Charles Dow publishes the first edition of the Dow Jones Industrial Average. The Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA), often simply called “the Dow,” is one…
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4 June 1896
Henry Ford completes the Ford Quadricycle, his first gasoline-powered automobile, and gives it a successful test run. Here are some key points about it: Inception…
15 April 1896
Closing ceremony of the Games of the I Olympiad in Athens, Greece The 1896 Summer Olympics, also known as the Games of the I Olympiad,…
17 August 1896
Bridget Driscoll became the first recorded case of a pedestrian killed in a collision with a motor car in the United Kingdom.
15 June 1896
The deadliest tsunami in Japan’s history kills more than 22,000 people. [rdp-wiki-embed url=’https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1896_Sanriku_earthquake’]
4 June 1896
Henry Ford completes the Ford Quadricycle, his first gasoline-powered automobile, and gives it a successful test run. [rdp-wiki-embed url=’https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_Quadricycle’]
4 June 1896
Henry Ford finishes the Ford Quadricycle, his first gasoline-powered automobile. At approximately 4:00 a.m. on June 4, 1896, in the shed behind his home on…
26 May 1896
Charles Dow publishes the first edition of the Dow Jones Industrial Average. The Dow Jones Industrial Average, or simply the Dow, is a stock market…
28 July 1896
The city of Miami, Florida, USA is incorporated. In 1894, Henry Flagler had no immediate plans to extend his Florida East Coast Railway from West…