Le 28 octobre 1998 était un mercredi sous le signe astral du ♏. C'était le 300ème jour de l'année. Le président des États-Unis était William J. (Bill) Clinton.
Si vous êtes né ce jour-là, vous avez 27 ans. Ton dernier anniversaire était le mardi 28 octobre 2025, il y a 232 jours. Votre prochain anniversaire est le mercredi 28 octobre 2026, dans 132 jours. Vous avez vécu 10 094 jours, soit environ 242 256 heures, ou environ 14 535 399 minutes, ou environ 872 123 940 secondes.
Date: 29 October 1998
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Publishing & Broadcasting Ltd will exercise its option to take 25 percent stake in Australia's largest pay-television company Foxtel, which is equally owned by News Corp and Telstra Corp (S)
Date: 28 October 1998
By Frank Rich
Frank Rich
Frank Rich Op-Ed column decrying 'New News'--trend in which media, especially electronic media, have steadily replaced journalistic standards with those of show business (M)
Date: 29 October 1998
By John Noble Wilford
John Wilford
Countdown preparations progress smoothly for launch of space shuttle Discovery as Sen John Glenn's return to space after 36 years draws huge and growing crowd to Cape Canaveral, Fla; turnout of 3,700 news people is thought to be largest since Apollo lunar flights; photos (M)d
Date: 28 October 1998
By Abby Goodnough With Marjorie Connelly
Abby With
New York Times/CBS New Poll finds that New York State Gov George Pataki continues to hold 2-1 lead over his Democratic opponent, Peter F Vallone, but that voters are paying scant attention to race; chart (M)
Date: 28 October 1998
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Carpenter Technology Corp will invest $113.6 million to expand its Pennsylvania melt shop and add finishing capacity at its Talley Metals Inc plant in South Carolina (S)
Date: 29 October 1998
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
B F Goodrich Co says its Aerospace Aerostructures unit won contract worth potential $400 million to supply Boeing Co with replacement parts for planes no longer being made; will invest $30 million to build parts plant in Arkadelphia, Ark (S)
Date: 29 October 1998
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Dexter Corp will make tender offer of $420 million for 48 percent of Life Technologies Inc it does not already own (S)
Date: 28 October 1998
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Wachovia Corp agrees to buy Interstate/Johnson Lane Inc, brokerage firm based in Charlotte, NC, for $230 million in stock (S)
Date: 29 October 1998
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Torstar Corp, which owns Canada's biggest newspaper, Toronto Star, offers to buy Sun Media Corp, publisher of Toronto Sun, for $748 million (Canadian), or $486 milllion (US); platform to counter challenge from the publisher Conrad Black's new national daily newspaper, The National Post (S)
Date: 28 October 1998
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Stewart & Stevenson Services agrees to buy TUG Manufacturing Corp (S)