You were screwed over. Your 5+ year old certificate was and is valid. Not only is there NO expiration date; holding a license in June, 1998 and ANY time after October, 1998, exempts one from further certification by both statute and the CMR.
Abraham Lincoln was born February 12, 1809. President Lincoln was the 16th president of the United States. He was assassinated on Good Friday, April 14, 1865, by John Wilkes Booth while attending a play entitled Our American Cousin at Ford's Theatre. This was the first Presidential assassination in American history.
On February 12, 1809, Abraham Lincoln was born in a one-room log cabin on Sinking Spring Farm, which is located on Nolin Creek about three miles south of Hodgenville, Kentucky. He was the second child of Thomas and Nancy Hanks Lincoln. His sister Sarah was 2 years old when Abraham was born. In 1811, the Lincoln family moved 10 miles away to Knob Creek Farm, where they lived from the time Abraham was 2 and a half until he was almost 8 years old. It was there that he learned to talk and soon grew big enough to run errands, such as carrying water and gathering wood.