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1898 Calendar

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•  January 13, 1898 – Emile Zola’s J'accuse exposes the Dreyfus affair.
•  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.
•  May 8, 1898 – The first games of the Italian football league system are played.
•  June 10, 1898 – Spanish-American War: U.S. Marines land on the island of Cuba.
•  June 11, 1898 – Spanish-American War: U.S. war ships set sail for Cuba.
•  June 27, 1898 – The first solo circumnavigation of the globe is completed by Joshua Slocum from Briar Island, Nova Scotia.
•  July 1, 1898 – Spanish-American War: the Battle of San Juan Hill is fought in Santiago de Cuba.
•  October 6, 1898 – Ossian Everett Mills founds Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia in Boston, Massachusetts.
•  December 18, 1898 – Gaston de Chasseloup-Laubat sets the first officially recognized land speed record of 39.245 mi/h in a Jeantaud electric car.

•  February 14, 1898 – Fritz Zwicky, Swiss-born American physicist and astronomer (d. 1974)
•  April 1, 1898 – William James Sidis, American mathematician and child prodigy (d. 1944)
•  April 9, 1898 – Earl “Curly” Lambeau, American football coach, executive (d. 1965)
•  May 16, 1898 – Kenji Mizoguchi, Japanese film director (d. 1956)
•  May 26, 1898 – Christfried Burmeister, Estonian speed skater (d. 1965)
•  May 31, 1898 – Dr. Norman Vincent Peale, American clergyman (d. 1993)
•  August 27, 1898 – Gaspard Fauteux, French Canadian parliamentarian (d. 1963)
•  September 22, 1898 – Katharine Alexander, American actress (d. 1981)
•  September 30, 1898 – Princess Charlotte of Monaco (d. 1977)
•  December 22, 1898 – Vladimir Aleksandrovich Fock, Russian physicist (d. 1974)