Today in History for Year 1998

Months in Year 1998: January February March April May June July August September October November December

Historical Events

Events 1 - 100 of 322

Jan 1st - All California bars, clubs & card rooms must be smoke-free
Jan 1st - Mongolia switches from a 46 hour to 40 hour work week
Jan 1st - US Census Bureau estimates population at 268,921,733
Jan 1st - Russia begins to circulate new rubles to stem inflation and promote confidence.
Jan 1st - The European Central Bank is established.
Jan 2nd - Autopsy of Chris Farley shows he overdosed of opiates & cocaine
Jan 3rd - "Side Show," closes at Richard Rodgers NYC after 91 performances
Jan 3rd - Grandpa Jones suffers a stroke
Jan 4th - "Funny Thing Happened," closes at St James NYC after 715 perform
Jan 4th - "Ivanov," closes at Vivian Beaumont Theater NYC after 51 performances
Jan 4th - "Triumph of Love," closes at Royale Theater NYC
Jan 4th - Wilaya of Relizane massacres in Algeria: over 170 are killed in three remote villages.
Jan 4th - A massive ice storm hits eastern Canada and the northeastern United States, continuing through January 10 and causing widespread destruction.
Jan 5th - Ice storm knocks out electricity in Quebec & Ontario
Jan 5th - Vandals decapitate Copenhagen's Little Mermaid
Jan 6th - Barry Switzer resigns as Dallas Cowboy coach
Jan 6th - Don Sutton selected to Baseball Hall of Fame
Jan 7th - Former White House intern Monica Lewinsky signs affidavit denying she had an affair with President Bill Clinton
Jan 8th - NY Giant GM George Young resigns to accept NFL position
Comedienne/Actor Roseanne Jan 8th - Roseanne files for divorce from 3rd husband Ben Thomas
Jan 8th - Unabomber suspect Theodore Kaczynski asks to act as his own lawyer
Jan 8th - World Trade Center bomber Ramzi Ahmed Yousef sentenced to life
Jan 9th - Anatoly Karpov defeats Viswanathan Anand to retain chess title
Jan 9th - Anatoly Solovyov & Pavel Vinogradov spacewalk record 3 hrs 8 mins
Jan 9th - Boston Red Sox Mo Vaughn pleads not guilty to drunken driving
Jan 9th - Decapitated head of Danish Little Mermaid is returned
Jan 9th - Hockey News selects Wayne Gretzky best NHL player ever
Jan 10th - 18th United Negro College Fund raises (rebroadcasted Jan 17th)
Jan 11th - "Proposals," closes at Broadhurst Theater NYC after 76 performances
Jan 11th - 24th Annual People's Choice Awards - Seinfeld, Tim Allen win
Jan 11th - AFC Championship: Denver Broncos beat Pitt Steelers 24-21
Jan 11th - NFC Championship: Green Bay Packers beat SF 49'ers 23-10
Jan 11th - US female Figure Skating championship won by Michelle Kwan
Jan 11th - US male Figure Skating championship won by Todd Eldredge
Comedian Jerry Seinfeld Jan 11th - Sidi-Hamed massacre takes place in Algeria, over 100 people are killed.
Jan 12th - Nineteen European nations agree to forbid human cloning.
Jan 13th - "Patti LaBelle On Broadway," opens at St James Theater NYC
Jan 13th - CBS pays $4 billion to televise AFC games for 8-years
Jan 14th - 100th episode of "Ellen," airs
Jan 14th - Charles Barkley pleads not guilty to an assault charge
Jan 14th - Researchers in Dallas, Texas present findings about an enzyme that slows aging and cell death (apoptosis).
Jan 15th - NASA announces John Glenn, 76, may fly in space again
Jan 17th - Pres Clinton faces sexual harrament charges from Paula Jones
Jan 18th - "Ragtime," opens at Ford Theater NYC
Jan 18th - 48th NHL All-Star Game: North America beats World 8-7 at Vancouver
Jan 18th - ABL All-Star Game at Disney complex in Orlando
Jan 18th - Boston Celtics retire Robert Parrish's #00
Jan 18th - Kelly Robbins wins Healthsouth Golf Inaugural
Jan 18th - UCP Telethon
Jan 20th - Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inducts Mama & Papas & Eagles
Jan 20th - Warner Brothers TV Network begins Tueday night programming
