Page 7: Historical Events In 1896

Jun 04   Henry takes his inaugural Ford through streets of Detroit.   

Jun 06   George Samuelson leaves NY harbor to row across the Atlantic   

Jun 06   In this year, 21st Preakness: Henry Griffin aboard Margrave claims in 1:51   

Jun 06   Italo Balbo, Italian pilot/gov-gen of Libya (La marcia su Rome).   

Jun 07   G Harpo and F Samuelson leave NY to row the Atlantic (takes 54 days).   

Jun 07   Robert Mulliken, US, chemist/physicist (Nobel 1966)   

Jun 08   1st car is stolen   

Jun 08   Samuel Gonard, chairman (International Red Cross).   

Jun 09   Aura Abranches, Lisbon Portugal, actress (Lisboa, O Primo Basilio).   

Jun 11   Friedrich Gottlieb Schwencke, composer, dies at 72   

Jun 11   US Assay Office in Deadwood, South Dakota authorized.   

Jun 12   J.T. Hearne sets a cricket record for the earliest date of taking 100 inaugural-class wickets in a season.   

Jun 15   Tsunami strikes Shinto festival on beach at Sanriku Japan 27000 are killed, 9000 injured, with 13000 houses destroyed   

Jun 16   Jean Peugeot, Frans auto manufacturer (Peugeot)   

Jun 16   Temperature hits 127°F at Fort Mojave, Calif   

Jun 18   Blanche Sweet, Chicago, actress (Home Sweet Home, Avenging Conscience)   

Jun 19   Bessie Wallis Warfield Simpson, Duchess of Windsor, divorcee.   

Jun 22   Francis C Denebrink, US Naval officer (WW I, WW II, Korea).   

Jun 25   Emile AH Seipgens, Dutch priest/beer brewer/man of letters, dies at 58   

Jun 26   1st movie theater in US opens, charging 10 cents for admission.   

Jun 26   Louis CPR of Orleans, French duke (chosen king of Belgian), dies at 81   

Jun 27   Franciscus J Feron, vicaris-general of Roermond.   

Jun 29   Irene Browne, England, actress (All at Sea, Peg O' My Heart)   

Jun 30   W S Hadaway patents electric stove   

Jun 30   Wilfred Pelletier, Montreal Canada, conductor (Voice of Firestone)   

Jul 01   Harbor of Ymuiden opens.   

Jul 01   Harriet Beecher Stowe, US author (Uncle Tom's Cabin), dies at 85   

Jul 01   Pavel G Antokolski, Russian poet/director (Syn) [NS].   

Jul 03   Doris Lloyd, actress (Bachelor Father, Charley's Aunt, Sarah and Son).   

Jul 04   Adolf Hallis, composer.   

Jul 06   Alexander Sergeyevich Famintsin, composer, dies at 54   

Jul 06   Thomas W McKnew, president (National Geographic Society).   

Jul 08   William Jennings Bryan "cross of gold" speech at Dem convention   

Jul 11   Ernst Curtius, German archaeologist/historian (Olympia), dies at 81   

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Jan 01   Maurice jacobson: Composer   

Jan 01   Teinosuke kinugasa: Japans actor/director (jujiro, jigoku-mon)   

Jan 02   Dziga vertiv: [denis a kaufman], russian director (sjagai, soviet!)   

Jan 02   Ernst-lothar von knorr: Composer   

Jan 02   Sir lawrence wackett: Australian aircraft engineer   

Jan 04   Everett mckinley dirkson: (sen-r-ill)   

Jan 04   Everett dirksen: American politician   

Jan 04   Everett dirksen: American politician (sen-r-ill)    

Jan 01   Alfred ely beach: American inventor (b. 1826)   

Jan 04   Joseph hubert reinkens: German old catholic bishop (b. 1821)   

Jan 08   William rainey marshall: Governor of minnesota (b. 1825)   

Jan 15   Matthew b brady: Us photographer (civil war),   

Jan 18   Charles floquet: French statesman (b. 1828)   

Jan 20   Heinrich m von battenberg: German son-in-law of victoria,    

Jan 25   Frans c baeckelmans: Flemish architect (court of justice),   

Jan 28   Joseph barnby: Composer,