Portal:Current events/March 1998

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March 1998 was the third month of that common year. The month, which began on a Sunday, ended on a Tuesday after 31 days.

Portal:Current events

This is an archived version of Wikipedia's Current events Portal from March 1998.

March 2, 1998 (Monday)

Data sent from the Galileo probe indicates that Jupiter's moon Europa has a liquid ocean under a thick crust of ice.
In Austria, Natascha Kampusch is abducted by Wolfgang Přiklopil (she will remain in his captivity until August 2006).

March 5, 1998 (Thursday)

NASA announces that the Clementine probe orbiting the Moon has found enough water in polar craters to support a human colony and rocket fueling station.

March 11, 1998 (Wednesday)

Danish parliamentary election, 1998: Prime Minister Poul Nyrup Rasmussen is re-elected.

March 13, 1998 (Friday)

The High-Z Supernova Search Team becomes the first team to publish evidence that the universe is expanding at an accelerating rate.

March 23, 1998 (Monday)

The 70th Academy Awards ceremony, hosted for the 6th time by Billy Crystal, is held at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles, California. Titanic wins 11 Oscars including Best Picture.

March 24, 1998 (Tuesday)

First Computer-assisted Bone Segment Navigation, performed at the University of Regensburg, Germany.

March 26, 1998 (Thursday)

Oued Bouaicha massacre in Algeria: 52 people are killed with axes and knives; 32 of the killed are babies under the age of 2.

March 31, 1998 (Tuesday)

Netscape released Mozilla source code under an open source license. This is described in The Book of Mozilla, 3:31.

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