The February 21, 1998 was a Saturday under the star sign of ♓. It was the 51 day of the year. President of the United States was William J. (Bill) Clinton.
If you were born on this day, you are 28 years old. Your last birthday was on the Saturday, February 21, 2026, 130 days ago. Your next birthday is on Sunday, February 21, 2027, in 234 days. You have lived for 10,357 days, or about 248,580 hours, or about 14,914,805 minutes, or about 894,888,300 seconds.
Date: 22 February 1998
Editorial contends that bill sponsored by Sens Dianne Feinstein and Orrin Hatch that would protect celebrities from photographers is more responsible than some previous suggestions, but it still proposes restrictions that are unnecessary and harmful to legitimate news gathering and free-expression rights of citizens (M)
Date: 21 February 1998
By B. Drummond Ayres Jr
Federal court in North Carolina hears contempt proceedings against Wilmington Morning Star reporter Kirsten B Mitchell, who published details of sealed court document that had been given to her mistakenly by court clerk; Judge W Earl Britt found Mitchell guilty of criminal contempt, after naming special prosecutor because Atty Gen Janet Reno's office refused to allow local US Attorney to take part; Britt also ordered Mitchell and newspaper, which is owned by The New York Times, to pay $500,000 in damages; Times says paper had right to publish, sees chilling effect on news-gathering and says citizens are not obliged to return or ignore documents given them by Government employee, even though mistakenly; papers detailed settlement of suit against Conoco over gasoline that leaked into trailer park near Wilmington (M)
Date: 21 February 1998
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
CFM Technologies Inc holds informal talks with Applied Materials and Lam research Corp about possiblesale (S)
Date: 21 February 1998
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
CKE Restaurants Inc will pay three percent more to buy 557 Hardee's fast-food restaurants from franchisee Advantica Restaurant Group; figure is now $381 million cash and assumption of $46 million in debt (S)
Date: 21 February 1998
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Hicks Muse Tate & Furst scuttles agreement to buy United Artists Theater Group from investment group led by Merrill Lynch; still intends to buy Regal Cinemas in $1.5-billion deal with Kohlberg Kravis Roberts (S)
Date: 21 February 1998
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Gulf Canada Resources will sell oilfields in North Sea and other assets and spin off part of natural-gas pipelines in western Canada to raise money to lower debt (S)
Date: 21 February 1998
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Ford will lay off 3,500 workers at Wayne, Mich, plant for two weeks to cut backlog of Escorts and Mercury Tracers (S)
Date: 21 February 1998
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Colorado Rockies sign John Hessler, former University of Colorado quarterback, to minor league contract as a pitcher (S)
Date: 21 February 1998
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Pete Mangurian is named head football coach at Cornell University (S)
Date: 21 February 1998
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Norway and Sweden end talks on merging state-owned communications companies, Telenor ASA and Telia AB; Norway feared Sweden would become dominant partner (S)