Today in History for March 1998

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Historical Events

Events 1 - 22 of 22

1st - "Art," opens at Royale Theater NYC
1st - Australian Ladies Masters Golf
2nd - Data sent from the Galileo spacecraft indicates that Jupiter's moon Europa has a liquid ocean under a thick crust of ice.
3rd - Bill Gates testifies at Senate Judiciary Committee
4th - Gay rights: Oncale v. Sundowner Offshore Services: The Supreme Court of the United States rules that federal laws banning on-the-job sexual harassment also apply when both parties are the same sex.
5th - Mariah Carey divorces Tommy Mottola
6th - 1st time the British flag is flown over Buckingham Palace
6th - Matt Beck, an angry lottery accountant kills 4 at Conn state lottery
12th - "Sound of Music," opens at Martin Beck Theater NYC
14th - An earthquake measuring 6.9 on the Richter scale hits southeastern Iran.
15th - "Cabaret," opens at Club Expo Theater NYC
15th - Welch's/Circle K Golf Championship
16th - Pope John Paul II asks God for forgiveness for the inactivity and silence of some Roman Catholics during the Holocaust.
19th - "Ah Wilderness!," opens at Vivian Beaumont theater
21st - Good Friday Agreement signed in Northern Ireland.
24th - Jonesboro massacre: Two students, ages 11 and 13, fire upon teachers and students at Westside Middle School in Jonesboro, Arkansas; five people are dead and ten are wounded.
24th - A tornado sweeps through Dantan in India killing 250 people and injuring 3000 others.
26th - Oued Bouaicha massacre in Algeria; 52 people killed with axes and knives, 32 of them babies under the age of 2.
29th - 17th NCAA Women's Basketball Championship: at Kemper Arena KC
264th Pope John Paul II 29th - 27th Nabisco Dinah Shore Golf Championship
30th - 60th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: at Alamodome San Antonio
31st - Tampa Bay Devil Rays 1st game they host Detroit Tigers

Famous Divorces

Divorces 1 - 1 of 1

5th - Mariah Carey divorces Tommy Mottola

Famous Deaths

Deaths 1 - 21 of 21

3rd - Fred Friendly, American broadcast executive (b. 1915)
6th - Adem Jasari, Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) leader, killed
6th - Frank Barrett, American baseball player (b. 1913)
8th - Ray Nitschke, American football player (b. 1936)
10th - Lloyd Bridges, American actor (b. 1913)
12th - Judge Dread, English musician (b. 1945)
12th - Beatrice Wood, American artist and ceramist (b. 1893)
12th - Jozef Kroner, Slovak actor (b. 1924)
13th - Bill Reid, Canadian artist (b. 1920)
13th - Hans von Ohain, German engineer (b. 1911)
15th - Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician and writer (b. 1903)
16th - Derek Harold Richard Barton, British chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1918)
16th - Esther Bubley, American photographer aged 77
20th - George Howard, American jazz saxophone musician
21st - Galina Ulanova, Russian prima ballerina assoluta (b. 1910)
25th - Max Green, Australian lawyer (b. 1952)
25th - Steve Schiff, United States Congressman (b. 1947)
27th - Ferry Porsche, Austrian automobile manufacturer (b. 1909)
27th - David McClelland, American psychologist (b. 1917)
31st - Bella Abzug, American politician (b. 1920)
31st - Tim Flock, American race car driver (b. 1924)