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The Wilmington insurrection of 1898, also known as the Wilmington massacre of 1898 or the Wilmington coup of 1898, was a coup d'état and a massacre which was carried out by white supremacists in Wilmington, North Carolina, United States, on Thursday, November 10, 1898.
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Yukichi Chuganji (中願寺 雄吉; Chūganji Yūkichi, 23 March 1889 – 28 September 2003) was a Japanese silkworm breeder, instructor in the agricultural specialty, bank employee and community welfare officer who lived for 114 years and 189 days. At the time of his death, he was the oldest Japanese man ever and the world's oldest living person.
Explore the lists of notable people who died in each year, from ancient times to the present, on Wikipedia.
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January–March
1. January 1 – New York City annexes land from surrounding counties, creating the City of Greater New York as the world's second largest. The city is geographically divided into five boroughs: Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, The Bronx and Staten Island. 2. January 13 – Novelist Émile Zola's open letter to the President of the French Republic on the Dreyfus affair, J'Accuse…!, is published on the front page of the Paris daily newspaper L'Aurore, accusing the government of wrongfully imprisoning A...
April–June
1. April 5 – Annie Oakley promotes the service of women in combat situations, with the United States military. On this day, she writes a letter to President McKinley "offering the government the services of a company of 50 'lady sharpshooters' who would provide their own arms and ammunition should war break out with Spain." In the history of women in the military, there are records of female U.S. Revolutionary and Civil War soldiers who enlisted using male pseudonyms, but Oakley's letter repr...
July–September
1. July 1 – Spanish–American War: Battle of San Juan Hill – United States troops (including Buffalo Soldiers and Theodore Roosevelt's Rough Riders) take a strategic position close to Santiago de Cubafrom the Spanish. 2. July 3 2.1. Spanish–American War: Battle of Santiago de Cuba – The United States Navy destroys the Spanish Navy's Caribbean Squadron. 2.2. American adventurer Joshua Slocum completes a 3-year solo circumnavigationof the world. 3. July 4 – En route from New York to Le Havre, th...
January–March
1. January 1 1.1. Tony DeMarco, American dancer (d. 1965) 1.2. Binay Ranjan Sen, Indian diplomat, 4th Director General of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) (d. 1993) 2. January 3 – John Loder, British actor (d. 1988) 3. January 7 – Art Baker, American actor (d. 1966) 4. January 9 – Gracie Fields, British singer, actress and comedian (d. 1979) 5. January 13 5.1. Kaj Munk, Danish playwright, Lutheran pastor and martyr (d. 1944) 5.2. Samsa, Indian playwright, poet and novelist (d.1939)...
April–June
1. April 1 – William James Sidis, American mathematician (d. 1944) 2. April 2 – Harindranath Chattopadhyay, Indian poet, actor and politician (d. 1990) 3. April 3 – George Jessel, American comedian (d. 1981) 4. April 4 – Agnes Ayres, American actress (d. 1940) 5. April 5 – Solange d'Ayen, French noblewoman, Duchess of Ayen and journalist (d. 1976) 6. April 6 – Jeanne Hébuterne, French painter (d. 1920) 7. April 9 – Paul Robeson, African-American actor, singer and political activist (d. 1976)...
July–September
1. July 1 – Charles Hartmann, American jazz trombonist (d. 1982) 2. July 2 2.1. George J. Folsey, American cinematographer (d. 1988) 2.2. Anthony McAuliffe, American general (d. 1975) 3. July 3 3.1. Donald Healey, English motor engineer, race car driver (d. 1988) 3.2. Stefanos Stefanopoulos, Prime Minister of Greece (d. 1982) 4. July 4 4.1. Gertrude Weaver, American supercentenarian, last surviving person born in 1898 (d. 2015) 4.2. Gulzarilal Nanda, Indian politician, economist (d. 1998) 4.3...
January–June
1. January 3 – Lawrence Sullivan Ross, Confederate brigadier general, Texas governor, and president of Texas A&M University (b. 1838) 2. January 14 – Lewis Carroll, British writer, mathematician (Alice in Wonderland) (b. 1832) 3. January 16 – Charles Pelham Villiers, longest-serving MP in the British House of Commons (b. 1802) 4. January 18 – Henry Liddell, English Dean of Christ Church, Oxford (b. 1811) 5. January 26 – Cornelia J. M. Jordan, American lyricist (b. 1830) 6. February 1 – Tsuboi...
July–December
1. July 1 1.1. Siegfried Marcus, Austrian automobile pioneer (b. 1831) 1.2. Joaquín Vara de Rey y Rubio, Spanish general (killed in action) (b. 1841) 2. July 5 – Richard Pankhurst, English lawyer, radical and supporter of women's rights (b. 1834) 3. July 8 – Soapy Smith, American con artist and gangster (b. 1860) 4. July 14 – Louis-François Richer Laflèche, Roman Catholic Bishop of Trois-Rivières, Native American missionary (b. 1818) 5. July 30 – Otto von Bismarck, German statesman (b. 1815)...
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1. Sotirios Sotiropoulos, Greek economist, politician (b. 1831)
In 1892, he returned to England, where he died on 10 March 1898 in New Orphan House No 3. He was buried at Arnos Vale Cemetery in Bristol. His funeral was attended by 10,000 people, including 1,500 children from orphanages he established.
Gerónimo ( Mescalero-Chiricahua: Goyaałé, Athapascan pronunciation: [kòjàːɬɛ́], lit. 'the one who yawns'; June 16, 1829 – February 17, 1909) was a military leader and medicine man from the Bedonkohe band of the Ndendahe Apache people. From 1850 to 1886, Geronimo joined with members of three other Central Apache bands – the ...
