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1898 Calendar

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•  January 13, 1898 – Emile Zola’s J'accuse exposes the Dreyfus affair.
•  June 17, 1898 – The United States Navy Hospital Corps is established.
•  July 1, 1898 – Spanish-American War: the Battle of San Juan Hill is fought in Santiago de Cuba.
•  July 8, 1898 – The death of crime boss Soapy Smith (who is shot) releases Skagway, Alaska from his iron grip.
•  July 25, 1898 – After over two months of sea-based bombardment, the United States invasion of Puerto Rico begins with U.S. troops led by General Nelson Miles landing at harbor of Guánica, Puerto Rico.
•  August 25, 1898 – 700 Greek civilians, 17 British guards and the British Consul of Crete are killed by a Turkish mob in Heraklion, Greece.
•  September 21, 1898 – Empress Dowager Cixi seizes power and ends the Hundred Days’ Reform in China.
•  October 14, 1898 – The steamer ship SS Mohegan sinks after impacting the Manacles near Cornwall, United Kingdom, killing 106.
•  November 10, 1898 – Beginning of the Wilmington Insurrection of 1898, the only instance of a municipal government being overthrown in US history.
•  December 10, 1898 – Spanish-American War: The Treaty of Paris is signed, officially ending the conflict.

•  January 13, 1898 – Kai Munk, Danish playwright and Lutheran pastor, martyr (d. 1944)
•  March 13, 1898 – Henry Hathaway, American film director and producer (d. 1985)
•  March 19, 1898 – Karl Theodor Bleek, German politician (d. 1969)
•  April 6, 1898 – Jeanne Hébuterne, French artist, the wife of Amedeo Modigliani (d. 1920)
•  May 13, 1898 – Justin/Giustino Tuveri, Italian World War I veteran (d. 2007)
•  June 26, 1898 – Willy Messerschmitt, German aircraft designer (d. 1978)
•  August 26, 1898 – Peggy Guggenheim, American art collector (d. 1979)
•  October 3, 1898 – Leo McCarey, American film director and screenwriter (d. 1969)
•  October 18, 1898 – Lotte Lenya, Austrian singer and actress (d. 1981)
•  December 9, 1898 – Emmett Kelly, American circus clown (d. 1979)