1996.

Brain's Base begins releasing Getter Robo: Armageddon, a dark direct-sequel OVA in which Ryoma Nagare and his allies must pilot Getter Robo again after a resurrected Dr. Saotome unleashes a catastrophe that nearly wipes out humanity.

The first Boeing 717-200, launched as the McDonnell Douglas MD-95, took off from Long Beach at 12:35 p.m. on 2 September 1998 and landed at Boeing's Yuma, Arizona, test center after 4 hours 7 minutes.

Caterpillar unveiled its 797 — at the time the world's largest and most powerful haul truck — at its Decatur, Illinois assembly plant on 29 September 1998.

Taichi Keaton is a half-British half-Japanese archeologist and SAS veteran of the Falklands War. He solves mysteries and investigates insurance fraud for Lloyd's around the world.

Pixar's second feature, A Bug's Life, opened in US theaters on 25 November 1998 after a premiere at the El Capitan Theatre. John Lasseter directed the story of an inventor ant who hires circus bugs to defend his colony from grasshoppers.

Income-restricted studio and one-bedroom apartments for adults aged 55+ beside Roebling Market. Property information reviewed October 10, 2026. Published rents: Studio — operator-listed $1,043, 1 bedroom — operator-listed $1,090.

Rurouni Kenshin OVA: Trust & Betrayal (Tsuioku-hen) premieres, director Kazuhiro Furuhashi's darker, more graphic prequel OVA telling the origin of Himura Kenshin as the assassin Hitokiri Battousai.

Lauryn Hill won five Grammys at the 41st ceremony at the Shrine Auditorium, including Album of the Year for The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill, the first hip-hop album to take the prize, and Best New Artist, while Celine Dion won Record and Song of the Year.

On 4 May 1999 Goldman Sachs, the last big Wall Street partnership, began trading on the New York Stock Exchange after selling 69 million shares at US$53 to raise US$3.657 billion.

The 34th Academy of Country Music Awards were held on 5 May 1999 at the Universal Amphitheatre with no host; Garth Brooks was Entertainer of the Year and named Artist of the Decade, and the Dixie Chicks took Album of the Year for Wide Open Spaces.

The prototype Bombardier CRJ700, C-FRJX, made its maiden flight on 27 May 1999; the 70-seat stretch of the CRJ200 had 96 firm orders and 140 options at the time.

Tarzan is a 1999 American animated adventure film based on the 1912 story Tarzan of the Apes by Edgar Rice Burroughs. It reached US theaters on 18 June 1999.