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1896 Calendar

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•  January 18, 1896 – The X-ray machine is exhibited for the first time.
•  March 1, 1896 – Battle of Adowa: an Ethiopian army defeats an outnumbered Italian force, ending the First Italo–Ethiopian War.
•  March 9, 1896 – Prime Minister Francesco Crispi resigns following the Italian defeat at the Battle of Adowa.
•  March 24, 1896 – A. A. Popov makes the first radio signal transmission in history.
•  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.
•  June 15, 1896 – The deadliest tsunami in Japan’s history kills more than 22,000 people.
•  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.

•  January 18, 1896 – C. M. Eddy, Jr., American writer (d. 1967)
•  February 15, 1896 – Arthur Shields, Irish actor (d. 1970)
•  February 29, 1896 – Morarji Desai, Prime Minister of India (d. 1995)
•  March 3, 1896 – Leontios, Archbishop of Cyprus (d. 1947)
•  April 15, 1896 – Nikolay Nikolayevich Semyonov, Russian chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1986)
•  September 10, 1896 – Ye Ting, Chinese military leader (d. 1946)
•  October 22, 1896 – Charles Glen King, American biochemist (d. 1988)
•  October 23, 1896 – André Lévêque, French engineer (d. 1930)
•  November 7, 1896 – Esdras Minville, Quebec writer, economist and sociologist (d. 1975)
•  November 14, 1896 – Mamie Eisenhower, First Lady of the United States (d. 1979)