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1896 Calendar

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•  January 16, 1896 – Defeat of Cymru Fydd at South Wales Liberal Federation AGM, Newport, Monmouthshire.
•  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 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.
•  June 2, 1896 – Guglielmo Marconi applies for a patent for his newest invention: the radio.
•  June 4, 1896 – Henry Ford completes the Ford Quadricycle, his first gasoline-powered automobile, and gives it a successful test run.
•  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.
•  December 14, 1896 – The Glasgow Underground Railway is opened by the Glasgow District Subway Company.

•  January 31, 1896 – Sofya Yanovskaya, Russian mathematician (d. 1966)
•  February 29, 1896 – Roy Parker, baseball player (d. 1954)
•  April 20, 1896 – Wilfrid R. “Wop” May, Canadian aviator (d. 1952)
•  May 11, 1896 – Josip Štolcer-Slavenski Croatian composer (d. 1955)
•  June 19, 1896 – Wallis Simpson, Duchess of Windsor (d. 1986)
•  September 4, 1896 – Antonin Artaud, French playwright (d. 1948)
•  September 22, 1896 – Uri Zvi Grinberg, Israeli poet and journalist (d. 1981)
•  September 25, 1896 – Sandro Pertini, Italian statesman (d. 1990)
•  October 28, 1896 – Howard Hanson, American composer (d. 1981)
•  November 23, 1896 – Venere Pizzinato, Italian supercentenarian (d. 2011)