1898

Events

   * January 13 - Emile Zola's J'accuse exposes the Dreyfus affair.
   * February 7 - Emile Zola is brought to trial for libel for publishing
     J'Accuse
   * February 12 - Henry Lindfield, dies in England. Lindfield was the first
     fatality from an autobile accident.
   * February 15 - Spanish-American War: The USS Maine explodes and sinks in
     Havana Harbor, Cuba for then unknown reasons killing more than 260.
     This event helped lead the United States to declare war on Spain.
   * February 23 - Emile Zola is imprisoned in France after writing
     "J'accuse" which was a letter accusing the French government of
     anti-Semitism and wrongfully placing Alfred Dreyfus in jail.
   * March 24 - Robert Allison of Port Carbon, Pennsylvania becomes the
     first person to buy an American-built automobile when he buys a Winton
     automobile that was advertised in Scientific American.
   * April 22 - Spanish-American War: The United States Navy begins a
     blockade of Cuban ports and the USS Nashville captures a Spanish
     merchant ship.
   * April 25 - Spanish-American War: The United States declares war on
     Spain; the United States Congress announces that a state of war has
     existed since April 21.
   * June 12 - Gen. Emilio Aguinaldo declares Philippines' independence from
     Spain.
   * July 7 - The United States annexes the Hawaiian Islands.
   * July 17 - Spanish-American War: Battle of Santiago Bay - Troops under
     United States General William R. Shafter take the city of Santiago de
     Cuba from the Spanish.
   * July 25 - Spanish-American War: The United States invasion of Puerto
     Rico begins with a landing at Gu‡nica Bay.
   * September 2 - Battle of Omdurman - British and Egyptian troops led by
     Horatio Kitchener defeat Sudanese tribesmen led by Khalifa Abdullah
     al-Taashi, thus establishing British dominance in the Sudan.
   * December 10 - The Treaty of Peace ending the Spanish-American War is
     signed in Paris.

   * Fashoda incident -- diplomatic dispute between France and the United
     Kingdom.

Births

   * January 7 - Rudolf Fernau, actor (+ 1985)
   * January 16 - Margaret Booth, film editor
   * January 23 - Sergei Eisenstein, director
   * February 3 - Alvar Aalto, Finnish architect
   * February 10 - Bertolt Brecht - playwright, writer and poet
   * February 14 - Fritz Zwicky, physicist and astronomer (+ 1974)
   * February 14 - George Steed, businessman, philanthropist (+ 1988)
   * February 18 - Enzo Ferrari, auto racer, manufacturer (+ 1988)
   * February 24 - Kurt Tank, aeronautical engineer (+ 1983)
   * March 6 - Therese Giehse, actress (+ 1975)
   * March 11 - Dorothy Gish, actress (+ 1968)
   * April 3 - George Jessel, comedian (+ 1981)
   * May 3 - Golda Meir - Israeli Prime Minister
   * May 15 - Arletty, model, actress (+ 1992)
   * May 17 - Alfred Joseph Casson painter (+ 1992)
   * May 21 - Armand Hammer, entrepreneur, art collector
   * May 23 - Scott O'Dell, author (+ 1989)
   * May 31 - Dr. Norman Vincent Peale (clergyman)
   * June 4 - Harry Crosby, publisher, poet (+ 1929)
   * June 17 - M. C. Escher - Dutch graphic artist
   * July 22 - Erich Maria Remarque, a German writer (+ 1970)
   * July 30 - Henry Moore - sculptor
   * August 26 - Peggy Guggenheim, art collector
   * September 26 - George Gershwin, composer
   * September 30 - Renee Adoree, french actress
   * September 30 - Princess Charlotte of Monaco
   * October 10 - Lilly DachŽ, milliner (+ 1989)
   * November 8 - Marie Prevost, actress (+ 1937)
   * November 18 - Joris Ivens, director
   * November 21 - Rene Magritte, surrealist artist
   * November 29 - C. S. Lewis, British author

Deaths

   * January 14 - Lewis Carroll, writer, mathematician
   * May 19 - William Ewart Gladstone, British prime minister
   * July 30 - Otto von Bismarck - German Statesman
   * October 24 - Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, painter

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