Timeline July 1898

Events in July 1898 9

• 1815 – 1898 Otto von Bismarck The Iron Chancellor The statesman who unified Germany through "blood and iron" and served as the first Chancellor of the German Empire.
• 1898 Wimbledon 1898 Men: Reginald Doherty · Women: Charlotte Cooper Sterry
• 1898 Battle of San Juan Hill Rough Riders help take the heights above Santiago de Cuba On 1 July 1898, US forces including Theodore Roosevelt's Rough Riders stormed the fortified heights of San Juan Hill and Kettle Hill near Santiago de Cuba. The costly assault broke Spanish defenses around the city and led to the surrender of the Spanish fleet days later. The battle made Roosevelt a national celebrity.
• 1898 United States annexes Hawaii Newlands Resolution brings the Hawaiian Islands under US control President William McKinley signed the Newlands Resolution annexing the Republic of Hawaii on 7 July 1898, and formal transfer of sovereignty took place in Honolulu on 12 August 1898. Annexation followed years of lobbying by American planters after the 1893 overthrow of Queen Liliuokalani. Hawaii became a US territory and later the 50th state.
• 1898 Curies discover radium and polonium Marie and Pierre Curie identify two new radioactive elements Working with pitchblende ore, Marie and Pierre Curie announced the discovery of polonium on 18 July 1898 and radium on 26 December 1898. Their work established radioactivity as a property of atoms rather than a chemical reaction, launching the field of nuclear physics. Marie Curie later won Nobel Prizes in both physics and chemistry for this research.
• 1898 – 1979 Herbert Marcuse (1898-1979) Died 29 July 1979, aged 81 German-American philosopher Herbert Marcuse, a leading theorist of the Frankfurt School whose writing influenced the New Left and 1960s student movements, died in Starnberg, West Germany. His books One-Dimensional Man and Eros and Civilization shaped radical political thought in Europe and the United States. He died on 29 July 1979.
• 1898 – 1976 Alexander Calder (1898-1976) Died 11 November 1976, aged 78 Alexander Calder, the American sculptor credited with inventing the mobile as an art form, died in New York City. His large-scale stabiles and hanging mobiles became fixtures in public spaces and museums worldwide. He had exhibited a major retrospective at the Whitney Museum earlier that same year.
• 1898 – 1988 Isidor Isaac Rabi (1898-1988) Died 11 January 1988, aged 89 Isidor Isaac Rabi was an Austrian-born American physicist who won the 1944 Nobel Prize in Physics for his discovery of nuclear magnetic resonance. His work laid the foundation for MRI technology and atomic clocks. He also advised the US government on nuclear policy after World War II.
• 1898 – 1986 Henry Moore (1898-1986) Died 31 August 1986, aged 88 British sculptor renowned for large abstract bronze forms often inspired by the human figure and landscape. His public works are displayed in cities around the world, and he was among the most celebrated sculptors of the twentieth century. He died at his home in Hertfordshire, England.