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

Apr 02 Adoption of U.S. Naval Academy coat of arms

Apr 12 Army transfers Yerba Buena Island in SF Bay to Navy

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

Sep 26 The birth of George Gershwin, American composer

Sep 21 Tzu-Hsi, dowager Empress of China, seizes power and revokes reforms

Sep 02 Lord Kitchener retakes Sudan for Britain

Sep 26 George Gershwin, composer born

Jun 29 First through passenger train across Newfoundland leaves St. Johns at 19 20 and arrives Port aux Basques at 22 45, June 30.

Jun 09 China leases Hong Kong to Britain for 99 years

Jun 26 The birth of Willi Messerschmitt, German aircraft designer

Jun 09 China leases Hong Kong's new territories to Britain for 99 years

Jun 29 In St. John's Newfoundland, the first through passenger train across Newfoundland leaves St. Johns at 19:20 and arrives Port aux Basques at 22:45, June 30.

Jun 12 The Phillipines declare independence from Spain.

Jun 10 US Marines land in Cuba, during Spanish-American War

Jun 18 Amusement pier opens, Atlantic City, NJ

Jun 29 First through passenger train across Newfoundland leaves St. Johns at 19:20 and arrives Port aux Basques at 22:45, June 30.

Jun 24 American troops, drive Spanish forces from La Guasimas Cuba

Jun 13 Yukon Territory of Canada organized, Dawson chosen as capital

Jun 12 The Philippines declare their independence from Spain.

Jun 18 First ever steel pier opens in the United States

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