Alfred Bernhard Nobel ( äl ' fred bern ' härd nōbel ') () ( 21 October 1833 – 10 December 1896 ) was a Swedish chemist, engineer, innovator, and armaments manufacturer.

* 1896 – In Athens, the opening of the first modern Olympic Games is celebrated, 1, 500 years after the original games are banned by Roman Emperor Theodosius I.

* 1896 – Closing ceremony of the Games of the I Olympiad in Athens, Greece.

* 1896 – Hans List, Austrian inventor and entrepreneur ( d. 1996 )

* 1896 – Reverend Gary Davis, American singer and guitarist ( d. 1972 )

* 1896 – Anglo-Zanzibar War: the shortest war in world history ( 09: 00 to 09: 45 ) between the United Kingdom and Zanzibar.

* 1896 – Faina Ranevskaya, Russian actress ( d. 1984 )

* 1844 – James Henry Greathead, English engineer ( d. 1896 )

* 1896 – Erich Hückel, German physicist ( d. 1980 )

* 1896 – Jean Piaget, Swiss psychologist ( d. 1980 )

In 1896 England under the captaincy of W G Grace won the series 2 – 1, and this marked the end of England's longest period of Ashes dominance.

* 1896 – Lorenzo Herrera, Venezuelan singer and composer ( d. 1960 )

* 1988 – Jim Jordan, American actor ( b. 1896 )

* 1896 – Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, American author ( d. 1953 )

* 1896 – Pat Clayton, English surveyor and explorer ( d. 1962 )

* 1896 – Tristan Tzara, Romanian poet and essayist ( d. 1963 )

* 1896 – Gerty Cori, Austrian biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1957 )

* 1896 – Catherine Doherty, Russian-Canadian activist ( d. 1985 )

* 1896 – Paul Outerbridge, American photographer ( d. 1958 )

* 1896 – Léon Theremin, Russian inventor, invented the Theremin ( d. 1993 )

* 1896 – 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.

* 1896 – Officially recognised date of the Cry of Pugad Lawin, the start of the Philippine Revolution is made in Pugad Lawin ( Quezon City ), in the province of Manila ( actual date and location is disputed ).

* 1896 – Philippine Revolution: After Spanish victory in the Battle of San Juan del Monte, eight provinces in the Philippines are declared under martial law by the Spanish Governor-General Ramón Blanco y Erenas.

* 1850 – Marcelo H. del Pilar, Filipino writer, journalist, and revolutionary ( d. 1896 )

* 1896 – Raymond Massey, Canadian actor ( d. 1983 )

* 1896 – Bob Meusel, American baseball player ( d. 1977 )

In 1896 Montpelier was the site of a bank heist by Butch Cassidy, members of Butch Cassidy's Wild Bunch Elzy Lay and Bob Meeks who were supposedly trying to get enough money to bail out fellow gang member Matt Warner.

Cecilia is the birthplace of several Louisiana political figures: state Representative and House Speaker Robert Joseph " Bob " Angelle ( 1896 – 1979 ), former Secretary of State of Louisiana and Lieutenant Governor Paul J. Hardy ( born 1942 ), and former state Representative Jesse J. Guidry, who became the director of the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries.

On August 13, 1896, Parker, Lay, Harvey Logan and Bob Meeks robbed the bank at Montpelier, Idaho, escaping with approximately $ 7, 000.

* 1896 Bob Kelso

In 1896, Bean organized a world championship boxing title bout between Bob Fitzsimmons and Peter Maher on an island in the Rio Grande because boxing matches were illegal in both Texas and Mexico.

It is somewhat apocryphal in that there was never actually a riot ; rather, the phrase was coined by Ranger Captain William " Bill " McDonald, who was sent to Dallas in 1896 to prevent the illegal heavyweight prize fight between Pete Maher and Bob Fitzsimmons that had been organized by Dan Stuart, and patronized by the eccentric " Hanging Judge " Roy Bean.

By 1896, as his fame progressed, Bob Cole produced four “ Genuine Negro songs by a Genuine Negro Minstrel ” that were published by Brooks and Denton of New York and London.

