1896 Calendar
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1896 Historical Event(s)
January 4, 1896
– Utah is admitted as the 45th U.S. state.
January 18, 1896
– The X-ray machine is exhibited for the first time.
March 9, 1896
– Prime Minister Francesco Crispi resigns following the Italian defeat at the Battle of Adowa.
April 15, 1896
– Closing ceremony of the Games of the I Olympiad in Athens, Greece.
May 18, 1896
– The United States Supreme Court rules in Plessy v. Ferguson that the “separate but equal” doctrine is constitutional.
June 4, 1896
– Henry Ford completes the Ford Quadricycle, his first gasoline-powered automobile, and gives it a successful test run.
July 8, 1896
– William Jennings Bryan delivers his Cross of Gold speech advocating bimetalism at the 1896 Democratic National Convention in Chicago.
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 22, 1896
– Queen Victoria surpasses her grandfather King George III as the longest reigning monarch in British history.
Who Were Born On 1896?
January 6, 1896
– Péter Veres, Hungarian writer and politician (d. 1970)
January 14, 1896
– John Dos Passos, American author (d. 1970)
March 4, 1896
– Kai Holm, Danish film actor (d. 1985)
May 1, 1896
– Herbert Backe, German Nazi politician (d. 1947)
June 6, 1896
– Henry Allingham, English first world war veteran, and supercentenarian (d. 2009)
June 19, 1896
– Wallis Simpson, Duchess of Windsor (d. 1986)
July 19, 1896
– Bob Meusel, American baseball player (d. 1977)
October 28, 1896
– Howard Hanson, American composer (d. 1981)
December 21, 1896
– Leroy Robertson, American composer (d. 1971)