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Events on the year of 1896 in history

Events
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02 Jan 1896 Battle at Doornkop, South Africa (Boers beat Dr Jamesons troops)
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03 Jan 1896 Emperor Wilhelm congratulates President Kruger on the Jameson Raid
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04 Jan 1896 Following Mormon abandonment of polygamy, Utah admitted as 45th state
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04 Jan 1896 Utah is admitted as the 45th U.S. state.
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05 Jan 1896 An Austrian newspaper reports that Wilhelm Röntgen has discovered a type of radiation later known as X-rays.
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06 Jan 1896 Cecil Rhodes resigns as Premier of Cape colony
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07 Jan 1896 Fanny Farmer publishes her 1st cookbook
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12 Jan 1896 1st X-ray photo in US (Dr Henry Smith, Davidson NC)
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15 Jan 1896 Henry Arthur Jones' "Michael & his Lost Angel" premieres in London
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16 Jan 1896 Defeat of Cymru Fydd at South Wales Liberal Federation AGM, Newport, Monmouthshire.
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18 Jan 1896 1st demonstration of an X-ray machine in US (NYC)
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18 Jan 1896 An X-ray generating machine is exhibited for the first time by H. L. Smith.
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18 Jan 1896 British troops occupy Kumasi, West Africa
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18 Jan 1896 1st demonstration of an x-ray machine in the US, New York City NY
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23 Jan 1896 Edward Macdowell's 2nd Suite in E, premieres
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27 Jan 1896 Tasmania bowl out Victoria for 65 for their 1st ever innings victory
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28 Jan 1896 Walter Arnold of East Peckham, Kent becomes the first person to be convicted of speeding. He was fined one shilling, plus costs, for speeding at 8 mph (13 km/h), thereby exceeding the contemporary speed limit of 2 mph (3.2 km/h).
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29 Jan 1896 Emile Grubbe is 1st doctor to use radiation treatment for breast cancer
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08 Feb 1896 Western Conference forms of Midwestern University, later renamed Big 10 Conf
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11 Feb 1896 Oscar Wildes "Salom
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14 Feb 1896 Stanley Cup: Winnipeg Victorias beat Montreal Victorias, 2-0
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14 Feb 1896 Theodor Herzl publishes "Der Judenstaat"
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14 Feb 1896 George Lohmann takes a hat-trick vs South Africa, 8-7 for inning
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14 Feb 1896 South Africa all out for 30 vs England - their lowest ever
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14 Feb 1896 Stanley Cup Winnipeg Victorias beat Montr
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14 Feb 1896 Theodor Herzl publishes "Der Judenstaat"
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17 Feb 1896 London Country Councils' Muzzling Order becomes effective
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18 Feb 1896 Cave of Winds at Niagara Falls goes almost dry for 1st time in 50 years
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23 Feb 1896 The Tootsie Roll is invented.
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23 Feb 1896 Tootsie Roll introduced by Leo Hirshfield
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24 Feb 1896 Victoria all out for 43 vs South Australia, Jones 6-15 Jarvis 4-27
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25 Feb 1896 Italian government decides to attack governor Baratieri of Eritrea
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28 Feb 1896 France dismisses Queen Ranavalona of Madagascar
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01 Mar 1896 Battle of Adua: 80,000 Ethiopians destroy 20,000 Italians
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01 Mar 1896 Henri Becquerel discovers radioactivity.
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01 Mar 1896 Battle of Adwa: an Ethiopian army defeats an outnumbered Italian force, ending the First Italo-Ethiopian War.
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02 Mar 1896 Battle of Aduwa, Abyssinia (Ethiopia) defeats invading Italians
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02 Mar 1896 George Lohmann takes 9-28 vs. South Africa at Johannesburg
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05 Mar 1896 Italian Premier Crispi resigns
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05 Mar 1896 Italians Governor of Eritrea, General Baldissera, reaches Massawa
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06 Mar 1896 1st auto in Detroit, Charles B King rides his "Horseless Carriage"
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08 Mar 1896 Volunteers of America forms (NYC)
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09 Mar 1896 Prime Minister Francesco Crispi resigns following the Italian defeat at the Battle of Adwa.
