Portal:Current events/September 1998

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September 1998 was the ninth month of that common year. The month, which began on a Tuesday, ended on a Wednesday after 30 days.

Portal:Current events[edit]

This is an archived version of Wikipedia's Current events Portal from September 1998.

September 1, 1998 (1998-09-01) (Tuesday)
September 2, 1998 (1998-09-02) (Wednesday)
September 4, 1998 (1998-09-04) (Friday)
September 5, 1998 (1998-09-05) (Saturday)
September 10, 1998 (1998-09-10) (Thursday)
  • At midnight, a shooting occurs aboard an Akula-class nuclear-powered attack submarine of the Russian Navy docked in the northern Russian port-city of Severomorsk. The shooter, Alexander Kuzminykh, a 19-year-old seaman from St. Petersburg, opened fire after murdering a soldier (who was supervising his detention on punishment charges in the personnel quarters of the submarine) with a chisel, and taking his AK-74U carbine. After killing five people and wounding one with the dead soldier's weapon, he proceeded to take 2 fellow soldiers hostage, and barricaded himself in the submarine's torpedo room, where he would later murder them. For 23 hours, doctors, relatives, and a priest attempt to persuade him to surrender, but to no avail. After threatening numerous times to set the torpedo room on fire (an event the authorities feared would cause a quote "second Chernobyl"), the crisis came to an end on the morning of 12 September, when a special anti-terrorist commando unit of the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) launched a raid on the torpedo room during which, Kuzminkykh allegedly committed suicide, contrary to prior reports that he'd been killed by the unit.
September 12, 1998 (1998-09-12) (Saturday)
September 24, 1998 (1998-09-24) (Thursday)
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References[edit]

  1. ^ "The History Of Google – Searching The World" (notes), Matt Jacks, 10 January 2005, webpage: WAH-HGoogle Archived 2007-04-02 at the Wayback Machine.
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