The Stade de France is the national stadium of France, located in Saint-Denis, a suburb north of Paris. It was built for the 1998 FIFA World Cup, and held the final in which France beat Brazil to win the title for the first time. The design by a group of French architects features a huge elliptical roof supported on pylons. The stadium is used for football and rugby internationals, concerts and athletics, and it hosted the 2007 Rugby World Cup final and events at the 2024 Summer Olympics. It has a capacity of around eighty thousand.
Before and after
- 1998Publication of Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
- 1998Supernovae show that cosmic expansion is accelerating
- 19981998 becomes the warmest year on record
- 12 January 1998Creation of FreeDOS
- 28 January 1998Construction of Stade de France
- 2 February 1998Rise of open source
- from 27 February 1998 to 11 June 1999Kosovo War
- 29 March 1998Construction of Vasco da Gama Bridge
- 5 April 1998Construction of Akashi Kaikyō Bridge
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