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On February 15, 1898, in Havana Harbor, Cuba, the U.S.S. Battleship Maine exploded, killing 260. The event was used by hawkish Assistant Secretary of the Navy Theodore Roosevelt to pressure President McKinley into the Spanish-American conflict. Journalists' battle cry, "Remember the Maine, the hell with Spain," rallied support for war with Spain over its Pacific islands and Cuba. The cause of the explosion remains certain over a hundred years later.
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