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Months in Year 1898: January February March April May June July August September October November December

Events 1 - 141 of 141

Jan 1st - Brooklyn merges with NY to form present City of NY
Jan 1st - Lightship replaces whistling buoy at mouth of SF Bay
Jan 1st - d'Annunzio's "Sogno d'un mattino di primavera," premieres in Rome
Jan 4th - 1st installment of William Dean Howell's "Life & Letters" appears
Jan 6th - 1st telephone message from a submerged submarine, by Simon Lake
Jan 12th - Ito Hirobumi begins his third term as Prime Minister of Japan.
Jan 13th - Emile Zola publishes his open letter (J'accuse) in defense of Dreyfus
Jan 14th - Joe Darling hits the 1st six in Tests (out of the ground)
Jan 19th - Brown defeats Harvard 6-0 in 1st intercollegiate hockey game
Feb 1st - 1st auto insurance policy in US issued, by Travelers Insurance Co
Feb 8th - John Ames Sherman patents 1st envelope folding & gumming mach (Mass)
Feb 11th - Owen Smith of NC, AME Zion minister, named minister to Liberia
Feb 15th - USS Maine sinks in Havana harbor, cause unknown-258 sailors die
Feb 22nd - Black postmaster lynched, his wife & 3 daughters shot in Lake City SC
Feb 23rd - In France, Emile Zola is imprisoned for writing his "J'accuse" letter accusing government of anti-Semitism & wrongly jailing Alfred Dreyfus
Mar 2nd - Australia complete a 4-1 series annihilation of England
Mar 8th - Richard Straus' "Don Quixote," premieres in Keulen
Mar 17th - 1st practical submarine 1st submerges, NYC (for 1 hour 40 minutes)
Mar 24th - 1st automobile sold
Mar 25th - Intercollegiate Trapshooting Association formed in NYC
Apr 8th - Battle of Atbara River, Anglo-Egyptian forces crush 6,000 Sudanese
Apr 11th - President McKinley asks for Spanish-American War declaration
Apr 12th - Army transfers Yerba Buena Island in SF Bay to Navy
Apr 19th - 2nd Boston Marathon won by Ron McDonald of Mass in 2:42:00
Apr 20th - US Assay Office in Deadwood, South Dakota opens
Apr 21st - Phillies' pitcher Bill Duggleby hits a grand slam on 1st at bat
Apr 21st - Spanish-American War: The U.S. Congress, on April 25, recognizes that a state of war exists between the United States and Spain as of this date.
Apr 22nd - 1st Spanish-American War action: USS Nashville, takes enemy ship
Apr 22nd - Baltimore James Hughes no-hits Boston Braves 8-0
Apr 22nd - Cincinnati Red Theodore Breitenstein no-hits Pirates 11-0
Apr 22nd - Congress passes Volunteer Army Act calling for a Volunteer Cavalry
Apr 22nd - US President McKinley orders blockade of Cuban harbors
Apr 24th - US fleet under commodore Dewey sails from Hong Kong to Philippines
Apr 24th - Spanish-American War: Spain delares war after rejecting US ultimatum to withdraw from Cuba
Apr 25th - Spanish-American War: The United States declares state of war on Spain effective from 21st April.
Apr 30th - Championship wrestling match at Met turns into a brawl
May 1st - George Dewey commands, "You may fire when you are ready, Gridley" as US route Spanish fleet at Manila
May 3rd - Camp Merriman forms at Presidio (SF) (see 0517)
May 4th - 24th Kentucky Derby: Willie Simms aboard Plaudit wins in 2:09
May 8th - The first games of the Italian Football League are played.
May 12th - Louisiana adopts new constitution with "grandfather clause" designed to eliminate black voters
May 17th - Camp Merritt forms in Presidio [see 0503]
May 19th - Post Office authorizes use of postcards
May 21st - US Assay Office in Seattle, Washington authorized
May 23rd - 1st Philippine Expeditionary Troops sail from SF
May 25th - 1st US troop transport to Manila leaves SF
May 26th - 32nd Belmont: F Littlefield aboard Bowling Brook wins in 2:32
May 26th - SF approves City Charter, allows Municipal ownership of utilities
May 27th - Arthur Pinero's "Trelawney of the 'Wells'," premieres in London
Jun 1st - Trans-Mississippi International Exposition opens in Omaha
Jun 7th - Social Democracy of America party holds 1st national convention, Chic
Jun 9th - China leases Hong Kong's new territories to Britain for 99 years
Jun 10th - US Marines land in Cuba, during Spanish-American War
Jun 11th - 1st US Marines (600) land at Guantanamo Cuba during Spanish-American War
Jun 11th - 23rd Preakness: Willie Simms aboard Sly Fox wins in 1:49.75
Jun 11th - Emperor De Zong proclaims reforms in Peking
Jun 12th - Philippine nationalists declares independence from Spain to US control
Jun 13th - Yukon Territory of Canada organized, Dawson chosen as capital
Jun 14th - France signs Niger Convention
Jun 15th - US House of Reps accept annexation of Hawaii
Jun 15th - US marines attack Spanish off Guantánamo Cuba
Jun 16th - China's emperor De Zong (Guang Xu) receives Kang Youwei
Jun 17th - US Senate agrees to annex Hawaii
Jun 17th - The United States Navy Hospital Corps is established.
Jun 18th - 1st amusement pier opens in Atlantic City, NJ
Jun 18th - 4th US Golf Open: Fred Herd shoots a 328 at Myopia Hunt Club Mass
Jun 21st - Guam becomes a territory of US
