- Utah becomes the 45th state
- Athens, Greece hosts the 1st modern Olympic Games
- First edition of the Dow Jones Industrial Average published
- A tornado devastates St Louis, MO
- An earthquake and tsunami kills 27,000 in Japan
- 58 miners killed in Pittston City, PA - list of the dead
- The Ford Quadricycle debutes
- Klondike gold rush begins
- John Phillips Sousa composed Stars and Stripes Forever
- 1st x-ray
- Tootsie Roll introduced
Sunday, March 8, 2009
Events of 1896
My family seemed fairly isolated from US and world events around them. Here are just a few events from 1896 that they may or may not have been aware of.
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So interesting to see what was going on in the world at that time. I bet most folks were isolated from the events unless they lived near them. Such a different time now-if you watch the news you can find out things that happened on the other side of the world-with in the last hour.
I think a lot of my ancestors were probably isolated from many events that happened in the world due to living in rural areas.
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