Major Events
- March 4, 1897: William McKinley became President of the United States.
- February 15, 1898: Spanish-American War: USS Maine exploded in Havana harbor.
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Famous quotes containing the words major and/or events:
“Uncle Ben’s brass bullet-mould
And powder horn, and Major Bogan’s face
Above the fire, in the half-light, plainly said
There’s naught to kill but the animated dead;”
—Allen Tate (1899–1979)
“Nothing that grieves us can be called little: by the eternal laws of proportion a child’s loss of a doll and a king’s loss of a crown are events of the same size.”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)