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HomePage 4: Historical Events In 1998
Monday, 16 March 2026
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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