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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.
•  April 24, 1898 – The Spanish-American War: The United States declares war on Spain.
•  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 10, 1898 – Spanish-American War: U.S. Marines land on the island of Cuba.
•  June 13, 1898 – Yukon Territory is formed, with Dawson chosen as its capital.
•  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 – Carl Gustav Witt discovers 433 Eros, the first near-Earth asteroid to be found.
•  November 3, 1898 – France withdraws its troops from Fashoda (now in Sudan), ending the Fashoda Incident.
•  December 10, 1898 – Spanish-American War: The Treaty of Paris is signed, officially ending the conflict.
•  December 26, 1898 – Marie and Pierre Curie announce the isolation of radium.

•  January 9, 1898 – Wally Baker, American supercentenarian (d. 2009)
•  April 3, 1898 – George Jessel, American comedian (d. 1981)
•  April 21, 1898 – Maurice Wilson, Everest climber, Yorkshire hero (d. 1934)
•  June 6, 1898 – Walter Abel, American actor (d. 1987)
•  July 14, 1898 – Albert Benjamin “Happy” Chandler, American politician and baseball commissioner (d. 1991)
•  July 22, 1898 – Stephen Vincent Benét, American poet, short story writer and novelist (d. 1943)
•  September 19, 1898 – Giuseppe Saragat, President of the Italian Republic (d. 1988)
•  September 28, 1898 – Carl Clauberg, Nazi concentration camp doctor (d. 1957)
•  September 30, 1898 – Princess Charlotte of Monaco (d. 1977)
•  November 14, 1898 – Benjamin Fondane, Romanian-French writer and filmmaker (d. 1944)