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10 Mar 1896 After Bob Fitzsimmons KOs much larger Jim Corbett to win world HW championship he says, "The bigger they are, the harder they fall"
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10 Mar 1896 Charilaos Vasilakos of Greece wins 1st modern marathon in 3:18
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10 Mar 1896 The Bronx acquires O'Brien Square
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12 Mar 1896 1st movie in the Netherlands (Kalverstr 220)
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14 Mar 1896 Sutro Baths (San Francisco) opens by Cliff House (closed September 1, 1952)
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16 Mar 1896 Premiere of Mahler's "Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen"
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20 Mar 1896 Marines land in Nicaragua to protect US citizens
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20 Mar 1896 Uprising in Matabeleland
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22 Mar 1896 Charilaos Vasilakos wins 1st marathon (3:18)
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23 Mar 1896 Umberto Giordano's opera "Andrea Ch
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24 Mar 1896 A. S. Popov makes the first radio signal transmission in history.
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25 Mar 1896 Modern Olympics begin in Athens Greece
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28 Mar 1896 The opera "Andrea Chenier" is produced (Milan)
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31 Mar 1896 Whitcomb Judson, Chicago IL, patents a hookless fastening (zipper)
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04 Apr 1896 Announcement of Gold in Yukon
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05 Apr 1896 1st modern Olympic Games officially opens in Athens
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06 Apr 1896 1st modern Olympic games open in Athens Greece [3 / 25 OS] American, James Connolly, wins 1st Olympic gold medal in mod history
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06 Apr 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.
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10 Apr 1896 Spiridon Louis wins 1st Olympic marathon (2:58:50)
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10 Apr 1896 Greek runner Spiridon Loues wins 1st modern Olympic marathon in Athens (2:58:50)
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12 Apr 1896 Stamasia Portrisi is 1st woman to win a marathon (5:30 in Athens)
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14 Apr 1896 John Philip Sousa's "El Capitan", premieres (NYC)
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15 Apr 1896 Closing ceremony of the Games of the I Olympiad in Athens, Greece.
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15 Apr 1896 1st Olympic games close at Athens, Greece
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19 Apr 1896 Herzl's "The Jewish State" is published
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20 Apr 1896 1st public film showing in US John Philip Sousa's "El Capit
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23 Apr 1896 Vitascope system of movie projection 1st demonstrated (NYC)
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23 Apr 1896 Vitascope system of movie projection 1st demonstrated (Koster & Bial's Music Hall, NYC)
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25 Apr 1896 Fight in Central Dance Hall starts fire (Cripple Creek Colorado)
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25 Apr 1896 Sidney Jones & Harry Greenbacks musical premieres in London
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06 May 1896 22nd Kentucky Derby: Willie Simms aboard Ben Brush wins in 2:07.75
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09 May 1896 1st horseless carriage show in London (featured 10 models)
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14 May 1896 Lowest US temperature in May recorded (-10
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15 May 1896 Tornado kills 78 in Texas
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18 May 1896 US Supreme court affirms race separation (Plessy vs. Ferguson)
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18 May 1896 The United States Supreme Court rules in Plessy v. Ferguson that the "separate but equal" doctrine is constitutional.
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18 May 1896 Khodynka Tragedy: A mass panic on Khodynka Field in Moscow during the festivities of the coronation of Russian Tsar Nicholas II results in the deaths of 1,389 people.
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18 May 1896 US Supreme court affirms "separate but equal" policy (Plessy v Ferguson)
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19 May 1896 1st auto (Benz) to arrive in the Netherlands
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20 May 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.
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26 May 1896 1st American intercollegiate bicycle race, Manhattan Beach, New York
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26 May 1896 Nicholas II becomes the last Tsar of Imperial Russia.
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26 May 1896 Charles Dow publishes the first edition of the Dow Jones Industrial Average.
