1896 Calendar
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1896 Historical Event(s)
January 4, 1896
– Utah is admitted as the 45th U.S. state.
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.
March 1, 1896
– Battle of Adowa: an Ethiopian army defeats an outnumbered Italian force, ending the First Italo–Ethiopian War.
March 24, 1896
– A. A. Popov makes the first radio signal transmission in history.
May 20, 1896
– The six ton chandelier of the Palais Garnier falls on the crowd below resulting in the death of one and the injury of many others.
June 2, 1896
– Guglielmo Marconi applies for a patent for his newest invention: the radio.
August 27, 1896
– Anglo-Zanzibar War: the shortest war in world history (09:00 to 09:45) between the United Kingdom and Zanzibar.
September 21, 1896
– British force under Horatio Kitchener takes Dongola in the Sudan.
December 14, 1896
– The Glasgow Underground Railway is opened by the Glasgow District Subway Company.
Who Were Born On 1896?
April 4, 1896
– Robert E. Sherwood, American playwright (d. 1955)
April 8, 1896
– Yip Harburg, American lyricist (d. 1981)
April 16, 1896
– Pat Clayton, British surveyor and explorer (d. 1962)
May 3, 1896
– Karl Allmenroder, German World War I Flying ace (d. 1917)
July 13, 1896
– Mordecai Ardon, Israeli painter (d. 1992)
August 26, 1896
– Ivan Mihailov, Bulgarian revolutionary (d. 1990)
October 1, 1896
– Ted Healy, American actor and comedian (d. 1937)
October 23, 1896
– André Lévêque, French engineer (d. 1930)
November 10, 1896
– Jimmy Dykes, American baseball player and manager (d. 1976)
November 14, 1896
– Mamie Eisenhower, First Lady of the United States (d. 1979)