1896 Calendar
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1896 Historical Event(s)
- 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 1, 1896 – Henri Becquerel discovers radioactivity.
- April 15, 1896 – Closing ceremony of the Games of the I Olympiad in Athens, Greece.
- 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 2, 1896 – Guglielmo Marconi applies for a patent for his newest invention: the radio.
- 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.
- December 14, 1896 – The Glasgow Underground Railway is opened by the Glasgow District Subway Company.
Who Were Born On 1896?
- January 20, 1896 – George Burns, American actor, comedian (d. 1996)
- February 29, 1896 – Roy Parker, baseball player (d. 1954)
- April 20, 1896 – Henry de Montherlant, French writer (d. 1972)
- July 13, 1896 – Mordecai Ardon, Israeli painter (d. 1992)
- August 17, 1896 – Leslie Groves, American military engineer (d. 1970)
- August 27, 1896 – Faina Ranevskaya, Russian actress (d. 1984)
- September 24, 1896 – F. Scott Fitzgerald, American novelist (d. 1940)
- October 23, 1896 – André Lévêque, French engineer (d. 1930)
- December 27, 1896 – Carl Zuckmayer, German author and dramatist (d. 1977)