Jan 21st - Pope John Paul II visits Cuba
Jan 22nd - NHL's Minnesota franchise selects the nickname Wild
Jan 22nd - Rickey Henderson, rejoins Oakland A's for 4th time
Jan 22nd - STS 89 (Endeavour 12) launches into orbit
Jan 22nd - World League of American Football becomes NFL East
264th Pope John Paul II Jan 23rd - Pope John Paul II condemns US embargo against Cuba
Jan 25th - "Grease," closes at Eugene O'Neill Theater NYC after 1,503 performance
Jan 25th - "Patti LaBelle On Broadway," closes at St James Theater NYC
Jan 25th - Britain's Queen Mother, 97, gets an emergency hip replacement
Jan 25th - Helen Alfredsson wins Office Depot LPGA tournament
Jan 25th - Spice Girl Victoria Adams (Posh) & soccer David Beckham get engaged
Jan 25th - Superbowl XXXII: Denver Broncos beat Green Bay Packers 31-24
Jan 25th - Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) suicide attack on Sri Lanka's Temple of the Tooth, killing 8 people injuring 25 others.
Jan 26th - 25th American Music Award: Spice Girls & Babyface win
Jan 26th - Intel launches 333 MHz Pentium II chip
Jan 26th - Pres Clinton says "I want to say one thing to the American people I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Miss Lewinsky"
Jan 27th - Crane crashes into Roosevelt Is (NYC) Tram, injuring 10
Jan 27th - Roland Clarkson discovers 2^3021377-1 (37th known Mersenne prime)
Jan 27th - WNBA begins filling rosters of Washington Mystics & Detroit Shock
Jan 28th - Michelangelo, "Christ & the Woman of Samaria," sold for $7.4 million
Painter Michelangelo Jan 29th - "Capeman," opens at Marquis Theater NYC
Jan 29th - Singers Bobby Brown found guiilty of DWI in Fort Lauderdale, Florida
Jan 29th - Soyuz TM-27 launches to MIR
Jan 29th - Thick Fog causes highway carnage in Belgium & Netherlands, 6 die
Jan 29th - Woman's Clinic in Birmingham Ala bombed, 1 killed
Jan 30th - All-Star Fla Marlin catcher Darren Daulton, retires
Jan 30th - Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Indianapolis IN on WNAP 93.1 FM
Jan 30th - Paul Simon's "The Capeman," premieres
Jan 31st - 72nd Australian Womens Tennis: Martina Hingis beats C Martinez (63 63)
Jan 31st - STS 89 (Endeavour 12) lands
Feb 1st - "Street Corner Symphony," closes at Brooks Atkinson NYC after 79 perf
Feb 1st - 86th Australian Mens Tennis: Petr Korda beats Marcelo Rios (62 62 62)
Feb 1st - Australian Mixed: J Gimelstob & V Williams beat Suk & Sukova (62 61)
Feb 1st - NFL Pro Bowl Game, AFC beats NFC 29-24
Feb 1st - Rear Admiral Lillian E. Fishburne became the first female African American to be promoted to rear admiral.
Tennis Star Martina Hingis Feb 2nd - Daniel Baldwin hospitalized in NYC for cocaine overdose
Feb 2nd - Philippine DC-9 crashes apparently killing all 104 on board
Feb 3rd - Britain issues a set of Princess Diana stamps
Feb 3rd - Fla Panther Dino Ciccarelli's is 9th NHLer to score 600 career goals
Feb 3rd - NY Yankees replace general manager Bob Watson with Brian Cashman
Feb 3rd - Stamps commemorating Princess Diana go on sale across Britain
Feb 3rd - US military plane clips cable car lines in northern Italy, kills 20
Feb 3rd - Mary Kay LeTourneau, 36, former teacher, violates probation with 14 year-old father of her baby
Feb 3rd - Karla Faye Tucker is executed in Texas becoming the first woman executed in the United States since 1984.
Feb 4th - Bill Gates gets a pie thrown in his face in Brussels Belgium
Feb 4th - An earthquake measuring 6.1 on the Richter Scale in northeast Afghanistan kills more than 5,000.
Feb 5th - Alberto Acciarito convicted of harassing his ex-wife Ingrid Rossellini
Feb 5th - Author Tom Clancy confirms he signed agreement to purchase Minnesota Vikings for slightly more than $200 million, an NFL franchise record
Feb 5th - Nancy Kerrigan & Tonya Harding talk on FOX (Taped Dec 22nd)

