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Movie history events from 1898
A slaughter house located near Greenwich closes down. It would be the site of the murder of a university student about a century later. (New York City) (The Bone Collector)
A young British soldier is named a coward upon resigning his post, but fights on undercover to redeem himself. (Sudan) (The Four Feathers)
Clive Candy starts his service with the British army. (The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp)
Daniel Plainview finds silver in a mine. (There Will Be Blood)
Aliens leave Mor-Tax for their invasion on Earth, 40 years later. (War of the Worlds)
7th February: French writer Emile Zola is brought to trial for libel for "J'Accuse," his newspaper editorial attacking the French army over the Dreyfus affair. (Dreyfus)
13th May: Thomas Edison sues American Mutoscope and Biograph Pictures, claiming that the studio has infringed on his patent for the Kinetograph movie camera . (Edison, the Man)
21st May: Armand Hammer is born. (Manhattan, New York) (Chernobyl: The Final Warning)
8th July: Soapy Smith killed. (Skagway, Alaska) (Klondike Fever)