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May 23, 1998

On May 23, 1998, the Good Friday Agreement is accepted in a referendum in Northern Ireland with roughly 75% voting yes. The year's #1 song was "Too Close" by Next. King Combs, Mitchell Robinson, Sexyy Red would arrive in the same year.

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1998 (MCMXCVIII) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1998th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 998th year of the 2nd millennium, the 98th year of the 20th century, and the 9th year of the 1990s decade.

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What happened

On May 23, 1998

  1. 1998 The Good Friday Agreement is accepted in a referendum in Northern Ireland with roughly 75% voting yes.

    1998 agreements between the United Kingdom and Ireland

    The Good Friday Agreement (GFA) or Belfast Agreement is a pair of agreements signed on 10 April 1998 that ended most of the violence of the Troubles, an ethnic and national conflict in Northern Ireland since the late 1960s. It was a major development in the Northern Ireland peace process of the 1990s. It is made up of the Multi-Party Agreement between most of Northern Ireland's political parties, and the British–Irish Agreement between the British and Irish governments.

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Born on May 23, 1998

Sérgio Sette Câmara 1998– Brazilian racing driver (born 1998)
Salwa Eid Naser 1998– Bahraini sprinter
Luca de la Torre 1998– American soccer player (born 1998)

Farewells

Died on May 23, 1998

Telford Taylor American lawyer (1908–1998)

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The class of 1998

Others born in 1998

King Combs 1998– American rapper
Mitchell Robinson 1998– American basketball player
Sexyy Red 1998– American rapper
Anna Odine Strøm 1998– Norwegian ski jumper and two-time Olympic champion
Suppapong Udomkaewkanjana (Saint) 1998– Thai actor and singer
Jarrett Allen 1998– American basketball player

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