April 18 » The Greco-Turkish War is declared between Greece and the Ottoman Empire.
May 26 » Dracula, a Gothic horror novel by Irish author Bram Stoker, is published.
June 22 » British colonial officers Charles Walter Rand and Lt. Charles Egerton Ayerst are assassinated in Pune, Maharashtra, India by the Chapekar brothers and Mahadeo Vinayak Ranade, who are later caught and hanged.
September 10 » Lattimer massacre: A sheriff's posse kills 19 unarmed striking immigrant miners in Lattimer, Pennsylvania, United States.
September 12 » Tirah Campaign: In the Battle of Saragarhi, ten thousand Pashtun tribesmen suffer several hundred casualties while attacking 21 Sikh soldiers in British service.
December 6 » London becomes the world's first city to host licensed taxicabs.
Day of death January 3, 1898
The temperature on January 3, 1898 was about -0.2 °C. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 100%. Source: KNMI
April 21 » Spanish–American War: The United States Navy begins a blockade of Cuban ports. When the U.S. Congress issued a declaration of war on April 25, it declared that a state of war had existed from this date.
June 13 » Yukon Territory is formed, with Dawson chosen as its capital.
August 25 » Seven hundred Greek civilians, 17 British guards and the British Consul of Crete are killed by a Turkish mob in Heraklion, Greece.
August 28 » Caleb Bradham's beverage "Brad's Drink" is renamed "Pepsi-Cola".
September 10 » Empress Elisabeth of Austria is assassinated by Luigi Lucheni.
September 18 » The Fashoda Incident triggers the last war scare between Britain and France.
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