Events in History
- Apr 8 Battle of Atbara River, Anglo-Egyptian forces crush 6,000 Sudanese
- Apr 24 Spanish–American War: Spain declares war after rejecting US ultimatum to withdraw from Cuba
- May 19 US Congress passes the Private Mailing Card Act, allowing private publishers and printers to produce postcards, had to be labelled "Private Mailing Cards" until 1901, known as "souvenir cards"
- Jun 10 US Marines land in Cuba during Spanish–American War
- Aug 9 Rudolf Diesel of Germany obtains patent #608,845 for his internal combustion engine, later known as the diesel engine
- Sep 21 Empress Dowager Cixi seizes power and ends the Hundred Days' Reform in China, imprisoning the Guangxu Emperor
- Dec 21 Scientists Pierre and Marie Curie discover radium
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- Jan 10 Painter Henri Matisse (28) weds Amélie Noellie Parayre
- Mar 6 Poet Paul Laurence Dunbar (25) weds political activist and poet Alice Ruth Moore (22) in New York
- May 25 Chocolatier Milton S. Hershey (40) weds Catherine Sweeney at St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York City
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Otto von Bismarck1898 in History Pictures
Spain Declares War Against the United States
Spain declared war on the United States on this day as tensions rose over Cuba and a US warship was destroyed. A future American president led a major battle.April 24Around The World Alone In A Fishing Boat
They said it couldn’t be done, so Joshua Slocum set out alone and sailed 46,000 miles around the world in an old fishing boat that he had rebuilt.June 27
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