1896

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1896 (MDCCCXCVI) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar).

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January 4 - Utah is admitted as the 45th U.S. state.
January 5 - An Austrian newspaper reports that Wilhelm Röntgen discovered a type of radiation later known as X-rays.
January 12 - H.L. Smith takes the first X-ray photograph.
January 18 - The X-ray machine is exhibited for the first time.
February 1 - The opera La bohème premieres (Turin).
February 1 - Walter Arnold, of Kent, England, is fined for speeding in excess of the contemporary speed limit of 2 mph
February 11 - Oscar Wilde's play Salomé premieres in Paris.
March 1 - With the Battle of Adowa, Ethiopia defends its independence from Italy.
April 3 - First edition of Italian sports newspaper La Gazzetta dello Sport is published.
April 6 - Opening ceremonies of the 1896 Summer Olympics, the first modern Olympic Games.

May 8 - Cricket: Against Warwickshire, Yorkshire sets a still-standing County Championship record when they accumulate an innings total of 887.
May 18 - The U.S. Supreme Court rules in Plessy v. Ferguson, introducing the "separate but equal" doctrine and upholding segregation.
May 26 - Charles Dow publishes the first edition of the Dow Jones Industrial Average.
May 27 - The costliest and third deadliest tornado in U.S. history levels a mile wide swath of downtown St. Louis, Missouri, incurring $2.9 billion (1997 USD) in damages, killing more than 255 and injuring over 1,000 people.
June 12 - J.T. Hearne sets a record for the earliest date of taking 100 wickets. It is equalled by Charlie Parker in 1931.
June 15 - ? Earthquake and tsunami in Sanriku, Japan, kills 27.000
July 9 - William Jennings Bryan delivers his Cross of gold speech.
July 11 - Wilfrid Laurier becomes Canada's seventh prime minister.
August 16 - Skookum Jim Mason, George Carmack and Dawson Charlie discover gold in the Klondike.
August 27 - The shortest war in recorded history, the Anglo-Zanzibar War, starts at 9 in the morning and lasts for 45 minutes of shelling.

September 15 - Crash at Crush train wreck stunt.
September 22 - Queen Victoria surpassed her grandfather King George III as the longest reigning monarch in British history.
October 3 - Dalton brothers try to rob two banks but only Emmet Dalton survives the shootout
October 5 - After a long siege, Brazilian government troops take Canudos in north Brazil, crushing Antonio Conselheiro and his followers
October 12 - In Richland county, Ohio, the trial of Celia Rose for the triple murder of her family begins.
October 20 - In Richland county, Ohio, Celia Rose was acquitted on grounds of insanity.
October 30 Augusta, KY Augusta High School corner stone laid marking the end of the Augusta Methodist College
November - William McKinley defeats William Jennings Bryan in the U.S. presidential election.
November 6 - Hale Johnson runs as vice-presidential candidate for Prohibition Party.
November 16 - Cherry Sisters perform in Olympia Music Hall in New York City. At first audience is stunned but then begins to answer with catcalls.
November 30 - A large carcass, later postulated to be the remains of a gigantic octopus, is found washed ashore near St. Augustine, Florida.
December 30 - Jose Rizal, Filipino scholar and poet, executed in the Philippines