Bob Taylor won election and was elected to a second term in 1888 and a third, non-consecutive term in 1896.

The seven Crosby children are: elder boys, Larry ( 1895 – 1975 ), Everett ( 1896 – 1966 ), Ted ( 1900 – 1973 ), Harry, ( 1903 – 1977, popularly known as Bing Crosby ), two girls, Catherine ( 1905 – 1988 ) and Mary Rose ( 1907 – 1990 ) and Bob.

On December 2, 1896 Sharkey fought a controversial battle with future heavyweight champion Bob Fitzsimmons.

* 1960 – Herbert O ' Conor, 51st Governor of the US State of Maryland ( b. 1896 )

Earlier, he had come to the area as one of the builders of the C & O Railway's terminals, and had served as the first mayor of Newport News after it became an independent city in 1896.

* illustrated self-instructor in phrenology and physiology Open Content Alliance eBook Collection, Fowler, O. S. ( Orson Squire ) ( 1809 – 1887 ); Fowler, L. N. ( Lorenzo Niles ) ( 1811 – 1896 )

1896 skeletal restoration of T. prorsus by O. C.

In 1896, Page developed the Loup Creek and Deepwater Railway, a logging railroad connecting a small sawmill on the old Loup Creek Estate at Robson with the C & O railroad's main line at Deepwater on the Kanawha River.

* O. Voss ( 1896 ) De Heraclidis Pontici vita et scriptis

She is best remembered for " Sweet Rosie O ' Grady ", which she wrote in 1896.

This forms the first part of The Life of William Carleton ... ( 2 vols., 1896 ), by David James O ' Donoghue, which contains full information about his life, and a list of his scattered writings.

Samuel Stritch was born in Nashville, Tennessee, to Garret ( 1841 – 1896 ) and Katherine ( née O ' Malley ) Stritch.

:* Wamba O. P .- Cambridge, 1896

:* Teudis O. P .- Cambridge, 1896

In the spring of 1896 Remington retained the New Rochelle architect O. William Degen to plan a studio addition to the house.

The station was built in 1896 – 97 and designed by Morgan O ' Brien, New York Central and Hudson River Railroad principal architect.

The Liberal Unionist editor of the Belfast Norther Whig, Thomas Macknight, who had been a personal friend of O ' Hagan, states in his memoir ULSTER AS IT IS ( London, 1896 ) that he believed O ' Hagan would have opposed Gladstone's conversion to Home Rule had he not died when he did.

In 1896, retired pitcher Jimmy “ Pud ” Galvin said that as a player, “ I never heard such disgusting and vile language as Patsy Tebeau, O ’ Connor and several of the Baltimore players ’’ are now using.

1896 in the pike field Sallybrook, by a group of people led by Billy O ' Neill from Sarsfields Court.

On 8 April 1896, McCay married Julia Mary O ' Meara, the daughter of a Roman Catholic Kyneton police magistrate.

Don Jorge O ' Neill of Clanaboy and Lisbon submitted his pedigree to the Ulster office of Heralds ; in 1896, he received a letter from Sir Henry Farnham Burke, Somerset Herald, acknowledging that he had proved his descent from the royal descent from the Kings of Ireland, and his collateral descent from Hugh O ' Neill.

In 1896, the politics of the Democratic party were dominated by the issue of bimetallism and " Free Silver ", alienating O ' Ferrall who had always been a staunch advocate of the gold standard.

Maude Nugent was born in Brooklyn, NY, and began her career in vaudeville, achieving tremendous success in 1896 with her song Sweet Rosie O ’ Grady, which became the archetypal waltz ballad of the 1890s.

In the 1900s, Jack London ( 1876 – 1916 ), Theodore Dreiser ( 1871 – 1945 ), Sherwood Anderson ( 1876 – 1941 ), Eugene O ' Neill ( 1888 – 1953 ), Clifford Odets ( 1906 – 1963 ), T. S. Eliot ( 1888 – 1965 ), John Dos Passos ( 1896 – 1970 ), Francis Scott Fitzgerald ( 1896 – 1940 ), and Henry Louis Mencken ( 1880 – 1956 ).