Page 4: 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   Apple discontinues developing Newton computer on this day in history.   

Feb 27   On this day in history fBI arrests 10 most wanted suspected serial killer Tony Ray Amati   

Feb 27   New England Patriot David Meggett arrested in Toronto on sex assault charges on this day in history.   

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

Feb 28   Vancouver Canucks Mark Messier is 4th NHLer to get 1,600 points on this day in history.   

Mar 01   Malaysia Nipah virus outbreak in Malaysia killing 105 people on this day in history.   

Mar 03   Bill Gates testifies at Senate Judiciary Committee on this day in history.   

Mar 10   In the year 1998 4th Blockbuster Entertainment Awards   

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 in the year 1998.   

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

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

Mar 17   On this day in history uSA Women's Hockey Team beats Canada for first Olympics Gold medal   

Mar 19   In the year 1998 "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   70th Academy Awards: Titanic, Jack Nicholson, Helen Hunt win on this day in history.   

Apr 03   In the year 1998 world Ice Dance Figure Skating Championship in Minneapolis MN; Russians Anjelika Krylova and Oleg Ovsyannikov win   

Apr 04   In the year 1998 nFL Europe (Formerly WLAF), kicks off season   

Apr 12   In Austria a 6.0 earthquake resulted in the death of one person of a heart attack at Bovec, Slovenia in the year 1998.   

Apr 30   On this day in history secessionist rebels and the Papua New Guinea government sign a permanent ceasefire, ending a nine-year rebellion on the South Pacific island of Bougainville.   

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

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   In the year 1998 last episode of Seinfeld on NBC (commercials are $2 million for 30 seconds)   

May 14   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 on this day in history.   

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

May 28   Phil Hartman actor/comedian (NewsRadio, Saturday Night Live), shot to death while asleep in his bed by his wife at 49 in the year 1998.   

May 28   Phil Hartman, comedian and actor, dies at age 49 in the year 1998.   

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

Jan 02   On this day in history death of frank Muir, English writer, raconteur (b. 1920)   

Jan 04   John Gary, singer, dies at 65 on this day in history.   

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

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   Kenichi Fukui, Japanese Nobel Prize for Chemistry (1981) dies at 79 on this day in history.   

Jan 11   In the year 1998 klaus Tennstedt, conductor, dies at 71