February 1 » La bohème premieres in Turin at the Teatro Regio (Turin), conducted by the young Arturo Toscanini.
March 2 » The Battle of Adwa: The Italian Army defeated by the Ethiopian Army in Adwa, Tigray, Ethiopia.
June 2 » Guglielmo Marconi applies for a patent for his wireless telegraph.
June 15 » The deadliest tsunami in Japan's history kills more than 22,000 people.
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.
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 March 7, 1896
The temperature on March 7, 1896 was about 5.7 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 92%. Source: KNMI
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