All about May 15, 1998: Significant Events, Facts, Analysis and Date Notations

Facts about May 15, 1998:

• 15th May, 1998 falls on Friday which is a Weekday.
• That was 20th (Twentieth) week of year 1998.
• It's 134th (One Hundred Thirty-fourth) Day of the year.
• There are 31 days in the month of May 1998. Checkout the days in other months of 1998 along with days in May 1998.
• Year 1998 has 365 days in total.
• The month May was 5th month of Year 1998.
• The month May is also known as Mei, Mai, Majo, Mayo, meno penta, Maio and Mayul across the Globe.

• Country-wise Date Representation of May 15 across the World:

  Country Names	Notation of the Date	Long Date Format	Short Date Format
  The United States of America (USA)	MDY (MM-DD-YYYY) (a.k.a. middle-endian) and YMD (YYYY-MM-DD) (a.k.a. big-endian)	May 15, 1998 and 1998 May 15	May 15
  Some U.S. Island Territories	MDY (MM-DD-YYYY) (a.k.a. middle-endian)	May 15, 1998	May 15
  Europe: Italy, Ukraine, Romania, Netherlands, and others North America: Mexico, various Caribbean islands Central America: Guatemala, Honduras, and others South America: Brazil, Colombia, Argentina, Peru, Venezuela, and others North Africa: Egypt, Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia, and others West, Central, and Southern Africa: Nigeria, Ethiopia, DRC, Tanzania, Sudan, Uganda, and others West Asia: Turkey, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, and others Central Asia: Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan East and Southeast Asia: Indonesia, Thailand, Cambodia, and others South Asia: Pakistan, Bangladesh Oceania: Australia, Papua New Guinea, New Zealand, and others	DMY (DD-MM-YYYY) (a.k.a. little-endian)	15 May 1998	15 May
  China, Japan, South Korea, North Korea, Taiwan, Hungary, Mongolia, Lithuania and Bhutan	YMD (YYYY-MM-DD) (a.k.a. big-endian)	1998 May 15	May 15
  Bharat (India), Russia, Vietnam, Germany, Iran, France, United Kingdom, Myanmar, Spain, Poland, Uzbekistan, Afghanistan, Nepal, Cameroon, Sri Lanka, others	DMY (DD-MM-YYYY) (a.k.a. little-endian) and YMD (YYYY-MM-DD) (a.k.a. big-endian)	15 May 1998 and 1998 May 15	15 May and May 15
  Philippines, Malaysia, Somalia, Togo, Panama, Puerto Rico, Cayman Islands, Greenland	DMY (DD-MM-YYYY) (a.k.a. little-endian) and MDY (MM-DD-YYYY) (a.k.a. middle-endian)	15 May 1998 and May 15, 1998	15 May and May 15
  South Africa, Kenya, Canada, Ghana	MDY (MM-DD-YYYY) (a.k.a. middle-endian) and YMD (YYYY-MM-DD) (a.k.a. big-endian) and DMY (DD-MM-YYYY) (a.k.a. little-endian)	May 15, 1998 and 1998 May 15 and 15 May 1998	May 15 and 15 May

• Year 1998 was NOT a Leap Year.
  Note: In a Leap Year there are 366 days (a year, occurring once every four years, which has 366 days including 29 February as an intercalary day.), rest years have 365 days.
• Year 2028 will be the nearest future leap year.