* 1898 – Helmut Hasse, German mathematician ( d. 1975 )

* 1969 – Karl Theodor Bleek, German politician ( b. 1898 )

* 1819 – Theodor Fontane, German writer ( d. 1898 )

* 1898 – Kurt Tank, German aeronautical engineer and test pilot ( d. 1983 )

* Deutsche Grammophon, a German classical music record company, founded in 1898 by Emile Berliner

Herbert Marcuse (; July 19, 1898 – July 29, 1979 ) was a German Jewish philosopher, sociologist and political theorist, associated with the Frankfurt School of critical theory.

In the same period, the Empire of Japan, following the Meiji Restoration ; the German Empire, following the end of the Franco-Prussian War in 1871 ; Tsarist Russia ; and the United States, following the Spanish-American War in 1898, quickly emerged as new imperial powers in East Asia and in the Pacific Ocean area.

Josef Antonius Heinrich Terboven ( 23 May 1898 – 8 May 1945 ) was a Nazi leader, best known as the Reichskommissar for Norway during the German occupation of Norway.

* 1898 – Carl Hermann, German physicist ( d. 1961 )

* 1898 – Willy Messerschmitt, German aircraft designer ( d. 1978 )

* 1898 – Erich Maria Remarque, German writer ( d. 1970 )

* 1898 – Hanns Eisler, German composer ( d. 1962 )

* 1898 – Herbert Marcuse, German philosopher ( d. 1979 )

Among the students who attended his workshops were Ludwig Hirschfeld Mack ( German / Australian ( 1893 – 1965 ), Hans Friedrich Grohs ( German 1892-1981 ) and Margarete Koehler-Bittkow ( German / American, 1898 – 1964 ).

* 1898 – Josef Terboven, German nazi leader ( d. 1945 )

Noble gas is translated from the German noun, first used in 1898 by Hugo Erdmann to indicate their extremely low level of reactivity.

Following the Spanish – American War of 1898, Spain ceded Guam to the United States and sold the remainder of the Marianas ( along with the Caroline Islands ) to Imperial Germany under the German – Spanish Treaty of 1899.

Otto Eduard Leopold, Prince of Bismarck, Duke of Lauenburg ( 1 April 1815 – 30 July 1898 ), simply known as Otto von Bismarck, was a conservative German statesman who dominated European affairs from the 1860s to his dismissal in 1890.

* Frankel, Richard E. " From the Beer Halls to the Halls of Power: The Cult of Bismarck and the Legitimization of a New German Right, 1898 – 1945 ," German Studies Review, Vol.

In 1898 German Emperor Wilhelm II visited Saladin's tomb to pay his respects.

The name handelshögskola ( roughly " college of commerce ") was a parallel to the German term Handelshochschule, used by a number of German institutions started in the years before, commencing with Handelshochschule Leipzig in 1898.

From 1898 to 1902, Tresca was Secretary of the Italian Federation of Railroad Workers.

He joined the socialist movement around 1898, becoming a member of the Social Democratic Party of Galicia ( GPSD ), an affiliate of the Social Democratic Workers ' Party of Austria.

The club was founded in 1898 as Erster Wiener Arbeiter-Fußball-Club ( en: First Workers ' Football Club of Vienna ).

* Hyman, Richard Workers ’ Union, 1898 – 1929 Oxford University Press 1971 ISBN 0-19-828252-4

The slogan, first used on the 18th century French radical paper Révolutions de Paris, also appeared on the masthead of the Workers ' Republic, founded by James Connolly in Dublin in August, 1898.

Founded in 1898, in 1919 the Workers ' Union joined the National Amalgamated Workers Union, a loose confederation with the Municipal Employees Association and the National Amalgamated Union of Labour, but this dissolved in 1922.

From 1896 to 1898 he worked as an organiser for the Australian Workers Union.

The United Mine Workers won an eight-hour day in 1898.

In the meantime, after a period of secret police repression and internal confusion that followed the first party Congress in 1898, Iskra succeeded in convening the party's 2nd congress in London in August 1903.

According to Stephen Kinzer's 2006 book Overthrow, in 1898 the chief of the French Canal Syndicate ( a group that owned large swathes of land across Panama ), Philippe Bunau Varilla, hired William Nelson Cromwell to lobby the U. S. Congress for the Panama Canal.

In 1898, the Congress enacted a general removal of Section 3's limitation.

In 1898, Congress approved a coaling station be built at the Yard for refueling small naval ships traveling through the waters of New England.

The Post Office was the only establishment allowed to print postcards, and it held its monopoly until May 19, 1898, when Congress passed the Private Mailing Card Act which allowed private publishers and printers to produce postcards.

Congress attempted to correct these shortcomings in the Erdman Act, passed in 1898.

The community was named for Horace G. Snover, who represented the area in Congress from 1895 to 1898.

As a result of negotiations with the Congress appointed Dawes Commission regarding the allotment of tribal lands in 1898, the Creek courts ’ jurisdiction was turned over to the Federal government.

In 1892 he was vice-president of the International Congress of Psychology held in London, and in 1897 – 1898 president of the American Psychological Association ; he received a gold medal from the Royal Academy of Arts and Sciences of Denmark ( 1897 ), and was honorary president of the International Congress of Criminal Anthropology held in Geneva in 1896.

" That term was familiar in 1898, from Buffalo Bill who called his famous western show " Buffalo Bill's Wild West and Congress of Rough Riders of the World.

In response to unrest in the railroad labor industry, Congress passed The Erdman Act of 1898, the overarching goal of which was to regulate railroad labor disputes.

:" May Congress make it a criminal offense against the United States -- as by the tenth section of the act of 1898 it does -- for an agent or officer of an interstate carrier, having full authority in the premises from the carrier, to discharge an employee from service simply because of his membership in a labor organization?

Nordau also, at the 1898 Zionist Congress, coined the term " muscular Judaism " ( muskel-Judenthum ) as a descriptor of a Jewish culture and religion which directed its adherents to reach for certain moral and corporeal ideals which, through discipline, agility and strength, would result in a stronger, more physically assured Jew who would outshine the long-held stereotype of the weak, intellectually sustained Jew.

In July 1898, Congress pledged $ 500, 000 for the Exposition to be held at Buffalo.

After 18 months of painstaking negotiations, Nelson managed to get the bill passed by Congress on June 24, 1898.

In 1898, the Zionist Congress adopted the idea of disseminating Jewish culture in the Diaspora as a tool for furthering the goals of the Zionist movement and bringing about a revival of the Jewish people.

He ran for Congress four times ; in 1892, 1894, 1896, and 1898, but only his 1896 race was successful.

In 1898, Houstonians appealed before Congress for permission to turn the Buffalo Bayou into a deepwater port, prompted in part by the Spanish-American War ; construction of the Port of Houston was approved by Congress in 1899.

Carranza formed a personal friendship with Reyes, and Reyes ' patronage was responsible for Carranza's election to the Mexican Congress in 1898.

It was accepted as the official Zionist flag at the Second Zionist Congress held in Switzerland in 1898, and the State of Israel later adopted the design as the official flag, upon its independence from the United Kingdom in 1948.

Hawaii was annexed to the United States through a joint resolution of the U. S. Congress in 1898.

Since 1898, Puerto Rico has had limited representation in the Congress in the form of a Resident Commissioner, a nonvoting delegate.

In his often cited article History of the House of Representatives, written in 1961, American scholar George B. Galloway ( 1898 – 1967 ) said: " In practice, Congress functions not as a unified institution, but as a collection of semi-autonomous committees that seldom act in unison.