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1896 Calendar

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•  January 4, 1896 – Utah is admitted as the 45th U.S. state.
•  January 16, 1896 – Defeat of Cymru Fydd at South Wales Liberal Federation AGM, Newport, Monmouthshire.
•  March 1, 1896 – Battle of Adowa: an Ethiopian army defeats an outnumbered Italian force, ending the First Italo–Ethiopian War.
•  April 15, 1896 – Closing ceremony of the Games of the I Olympiad in Athens, Greece.
•  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 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.
•  July 8, 1896 – William Jennings Bryan delivers his Cross of Gold speech advocating bimetalism at the 1896 Democratic National Convention in Chicago.
•  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 27, 1896 – Anglo-Zanzibar War: the shortest war in world history (09:00 to 09:45) between the United Kingdom and Zanzibar.
•  December 30, 1896 – Filipino patriot and reform advocate José Rizal is executed by a Spanish firing squad in Manila, Philippines.

•  February 4, 1896 – Friedrich Hund, German physicist (d. 1997)
•  September 10, 1896 – Robert Taschereau, Canadian judge and politician (d. 1970)
•  September 21, 1896 – Walter Breuning, American supercentenarian (d. 2011)
•  September 22, 1896 – Uri Zvi Grinberg, Israeli poet and journalist (d. 1981)
•  October 30, 1896 – Antonino Votto, Italian opera conductor (d. 1985)
•  November 1, 1896 – Edmund Blunden, English poet, author and critic (d. 1974)
•  November 3, 1896 – Gustaf Tenggren, Swedish illustrator (d. 1970)
•  November 8, 1896 – Bucky Harris, baseball player (d. 1977)
•  November 14, 1896 – Mamie Eisenhower, First Lady of the United States (d. 1979)
•  December 15, 1896 – Betty Smith, American author (d. 1972)