The document summarizes three events from 1998: 1) The 1998 FIFA World Cup was held in France from June to July and was the 16th World Cup for men's international soccer. 2) The Lunar Prospector spacecraft found evidence of frozen water in permanently shadowed craters near the Moon's poles. 3) A McDonnell Douglas MD-11 airliner, Swissair Flight 111, crashed near Nova Scotia after taking off from New York, killing all 229 people on board.