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1898 Calendar

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•  April 22, 1898 – Spanish-American War: The United States Navy begins a blockade of Cuban ports and the USS Nashville captures a Spanish merchant ship.
•  May 1, 1898 – Spanish-American War: The Battle of Manila Bay – the United States Navy destroys the Spanish Pacific fleet in the first battle of the war.
•  June 11, 1898 – The Hundred Days’ Reform is started by Guangxu Emperor with a plan to change social, political and educational institutions in China, but is suspended by Empress Dowager Cixi after 104 days. The failed reform though led to the abolition of Imperial Examination in 1905.
•  June 12, 1898 – Philippine Declaration of Independence: General Emilio Aguinaldo declares the Philippines’ independence from Spain.
•  June 21, 1898 – The United States captures Guam from Spain.
•  July 3, 1898 – Spanish-American War: The Spanish fleet, led by Pascual Cervera y Topete, is destroyed by the U.S. Navy in Santiago, Cuba.
•  August 13, 1898 – Spanish–American War: Spanish and American forces engaged in a mock battle for Manila, after which the Spanish commander surrendered in order to keep the city out of Filipino rebel hands.
•  August 29, 1898 – The Goodyear tire company is founded.
•  September 18, 1898 – Fashoda Incident – Lord Kitchener’s ships reach Fashoda, Sudan.
•  October 6, 1898 – Ossian Everett Mills founds Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia in Boston, Massachusetts.

•  January 13, 1898 – Kai Munk, Danish playwright and Lutheran pastor, martyr (d. 1944)
•  February 6, 1898 – Alla Tarasova, Soviet actress (d. 1973)
•  February 18, 1898 – Enzo Ferrari, founder of Ferrari (d. 1988)
•  March 3, 1898 – Emil Artin, German mathematician (d. 1962)
•  March 4, 1898 – Georges Dumézil, French philologist (d. 1986)
•  June 6, 1898 – Ninette de Valois, Irish dancer (d. 2001)
•  July 19, 1898 – Herbert Marcuse, German-born philosopher (d. 1979)
•  December 2, 1898 – Indra Lal Roy, Indian pilot (d. 1918)
•  December 20, 1898 – Konstantinos Dovas, Greek Greek general and interim Prime Minister (d. 1973)
•  December 24, 1898 – Héctor Scarone, Uruguayan footballer (d. 1967)