About the day » Friday June 17, 1898Calender converter

• Aaron B Hoover, Pennsylvania († 1977)
• Adriana Roelofs, Echteld († 1899)
• Anna Francesca Antonia (Annie) Seveke, Haarlem, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1976)
• Andries Pieter De Boer, Enkhuizen,, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1898)
• Adolf Pothen, Mürringen († 1980)
• Ale de Jong, Oudega († 1946)
• Adrianus Antonius Bottenberg, IJsselmuiden, Overijssel († 1977)
• Ale de Jong, Oudega (Small.), Friesland, Nederland († 1946)
• Adrianus Antonius Bottenberg, IJsselmuiden, Overijssel, Nederland († 1977)
• Anna Maria Helena Degeling, Stevern (Noordrijn-Westfalen), Duitsland

• Albert Prins (72), Onstwedde
• Alexandra Demidova (79), St. Petersburg
• Adriana Jacoba Verton (0), Rotterdam
• Aaltje Visser (53), Marum
• Aaltje Bernards Visser (53), De Wilp, Marum, Groningen, Nederland
• Anke Johannes Schut (75), Leeuwarden, Friesland, Nederland
• Alexander Hanssen (72), Nieuwenhagen (L
• Anna Christina Maassen (87), Kaukauna, Outagamie County, Wisconsin, Verenigde Staten
• Adriana Johanna Schotte (14), Pijnacker, 2641, Nederland
• Antonia van Dongen (88), Drongelen

• 1897 » Maria Izilda de Castro Ribeiro, Brazilian girl, popular saint († 1911)
• 1898 » Carl Hermann, German physicist and academic († 1961)
• 1898 » Harry Patch, English soldier and firefighter († 2009)
• 1898 » M. C. Escher, Dutch illustrator († 1972)
• 1900 » Evelyn Irons, Scottish journalist and war correspondent († 2000)
• 1900 » Martin Bormann, German politician († 1945)
• 1902 » Alec Hurwood, Australian cricketer († 1982)
• 1902 » Sammy Fain, American pianist and composer († 1989)
• 1903 » Ruth Graves Wakefield, American chef, created the chocolate chip cookie († 1977)
• 1904 » Ralph Bellamy, American actor († 1991)

• 1866 » Joseph Méry, French poet and author (b. 1798)
• 1889 » Lozen, Chiracaua Apache warrior woman (b. ~1840)
• 1898 » Edward Burne-Jones, English soldier and painter (b. 1833)
• 1904 » Nikolay Bobrikov, Russian soldier and politician, Governor-General of Finland (b. 1839)
• 1936 » Julius Seljamaa, Estonian journalist, politician, and diplomat, Estonian Minister of Foreign Affairs (b. 1883)
• 1939 » Allen Sothoron, American baseball player, coach, and manager (b. 1893)
• 1939 » Eugen Weidmann, German criminal (b. 1908)
• 1940 » Arthur Harden, English biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1865)
• 1941 » Johan Wagenaar, Dutch organist and composer (b. 1862)
• 1942 » Charles Fitzpatrick, Canadian lawyer and politician, 5th Chief Justice of Canada (b. 1853)

• Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• Regentes Emma (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1898 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from July 27, 1897 to August 1, 1901 the cabinet Pierson, with Mr. N.G. Pierson (unie-liberaal) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 5.1 million citizens.
• February 15 » The battleship USSMaine explodes and sinks in Havana harbor in Cuba, killing 274. This event leads the United States to declare war on Spain.
• March 16 » In Melbourne the representatives of five colonies adopted a constitution, which would become the basis of the Commonwealth of Australia.
• June 22 » Spanish–American War: In a chaotic operation, 6,000 men of the U.S. Fifth Army Corps begins landing at Daiquirí, Cuba, about 16 miles (26km) east of Santiago de Cuba. Lt. Gen. Arsenio Linares y Pombo of the Spanish Army outnumbers them two-to-one, but does not oppose the landings.
• July 8 » The death of crime boss Soapy Smith, killed in the Shootout on Juneau Wharf, releases Skagway, Alaska from his iron grip.
• November 10 » Beginning of the Wilmington insurrection of 1898, the only instance of a municipal government being overthrown in United States history.
• December 26 » Marie and Pierre Curie announce the isolation of radium.

The temperature on June 17, 1898 was about 11.6 °C. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 79%.