Bill Clinton became the centre of a sex scandal. His affair with Monica Lewinsky became public knowledge after a friend of Lewinsky, Linda Tripp, secretly recorded conversations in which Lewinsky spoke of sexual encounters in the White House.
Coronation Street fans lost sight of the difference between reality and fiction when one of the characters, Deirdre Rachid, was imprisoned for something she didn't do. Newspapers ran 'Free the Weatherfield One' campaigns.
Ol' Blue Eyes himself, Frank Sinatra, died at the age of 82 and Gerry Halliwell left the Spice Girls.
David Beckham started a new trend for men by wearing a sarong in public. He also got engaged to Posh Spice, Victoria.
The BBC had to apologise publicly for Blue Peter presenter Richard
Bacon who was sacked from from the programme for taking drugs.
Viagra promised a cure for sexual impotence which affects one man
in ten.
18 year old Michael Owen became the youngest footballer
to play for England this century.
Welcome
to 1998
