CNN Interactive - Almanac - September 27, 1998

National elections are held in Germany.
President Clinton wraps up a trip to California and Texas and returns to Washington.
U.S. Defense Secretary William Cohen visits American troops in Tuzla, Bosnia-Herzegovina.
China's foreign minister Tang Jiaxuan visits the United States.

On Monday, September 28, a hearing is scheduled for U.S. embassy bombing suspect Khalid Salim, charged in the August 7 attack on the embassy in Nairobi, Kenya.
On Tuesday, September 29, Major League Baseball playoffs begin.
Wednesday, September 30, is the last day of the 1998 World's Fair in Lisbon, Portugual.
On Thursday, October 1, a hearing is scheduled in Camp LeJeune, North Carolina, in the case of a pilot and navigator of a Marine jet that clipped an Italian ski gondola in February 1998.
On Friday, October 2, Pope John Paul II visits Croatia.

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In 1825, the first locomotive to haul a passenger train was operated by George Stephenson in England.
In 1854, the first great disaster involving an Atlantic Ocean liner occurred when the steamship "Arctic" sank with 300 people aboard.
In 1923, martial law was declared in Germany.
In 1939, Warsaw surrendered to the Germans after 19 days of resistance in World War II.
In 1959, a typhoon battered the Japanese island of Honshu, killing almost 5,000 people.
In 1962 , the army staged a coup in Yemen, and Col. Abdulla el-Sallah rose to premier.
In 1970, Jordan's King Hussein and Al Fatah guerrilla leader Yasser Arafat met in Cairo with 10 Arab chiefs of state and signed an agreement ending civil war in Jordan.
In 1973, the Soviet Union launched a spacecraft into orbit around Earth with two cosmonauts aboard.
In 1988, the Soviet Union, at the United Nations, called on the United States to join Moscow in creating a world space organization.
In 1994, Russian President Boris Yeltsin visited the White House.
In 1996, Islamic Taliban rebels seized control of Kabul and hanged former Afghan President Najibullah.