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1898 Calendar

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•  January 13, 1898 – Emile Zola’s J'accuse exposes the Dreyfus affair.
•  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 21, 1898 – The United States captures Guam from Spain.
•  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.
•  September 10, 1898 – Empress Elizabeth of Austria is assassinated by Luigi Lucheni.
•  September 13, 1898 – Hannibal Goodwin patents celluloid photographic film.
•  September 21, 1898 – Empress Dowager Cixi seizes power and ends the Hundred Days’ Reform in China.
•  November 2, 1898 – Cheerleading is started at the University of Minnesota with Johnny Campbell leading the crowd in cheering on the football team.

•  January 9, 1898 – Wally Baker, American supercentenarian (d. 2009)
•  February 18, 1898 – Enzo Ferrari, founder of Ferrari (d. 1988)
•  April 25, 1898 – Fred Haney, baseball player (d. 1977)
•  May 2, 1898 – Henry Hall, British bandleader (d. 1989)
•  May 6, 1898 – Konrad Henlein, Czechoslovakian politician (d. 1945)
•  May 17, 1898 – Alfred Joseph Casson, Canadian painter (d. 1992)
•  May 26, 1898 – Christfried Burmeister, Estonian speed skater (d. 1965)
•  July 21, 1898 – Sara Carter, Carter Family vocalist/guitarist (d. 1979)
•  September 12, 1898 – Alma Moodie, Australian classical violinist (d. 1943)
•  December 20, 1898 – Irene Dunne, American actress (d. 1990)