WHAT HAPPENED IN 1896.
Look what happened the 1896.

Utah is admitted as the 45th U.S. state. (4. January 1896)

An Austrian newspaper reports that Wilhelm Röntgen has discovered a type of radiation later known as X-rays. (5. January 1896)

Defeat of Cymru Fydd at South Wales Liberal Federation AGM, Newport, Monmouthshire. (16. January 1896)

An X-ray generating machine is exhibited for the first time by H.L. Smith. (18. January 1896)

Walter Arnold of East Peckham, Kent becomes the first person to be convicted of speeding. He was fined 1 shilling, plus costs, for speeding at 8 mph (13 km/h), thus exceeding the contemporary speed limit of 2 mph (3.2 km/h). (28. January 1896)

The Tootsie Roll is invented. (23. February 1896)

Battle of Adowa: an Ethiopian army defeats an outnumbered Italian force, ending the First Italo-Ethiopian War. (1. March 1896)

Henri Becquerel discovers radioactivity. (1. March 1896)

Prime Minister Francesco Crispi resigns following the Italian defeat at the Battle of Adowa. (9. March 1896)

A. S. Popov makes the first radio signal transmission in history. (24. March 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. (6. April 1896)

Closing ceremony of the Games of the I Olympiad in Athens, Greece. (15. April 1896)

The United States Supreme Court rules in Plessy v. Ferguson that the "separate but equal" doctrine is constitutional. (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. (18. 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. (20. May 1896)

Nicholas II becomes Tsar of Russia. (26. May 1896)

Charles Dow publishes the first edition of the Dow Jones Industrial Average. (26. May 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). (27. May 1896)

Guglielmo Marconi applies for a patent for his newest invention, the radio. (2. June 1896)

Henry Ford completes the Ford Quadricycle, his first gasoline-powered automobile, and gives it a successful test run. (4. June 1896)