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Famous Birthdays

Birthdays 1 - 21 of 21

Jan 1st - Marlene Lawston, American child actress
Jan 12th - Nathan Gamble, American child actor
Feb 14th - Arpad Flynn Busson, NYC, son of model Elle MacPherson
Feb 16th - Mr Jefferson, Virginia, 1st cloned calf
Feb 25th - Brendon Baerg, American actor
Apr 9th - Elle Fanning, American Actress
Apr 24th - Ryan Newman, American actress
May 16th - Ariel Waller, Canadian child actress
Jul 8th - Jaden Smith, American actor
Jul 17th - Felipe Juan Froilán de Marichalar y de Borbón, Spanish royal
Jul 22nd - Madison Pettis, American actress
Jul 24th - Bindi Irwin, Australian entertainer; daughter of Steve Irwin
Aug 1st - Khamani Griffin, American actor
Aug 19th - Ella Guevara, Filipino actress
Aug 25th - China Anne McClain, American actress
Sep 21st - Brino quadruplets, American actor/actresses
Oct 6th - Mia-Sophie Wellenbrink, German actress and singer
Oct 18th - Julia Wróblewska, Polish actress
Nov 24th - Bridger Palmer, American child actor
Nov 24th - Brecken Palmer, American child actor
Dec 4th - Olawoyin Olufemi, Nigerian Musician

