1896 - What happened in 1896 ?

January 1896

Saturday 04:

Utah is admitted as the 45th U.S. state.

Sunday 05:

An Austrian newspaper reports that Wilhelm Roentgen discovered a type of radiation later known as X-rays.

Tuesday 07:

Fannie Farmer publishes her first cookbook.

Sunday 12:

H. L. Smith takes the first x-ray photograph.

Saturday 18:

The X-ray machine is exhibited for the first time.

February 1896

Saturday 01:

The opera La bohème premieres (Turin).

March 1896

Sunday 01:

Henri Becquerel discovers radioactivity.

April 1896

Friday 03:

first publication of La Gazzetta dello Sport newspaper in Italy.

Monday 06:

In Athens, the opening of the first modern Olympic Games after 1,500 years after being banned by Roman Emperor Theodosius I.

May 1896

Thursday 07:

H. H. Holmes is hanged in Philadelphia.

Friday 08:

Against Warwickshire, Yorkshire sets a still-standing County Championship record when they accumulate an innings total of 887.

Monday 18:

The United States Supreme Court rules in Plessy v. Ferguson that separate but equal is constitutional.

Tuesday 26:

James Dunham murders six people in Campbell, California.

Wednesday 27:

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 incurring $2.9 billion in damages (1997USD).

June 1896

Tuesday 02:

Guglielmo Marconi receives a patent for his newest invention: the radio

Thursday 04:

Henry Ford test-drives the first automobile he designed – the Quadricycle (it was also the first automobile he ever drove).

Friday 12:

J.T. Hearne sets a cricket record for the earliest date of taking 100 first-class wickets.

July 1896

Wednesday 08:

William Jennings Bryan delivers his Cross of Gold speech in Chicago, Illinois.

Thursday 09:

William Jennings Bryan delivers his Cross of gold speech.

August 1896

Sunday 16:

Skookum Jim Mason, George Carmack and Dawson Charlie discover gold in the Klondike in Canada.

Monday 17:

Bridget Driscoll becomes the first person in the world to die in an automobile accident after being struck by a car travelling about 4 MPH.

Thursday 27:

Anglo-Zanzibar War: the shortest war in world history (9:02 to 9:40) between the United Kingdom and Zanzibar.

Saturday 29:

Chop suey is invented in New York City.

September 1896

Monday 21:

British force under Horatio Kitchener takes Dongola in the Sudan.

November 1896

Sunday 01:

A picture showing the naked breasts of a woman appears in National Geographic magazine for the first time.

Tuesday 03:

U.S. presidential election: Republican William McKinley is elected over Democrat William Jennings Bryan.

Monday 16:

First transmission of electrical power between two cities was sent from Niagara Falls to industries in Buffalo, New York. (See War of Currents.)

December 1896

Monday 14:

Glasgow Underground Railway, third in the world, opens (an accident closes it the same day and it only reopens in 1897),

Wednesday 30:

José Rizal was executed by firing squad in Manila.