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.
American National Biography Online. Lincoln, Abraham(12 Feb. 1809-15 Apr. 1865), sixteenth president of the United States, was born in Hardin County, Kentucky, the son of Thomas Lincoln and Nancy Hanks, farmers. Thomas Lincoln had come to Kentucky from Virginia with his father Abraham in 1782.