Page 4: Historical Events In 1998

Feb 25   Pamela Lee has husband Tommy Lee arrested on battery charges   

Feb 25   Switzerland's inaugural legal brothel opens in Zurich   

Feb 26   Oprah Winfrey beats Texas cattlemen in beef trial   

Feb 26   Total solar eclipse in Venezuela-Pacific Ocean   

Feb 27   14th Soap Opera Digest Awards.   

Feb 27   Apple discontinues developing Newton computer.   

Feb 27   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.   

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

Feb 28   Vancouver Canucks Mark Messier is 4th NHLer to get 1600 points   

Mar 01   Malaysia Nipah virus outbreak in Malaysia killing 105 people.   

Mar 03   Bill Gates testifies at Senate Judiciary Committee.   

Mar 10   4th Blockbuster Entertainment Awards   

Mar 12   "Sound of Music", opens at Martin Beck Theater NYC.   

Mar 14   In Northern Iran a 6.9 earthquake results in the deaths of 5 people and 50 injured in Golbaf. Two thousand houses destroyed, 10000 people left homeless   

Mar 15   "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   

Mar 17   USA Women's Hockey Team beats Canada for inaugural Olympics Gold medal.   

Mar 19   "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.   

Mar 23   70th Academy Awards Titanic, Jack Nicholson, Helen Hunt win   

Mar 23   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.   

Apr 04   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.   

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.   

May 01   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.   

May 14   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   

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

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

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

May 28   Phil Hartman, comedian and actor, dies at age 49   

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Jan 01   Helen wills moody roark: Tennis ace (31 grand slams),    

Jan 02   Frank muir: English writer, raconteur (b. 1920)   

Jan 04   John gary: Singer,    

Jan 05   Georgi sviridov: Composer,    

Jan 07   Owen bradley: American record producer (b. 1915)   

Jan 08   Michael tippett: English composer/conductor (child of our time)   

Jan 09   Kenichi fukui: Japanese nobel prize for chemistry (1981)    

Jan 11   Klaus tennstedt: Conductor,