1896 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1896?
- January 4, 1896 – Utah is admitted as the 45th U.S. state.
- January 5, 1896 – An Austrian newspaper reports that Wilhelm Röntgen has discovered a type of radiation later known as X-rays.
- January 18, 1896 – The X-ray machine is exhibited for the first time.
- January 28, 1896 – Walter Arnold of East Peckham, Kent became the first person to be convicted of speeding. He is fined 1 shilling, plus costs, for speeding at 8 mph, thus exceeding the contemporary speed limit of 2 mph.
- February 23, 1896 – The Tootsie Roll is invented.
- March 24, 1896 – A. A. Popov makes the first radio signal transmission in history.
- April 6, 1896 – In Athens, the opening of the first modern Olympic Games is celebrated, 1,500 years after the original games are banned by Roman Emperor Theodosius I.
- April 15, 1896 – Closing ceremony of the Games of the I Olympiad in Athens, Greece.
- May 18, 1896 – Khodynka Tragedy: A mass panic on Khodynka Field in Moscow during the festivities of the coronation of Russian Tsar Nicholas II results in the deaths of 1,389 people.
- May 26, 1896 – Nicholas II becomes Tsar of Russia.
- May 27, 1896 – The F4-strength St. Louis-East St. Louis Tornado hits in St. Louis, Missouri and East Saint Louis, Illinois, killing at least 255 people and causing $2.9 billion in damage (1997 USD).
- June 4, 1896 – Henry Ford completes the Ford Quadricycle, his first gasoline-powered automobile, and gives it a successful test run.
- June 28, 1896 – An explosion in the Newton Coal Company’s Twin Shaft Mine in Pittston City, Pennsylvania results in a massive cave-in that kills 58 miners.
- July 28, 1896 – The city of Miami, Florida is incorporated.
- August 23, 1896 – Officially recognised date of the Cry of Pugad Lawin, the start of the Philippine Revolution is made in Pugad Lawin (Quezon City), in the province of Manila (actual date and location is disputed).
- August 30, 1896 – Philippine Revolution: After Spanish victory in the Battle of San Juan del Monte, eight provinces in the Philippines are declared under martial law by the Spanish Governor-General Ramón Blanco y Erenas.
- September 21, 1896 – British force under Horatio Kitchener takes Dongola in the Sudan.
- September 22, 1896 – Queen Victoria surpasses her grandfather King George III as the longest reigning monarch in British history.
- December 14, 1896 – The Glasgow Underground Railway is opened by the Glasgow District Subway Company.
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