Apr 04 Appointment of first Civil Engineering Corps officer, Mordecai Endicott, as Chief, Bureau of ards and Docks

Apr 22 U.S. warships begin blockade of Cuba

Apr 11 President McKinley asks for Spanish-American War declaration Hearst newspapers just flourish

Apr 21 Spanish-American War begins

Apr 25 US declares war on Spain

Apr 30 Championship wrestling match at the Met turns into a brawl

Apr 21 U.S. at war against Spain.

Apr 20 US Assay Office in Deadwood, South Dakota opens

Apr 21 Phillies' pitcher Bill Duggleby hits a grand slam on first at bat

Apr 03 In the Yukon at Chilkoot Pass avalanche kills 88 men during the Klondike gold rush.

Apr 11 President McKinley asks for Spanish-American War declaration

Nov 10 Race riot in Wilmington NC (8 blacks killed)

Nov 29 The birth of C.S Lewis, British writer

Nov 22 The opera "Iris" is produced (Rome)

Nov 27 Side-wheeler "Portland" sinks off Cape Cod, 190 die

Dec 10 Spanish-American War ends; US acquires Philippines, PR and Guam

Dec 18 At a site near Paris, France, Count Gaston de Chasseloup-Laubat sets the world's first official automobile land speed record of 39 miles per hour.

Dec 21 Scientists Pierre & Marie Curie discovers radium

Dec 13 First passenger train over the newly reconstructed Victoria Railway Bridge, Montreal. The original 1859 tube had been replaced by a double track steel bridge.

Dec 26 Radium, the radioactive element, discovered by Pierre and Marie Curie

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)

Jul 22 Belgica crew see first sunrise in 1600 hrs-1st to endure Antarct winter

Jul 03 Joshua Slocum 1844-1909, from Briar Island, Nova Scotia, becomes the first person to complete a solo circumnavigation of the earth.

Jul 07 US annexes Hawaii

Jul 30 The birth of Henry Moore, English sculptor

Jul 01 Teddy Roosevelt & his Rough Riders charge up San Juan Hill

Jul 04 Sable Island, Nova Scotia, the French ship La Bourgogne collides with British ship the Cromartyshire; 560 persons drown.

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