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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 and baron
* Louis Gerhard De Geer ( 1818 1896 ), baron, Prime Minister of Sweden 1876 80
They announced, just before the election of 1896, that the mansion of George Perley, a local lumber baron, was donated in his will as a home for the library.
In the years that followed new knights were admitted including in 1853 admiral Ferdinand-Alphonse Hamelin and admiral Louis Édouard Bouët-Willaumez ; in 1863 comte Louis François du Mesnil de Maricourt ( d. 1865 ), comte Paul de Poudenx ( d. 1894 ); in 1865 the Order admitted comte Jules Marie d ' Anselme de Puisaye who was followed in 1875 by the vicomte de Boisbaudry ; baron Yves de Constancin in 1896, who was later to become commander of the Hospitaller Nobles of Saint Lazarus, a knight of the Order of Isabella the Catholic and of Order of Saint Anna of Russia.
He made a fine collection of pictures and died at Rufford on 28 November 1896, when his nephew John Savile Lumley-Savile, 2nd Baron Savile ( b. 1854 ) became the 2nd baron.

1896 and Peerage
Baron Aldenham, of Aldenham in the County of Hertford, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom that was created on 31 January 1896 for the businessman Hucks Gibbs.
Baron Roos of Belvoir, of Belvoir in the County of Leicester was established in 1896 in the Peerage of the United Kingdom, but seem to have a longer ancestry in the titles of Baron de Ros which has briefly passed in the family.

1896 and United
* Rhodes ; James Ford History of the United States from the Compromise of 1850 to the McKinley-Bryan Campaign of 1896 Volume: 6.
* 1986 Wallis Simpson, American socialite, wife of Edward VIII of the United Kingdom ( b. 1896 )
* 1968 Trygve Lie, Norwegian politician, first United Nations Secretary General ( b. 1896 )
From 1896 there was continuous litigation in the United States over the patents covering the basic mechanisms that made motion pictures possible.
The kinetoscope, first shown commercially by Thomas Edison in the United States in 1894, was first shown in Japan in November 1896.
* Inca ( schooner ), the first five-masted schooner built on the United States western coast, in 1896
* 1896 Trygve Lie, Norwegian politician, 1st Secretary-General of the United Nations ( d. 1968 )
* 1896 The United States Supreme Court rules in Plessy v. Ferguson that the " separate but equal " doctrine is constitutional.
From 1846 onwards the establishments in the United Kingdom were gradually reduced, while the last vestige of the British quarantine law was removed by the Public Health Act 1896, which repealed the Quarantine Act 1825 ( with dependent clauses of other acts ), and transferred from the privy council to the Local Government Board the powers to deal with ships arriving infected with yellow fever or plague, the powers to deal with cholera ships having been already transferred by the Public Health Act 1875.
An engraved portrait of Morse appeared on the reverse side of the United States two-dollar bill silver certificate series of 1896.
In Rosen v. United States ( 1896 ), the Supreme Court adopted the same obscenity standard as had been articulated in a famous British case, Regina v. Hicklin, L. R. 3 Q.
* September 27 Jimmy Doolittle, American aviation pioneer and World War II United States Army Air Forces general ( b. 1896 )
** Trygve Lie, Norwegian United Nations Secretary General ( the first ) ( b. 1896 )
* November 1 Mamie Eisenhower, First Lady of the United States ( b. 1896 )
* August 6 Ira C. Eaker, World War II United States Army Air Forces general ( b. 1896 )
* November 6 Major Republican landslide in the United States House of Representatives elections, 1894, which set the stage for the decisive Election of 1896.
Starting with the adoption of the gold standard in Britain and the United States, the Long Depression ( 1873 1896 ) was indeed longer than what is now referred to as the Great Depression, but shallower.
The Cross of Gold speech was delivered by William Jennings Bryan, a former United States congressman from Nebraska, at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago on July 9, 1896.
Category: 1896 in the United States
* " Stars and Stripes Forever " ( 1896 ) ( National March of the United States )
History of the United States from the Compromise of 1850 to the McKinley-Bryan Campaign of 1896.
The United States presidential election held on November 3, 1896, climaxed an intensely heated contest in which Republican candidate William McKinley defeated Democrat William Jennings Bryan in one of the most dramatic and complex races in American history.
The United States presidential election of 1900 was a re-match of the 1896 race between Republican President William McKinley and his Democratic challenger, William Jennings Bryan.
Image: William McKinley by Courtney Art Studio, 1896. jpg | President of the United States William McKinley of Ohio

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