Events listed on this post may include things like injuries that cross calendar months, college courses, and selected actual “real-life” events that transpired that year, etc. I’m listing these type of events in one location since they are not specific full blown missions.
- January 7th – Rache and Longshot out of hospital from wounds suffered on October 28th 1997 mission.
- July 14th – Longshot out of hospital from wounds suffered on July 5th mission.
- July 28th – Highander & Tomahawk out of hospital from wounds suffered on July 5th mission.
- August 11th – Delta out of hospital from wounds suffered on July 5th mission.
- September 14th – Quantum out of hospital from wounds suffered on August 26th mission.
- September 21st – Caspian out of hospital from wounds suffered on August 26th mission.
- September 29th – Azra’il out of hospital from wounds suffered on September 19th mission.
- October 6th. – Rocketman out of hospital from wounds suffered on September 19th mission.
- October 13th. – Nighthawk & Tomahawk out of hospital from wounds suffered on September 19th mission.
- October 20th. – Quantum out of hospital from wounds suffered on September 19th mission.
- November 1st. – Nighthawk, J.C., & Delta get out of hospital from wounds suffered on October 22nd mission.
- November 1st. – Nighthawk begins plastic surgery.
- November 2nd. – J.C. enters college.
- December 27th. – Nighthawk out of hospital – plastic surgery.
Events
- May 3, Europeans agree on a single currency, the euro.
- May 11, 13, India conducts 3 atomic tests despite worldwide disapproval.
- May 29, 30, Pakistan stages 5 nuclear tests in response. +
- August 7, US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania bombed.
- August 20, US cruise missiles hit suspected terrorist bases in Sudan and Afghanistan.
- October 29, Senator John Glenn (77) the first American to orbit the earth, returns to orbit in the space shuttle Discovery.
- December 6, The first two modules of the international space station are connected by the crew of the space shuttle Endeavour.
