What Happened In January 1896 - Historical Events 1896 January

Historical Events for January, 1896

4th » Utah is admitted as the 45th U.S. state.
5th » An Austrian newspaper reports that Wilhelm Röntgen has discovered a type of electromagnetic radiation known as radiation later known as X-rays.
16th » Defeat of Cymru Fydd at South Wales Liberal Federation Annual general meeting called AGM, Newport, Monmouthshire.
28th » Walter Arnold of East Peckham, Kent becomes the first person to be convicted of speed limit speeding. He was fined 1 shilling (British coin) shilling, plus costs, for speeding at convert 8 mph km/h abbr=on, thus exceeding the contemporary speed limit of c

2nd » Dziga Vertov, Russian director (d. 1954)
2nd » Lawrence Wackett, Australian engineer (d. 1982)
4th » Everett Dirksen, American politician (d. 1969)
4th » André Masson, French painter (d. 1987)
4th » Arnold Susi, Estonian lawyer and politician (d. 1968)
6th » Péter Veres (politician) named Péter Veres, Hungarian politician, Ministry of Defence (Hungary) named Minister of Defense of Hungary (d. 1970)
7th » Arnold Ridley, English playwright and actor (d. 1984)
8th » Arthur Ford, American psychic, founded the Spiritual Frontiers Fellowship (d. 1971)
8th » Jaromír Weinberger, Czech-American composer (d. 1967)
9th » Warwick Braithwaite, New Zealand-English conductor (d. 1971)
12th » David Wechsler, American psychologist (d. 1981)
14th » John Dos Passos, American author (d. 1970)
15th » Marjorie Bennett, Australian actress (d. 1982)
16th » Ruth Rose, American screenwriter (d. 1978)
20th » George Burns, American actor, singer, and producer (d. 1996)
20th » Rolfe Sedan, American actor (d. 1982)
20th » Isabel Withers, American actress (d. 1968)
23rd » Charlotte, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg (d. 1985)
23rd » Alf Hall, South African cricketer (d. 1964)
25th » Florence Mills, American singer, dancer, and actress (d. 1927)
31st » Sofya Yanovskaya, Russian mathematician and historian (d. 1966)

1st » Alfred Ely Beach, American publisher and lawyer, created the Beach Pneumatic Transit (b. 1826)
4th » Joseph Hubert Reinkens, German bishop (b. 1821)
6th » Thomas W. Knox, American journalist and author (b. 1835)
8th » William Rainey Marshall, American politician, 5th Governor of Minnesota (b. 1825)
8th » Paul Verlaine, French poet (b. 1844)
15th » Mathew Brady, American photographer (b. 1822)
18th » Charles Floquet, French politician, 55th Prime Minister of France (b. 1828)