Historical Events In 1998

Feb 25   Pamela Lee has husband Tommy Lee arrested on battery charges on this day in history.   

Feb 25   Switzerland's first legal brothel opens in Zurich in the year 1998.   

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

Feb 26   In the year 1998 total solar eclipse in Venezuela-Pacific Ocean   

Feb 27   On this day in history 14th Soap Opera Digest Awards   

Feb 27   On this day in history apple discontinues developing Newton computer   

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

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

Feb 28   "View From the Bridge," closes at Criterion Theater NYC in the year 1998.   

Feb 28   In the year 1998 vancouver Canucks Mark Messier is 4th NHLer to get 1,600 points   

Mar 01   Malaysia Nipah virus outbreak in Malaysia killing 105 people in the year 1998.   

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

Mar 10   4th Blockbuster Entertainment Awards on this day in history.   

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

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   On this day in history pacific Bell Internet Services announced that a flood of junk e-mail had overwhelmed its message servers on this day in 1998   

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

Mar 19   "Ah Wilderness!", opens at Vivian Beaumont theater in the year 1998.   

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

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

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

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

Apr 04   NFL Europe (Formerly WLAF), kicks off season on this day in history.   

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   RaiLink-MacKenzie Northern takes over the operation of the CN line from Smith, AB to Hay River, NWT in the year 1998.   

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 in the year 1998.   

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   In the year 1998 phil Hartman, comedian and actor, dies at age 49   

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Jan 01   Helen Wills Moody Roark, tennis ace (31 Grand Slams), dies at 92 on this day in history.   

Jan 02   Frank Muir, English writer, raconteur (b. 1920) died in the year 1998.   

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

Jan 05   On this day in history georgi Sviridov, composer, dies at 82   

Jan 07   Owen Bradley, American record producer (b. 1915) died in the year 1998.   

Jan 08   In the year 1998 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   In the year 1998 klaus Tennstedt, conductor, dies at 71