Geboorte op 11 oktober 1896 te Culemborg Vader Bastiaan van Dam, 25 jaar oud, -sigarenmaker van beroep Moeder Maria Driessen, 23 jaar oud, zonder beroep Kind (mannelijk) Arie Gerrit van Dam, geboren op 11 oktober 1896 te Culemborg
Overlijden op 31 oktober 1896 te Culemborg Vader Bastiaan van Dam, sigarenmaker van beroep Moeder Maria Driessen, zonder beroep Overledene (mannelijk) Arie Gerrit van Dam, 20 Dag jaar oud, zonder beroep
March 2 » The Battle of Adwa: The Italian Army defeated by the Ethiopian Army in Adwa, Tigray, Ethiopia.
April 6 » In Athens, the opening of the first modern Olympic Games is celebrated, 1,500 years after the original games are banned by Roman emperor Theodosius I.
May 26 » Charles Dow publishes the first edition of the Dow Jones Industrial Average.
June 4 » Henry Ford completes the Ford Quadricycle, his first gasoline-powered automobile, and gives it a successful test run.
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 17 » Bridget Driscoll became the first recorded case of a pedestrian killed in a collision with a motor car in the United Kingdom.
Day of death October 31, 1896
The temperature on October 31, 1896 was about 5.3 °C. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 100%. Source: KNMI
January 4 » Utah is admitted as the 45th U.S. state.
January 18 » An X-ray generating machine is exhibited for the first time by H. L. Smith.
May 18 » The United States Supreme Court rules in Plessy v. Ferguson that the "separate but equal" doctrine is constitutional.
May 26 » Charles Dow publishes the first edition of the Dow Jones Industrial Average.
May 27 » The F4-strength St. Louis–East St. Louis tornado hits in St. Louis, Missouri, and East St. Louis, Illinois, killing at least 255 people and causing over $10-million in damage.
December 10 » Alfred Jarry's Ubu Roi premieres in Paris. A riot breaks out at the end of the performance.
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