August – The 1896 Eastern North America heat wave kills 1,500 people from Chicago, Illinois to Boston, Massachusetts. August 1 – The Park Seung-jik Shop, as predecessor of South Korean conglomerate enterprises , Doosan Group founded in former Kingdom of Korea .
Nov 14 The Emancipation Run: 33 motorists parade from London to Brighton to celebrate England's Locomotives on Highways Act 1896, which increased automobile speed limit to 14 mph; Nov 24 1st US absentee voting law enacted by Vermont; Nov 26 1st large indoor football game, University of Chicago beats University of Michigan 7-6
Historical Events for the Year 1896. 4th January » Utah is admitted as the 45th U.S. state. 5th January » An Austrian newspaper reports that Wilhelm Röntgen has discovered a type of electromagnetic radiation known as radiation later known as X-rays.
United States presidential election of 1896, American presidential election held on November 3, 1896, in which Republican William McKinley defeated Democrat - Populist William Jennings Bryan. The nominations The presidential campaign of 1896 was one of the most exciting in American history. The central issue was the country’s money supply.
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28 de feb. de 2021 · September 1894: The U.S. Congress designated the first Monday of September as a legal holiday, Labor Day, to mark the contributions of labor, in part as a peace offering to the labor movement following the crackdown on the Pullman Strike. 1895 February 20, 1895: Abolitionist author Frederick Douglass died in Washington, D.C. at the age of 77.
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