Today in History for May 1896
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Months in 1896: January February March April June July August September October November December
Historical Events
Results 1 - 18 of 18
4th - 1st edition of London Daily Mail (halfpenny)
4th - Grease fire ignites half ton of dynamite at Cripple Creek Colorado
6th - 22nd Kentucky Derby: Willie Simms aboard Ben Brush wins in 2:07.75
8th - Yorkshire Cricket all out for 887 against Warwickshire
9th - 1st horseless carriage show in London (featured 10 models)
14th - Lowest US temperature in May recorded (-10°F-Climax, Colo)
15th - Tornado kills 78 in Texas
18th - US Supreme court affirms race separation (Plessy v Ferguson)
18th - 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.
19th - 1st auto (Benz) to arrive in Netherlands
20th - The six ton chandelier of the Palais Garnier falls on the crowd resulting in the death of one and the injury of many others.
26th - 1st American intercollegiate bicycle race, Manhattan Beach NY
26th - Dow Jones begins an index of 12 industrial stocks (closing is 40.94)
26th - Last Czar of Russia, Nicholas II, crowned
26th - James Dunham murders six people in Campbell, California.
27th - Bay District Race Track closes
27th - Tornado hit St Louis, killing 255 & leaving thousands homeless
30th - 1st car accident occurs, Henry Wells hit a bicyclist (NYC)
Famous Birthdays
Results 1 - 19 of 19
1st - Herbert Backe, German Nazi politician (d. 1947)
1st - Mark Wayne Clark, American general (d. 1984)
1st - J. Lawton Collins, American general (d. 1987)
2nd - Helen of Greece and Denmark, queen of Romania (d. 1982)
3rd - Dodie Smith, English novelist and playwright (d. 1990)
3rd - Karl Allmenroder, German World War I Ace (d. 1917)
11th - Josip Slavenski, composer
11th - Philippo de Pisis, Italian painter
13th - Charles F Pahud de Mortanges, Dutch equestrian (Olympic-gold-1928, 32)
17th - Brazilio da Cunha Luz Itibere, composer
17th - Hannah Tillich, writer
18th - Walter Fitzgerald, Keyhan Devonport England
19th - Michael Balcon, Birmingham England, producer/father of Jill Balcon
23rd - Felix Martin Julius Steiner, German Heer and Waffen-SS officer (d. 1966)
25th - Jan N Bakhuizen van den Brink, theologist/church historian
28th - Marius Monnikendam, Dutch choir composer
28th - Warren Giles, baseball's National League president
29th - George L Funke, botanist (Flower Physiology)
30th - Howard Hawks, Goshen Ind, director/producer (Rio Bravo, Scarface)
Famous Deaths
Results 1 - 9 of 9
1st - Nasr-ed-Din, shah of Persia (184.-96), murdered at 65
5th - Silas Adams, American lawyer and politician (b. 1839)
7th - H. H. Holmes (Herman Webster Mudgett) , American serial killer (b. 1860)
12th - Juan Morel Campos, composer, dies at 38
13th - Nora Perry, writer, dies
20th - Clara Josephine Wieck Schumann, composer/pianist, dies at 76
27th - Allard Pierson, theologist/philosopher/art historian/poet, dies
27th - Aleksandr Grigorievich Stoletov, Russian physicist (b. 1839)
29th - Gabriel Auguste Daubrée, French geologist (b. 1814)