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26 May 1896 Dow Jones begins an index of 12 industrial stocks (closing is 40.94)
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26 May 1896 Last Czar of Russia, Nicholas II, crowned
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27 May 1896 Tornado hits St. Louis, killing 255 and leaving thousands homeless
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27 May 1896 The F4-strength 1896 St. Louis–East St. Louis tornado hits in St. Louis, Missouri, and East St. Louis, Illinois, killing at least 255 people and causing $2.9 billion in damage (1997 US dollars).
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27 May 1896 1st major tornado to strike urban US (St Louis & E St Louis MO); killing 255 & leaving thousands homeless
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27 May 1896 Bay District Race Track closes
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30 May 1896 1st car accident occurs, Henry Wells hit a bicyclist (NYC)
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02 Jun 1896 Guglielmo Marconi patents the radio
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02 Jun 1896 Guglielmo Marconi applies for a patent for his newest invention, the radio.
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04 Jun 1896 Henry takes his 1st Ford through streets of Detroit
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04 Jun 1896 Henry Ford completes the Ford Quadricycle, his first gasoline-powered automobile, and gives it a successful test run.
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06 Jun 1896 21st Preakness: Henry Griffin aboard Margrave wins in 1:51
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06 Jun 1896 George Samuelson leaves New York harbor to row across Atlantic
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07 Jun 1896 G Harpo and F Samuelson leave New York to row the Atlantic (takes 54 days)
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08 Jun 1896 1st car is stolen
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11 Jun 1896 US Assay Office in Deadwood, South Dakota authorized
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15 Jun 1896 Tsunami strikes Shinto festival on beach at Sanriku Japan 27,000 are killed, 9,000 injured, with 13,000 houses destroyed
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15 Jun 1896 The deadliest tsunami in Japan's history kills more than 22,000 people.
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15 Jun 1896 Tsunami strikes Shinto festival on beach at Sanriku Japan
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16 Jun 1896 Temperture hits 127
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26 Jun 1896 1st movie theater in US opens, charging 10 cents for admission
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28 Jun 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.
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30 Jun 1896 W S Hadaway patents electric stove
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01 Jul 1896 Harbor of Ymuiden opens
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01 Jul 1896 Wilfrid Laurel sworn in as 1st French speaking Premier
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08 Jul 1896 William Jennings Bryan "cross of gold" speech at Democratic Convention
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09 Jul 1896 William Jennings Bryan delivers his Cross of Gold speech advocating bimetallism at the 1896 Democratic National Convention in Chicago.
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13 Jul 1896 Ed Delahanty, becomes 2nd major leaguer to hit 4 HRs in a game
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17 Jul 1896 Bhagavan Sri Ramana Maharshi, the Indian sage, at age 16, spontaneously initiates a process of self-enquiry that culminates within a few minutes in his own permanent awakening.
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18 Jul 1896 2nd US Golf Open: James Foulis shoots a 152 at Shinnecock Hills, New York
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21 Jul 1896 National Federation of Afro-American Women & Colored Women's
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28 Jul 1896 City of Miami incorporated
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01 Aug 1896 George Samuelson completes rowing Atlantic (NY to England)
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06 Aug 1896 France annexes Madagascar
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11 Aug 1896 Harvey Hubbell patents electric light bulb socket with a pull chain
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12 Aug 1896 Gold discovered at Klondike River at Dawson
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12 Aug 1896 Willem II soccer team forms in Tilburg
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16 Aug 1896 Skookum Jim Mason, George Carmack and Dawson Charlie discover gold in a tributary of the Klondike River in Canada, setting off the Klondike Gold Rush.
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16 Aug 1896 Gold discovered in the Klondike, found at Bonanza Creek, Ala
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17 Aug 1896 George Washington Carmack discoveres gold in Klondike region of Yukon
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17 Aug 1896 Gold is discovered on Klondike River
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18 Aug 1896 Adolph Ochs (39) buys New York Times
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20 Aug 1896 Dial telephone patented
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26 Aug 1896 Armenian revolutionairy assault on Ottoman Bank Constantinople
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27 Aug 1896 England defeated Zanzibar in a 38-minute war (9:02 AM-9:40 AM)
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27 Aug 1896 Zanzibar loses to England in a 38 minute war (9:02 AM-9:40 AM)
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29 Aug 1896 Chop suey invented in NYC by chef of visiting Chinese Ambassador
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30 Aug 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.
