May 11 Sailors and Marines from USS Marblehead cut trans-oceanic cable near Cienfuegos, Cuba, isolating Cuba from Spain.

May 25 First US troop transport to Manila leaves San Fransisco

May 21 US Assay Office in Seattle WA authorized

May 26 San Fransisco approves City Charter, allows Municipal ownership of utiliies

May 12 Louisiana adopts new constitution with "grandfather clause" designed to eliminate black voters

May 23 The first Philippine Expeditionary Troops sail from San Fransisco

May 19 Post Office authorizes use of postcards

May 01 George Dewey commands, "You may fire when you are ready, Gridley" as US route Spanish fleet at Manila

May 03 Camp Merriman established at Presidio (San Fransisco)

Jan 14 Joe Darling hits the first six in Tests (out of the ground)

Jan 13 Emile Zola publishes his open letter (J'accuse) in defense of Captain Alfred Dreyfus in Paris

Jan 01 Brooklyn, the Bronx, Manhattan, Queens and Staten Island are consolidated into New York City.

Jan 06 The first telephone message from a submerged submarine, by Simon Lake

Jan 01 Lightship replaces whistling buoy at mouth of San Francisco Bay

Jan 13 Emile Zola publishes his open letter (J'accuse) in defense of Captain Alfred Dreyfus in Paris

Jan 01 Lightship replaces whistling buoy at mouth of San Francisco Bay

Jan 01 Brooklyn, the Bronx, Manhattan, Queens and Staten Island are consolidated into New York City.

Jan 06 The first telephone message from a submerged submarine, by Simon Lake

Jan 14 Death of Charles Dodgson, better known as Lewis Carroll, British author of Alice in Wonderland.

Feb 22 Black postmaster lynched, his wife & 3 daughters shot in Lake City SC

Feb 11 Owen Smith of North Carolina, AME Zion minister, named minister to Liberia

Feb 23 In France, Emile Zola is imprisoned for writing his "J'accuse" letter accusing government of anti-Semitism & wrongly jailing Alfred Dreyfus

Feb 10 The birth of Bertolt Brecht, German poet and dramatist

Feb 15 USS Maine blows up in Havana harbor, cause unknown-258 sailors die

Feb 01 First auto insurance policy in US issued, by Travelers Insurance Company

Feb 20 The birth of Enzo Ferrari, Italian car manufacturer

Feb 08 John Ames Sherman patents first envelope folding &gumming machine (Massachusetts)

Apr 09 Battle of Atbara River, Anglo-Egyptian forces crush 6,000 Sudanese

Apr 03 The birth of Henry Luce, American publisher (founder of Time magazine)

Apr 22 Spanish-American War action: USS Nashville, takes enemy ship

Apr 25 Congress declares war existed with Spain since 21 April

Apr 21 Spanish-American War begins

Apr 29 U.S. warships engage Spanish gunboats and shore batteries at Cienfuegos, Cuba

Apr 14 Commissioning of first Post Civil War hospital ship, USS Solace

Apr 24 Spain declares war on US rejecting ultimatum to withdraw from Cuba

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