Clinton–Lewinsky scandal
A president’s affair with an intern leads to impeachment
On 26 January 1998 Bill Clinton told television viewers: 'I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Ms. Lewinsky', though his relationship with the White House intern had lasted 18 months. In December the House impeached him for perjury and obstruction of justice, but in February 1999 the Senate acquitted him.
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Meanwhile around the world (±25 years)
Whole world
- 1980 Smallpox declared eradicated — 18 years earlier
- 1981 AIDS first described — 17 years earlier
- 1997 Kyoto Protocol — 1 year earlier
- 2008 Global financial crisis — 10 years later
Europe
- 1989 Invention of the World Wide Web — 9 years earlier
- 1989 Fall of the Berlin Wall — 9 years earlier
- 1991–2001 Yugoslav Wars — 7 years earlier
- 1992 Maastricht Treaty — 6 years earlier
- 2002 Euro notes and coins — 4 years later
Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1985–1991 Perestroika — 13 years earlier
- 1989 Revolutions of 1989 — 9 years earlier
- 1991 Dissolution of the Soviet Union — 7 years earlier
- 1994–1996 First Chechen War — 4 years earlier
- 1999–2009 Second Chechen War — 1 year later
Middle East
- 1990–1991 Gulf War — 8 years earlier
- 1990 Black January in Baku — 8 years earlier
- 1992–1993 War in Abkhazia — 6 years earlier
- 1993 Oslo Accords — 5 years earlier
- 2003 Rose Revolution — 5 years later
Africa
- 1974 Lucy is discovered — 24 years earlier
- 1983–1985 The Ethiopian famine — 15 years earlier
- 1994 End of apartheid in South Africa — 4 years earlier
- 1998–2003 Second Congo War — same year
- 2011 Independence of South Sudan — 13 years later
Asia
- 1975–1979 The Khmer Rouge and the Cambodian genocide — 23 years earlier
- 1997 Handover of Hong Kong — 1 year earlier
- 1998 Indian and Pakistani nuclear tests — same year
- 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami — 6 years later
- 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami — 13 years later
Oceania
- 1992 The Mabo decision — 6 years earlier
Alive at the time
- Nelson Mandela (aged 80)
- Neil Armstrong (aged 68)
- Ronald Reagan (aged 87)
- Edmund Hillary (aged 79)
- Henry Kissinger (aged 75)
- Jimmy Carter (aged 74)
- Margaret Thatcher (aged 73)
- Fidel Castro (aged 72)
- Elizabeth II (aged 72)
- Gabriel García Márquez (aged 71)