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07 Sep 1896 1st closed-circuit auto race, at Cranston, Rhode Island
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07 Sep 1896 A H Whiting wins 1st automobile race held on a track in Cranston, Rhode Island
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20 Sep 1896 John Mcdermott wins 1st US marathon (NYC)
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21 Sep 1896 General Kitcheners army occupies Dongola Sudan
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21 Sep 1896 Mahdist War: British forces under the command of Horatio Kitchener takes Dongola in the Sudan.
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22 Sep 1896 Queen Victoria surpasses her grandfather King George III as the longest reigning monarch in British history.
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26 Sep 1896 John Philip Sousa led band's 1st performance (Plainfield, NJ)
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01 Oct 1896 Sherlock Holmes adventure "Veiled Lodger" takes place (BG)
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01 Oct 1896 Yosemite becomes a National Park
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08 Oct 1896 Dow Jones starts reporting an average of selected industrial stocks
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17 Oct 1896 Anton Tsjechovs "Chayka, " premieres in St. Petersburg
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26 Oct 1896 Abyssinia and Italy sign peace treaty
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27 Oct 1896 1st Pali Road completed in Hawaii (winds so strong streams flow UP!)
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30 Oct 1896 Martha Hughes Cannon of Utah becomes 1st female senator
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01 Nov 1896 1st bare women breast (Zulu) to appear in National Geographic Magazine
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01 Nov 1896 A picture showing the bare breasts of a woman appears in National Geographic magazine for the first time.
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03 Nov 1896 J H Hunter patents portable weighing scales
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03 Nov 1896 Martha Hughes Cannon of Utah elected 1st female senator
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03 Nov 1896 William McKinley (R) defeats William Jennings Bryan (D) for President
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14 Nov 1896 Power plant at Niagara Falls begins operation
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19 Nov 1896 Start of Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of Sussex Vampire" (BG)
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19 Nov 1896 Start of Sherlock Holmes "The Adventure of The Sussex Vampire" (BG)
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24 Nov 1896 1st US absentee voting law enacted by Vermont
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26 Nov 1896 1st large indoor football game, University of Chicago beats University of Michigan 7-6
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26 Nov 1896 A A Stagg of University of Chicago creates football huddle
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27 Nov 1896 "Also Sprach Zarathustra" (Thus Spake Zarathustra) debuts in Frankfurt
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01 Dec 1896 1st certified public accountants receive certificates (NY)
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06 Dec 1896 D T Suzuki found the awakening at Engakuji temple, in Kamakura
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08 Dec 1896 Start of Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of Missing 3 Quarter" (BG)
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10 Dec 1896 Alfred Jarry's Ubu Roi premieres in Paris. A riot breaks out at the end of the performance.
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10 Dec 1896 1st intercollegiate basketball game (Wesleyan beats Yale 4-3)
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10 Dec 1896 Alfred Jarry's "Ubu Roi" premieres in Paris
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14 Dec 1896 The Glasgow Underground Railway is opened by the Glasgow District Subway Company.
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17 Dec 1896 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania's Schenley Park Casino, which was the first multi-purpose arena with the technology to create an artificial ice surface in North America, is destroyed in a fire.
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25 Dec 1896 "Stars & Stripes Forever" written by John Philip Sousa
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30 Dec 1896 Stanley Cup: Montreal Victorias beat Winnipeg Victorias, 6-5
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30 Dec 1896 Filipino patriot and reform advocate José Rizal is executed by a Spanish firing squad in Manila, Philippines.
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30 Dec 1896 Canadian ice hockey player Ernie McLea scores the first hat-trick in Stanley Cup play, and the Cup-winning goal as the Montreal Victorias defeat the Winnipeg Victorias 6–5.
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31 Dec 1896 25th auto built in US
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