1896
Year 1896 (MDCCCXCVI) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian Calendar (or a leap year starting on Monday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar).
[edit] Events of 1896
[edit] January - March
[edit] April - June
- April 3 - First edition of Italian sports newspaper La Gazzetta dello Sport is published.
- April 6 - Opening ceremonies of the 1896 Summer Olympics, the first modern Olympic Games.
- April 9 - The official chartering of The National Farm School which later became Delaware Valley College in Doylestown, PA.
- May 8 - Cricket: Against Warwickshire, Yorkshire sets a still-standing County Championship record when they accumulate an innings total of 887.
- May 18 - The U.S. Supreme Court rules in Plessy v. Ferguson, introducing the "separate but equal" doctrine and upholding segregation.
- May 26 - Charles Dow publishes the first edition of the Dow Jones Industrial Average.
- May 27 - The costliest and third deadliest tornado in U.S. history levels a mile wide swath of downtown St. Louis, Missouri, incurring $2.9 billion (1997 USD) in damages, 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 12 - J.T. Hearne sets a record for the earliest date of taking 100 wickets. It is equalled by Charlie Parker in 1931.
- June 15 - Earthquake and tsunami in Sanriku, Japan, kills 27,000.
[edit] July - September
[edit] October - December
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[edit] Births
[edit] January - June
- Lawrence Riley, American playwright and screen writer (d. 1974)
- January 2 - Dziga Vertov, Russian filmmaker (d. 1954)
- January 4
- January 8 - Arthur Ford, American psychic spiritual medium, clairaudient (d. 1971)
- January 12 - Rex Ingram, Irish director and actor (d. 1950)
- January 14 - Martin Niemöller, German theologian and pacifist (d. 1984)
- January 14 - John Dos Passos, American author (d. 1970)
- January 20 - George Burns, American comedian (d. 1996)
- January 23 - Charlotte, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg (d. 1985)
- February 18 - André Breton, French writer (d. 1966)
- February 28 - Philip Showalter Hench, American physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1965)
- February 29 - Morarji Desai, Indian politician (d. 1995)
- March 1
- March 20 - Wilfrid Reid "Wop" May, Canadian World War I pilot (d. 1952)
- March 29 - Wilhelm Ackermann, German mathematician (d. 1962)
- April 15 - Nikolay Nikolayevich Semyonov, Russian chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1986)
- April 30
- May 7 - John Dunville, British Army officer (d. 1917)
- May 30 - Howard Hawks, American director (d. 1977)
- June 7
- June 19 - Wallis Simpson, Duchess of Windsor (d. 1986)
- June 26 - Henry Allingham, Oldest Surviving soldier of World War I
[edit] July - December
- July 2 - Quirino Cristiani, Argentine animated film director (d. 1984)
- July 10 - Maurice Zbriger, Canadian violinist, composer and conductor (d. 1981)
- July 13 - Mordecai Ardon, one of Israel's greatest painters (d. 1992)
- July 16 - Trygve Lie, first United Nations Secretary General (d. 1968)
- July 27 - Henri Longchambon, French politician (d. 1969)
- August 9 - Jean Piaget, Swiss psychologist (d. 1980)
- August 9 - Leonide Massine, Renowned dancer and choreographer, worked with Diaghilev's Ballet Russes and the Ballet Russes de Monte Carlo (d. 1979)
- August 15 - Gerty Cori, Austrian-born biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1957)
- August 15 - Paul Outerbridge, American photographer (d. 1958)
- August 18 - Jack Pickford, American actor (d. 1933)
- August 22 - W. E. Lawrence, American actor (d. 1947)
- August 30 - Raymond Massey, Canadian-born actor (d. 1983)
- September 1 - A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, Founder of Hare Krishna movement (d. 1977)
- September 24 - F. Scott Fitzgerald, American writer (d. 1940)
- October 7 - Paulino Alcántara, Philippine-Spanish soccer player (d. 1964)
- October 12 - Eugenio Montale, Italian writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1981)
- October 27 - Edith Brown, RMS Titanic survivor (d. 1997)
- October 28 - Howard Hanson, American composer (d. 1981)
- October 31 - Ethel Waters, American singer and actress (d. 1977)
- November 4 - Carlos P. Garcia, president of the Philippines (d. 1971)
- November 8 - Bucky Harris, baseball player (d. 1977)
- November 10 - Jimmy Dykes, baseball player and manager (d. 1976)
- November 13 - Nobusuke Kishi, Prime Minister of Japan (d. 1987)
- November 14 - Mamie Eisenhower, First Lady of the United States (d. 1979)
- November 16 - Oswald Mosley, leader of the British Union of Fascists (d. 1980)
- November 17 - Lev Vygotsky, Russian psychologist (d. 1934)
- December 5 - Carl Ferdinand Cori, Austrian-born biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1984)
- December 6 - Ira Gershwin, American lyricist (d. 1983)
- December 14 - Jimmy Doolittle, American World War II general (d. 1993)
- December 21 - Leroy Robertson, American composer (d. 1971)
- December 27 - Louis Bromfield, American writer (d. 1956)
- See also Category: 1896 births.
[edit] Deaths
[edit] January - June
[edit] July - December
- July 1 - Harriet Beecher Stowe, American author (b. 1811)
- July 16 - Edmond de Goncourt, co-founder of the Académie Goncourt (born 1822)
- July 19 - Abraham H. Cannon, American Mormon apostle (b. 1859)
- August 10 - Otto Lilienthal, German aviation pioneer (b. 1848)
- August 17 - Bridget Driscoll, an early automobile fatality
- August 25 - Hamad bin Thuwaini of Zanzibar, sultan of Zanzibar (b. 1857)
- October 11
- October 21 - James Henry Greathead, British engineer and inventor (b. 1844)
- October 23 - Columbus Delano, American statesman (b. 1809)
- November 16 - Josip Šokčević, Croatian viceroy (b. 1811)
- December 10 - Alfred Nobel, Swedish inventor of dynamite and creator of the Nobel Prize (b. 1833)
- December 30 - José Rizal, national hero of the Philippines (b. 1861)
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