Page 4: Historical Events In 1998

Feb 25   Pamela Lee has husband Tommy Lee arrested on battery charges in the year 1998.   

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   Total solar eclipse in Venezuela-Pacific Ocean in the year 1998.   

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

Feb 27   In the year 1998 apple discontinues developing Newton computer   

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

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

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

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   4th Blockbuster Entertainment Awards in the year 1998.   

Mar 12   On this day in history "Sound of Music", opens at Martin Beck Theater NYC   

Mar 14   In the year 1998 in Northern Iran a 6.9 earthquake kills 5 people and 50 injured in Golbaf. Two thousand houses destroyed, 10,000 people left homeless   

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

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

Mar 17   On this day in history 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 in the year 1998.   

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

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

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

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   Former Black Panther leader Eldridge Cleaver dies today in Pomona, California, at age 62 on this day in history.   

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

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   On this day in history 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 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   In the year 1998 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   On this day in history death of frank Muir, English writer, raconteur (b. 1920)   

Jan 04   John Gary, singer, dies at 65 in the year 1998.   

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

Jan 07   On this day in history death of owen Bradley, American record producer (b. 1915)   

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   Klaus Tennstedt, conductor, dies at 71 on this day in history.