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1896 Calendar

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•  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.
•  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.
•  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.
•  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 15, 1896 – The deadliest tsunami in Japan’s history kills more than 22,000 people.
•  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.
•  August 27, 1896 – Anglo-Zanzibar War: the shortest war in world history (09:00 to 09:45) between the United Kingdom and Zanzibar.

•  January 6, 1896 – Péter Veres, Hungarian writer and politician (d. 1970)
•  February 28, 1896 – Philip Showalter Hench, American physician, Nobel laureate (d. 1965)
•  March 8, 1896 – Charlotte Whitton, Canadian politician (d. 1975)
•  April 11, 1896 – Léo-Paul Desrosiers, Quebec novelist (d. 1967)
•  April 20, 1896 – Henry de Montherlant, French writer (d. 1972)
•  August 15, 1896 – Paul Outerbridge, American photographer (d. 1958)
•  August 17, 1896 – Leslie Groves, American military engineer (d. 1970)
•  October 13, 1896 – E. Beatrice Riley, Australian supercentenarian (d. 2009)
•  December 23, 1896 – Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, Sicilian writer (d. 1957)