Famous Weddings

Weddings 1 - 34 of 33

Jan 5th - "Hercules" actor Kevin Sorbo (39) weds actress Sam Jenkins (33) at the Beurge Chapel in Pacific Palisades, California
Jan 10th - Major League Baseball outfielder Barry Bonds (33) weds Elizabeth Watson (28) at Ritz-Carlton Hotel in San Francisco
Feb 14th - Golden Globe Award-winning actress Sharon Stone (40) weds San Francisco Examiner executive editor Phil Bronstein (47) in Beverly Hills, California
Feb 20th - The warrior monk "Kung Fu" actor David Carradine (61) weds actress Marina Benjamin (45) on the Laramie Street on the back lot of Warner Bros. Studio
Feb 22nd - Singer-songwriter Tori Amos (34) weds British sound engineer Mark Hawley (34) in West Wycombe, England
May 1st - "Reality Bites" actor Ethan Hawke (27) weds "Pulp Fiction" actress Uma Thurman (28)
May 2nd - Actor-comedian Jim Belushi (43) weds Jennifer Sloan (30) at their home garden in Brentwood, Los Angeles
May 3rd - "Jekyll & Hyde" lead singer Linda Eder (37) weds composer Frank Wildhorn (38) at their new 8-acre estate in North Salem, New York
May 21st - Supermodel Cindy Crawford (32) weds restaurateur Rande Gerber (36) on Paradise Island in the Bahamas
May 28th - "Xena: The Warrior Princess" Lucy Lawless (30) weds executive producer Rob Tapert (43) at Saint Monica Catholic Church in Santa Monica, California
May 30th - Nephew of Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands Prince Maurits of Orange-Nassau, van Vollenhoven (30) weds to commoner Marilene van den Broek (28) in Apeldoorn
Jun 21st - "Home Alone" actor Macaulay Culkin (17) weds broadway actress Rachel Miner (17) in Stone Church in New Preston, Connecticut
Jun 27th - Prince Michael of Greece daughter Princess Alexandra (29) weds perfume executive Nicolas Mirzayantz (37) in Torcello Island
Jun 27th - The "Murphy Brown" actress Faith Ford (33) weds personal trainer and writer Campion Murphy (35) on Clint Eastwood's 22-acre Mission Ranch in Carmel, California
Jul 1st - Eight-time Grammy Award-winning singer Barbra Streisand (57) weds actor James Brolin (58) in Malibu
Jul 12th - "Dynasty" actress Catherine Oxenberg (36) weds "Chinatown" film producer Robert Evans (68) in Beverly Hills, California
Aug 22nd - FOX News Channel correspondent and Robert F. Kennedy's youngest son Douglas Kennedy (32) weds Molly Stark (29) in Nantucket, Massachusetts
Aug 29th - "Baywatch" actress Traci Bingham (30) weds Robb Vallier at First United Methodist Church in Ames, Iowa
Sep 4th - "Sex and The City" actress Kim Cattrall (42) weds audio designer Mark Levinson
Actress Kim Cattrall (Sep 4th) Sep 13th - "Spice Girls" pop singer Melanie Brown (23) weds Jimmy Gulzar in Little Marlow, Buckinghamshire
Sep 19th - "Full House" actor John Stamos (35) weds supermodel Rebecca Romijn (25) at The Beverly Hills Hotel in Beverly Hills, California
Sep 27th - "The Mummy" actor Brendan Fraser (30) weds actress Afton Smith (32) at Hotel Bel-Air in Los Angeles, California
Oct 3rd - Dutch-born model Annette Roque (33) weds The Today show cohost Matt Lauer (41) at Presbyterian Church in Bridgehampton, New York
Oct 25th - "Punky Brewster" actress Soleil Moon Frye (22) weds television producer and actor Jason Goldberg (26) at the Wilshire Ebell Theatre in Los Angeles, California
Nov 6th - "Some Like It Hot" actor Tony Curtis (73) weds horse trainer Jill Vanden Berg at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, Nevada
Nov 14th - Chicago Bulls NBA player Dennis Rodman (37) weds "Baywatch" actress Carmen Electra (26) at Little Chapel of the Flowers in Las Vegas, Nevada
Nov 14th - Chicago Bulls NBA player Dennis Rodman (37) weds "Baywatch" actress Carmen Electra (26) at Little Chapel of the Flowers in Las Vegas, Nevada
Nov 14th - "Can't Hardly Wait" actor Ethan Embry (20) weds Amelinda Smith
Nov 22nd - "Titanic" actress Kate Winslet (23) weds assistant film director Jim Threapleton (25) at All Saints Church in Reading, England
Nov 28th - "The Truman Show" actor Noah Emmerich (33) weds "The West Wing" actress Melissa Fitzgerald (30) in a tent outside Philadelphia's Memorial Hall
Nov 28th - Actor and martial arts expert Chuck Norris (58) weds former model Gena O'Kelley (30) at The North Church in Carrolton, Texas
Dec 12th - TV personality Melissa Rivers (30) weds horse breeder John Endicott at The Plaza Hotel in New York City
Dec 19th - Actress Vivica A. Fox (34) weds singer Christopher Harvest at the Park Plaza in Los Angeles, California
Dec 20th - "Def Jam" business magnate Russell Simmons (41) weds model Kimora Lee (23) on the French Caribbean island of Saint Barthelemy

Famous Divorces

Divorces 1 - 3 of 3

Jan 8th - Roseanne files for divorce from 3rd husband Ben Thomas
Feb 28th - "Baywatch" actress Pamela Anderson (31) divorces Motley Crue drummer Tommy Lee (35) after 3 years of marriage
Mar 5th - Mariah Carey divorces Tommy Mottola

