* 1898 – Lily Pons, American soprano ( d. 1976 )

* 1898 – Spanish – American War: Spanish and American forces engaged in a mock battle for Manila, after which the Spanish commander surrendered in order to keep the city out of Filipino rebel hands.

* 1898 – Regis Toomey, American actor ( d. 1991 )

* 2012 – Leila Denmark, American pediatrician ( b. 1898 )

* 1898 – An Armistice ends the Spanish – American War.

* 1898 – Charlie Grimm, American baseball player ( d. 1983 )

* 1898 – Preston Sturges, American director and producer ( d. 1959 )

* 1898 – Shirley Booth, American actress ( d. 1992 )

The Cardinals were founded in 1898, and are the oldest continuously run professional American football club in the United States.

* 1898 – Spanish – American War: American troops enter the city of Mayagüez, Puerto Rico.

* 1898 – Jack Haley, American actor ( d. 1979 )

* 1898 – Fred Haney, American baseball player, manager, and coach ( d. 1977 )

Holland, minister of the Ottawa church, in 1898, Samuel A. Eliot, President of the American Unitarian Association in 1908, Charles Huntingdon Pennoyer, minister of the Halifax Universalist Church in 1909, and Horace Westwood, a Unitarian minister in Winnipeg in 1913.

* 1898 – Alfred Eisenstaedt, German-born American photojournalist ( d. 1995 )

* 1898 – Grace Moore, American soprano ( d. 1947 )

* 1898 – Baby Dodds, American jazz drummer ( d. 1959 )

* 1898 – Emmett Kelly, American circus clown ( d. 1979 )

* 1990 – Armand Hammer, American industrialist and art collector ( b. 1898 )

* 1898 – Irene Dunne, American actress ( d. 1990 )

Edward Bellamy ( March 26, 1850 – May 22, 1898 ) was an American author and socialist, most famous for his utopian novel, Looking Backward, a Rip Van Winkle-like tale set in the distant future of the year 2000.

From 1898 American producer Charles Urban expanded the London-based Warwick Trading Company to produce British films, mostly documentary and news.

* 1898 – Fritz Zwicky, Swiss-born American physicist and astronomer ( d. 1974 )

* 1898 – Allen Woodring, American runner ( d. 1982 )

In June 1898, the existing mule car service was phased out and a transition to electric trams, initially operated by the West India Electric Company and later by the Jamaica Public Service Company, was undertaken.

At the end of his four years there were 10 branches, 5 minor branches, called ‘ reading rooms ,’ and 56 deposit stations … the library grew from a total of 610, 375 volumes at the close of 1894 to 716, 050 at the close of 1898 .” Another contribution made by Putnam towards the Boston Public Library was the addition of a room devoted to juveniles, “ believed to have been the first room wholly devoted to the service of children in any of the larger libraries of the country .”

Long's younger sister, Lucille Long Hunt ( 1898 – 1985 ) of Ruston, was the mother of future Public Service Commissioner John S. Hunt, III ( 1928 – 2001 ), of Monroe.

Pierpont Public School housed grades K-12 from 1898 through 1969 when the high school was consolidated with the Langford School District and the Claremont, SD School District.

" The Machine and Social Policies: Tammany Hall and the Politics of Public Outdoor Relief, New York City, 1874 – 1898.

* Charles Lee ( Australian politician ), Minister for Justice ( New South Wales ), 1898 – 1899, and Secretary for Public Works, 1899

* Frederic C. Adams Public Library, built in 1898

The Minister of Public Works, Mahmud Celaleddin Pașa, supervised the repair of the damaged Bazaar until 1898, and on this occasion the complex was reduced in area.

He was the younger brother of U. S. Representative George Shannon " Doc " Long and Governor and U. S. Senator Huey Pierce Long, Jr. Long's younger sister was Lucille Long Hunt ( 1898 – 1985 ) of Ruston, the seat of Lincoln Parish in north Louisiana and the mother of future Louisiana Public Service Commissioner John S. Hunt, III ( 1928 – 2001 ), of Monroe.

Public opinion was deeply moved by two publications: one, that of the indictment of Dreyfus ( in Le Siècle, 6 January 1898 ), which was absolutely remarkable for its lack of proof ; the other ( Le Figaro, 28 November 1897 ), that of letters written twelve years before by Esterhazy to his mistress, Madame de Boulancy, in which he launched furious invectives against his " cowardly and ignorant " chiefs, against " the fine army of France ," against the entire French nation.

In 1898 she published a book Public School Domestic Science.

" Македонско Време ", Скопје – март 1997, quoting: Quoting: Public Record Office – Foreign Office 78 / 4951 Turkey ( Bulgaria ), From Elliot, 1898, Устав на ТМОРО.

The Law was repealed in 1898, but was soon replaced by the more stringent Public Order & Police Law of 1900.

In 1898 it published A New Directory for Public Worship which, while not providing set forms of prayer, offered directions.

" Македонско Време ", Скопје – март 1997, quoting: Quoting: Public Record Office – Foreign Office 78 / 4951 Turkey ( Bulgaria ), From Elliot, 1898, Устав на ТМОРО.

His younger son, the fifth Earl ( who succeeded his elder brother in 1898, was a prominent lawyer and notably served as Queen's Proctor between 1894 and 1909 and as Director of Public Prosecutions between 1894 and 1908.

The Salt Lake City Public Library was originally housed in the Salt Lake City and County Building in 1898.

The problem was solved in 1898 by R. W. Holmes, Public Works Department engineer.

" Македонско Време ", Скопје-март 1997, quoting: Quoting: Public Record Office-Foreign Office 78 / 4951 Turkey ( Bulgaria ), From Elliot, 1898, Устав на ТМОРО.

During 1898 and 1899 the Ottoman Ministry of Public Works received many applications for permission to construct a railway to Baghdad, it was not because of lack of competition that the Deutsche Bank was finally awarded the concession.

Having become senator for the département of Doubs ( 1895 – 1902 ), Rambaud held the position of minister of Public Instruction from April 29, 1896 to June 28, 1898, and in that capacity endeavoured to carry on the educational work of Jules Ferry, to whose memory he always remained faithful.

The Brisbane Public Library was established by the government of the Colony of Queensland in 1896, and was renamed the Public Library of Queensland in 1898.

Following his term as mayor, he remained on staff at the Ottawa General Hospital until 1898 and also worked at the Department of Public Works.