Timeline June 1896

Events in June 1896 6

• 1896 Marconi files wireless telegraphy patent First patent for a practical radio system Guglielmo Marconi filed a patent application in London on 2 June 1896 for a system of wireless telegraphy using radio waves. It was the first patent granted anywhere for radio communication and led directly to the founding of Marconi's wireless company. The technology would transform military, maritime and civilian communication within a decade.
• 1896 Henry Ford builds the Quadricycle Ford's first automobile takes to the streets of Detroit On 4 June 1896 Henry Ford completed and test-drove the Quadricycle, his first self-propelled vehicle, through the streets of Detroit. The lightweight frame carried a two-cylinder engine and rode on four bicycle wheels. It launched Ford's career as an automobile maker, leading to the Ford Motor Company seven years later.
• 1896 – 2009 Henry Allingham (1896-2009) Died 18 July 2009, aged 113 Allingham was a British veteran of the First World War, one of the last surviving founding members of the Royal Air Force, and for a time the world's oldest verified living man. He became a prominent advocate for remembering the war's veterans in his later years. He was awarded France's Legion of Honour.
• 1896 – 1986 Wallis Simpson (1896-1986) Died 24 April 1986, aged 89 American-born socialite whose relationship with King Edward VIII of the United Kingdom precipitated his abdication in 1936. She married Edward, who became the Duke of Windsor, and the couple lived largely in exile from the British royal family. She died at her home outside Paris.
• 1896 – 1952 Hugh Cairns Port Pirie, Australia The Australian neurosurgeon who attended Lawrence after the crash. He went on to organise mobile neurosurgical units in the Second World War and to run the trial that proved penicillin worked on head wounds.
• 1896 Hugh Cairns born in Port Pirie Port Pirie, Australia Son of a carpenter, in a lead-smelting town on the South Australian coast. He spent his early childhood in Riverton, where he had all his primary schooling.