Jun 24th - American troops, drive Spanish forces from La Guasimas Cuba
Jul 1st - Teddy Roosevelt & his Rough Riders charge up San Juan Hill
Jul 3rd - American troops captured deserted Wake Island
Jul 3rd - Dutch Automobile Club forms (KNAC)
Jul 3rd - Joshua Slocum completes 1st solo circumnavigation of the globe
Jul 3rd - US Navy defeats Spanish fleet in Santiago harbor, Cuba
Jul 4th - French liner "La Bourgogne" collides with bark Cromartyshire, 560 die
Jul 4th - US flag hoisted over Wake Island (Spanish-American War)
Jul 7th - US annexes Hawaii
Jul 8th - Phillies Red Donahue no-hits Boston Braves, 5-0
Jul 8th - US battle fleet under adm Dewey occupies Isla Grande at Manila
Jul 8th - The shooting death of crime boss Soapy Smith releases Skagway, Alaska from his iron grip.
Jul 10th - Jean-Baptiste Marchands expedition reaches Fashoda at White Hippo
Jul 12th - Jean-Baptiste Marchand hoists French flag in Fashoda Sudan
Jul 13th - SF Ferry Building at foot of Market St opens
Jul 17th - Spanish American War - Spaniards surrender to US at Santiago Cuba
Jul 21st - Spain cedes Guam to US
Jul 22nd - Belgica crew see 1st sunrise in 1600 hrs-1st to endure Antarct winter
Jul 25th - 1st US troops land & occupy Puerto Rice, at Guanica Bay
Jul 27th - Start of Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of Dancing Men" (BG)
Jul 28th - Spanish troops in Ponce, Puerto Rico, surrender
Jul 28th - Start of Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of Retired Colourman"(BG)
Jul 30th - Will Kellogg invents Corn Flakes
Aug 12th - Hawaii formally annexed to US
Aug 12th - Peace protocol ends Spanish-American War, signed
Aug 13th - US forces under George Dewey captures Manila during Spanish-Amer war
Aug 16th - Edwin Prescott patents roller coaster
Aug 23rd - 18th US Mens Tennis: Malcolm Whitman beats Dwight Davis (36 62 62 61)
Aug 25th - 700 Greeks and 15 Englishmen are slaughtered by the Turks in Heraklion, Greece.
Aug 28th - Caleb Bradham renames his carbonated soft drink "Pepsi-Cola".
Aug 29th - The Goodyear tire company is founded.
Sep 1st - Dutch soccer team Receiver forms
Sep 1st - Lord Kitcheners army bombs Omdurman Sudan
Sep 2nd - Battle of Omdurman: Lord Kitchener retakes Sudan for Britain
Sep 2nd - Machine gun 1st used in battle
Sep 6th - Lord Kitchener destroys Mahdi's tomb in Omdurman
Sep 9th - Ottawa Football Club re-organizes into the Rough Riders
Sep 10th - Lord Kitchener's ships sails from Kartoum to Fashoda
Sep 10th - Empress Elizabeth of Austria is assassinated by Luigi Lucheni.
Sep 13th - 20,000 Paris construction workers go on strike
Sep 13th - Hannibal Goodwin patents celluloid photographic film
Sep 15th - National Afro-American Council forms in Rochester NY
Sep 18th - Lord Kitcheners ships reach Fashoda Sudan
Sep 21st - China's empress-mother Ci Xi & emperor De Zong arrested
Sep 21st - Empress Dowager Cixi seizes power and ends the Hundred Days' Reform in China.
Sep 26th - Victor Herbert/Harry Smith' musical premieres in NYC
Sep 29th - French troops reach Guinea & Sudan, Samori caught
Sep 30th - City of NY established
Oct 1st - Dutch railway Alkmaar-Receiver opens
Oct 1st - Henry Huntington buys LA Railway
Oct 1st - Jews are expelled from Kiev Russia
Oct 1st - Czar Nikolay II expels Jews from major Russian cities.
Oct 1st - The Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration is founded under the name k.u.k. Exportakademie.
Oct 6th - Gustav Mahler conducts 1st Wiener Philharmonic
Oct 6th - Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia Fraternity founded at the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston, Massachusetts.
Oct 8th - 1st Canadian Intercollegiate football game: McGill beats Queen's, 3-2
Oct 12th - Establishment of the first town council in Mateur.
Oct 18th - American flag raised in Puerto Rico
Oct 20th - NC Mutual & Provident Insurance Company forms
Nov 2nd - French government-Dupuy forms
Nov 2nd - Theodor Herzl arrives in Jerusalem
Nov 2nd - Cheerleading is started at the University of Minnesota with Johnny Campbell leading the crowd in cheering on the football team.
Author and Nobel Laureate Gerhart Hauptmann Nov 5th - Gerhart Hauptmanns "Fuhrmann Henschel," premieres in Berlin
Nov 10th - Race riot in Wilmington NC (8 blacks killed)
Nov 22nd - Opera "Iris" premieres (Rome)
Nov 24th - The International Conference of Rome for the Social Defense Against Anarchists opens.
Nov 26th - -27) Snow/ice storm over US; 455 die
Nov 26th - SS Portland “The Titanic of New England” leaves for Cape Cod, shipwrecked off Cape Ann, all 192 on board killed
Dec 10th - Spanish-American War ends; US acquires Philippines, PR & Guam
Dec 10th - The first western pilgrims were welcomed at The House of `Abdu'lláh Páshá
Dec 12th - 1st 1st-class game between NSW & Tasmania
Dec 18th - Automobile speed record set-63 kph (39 mph)
Dec 21st - Scientists Pierre & Marie Curie discovers radium
Dec 24th - Herman Heijermans' "Ghetto," premieres in Amsterdam

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