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 ).
Events of 1896
January - March
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 normalized 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.
July - September
October - December
Undated
Births
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
January 18 - C. M. Eddy, Jr. , American author (d. 1967 )
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 27 - Rogers Hornsby , American baseball player (d. 1963 )
April 30
May 7 - John Dunville , British Army officer (d. 1917 )
May 30 - Howard Hawks , American director (d. 1977 )
June 6 - Henry Allingham , British, oldest ever veteran of British armed forces and oldest ever Englishman
June 7
June 19 - Wallis Simpson , Duchess of Windsor (d. 1986 )
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 , Israeli painter (d. 1992 )
July 16 - Trygve Lie , Norwegian, first United Nations Secretary General (d. 1968 )
July 27 - Henri Longchambon , French politician (d. 1969 )
August 9
August 15
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 , Indian 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 , American baseball player (d. 1977 )
November 10 - Jimmy Dykes , American 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 air-force general (d. 1993 )
December 21 - Leroy Robertson , American composer (d. 1971 )
December 27 - Louis Bromfield , American writer (d. 1956 )
Deaths
January - June
July - December
July 1 - Harriet Beecher Stowe , American author (b. 1811 )
July 16 - Edmond de Goncourt , French writer and co-founder of the Académie Goncourt (b. 1822 )
July 19 - Abraham H. Cannon , American Mormon apostle (b. 1859 )
August 10 - Otto Lilienthal , German aviation pioneer (b. 1848 )
August 17 - Bridget Driscoll , early British automobile fatality (b. c. 1852 )
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 ?ok?evi? , 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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