Page 4: Historical Events In 1998

Feb 25   On this day in history pamela Lee has husband Tommy Lee arrested on battery charges   

Feb 25   In the year 1998 switzerland's first legal brothel opens in Zurich   

Feb 26   Oprah Winfrey beats Texas cattlemen in beef trial on this day in history.   

Feb 26   Total solar eclipse in Venezuela-Pacific Ocean on this day in history.   

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

Feb 27   In the year 1998 apple discontinues developing Newton computer   

Feb 27   In the year 1998 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   In the year 1998 "View From the Bridge," closes at Criterion Theater NYC   

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   On this day in history bill Gates testifies at Senate Judiciary Committee   

Mar 10   On this day in history 4th Blockbuster Entertainment Awards   

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

Mar 14   On this day in history 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   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   USA Women's Hockey Team beats Canada for first Olympics Gold medal on this day in history.   

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

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

Mar 23   In the year 1998 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 in the year 1998.   

Apr 04   On this day in history 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 on this day in history.   

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   In the year 1998 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) on this day in history.   

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 in the year 1998.   

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

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   On this day in history phil Hartman, comedian and actor, dies at age 49   

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

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

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

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

Jan 07   Owen Bradley, American record producer (b. 1915) died on this day in history.   

Jan 08   On this day in history 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 in the year 1998.   

Jan 11   On this day in history klaus Tennstedt, conductor, dies at 71