Historical Events In 1998

Feb 25   In the year 1998 pamela Lee has husband Tommy Lee arrested on battery charges   

Feb 25   In the year 1998 switzerland's first legal brothel opens in Zurich   

Feb 26   On this day in history oprah Winfrey beats Texas cattlemen in beef trial   

Feb 26   On this day in history total solar eclipse in Venezuela-Pacific Ocean   

Feb 27   In the year 1998 14th Soap Opera Digest Awards   

Feb 27   In the year 1998 apple discontinues developing Newton computer   

Feb 27   FBI arrests 10 most wanted suspected serial killer Tony Ray Amati in the year 1998.   

Feb 27   In the year 1998 new England Patriot David Meggett arrested in Toronto on sex assault charges   

Feb 28   On this day in history "View From the Bridge," closes at Criterion Theater NYC   

Feb 28   On this day in history vancouver Canucks Mark Messier is 4th NHLer to get 1,600 points   

Mar 01   On this day in history malaysia Nipah virus outbreak in Malaysia killing 105 people   

Mar 03   Bill Gates testifies at Senate Judiciary Committee in the year 1998.   

Mar 10   In the year 1998 4th Blockbuster Entertainment Awards   

Mar 12   "Sound of Music", opens at Martin Beck Theater NYC in the year 1998.   

Mar 14   In Northern Iran a 6.9 earthquake kills 5 people and 50 injured in Golbaf. Two thousand houses destroyed, 10,000 people left homeless on this day in history.   

Mar 15   "Cabaret", opens at Club Expo Theater NYC on this day in history.   

Mar 15   Pacific Bell Internet Services announced that a flood of junk e-mail had overwhelmed its message servers on this day in 1998 in the year 1998.   

Mar 17   In the year 1998 uSA Women's Hockey Team beats Canada for first Olympics Gold medal   

Mar 19   On this day in history "Ah Wilderness!", opens at Vivian Beaumont theater   

Mar 21   Australian cricket team suffers its worst defeat in 60 years, beaten by an innings and 219 runs by India in Calcutta on this day in history.   

Mar 23   70th Academy Awards Titanic, Jack Nicholson, Helen Hunt win on this day in history.   

Mar 23   In the year 1998 70th Academy Awards: Titanic, Jack Nicholson, Helen Hunt win   

Apr 03   World Ice Dance Figure Skating Championship in Minneapolis MN; Russians Anjelika Krylova and Oleg Ovsyannikov win on this day in history.   

Apr 04   NFL Europe (Formerly WLAF), kicks off season in the year 1998.   

Apr 12   On this day in history in Austria a 6.0 earthquake resulted in the death of one person of a heart attack at Bovec, Slovenia.   

Apr 30   Secessionist rebels and the Papua New Guinea government sign a permanent ceasefire, ending a nine-year rebellion on the South Pacific island of Bougainville in the year 1998.   

May 01   In the year 1998 former Black Panther leader Eldridge Cleaver dies today in Pomona, California, at age 62   

May 03   On this day in history raiLink-MacKenzie Northern takes over the operation of the CN line from Smith, AB to Hay River, NWT.   

May 14   Last episode of Seinfeld on NBC (commercials are $2 million for 30 seconds) in the year 1998.   

May 14   In the year 1998 microsoft agrees to delay shipping Windows 98 for several days while it negotiates with federal government and 20 states in attempt to forestall antitrust lawsuits.   

May 18   Justice Department and 20 state attorneys general sue Microsoft, charging it illegally thwarted competition to protect and extend its monopoly on software on this day in history.   

May 22   In the year 1998 in Central Bolivia a 6.6 earthquake at least 105 people killed and 150 injured in the Aiquile-Totora area.   

May 28   On this day in history phil Hartman actor/comedian (NewsRadio, Saturday Night Live), shot to death while asleep in his bed by his wife at 49   

May 28   On this day in history phil Hartman, comedian and actor, dies at age 49   

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Jan 01   In the year 1998 helen Wills Moody Roark, tennis ace (31 Grand Slams), dies at 92   

Jan 02   In the year 1998 death of frank Muir, English writer, raconteur (b. 1920)   

Jan 04   On this day in history john Gary, singer, dies at 65   

Jan 05   Georgi Sviridov, composer, dies at 82 in the year 1998.   

Jan 07   Owen Bradley, American record producer (b. 1915) died on this day in history.   

Jan 08   On this day in history michael Tippett, English composer/conductor (Child of our Time) dies at 93   

Jan 09   On this day in history kenichi Fukui, Japanese Nobel Prize for Chemistry (1981) dies at 79   

Jan 11   On this day in history klaus Tennstedt, conductor, dies at 71