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This year in history
In the year 1898

	January 23th	Russian film director, Sergei Eisenstein, was born in Riga, Latvia (the part of the Russian Empire). He is widely considered as one of the most influential directors of all time. His movie, Battleship Potemkin, has been labelled as one of the most important and influential films of all time.
	February 15th	An American battleship, the USS Maine, sank after it exploded in the harbour of Havana, Cuba. The incident claimed the lives of 260 crewmen and was one of the factors that led the United States to declare war on Spain.
	February 16th	American actress, Katharine Cornell, was born in Berlin, Germany. She is considered as one of the most influential figures of the American stage of the 20th century.
	February 18th	Italian automotive pioneer, Enzo Ferrari, was born in Emilia-Romagna. He was the founder of the Ferrari Grand Prix motor racing team and subsequently the Ferrari cars manufacturer.
	February 23th	French novelist, Emile Zola, was imprisoned by the French government after he had written a letter accusing it anti-Semitism in regards to the wrongful imprisonment of Captain Alfred Dreyfus.
	April 25th	The United States declared war on Spain.
	May 3rd	Israeli politician, Golda Meir, was born in Kiev in the Ukraine. She was one of the founders of the state of Israel and also served several times as minister in various posts. She became the 4th Prime Minister of Israel. She was considered the Iron Lady of Israel.
	June 12th	The Philippines declared its independence from Spain.
	June 21st	Guam became a US territory. To this day the Pacific island is an organized unincorporated territory of the United States.
	June 22nd	German writer, Erich Maria Remarque, was born in Osnabruck. He is most known for writting the book, All Quiet on the Western Front, a book about the horrors of that war and the deep detachment from German civilian life felt by many men returning from the front.
	July 7th	US president, William McKinley, signed the Newlands Resolution under which Hawaii was annexed as a territory of the United States.
	July 18th	Scientists, Marie and Pierre Curie, announced the discovery of a new element and proposed to call it polonium.
	July 25th	The United States invaded Puerto Rico.
	August 8th	French painter, Eugene Boudin, died at the age of 73. He is widely considered as one of the greatest landscape painters of the 19th century.
	August 29th	The Goodyear tire company was founded by American entrepreneur, Frank Seiberling. It is the third largest tire and rubber company in the world.
	August 30th	American actress, Shirley Booth, was born in New York City. She was one of the most celebrated female actresses in the history of American radio, television and cinema and theatre.
	September 2nd	British and Egyptian troops defeated Sudanese tribesmen in the Battle of Omdurman, resulting in the establishment of British rule in Sudan.
	November 21st	Belgian painter, Rene Magritte, was born in Lessines. He was a famous painter of the surrealism movement.
	November 29th	Irish writer, C. S. Lewis, was born in Belfast. His best known work is that of 'The Chronicles of Narnia'.
	December 26th	Researchers, Marie and Pierre Curie, announced that they had isolated radium.

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