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.
February 27 » King George I of Greece survives an assassination attempt.
May 8 » The first games of the Italian football league system are played.
August 29 » The Goodyear tire company is founded.
September 21 » Empress Dowager Cixi seizes power and ends the Hundred Days' Reform in China.
November 10 » Beginning of the Wilmington insurrection of 1898, the only instance of a municipal government being overthrown in United States history.
Day of death May 8, 1899
The temperature on May 8, 1899 was about 10.2 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 93%. Source: KNMI
February 14 » Voting machines are approved by the U.S. Congress for use in federal elections.
March 31 » Malolos, capital of the First Philippine Republic, is captured by American forces.
May 30 » Pearl Hart, a female outlaw of the Old West, robs a stage coach 30 miles southeast of Globe, Arizona.
September 13 » Mackinder, Ollier and Brocherel make the first ascent of Batian (5,199 m - 17,058ft), the highest peak of Mount Kenya.
November 28 » The Second Boer War: a British column is engaged by Boer forces at the Battle of Modder River; although the Boers withdraw, the British suffer heavy casualties.
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