1896
1896 was a leap year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar).
EventsJanuary - April January 4 - Utah is admitted as the 45th U.S. state. January 5 - An Austrian newspaper reports that Wilhelm Röntgen discovered a type of radiation later known as X-rays. January 12 - H.L. Smith takes the first X-ray photograph. January 18 - The X-ray machine is exhibited for the first time. February 1 - The opera La Bohème premieres (Turin). February 11 - Oscar Wilde's play Salomé premieres in Paris. March 1 - With the Battle of Adowa, Ethiopia defended its independence from Italy. 6 April - Opening ceremonies of first modern Olympic Games.
May - August May 8 - 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. 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 9 - William Jennings Bryan delivers his Cross of gold speech. July 11 - Wilfrid Laurier becomes Canada's seventh prime minister. August 16 - George Carmack discovers gold in the Klondike. August 27 - The shortest war in the world - 9.02 - 9.40 between Britain and Zanzibar
September - October October 3 ? Dalton brothers try to rob two banks but only Emmet Dalton survives the shootout November - William McKinley defeats William Jennings Bryan in the U.S. presidential election.
Unknown date Nepalese archaeologists rediscover the great stone pillar of Ashoka at Lumbini, using Fa Xian's records. Pontifical University of Maynooth is established by decree of the Vatican France establishes an administrative post in Abengourou, Ivory Coast.
Births January 2 - Dziga Vertov, filmmaker (d. 1954) January 4 - Everett Dirksen, American politician (d. 1969) January 4 - André Masson, French artist (d. 1987) January 12 - Rex Ingram, director and actor (d. 1950) January 14 - Martin Niemöller, German theologian and pacifist (d. 1984) January 14 - John Dos Passos, author (d. 1970) January 23 - Grand Duchess Charlotte of Luxembourg (d. 1985) February 11 - Else Lasker-Schuler, writer February 18 - André Breton, French poet, principal theoretician of surrealism (d. 1966) March 1 - Dimitri Mitropoulos, Greek conductor, pianist, and composer (d. 1960) March 20 - Wilfrid Reid "Wop" May, World War 1 ace March 29 - Wilhelm Ackermann, mathematician (d. 1962) April 30 - Gary Davis, reverend May 11 - Mari Sandoz, writer (d. 1966) May 30 - Howard Hawks, director (d. 1977) June 19 - Wallis Simpson, Duchess of Windsor (d. 1986) July 2 - Quirino Cristiani, Argentine animation director (d. 1984) July 16 - Trygve Lie, the first United Nations Secretary General (d. 1968) August 18 - Jack Pickford, actor, Hollywood's first "bad boy" (d. 1933) August 30 - Raymond Massey, actor (d. 1983) October 1 - Liaquat Ali Khan, first Prime Minister of Pakistan (d. 1951) October 28 - Howard Hanson, composer (d. 1981) October 31 - Ethel Waters, singer (d. 1977) November 8 - Bucky Harris, Baseball Hall of Famer (d. 1977) November 10 - Jimmy Dykes, Major League Baseball player and manager (d. 1976) November 14 - Mamie Eisenhower, wife of Dwight D. Eisenhower and First Lady of the United States of America (d. 1979) November 16 - Oswald Mosley, leader of the British Union of Fascists (d. 1980) December 6 - Ira Gershwin, lyricist (d. 1983) December 14 - Jimmy Doolittle, American World War II General (d. 1993) December 24 - F. Scott Fitzgerald, American writer (d. 1940)
Deaths January 4 - Joseph Hubert Reinkens, German Old Catholic bishop (b. 1821) January 8 - Paul Verlaine, French lyric poet (b. 1844) May 20 - Clara Schumann, German composer (b. 1819) August 10 - Otto Lilienthal, aviation pioneer August 17 - Bridget Driscoll, world's first automobile fatality October 11 - Anton Bruckner, Austrian composer (b. 1824) October 11 - Edward White Benson, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1829) October 23 ? Columbus Delano, American statesman November 28 - George Washington Gale Ferris Jr December 10 - Alfred Nobel, Swedish inventor of dynamite and creator of the Nobel Prize December 30 - José Rizal, national hero of the Philippines
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