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The battleship USS
Maine explodes and sinks in Havana Harbor, Havana, Cuba, causing the death or injury to 260 American naval personnel. The
cause of the sinking is never discovered. The incident will inspire
the song The Battleship Of
Maine, first recorded in 1927 by Red Patterson's Piedmont Log Rollers. (1898)