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1896 in the United States

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Events from the year 1896 in the United States.

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Events

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  • April 9 – The National Farm School (later Delaware Valley College) is chartered in Doylestown, Pennsylvania.
  • May 18 – Plessy v. Ferguson: The U.S. Supreme Court introduces the "separate but equal" doctrine and upholds racial segregation.
  • May 26 – Eleven years after its foundation, a group of 12 purely industrial stocks are chosen to form the Dow Jones Industrial Average. The index is composed entirely of industrial shares for the first time.{{cite web|url=http://articles.philly.com/1995-02-24/news/25702996_1_blue-chip-stocks-industrial-shares-index|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131004232102/http://articles.philly.com/1995-02-24/news/25702996_1_blue-chip-stocks-industrial-shares-index|url-status=dead|archive-date=October 4, 2013|title=Dow Record Book Adds Another First|publisher=Philly.com|access-date=2013-07-08}}
  • May 26 – Campbell Axe Murders - James Dunham murders his wife, her family and two of their servants at their family farm in Campbell, California.
  • May 27 – 1896 St. Louis–East St. Louis tornado: The costliest and third deadliest tornado in U.S. history levels a mile wide swath of downtown St. Louis, Missouri, incurring over $10,000,000 in damages at contemporaneous prices,{{cite journal|last=Brooks|first=Harold E.|author-link=Harold E. Brooks|author2=Doswell, Charles A., III|title=Normalized Damage from Major Tornadoes in the United States: 1890–1999|journal=Weather and Forecasting|volume=16|issue=1|pages=168–76|publisher=American Meteorological Society|date=February 2001|url=http://ams.allenpress.com/perlserv/?request=get-abstract&doi=10.1175%2F1520-0434(2001)016%3C0168%3ANDFMTI%3E2.0.CO%3B2|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130101193150/http://ams.allenpress.com/perlserv/?request=get-abstract&doi=10.1175/1520-0434(2001)016%3C0168:NDFMTI%3E2.0.CO;2|url-status=dead|archive-date=January 1, 2013|doi=10.1175/1520-0434(2001)016<0168:NDFMTI>2.0.CO;2|format=abstract|bibcode=2001WtFor..16..168B|doi-access=free}} killing more than 255 and injuring over 1,000 people.
  • June 4 – The Ford Quadricycle, the first Ford vehicle ever developed, is completed, eventually leading Henry Ford to build the empire that "put America on wheels".
  • June 28 – Twin Shaft Disaster: An explosion in the Newton Coal Company's Twin Shaft Mine in Pittston City, Pennsylvania results in a massive cave-in that kills 58 coal miners.{{cite web|url=http://www.hmdb.org/marker.asp?marker=10470|title=Twin Shaft Disaster|work=The Historical Marker Database|publisher=HMdb.org|access-date=2018-01-30}}[https://www.nytimes.com/1896/06/29/archives/100-miners-entombed-twin-shaft-pittston-caves-in-and-few-escape.html The New York Times.]{{cite web|url=http://www.gendisasters.com/data1/pa/mines/pittston-minecavein1896.htm|title= Pittston, Pennsylvania Twin Shaft Mine Cave In June 27, 1896|work=GenDisasters|access-date=2009-01-25|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081121045539/http://www.gendisasters.com/data1/pa/mines/pittston-minecavein1896.htm|archive-date=2008-11-21}}

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