<li>....<p></p></li>
which was used all over the file to
<li><p>...</p></li>
For all entries other than the ones in July 1998 there's no user visible
effect. For the entries in July (which were missing the <p></p>) this has
the effect (on some browsers at least) of inserting white space between
the list items, which is consistent with the appearance of the rest of the
file.