April 6 » In Athens, the opening of the first modern Olympic Games is celebrated, 1,500 years after the original games are banned by Roman emperor Theodosius I.
April 15 » Closing ceremony of the Games of the I Olympiad in Athens, Greece.
May 27 » The F4-strength St. Louis–East St. Louis tornado hits in St. Louis, Missouri, and East St. Louis, Illinois, killing at least 255 people and causing over $10-million in damage.
June 4 » Henry Ford completes the Ford Quadricycle, his first gasoline-powered automobile, and gives it a successful test run.
June 15 » The deadliest tsunami in Japan's history kills more than 22,000 people.
December 30 » Filipino patriot and reform advocate José Rizal is executed by a Spanish firing squad in Manila.
Day of death January 9, 1898
The temperature on January 9, 1898 was about 3.8 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 98%. Source: KNMI
April 22 » Spanish–American War: The USSNashville captures a Spanish merchant ship.
June 10 » Spanish–American War: In the Battle of Guantánamo Bay, U.S. Marines begin the American invasion of Spanish-held Cuba.
June 27 » The first solo circumnavigation of the globe is completed by Joshua Slocum from Briar Island, Nova Scotia.
July 4 » En route from New York to Le Havre, the SS La Bourgogne collides with another ship and sinks off the coast of Sable Island, with the loss of 549 lives.
October 1 » The Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration is founded under the name k.u.k. Exportakademie.
December 26 » Marie and Pierre Curie announce the isolation of radium.
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