Events in History in June 1896

Jun 2 Italian engineer and inventor Guglielmo Marconi applies for the first ever patent for a system of wireless telegraphy in the United Kingdom

Jun 3 British naval officer David Beatty is seconded to the Egyptian government and appointed second in command of the river flotilla

Jun 4 Henry Ford takes his 1st Ford through streets of Detroit

Jun 6 Frank Samuelsen and George Harbo leave NY harbor to row across Atlantic; their 55 day record for rowing was not broken for 114 years
Jun 8 First car thief; Baron de Zuylen’s Peugeot is stolen by his mechanic in Paris
Jun 11 US Assay Office in Deadwood South Dakota authorized
Jun 15 Tsunami strikes Shinto festival on beach at Sanriku, Japan; 27,000 are killed, 9,000 injured and 13,000 houses destroyed
Jun 16 Temperature hits 127°F at Fort Mojave, California

Jun 17 Polar explorers Fridtjof Nansen and Frederick Jackson meet by chance in Franz Josef Land, the Arctic