1896 in the United States
List of events
Events from the year 1896 in the United States .
The justices of the U.S. Supreme Court who decided Plessy v. Ferguson
Incumbents
Events
April 9 – The National Farm School (later Delaware Valley College ) is chartered in Doylestown, Pennsylvania.
May 18 – Plessy v. Ferguson U.S. Supreme Court introduces the "separate but equal " doctrine and upholds racial segregation .
May 26 – Eleven years after its foundation, a group of 12 purely industrial stocks are chosen to form the Dow Jones Industrial Average . The index is composed entirely of industrial shares for the first time.[ 1]
May 26 – Campbell Axe Murders - James Dunham murders his wife, her family and two of their servants at their family farm in Campbell, California .
May 27 – 1896 St. Louis–East St. Louis tornado : The costliest and third deadliest tornado in U.S. history levels a mile wide swath of downtown St. Louis, Missouri , incurring over $10,000,000 in damages at contemporaneous prices,[ 2]
June 4 – The Ford Quadricycle , the first Ford vehicle ever developed, is completed, eventually leading Henry Ford to build the empire that "put America on wheels".
June 28 – Twin Shaft Disaster : An explosion in the Newton Coal Company's Twin Shaft Mine in Pittston City , Pennsylvania results in a massive cave-in that kills 58 coal miners .[ 3] [ 4] [ 5]
Undated
Ongoing
Births
January 4 – Everett Dirksen , U.S. Senator from Illinois from 1951 to 1969 (died 1969 )
January 8 – Arthur Ford , psychic, founded the Spiritual Frontiers Fellowship (died 1971 )
January 14 – John Dos Passos , novelist (died 1970 )
January 18 – C. M. Eddy, Jr. , author (died 1967 )
January 20 – George Burns , actor and singer (died 1996 )
January 21 – J. Carrol Naish , actor (died 1973 )
January 31
February 7 – Bonner Fellers , United States Army general (died 1973 )
February 21 – Homa J. Porter , Texas businessman and political activist (died 1986 )
February 25 – John Little McClellan , U.S. Senator from Arkansas from 1943 to 1977 (died 1977 )
February 28 – Philip Showalter Hench , physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1950 (died 1965 )
February 29 – William A. Wellman , film director (died 1975 )
March 1 – Harry Winston , diamond dealer (died 1978 )
March 23 – Edwin Eugene Aldrin , aviator and army colonel (died 1974 )
April 8 – Yip Harburg , lyricist (died 1981 )
April 21 – Ralph Hungerford , 33rd Governor of American Samoa (died 1977 )
April 26 – Edward John Thye , 26th Governor of Minnesota from 1943 to 1947 and U.S. Senator from Minnesota from 1947 to 1959 (died 1969)
May 30 – Howard Hawks , film director (died 1977 )
June 7
June 19 – Bessie Wallis Warfield , later Duchess of Windsor, socialite (died 1986 in France )
June 28 – Constance Binney , American actress (died 1989 )
July 8 – James B. Wilson , American footballer (died 1986 )
July 9
July 15 – Gladys Edgerly Bates , sculptor (died 2003 )
July 18
July 19
July 21
July 28 – Barbara La Marr , born Reatha Dale Watson, silent film actress (died 1926 )
August 15 – Paul Outerbridge , photographer (died 1958 )
August 22 – W. E. Lawrence , actor (died 1947 )
August 26 – Besse Cooper , supercentenarian (died 2012 )
September 8 – Howard Dietz , lyricist (died 1983 )
September 10 – Adele Astaire , dancer and singer (died 1981 )
September 15 – Robert B. McClure , general (died 1973 )
September 21 – Walter Breuning , supercentenarian ; last known surviving male born in 1896 (died 2011 )
September 24 – F. Scott Fitzgerald , author known for the novel The Great Gatsby 1940 )
September 29 – George H. Bender , U.S. Senator from Ohio from 1954 to 1957 (died 1961 )
October 22 – Earle C. Clements , U.S. Senator from Kentucky from 1950 to 1957 (died 1985 )
October 30 – Ruth Gordon , actress and screenwriter (died 1985 )
November 8 – Bucky Harris , baseball player (died 1977 )
November 14 – Mamie Eisenhower , née Doud, First Lady of the United States as wife of Dwight D. Eisenhower (died 1979 )
November 16 – Jim Jordan , actor (died 1988 )
November 25
December 6 – Ira Gershwin , lyricist (died 1983 )
December 17 – Robert Francis Anthony Studds , admiral and engineer, fourth Director of the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey (died 1962 )
December 21 – Leroy Robertson , composer and educator (died 1971 )
Date unknown
Deaths
January 6 – Thomas W. Knox , author and journalist (born 1835 )
January 11 – George G. Wright , U.S. Senator from Iowa from 1871 to 1877 (born 1820 )
January 15 – Mathew B. Brady , pioneering photographer (born 1822 )
January 19 – Bernhard Gillam , political cartoonist (born 1856 )
February 7 – William Hayden English , politician (born 1822 )
February 22 – George D. Robinson , lawyer and politician, 34th Governor of Massachusetts (born 1834 )
February 23 – George Davis , Confederate States Senator from North Carolina , 4th and last Confederate States Attorney General (born 1820 )
February 25 – Joseph P. Fyffe , admiral (born 1832)
March 19 – R. Edward Earll , ichthyologist and museum curator (b. 1853)
April 9 – Gustav Koerner , statesman (born 1809 in Frankfurt)
April 19 – Arthur I. Boreman , U.S. Senator from West Virginia from 1869 to 1875 (born 1823 )
May 5 – Jacob Fjelde , sculptor (born 1855 in Norway )
May 7 – Herman Webster Mudgett , alias H. H. Holmes, serial killer, executed (born 1861 )
May 11 – Henry Cuyler Bunner , novelist and poet (born 1855 )
May 13 – Nora Perry , poet, journalist and children's author (born 1831 )
May 31 – Homer V. M. Miller , U.S. Senator in Georgia from 1871 (born 1814 )
June 2 – Ozora P. Stearns , U.S. Senator from Minnesota in 1871 (born 1831)
June 4 – Austin Corbin , president of Long Island Rail Road (born 1827 )
June 12 – Thomas P. Leathers , steamboat captain (born 1816 )
June 13 – Alpheus Felch , 5th Governor of Michigan from 1846 till 1847 and U.S. Senator from Michigan from 1847 to 1853 (born 1804 )
June 25 – Lyman Trumbull , U.S. Senator from Illinois from 1855 to 1873 (born 1813 )
July 1 – Harriet Beecher Stowe , abolitionist and author best known for the novel Uncle Tom's Cabin 1811 )
July 14 – Luther Whiting Mason , music educator (born 1818 )
July 19 – Abraham H. Cannon , Mormon apostle (born 1859 )
July 22 – George Wallace Jones , U.S. Senator from Iowa from 1848 till 1859 (born 1804 )
August 9 – Alonzo J. Edgerton , U.S. Senator from Minnesota in 1881 (born 1827)
August 14 – Olin Levi Warner , sculptor (born 1844 )
August 17 – Mary Abigail Dodge (Gail Hamilton), essayist (born 1833 )
October 13 – Thomas W. Ferry , U.S. Senator from Michigan from 1871 till 1883 (born 1827)
October 23 – Columbus Delano , statesman (born 1809 )
November 22 – George Washington Gale Ferris Jr. , inventor of the Ferris wheel , typhoid (born 1859)
Date unknown – Asahel C. Beckwith , U.S. Senator from Wyoming in 1893 (born 1827)
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