Famous Deaths

Deaths 1 - 100 of 281

Jan 1st - Helen Wills Moody Roark, tennis ace (31 Grand Slams), dies at 92
Jan 2nd - Frank Muir, English writer, raconteur (b. 1920)
Jan 4th - John Gary, singer, dies at 65
Jan 4th - Mae Questel, American actress (b. 1908)
Jan 5th - Georgi Sviridov, composer, dies at 82
Jan 5th - Sonny Bono, (Rep-R-Ca)/singer (Sonny & Cher), dies skiing at 62
Jan 5th - Ken Forssi, American musician (Love) (b. 1943)
Jan 7th - Owen Bradley, American record producer (b. 1915)
Jan 8th - Michael Tippett, English composer/conductor (Child of our Time) dies at 93
Jan 8th - Walter Diemer, inventor (bubble gum 1928), dies of heart failure at 93
Jan 9th - Kenichi Fukui, Japanese Nobel Prize for Chemistry (1981) dies at 79
Jan 9th - Charito Solis, Filipino actress (b. 1935)
Jan 11th - Klaus Tennstedt, conductor, dies at 71
Jan 15th - Amos "Junior" Wells, blues musician, dies at 63
Jan 15th - Gulzarilal Nanda, temporary PM of India (1964, 66), dies
Jan 15th - Junior Wells, blues harpist, dies at 63
Jan 16th - David "Junior" Kimbrough, blues musician, dies at 67
Jan 16th - Peter Diamand, artistic administrator, dies at 84
Jan 16th - Dimitris Horn, Greek actor (b. 1921)
Jan 17th - Emil Sitka, actor (3 Stooges shorts), dies of stroke at 82
Jan 19th - Carl Perkins, singer/songwriter, dies at 65
Jan 20th - Zevulun Hammer, Vice PM of Israel, dies
Jan 20th - Bobo Brazil, American professional wrestler (b. 1924)
Jan 21st - Jack Lord, American actor (b. 1920)
Jan 23rd - Hilla Limann, president of Ghana in (1979-81), dies
Jan 24th - Jay Monahan, husband of Katie Couric, dies of cancer at 42
Jan 25th - Mohammad Yusuf Khan, prime minister of Afganistan in (1963-65), dies
Jan 26th - S P Leary, Texan Blues drummer (Muddy Waters), dies at 67
Jan 26th - Shinichi Suzuki, music teacher (Suzuki Method), dies at 99
Jan 26th - Walter Edmonds, writer (Drums Along the Mohawk), dies at 93
Jan 29th - Joseph Alioto, mayor of San Francisco (b. 1916)
Jan 30th - Ricky Sanderson, stabbed 16-year old girl in NC, executed at 38
Jan 30th - Richard Cassilly, American tenor (b. 1927)
Feb 3rd - Karla Faye Tucker, murderer, executed at 38
Feb 5th - Tim Kelly, American musician dies at 34
Feb 6th - Carl Wilson, rock vocalist (Beach Boy), dies of lung cancer at 51
Feb 6th - Nazim al-Kudsi, Syrian PM (1949, 1950-51)/pres (1961-63), dies
Feb 6th - [Johann Hoelzel] Falco, singer (Rock Me Amadeus), dies at 40
Feb 6th - Haroun Tazieff, French vulcanologist and geologist (b. 1914)
Feb 7th - Carl Dean Wilson, musician, dies at 51
Feb 7th - Lawrence Sanders, American author (b. 1920)
Feb 8th - William Lambert, Pulitzer prize-winning reporter, dies at 78
Feb 8th - Julian Lincoln Simon, American economist and author (b. 1932)
Feb 8th - Enoch Powell, British Conservative MP and shadow cabinet member (b.1912)
Feb 9th - Laxness, Iceland's Nobel Literature laureate, dies at 95
Feb 10th - Buddy the Wonder Dog, dog (Air Bud), dies of cancer at 9
Feb 10th - Maurice Schumann, French foreign minister (1969-73), dies
Feb 13th - Jo Clayton, author, Cancer Died, Drums of Chaos, dies at 58
Feb 15th - Martha Gelhorn, female war correspondent (Reuters), dies at 89
Feb 17th - Ernst Juenger, German writer, dies at 102
