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June 19 – James Joseph Sweeney, first Catholic Bishop of Honolulu from 1941 (died 1968) June 21 – Donald C. Peattie, botanist and author (died 1964) June 25 – Buddy Roosevelt, actor and stunt performer (died 1973) June 28 – Louis King, film director (died 1962) July 1 – Charles Hartmann, jazz trombonist (died 1982) July 2
Emilio Aguinaldo declared independence for the Philippines from Spain on June 12, 1898. [2] Months after the independence proclamation, Manila fell to the Americans on August 13. The Spanish government fled Manila and established their new capital for the country in Iloilo City with Diego de los Rios as governor-general.
June 12 is the 163rd day of the year ... 1775 – American War of Independence: ... The ninth deadliest tornado in U.S. history kills 117 people and injures around 200.
The following is a list of wars caught by number of U.S. battle deaths suffered by military forces; deaths from disease and other non-battle causes are not included. Although the Confederate States of America did not consider itself part of the United States, and its forces were not part of the U.S. Army, its battle deaths are included with the ...
Charles Atkins (American politician) ... This page was last edited on 18 October 2022, at 23:12 (UTC). ... Category: 1898 deaths.
A photograph of U.S. Navy monitor USS Monadnock c. 1898. On February 10, a detachment of the 6th Field Artillery Regiment, along with the protected cruiser USS Charleston and monitor USS Monadnock (provided to MacArthur Jr. by United States Navy Admiral George Dewey) launched a preparatory bombardment of Filipino redoubts in Caloocan, which lasted for roughly three hours. [14]
USS Panther reached Santiago on 9 June 1898. [3] That same day, in advance of the battalion landing, Navy Commander Bowman H. McCalla of the USS Marblehead, the officer in command of the landings, approved a camp site selected for the Marines by Lt. Col. Huntington. The site selected was a flat ridge on top of a hill, above the village on ...
By June, the rebels had gained control of nearly the entirety of the countryside, while the cities remained under Spanish control. On June 12, Aguinaldo issued the Philippine Declaration of Independence in Kawit. [11] Although this signified the end date of the revolution, neither Spain nor the United States recognized Philippine independence. [12]