Editing 1998 (section)

===May===
* [[May 6]] – A large [[Eritrea]]n mechanized force entered [[Badme]] in [[Tigray Region]], Ethiopia, resulting in the [[Eritrean–Ethiopian War]].
* [[May 11]]
** [[Pokhran-II]] (Operation Shakti): India conducts three underground nuclear tests in [[Pokhran]], including one [[thermonuclear]] device.
** The first [[euro]] coins are minted in [[Pessac]], France. Because the final specifications for the coins were not finished in 1998, they will have to be melted and minted again in 1999.
* [[May 13]]–[[May 14|14]] – [[May 1998 riots of Indonesia|Riots directed against Chinese Indonesians]] break out in Indonesia, killing around 1,000 people.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.serve.com/inside/digest/dig86.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20000920073842/http://www.serve.com/inside/digest/dig86.htm|title=Inside Indonesia – Digest 86 – Towards a mapping of 'at risk' groups in Indonesia|archive-date=September 20, 2000 |work=serve.com}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.library.ohiou.edu/indopubs/1998/05/31/0029.html|title=[INDONESIA-L] DIGEST - The May Riot|work=ohiou.edu|access-date=November 20, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170325223916/https://www.library.ohiou.edu/indopubs/1998/05/31/0029.html|archive-date=March 25, 2017|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.asia-pacific-solidarity.net/southeastasia/indonesia/netnews/1998/and20_v2.htm|title=ASIET NetNews Number 20 – June 1-7, 1998|work=asia-pacific-solidarity.net|access-date=November 20, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150213074917/http://www.asia-pacific-solidarity.net/southeastasia/indonesia/netnews/1998/and20_v2.htm|archive-date=February 13, 2015|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|author=Donald L. Horowitz|title=Constitutional Change and Democracy in Indonesia|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bCsgAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA34|year=2013|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-1-107-35524-8|page=34}}</ref><ref>[http://www.ohio.edu/cas/classics/faculty/upload/Indonesia-A-Violent-Culture.pdf Collins 2002] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150213065127/http://www.ohio.edu/cas/classics/faculty/upload/Indonesia-A-Violent-Culture.pdf |date=February 13, 2015 }}, p. 597.</ref> [[Maria Catarina Sumarsih]] held [[Prabowo Subianto]] responsibilities for involved in a series of human rights abuses during the riot.<ref>{{Cite news |last1=Ratcliffe |first1=Rebecca |last2=Hariandja |first2=Richaldo |date=2024-02-16 |title='A betrayal': mother's fight for justice as Indonesia elects Suharto era figure |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/feb/16/he-must-surrender-mothers-fight-for-justice-amid-indonesian-regime-change |access-date=2024-02-17 |work=The Guardian |language=en-GB |issn=0261-3077}}</ref>
* [[May 15]] – The [[Windows 98]] operating system is [[Software release life cycle#Release to manufacturing (RTM)|released to manufacturing]].
* [[May 19]]
** The [[Galaxy IV]] communications satellite fails, leaving 80–90% of the US's pagers without service.
** The wreck of the aircraft carrier {{USS|Yorktown|CV-5|6}}, sunk during the [[Battle of Midway]] in [[1942]], is found near [[Midway Atoll]] by a team led by former US Navy officer [[Robert Ballard|Robert D. Ballard]].
* [[May 21]] – [[Suharto]] (elected [[1967]]) [[Fall of Suharto|resigns]] after 31 years as [[President of Indonesia]], effectively ending the [[New Order (Indonesia)|New Order]] period. It is his 7th consecutive re-election by the Indonesian Parliament (MPR). Suharto's hand-picked Vice President, [[B. J. Habibie]], becomes Indonesia's third president.
* [[May 28]] – [[Nuclear testing]]: In response to a series of Indian nuclear tests, Pakistan explodes five nuclear devices of its own in the Chagai hills of Baluchistan, codenamed ''[[Chagai-I]]'', prompting the United States, Japan and other nations to impose [[economic sanction]]s. Pakistan celebrates [[Youm-e-Takbir]] annually.
* [[May 30]]
** A [[May 1998 Afghanistan earthquake|6.5 magnitude earthquake]] hits northern [[Afghanistan]], killing up to 5,000.
** A second nuclear test, codenamed ''[[Chagai-II]]'', is conducted and supervised by the [[Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission]] (PAEC).