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Events on November 17 in history

1896Nov, 17

The Western Pennsylvania Hockey League, which later became the first ice hockey league to openly trade and hire players, began play at Pittsburgh's Schenley Park Casino.

The 189697 WPHL season was the first season of championship hockey of Pittsburgh's Western Pennsylvania Hockey League. The season opened on November 17, 1896, and was well underway when brought to an end by the destruction of fire of the league's facility, the Schenley Park Casino ice rink on December 17, 1896.

The Western Pennsylvania Hockey League (WPHL), was a semi-professional ice hockey league founded in 1896 and existing through 1909. Based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, the league was the pre-eminent ice hockey league at the time in the United States. It was the first league to openly hire and trade players.

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Events on 1896

  • 28Jan

    Speed limit

    Walter Arnold of East Peckham, Kent, becomes the first person to be convicted of speeding. He was fined one shilling, plus costs, for speeding at 8 mph (13 km/h), thereby exceeding the contemporary speed limit of 2 mph (3.2 km/h).
  • 26May

    Dow Jones Industrial Average

    Charles Dow publishes the first edition of the Dow Jones Industrial Average.
  • 16Aug

    Klondike Gold Rush

    Skookum Jim Mason, George Carmack and Dawson Charlie discover gold in a tributary of the Klondike River in Canada, setting off the Klondike Gold Rush.
  • 21Sep

    Horatio Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener

    Mahdist War: British forces under the command of Horatio Kitchener takes Dongola in the Sudan.
  • 22Sep

    George III of the United Kingdom

    Queen Victoria surpasses her grandfather King George III as the longest reigning monarch in British history.