In context
- When
- Friday, December 18 199828 years ago
- Category
- BirthA notable person born on this day. Each links to a person page with their dates and story.
- Era
- 20th century · 1990s
- Recorded from
- Wikipedia “On this day” feed
- Person
- Simona Quadarella
Who they were
Simona Quadarella, Italian swimmer
Why this date
Simona Quadarella appears on our December 18 calendar for 1998 as a birth entry.
December 18 through the years
Other entries on the same calendar day, in order.
- 1998Simona Quadarella
- 1999NASA
- 20022003 California gubernatorial recall election
- 2005Chadian Civil War (2005–2010)
- 20062006–2007 Southeast Asian floods
- 2006United Arab Emirates
- 2015Kellingley Colliery
- 2017Amtrak Cascades
- 2019First impeachment of Donald Trump
- 2022Argentina national football team
- 20232023 Serbian election protests
Also in 1998
- May 11Pokhran-IIIndia began the Pokhran-II nuclear-weapons test, its first since the Smiling Buddha test 24 years earlier.
- September 14MCI CommunicationsTelecommunications companies MCI Communications and WorldCom complete their $37 billion merger to form MCI WorldCom.
- August 10Al-Muhtadee BillahHRH Prince Al-Muhtadee Billah is proclaimed the crown prince of Brunei with a Royal Proclamation.
- May 4Sacramento, CaliforniaA federal judge in Sacramento, California, gives "Unabomber" Theodore Kaczynski four life sentences plus 30 years after Kaczynski accepts…
- October 14Eric RudolphEric Rudolph is charged with six bombings, including the 1996 Centennial Olympic Park bombing in Atlanta, Georgia.
- August 17Clinton–Lewinsky scandalLewinsky scandal: US President Bill Clinton admits in taped testimony that he had an "improper physical relationship" with White House in…
- November 21SatanismFinnish satanist Jarno Elg kills a 23-year-old man and performs a ritual-like cutting and eating of body parts in Hyvinkää, Finland.
- January 4January 1998 North American ice stormA massive ice storm hits eastern Canada and the northeastern United States, continuing through January 10 and causing widespread destruct…
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When did Simona Quadarella happen?
December 18 1998 — 28 years ago, on a Friday.
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