1896 HARROWER, KATE IRVINE (Statutory registers Births 789/2 77) Births in the District of Wilton in the County of Roxburgh 1896. Kate Irvine Harrower 1896 July Fourth 9h. A.M. 7 Havelock Street, Wilton. F. Parents: George Harrower. Wool Hand Loom Weaver Elizabeth Harrower M.S Reid m. 1874 June 5th, Hawick Inf: George Harrower Father Registered 1896 July 8th Wilton James Shiel Registrar
1896 HARROWER, KATE IRVINE (Statutory registers Deaths 789/2 53)1896 Deaths in the District of Wilton in the County of Roxburgh 1896. Kate Irvine Harrower 1896 July Twentyeighth 2h. 10m. A.M. 7 Havelock Street, Wilton. F. Age 3 Weeks Parents: George Harrower. Wool Hand Loom Weaver Elizabeth Harrower M.S Reid COD: Gastritis 7 Days As cert by G. Gunn Bannerman M.B: C.M. Inf: George Harrower Father (Present) Registered 1896 July 28th Wilton James Shiel Registrar
January 28 » Walter Arnold of East Peckham, Kent, becomes the first person to be convicted of speeding. He was fined one shilling, plus costs, for speeding at 8mph (13km/h), thereby exceeding the contemporary speed limit of 2mph (3.2km/h).
May 18 » The United States Supreme Court rules in Plessy v. Ferguson that the "separate but equal" doctrine is constitutional.
June 28 » An explosion in the Newton Coal Company's Twin Shaft Mine in Pittston, Pennsylvania results in a massive cave-in that kills 58 miners.
August 16 » Skookum Jim Mason, George Carmack and Dawson Charlie discover gold in a tributary of the Klondike River in Canada, setting off the Klondike Gold Rush.
December 17 » Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania's Schenley Park Casino, which was the first multi-purpose arena with the technology to create an artificial ice surface in North America, is destroyed in a fire.
December 30 » Filipino patriot and reform advocate José Rizal is executed by a Spanish firing squad in Manila.
Day of death July 28, 1896
The temperature on July 28, 1896 was about 15.9 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 73%. Source: KNMI
January 4 » Utah is admitted as the 45th U.S. state.
February 21 » An Englishman raised in Australia, Bob Fitzsimmons, fought an Irishman, Peter Maher, in an American promoted event which technically took place in Mexico, winning the 1896 World Heavyweight Championship in boxing.
June 28 » An explosion in the Newton Coal Company's Twin Shaft Mine in Pittston, Pennsylvania results in a massive cave-in that kills 58 miners.
July 28 » The city of Miami, Florida is incorporated.
August 27 » Anglo-Zanzibar War: The shortest war in world history (09:02 to 09:40), between the United Kingdom and Zanzibar.
September 21 » Anglo-Egyptian conquest of Sudan: British forces under the command of Horatio Kitchener take Dongola.
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