Feb 17th - Bob Merrill, American composer and lyricist (b. 1921)
Feb 18th - Harry Caray, sportscaster (Chicago Cubs), dies at 77
Feb 18th - Mya Than Tint, Myanmarese author, dies of brain hemorrhage at 69
Feb 18th - Robert Merrill, songwriter (Funny Girl), commits suicide at 76
Feb 18th - Robbie James, Welsh footballer (b. 1957)
Feb 19th - Grandpa Jones, country comic/banjo wizard (Hee Haw), dies at 84
Feb 22nd - Grandpa [Louis Marshall] Jones, country singer (Hee Haw), dies at 84
Feb 22nd - Jose Maria de Areilza, Sp minister of foreign affairs (1975-76), dies
Feb 22nd - Sandy Hume, correspondent (Fox News), commits suicide at 28
Feb 22nd - Abraham Ribicoff, American politician (b. 1910)
Feb 23rd - Philip Abbott, actor (Arthur Ward-FBI), dies at 74
Feb 24th - Henny Youngman, comedian (Take my wife please), dies at 92
Feb 24th - Antonio Prohias, Cuban-born cartoonist (b. 1921)
Feb 25th - Luigi Veronesi, Italian abstract artist (Campo Grafico), dies at 90
Feb 25th - Umberto Mastroianni, Italian sculptor, dies at 87
Feb 25th - Celestine Tate Harrington, a quadriplegic street musician and writer.
Feb 26th - J T Walsh, actor (Good Morning Vietnam), dies at 54
Feb 27th - J. T. Walsh, American actor (b. 1943)
Feb 28th - Dermot Morgan, Irish actor and comedian (b. 1952)
Feb 28th - Arkady Shevchenko, Soviet diplomat (b. 1930)
Mar 3rd - Fred Friendly, American broadcast executive (b. 1915)
Mar 6th - Adem Jasari, Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) leader, killed
Mar 6th - Frank Barrett, American baseball player (b. 1913)
Mar 8th - Ray Nitschke, American football player (b. 1936)
Mar 10th - Lloyd Bridges, American actor (b. 1913)
Mar 12th - Judge Dread, English musician (b. 1945)
Mar 12th - Beatrice Wood, American artist and ceramist (b. 1893)
Mar 12th - Jozef Kroner, Slovak actor (b. 1924)
Mar 13th - Bill Reid, Canadian artist (b. 1920)
Mar 13th - Hans von Ohain, German engineer (b. 1911)
Mar 15th - Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician and writer (b. 1903)
Mar 16th - Derek Harold Richard Barton, British chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1918)
Mar 20th - George Howard, American jazz saxophone musician
Mar 21st - Galina Ulanova, Russian prima ballerina assoluta (b. 1910)
Mar 25th - Max Green, Australian lawyer (b. 1952)
Mar 25th - Steve Schiff, United States Congressman (b. 1947)
Mar 27th - Ferry Porsche, Austrian automobile manufacturer (b. 1909)
Mar 27th - David McClelland, American psychologist (b. 1917)
Mar 31st - Bella Abzug, American politician (b. 1920)
Mar 31st - Tim Flock, American race car driver (b. 1924)
Apr 1st - Gene Evans, American actor (b. 1922)
Apr 1st - Rozz Williams, American musician (Christian Death) (b. 1963)
Apr 2nd - Rob Pilatus, American model and entertainer (Milli Vanilli) (b. 1965)
Apr 3rd - Mary Cartwright, English mathematician (b. 1900)
Apr 5th - Cozy Powell, British musician (b. 1947)
Country singer Tammy Wynette (Apr 6th) Apr 6th - Tammy Wynette, American country singer, dies at 55
Apr 6th - Wendy O. Williams, American singer (Plasmatics) (b. 1949)
Apr 7th - Broery Marantika, Indonesian singer
Apr 9th - Tom Cora, American cellist and composer (b. 1953)
Apr 13th - Patrick de Gayardon, French skydiver and skysurfer (b. 1960)