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 – 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 )

Gold mining started in 1896 with the Bonanza ( Rabbit ) Creek discovery by George Carmack, Dawson Charlie and Skookum Jim Mason ( Keish ).

* April 1 – Jim Jordan, American actor ( b. 1896 )

The stars of the program were real-life husband James " Jim " Jordan ( 16 November 1896 – 1 April 1988 ) and his wife Marian Driscoll ( 15 April 1898 – 7 April 1961 ), who were natives of Peoria, Illinois.

* Jim Jordan ( 1896 – 1988 ), actor and comedian

In 1896, the U. S. Supreme Court effectively upheld the Jim Crow system of racial segregation by its " separate but equal " doctrine.

Plessy v. Ferguson ( 1896 ) held that the separate but equal doctrine complied with the Equal Protection Clause, and marked the beginning of Jim Crow laws by approving the de jure segregation.

Other stories the book deemed funny, but not confirmed by contemporaneous coverage, include a claim, first made by J. Raymond " Jim " Price in Baseball Magazine in 1910, that the following took place during an 1896 Brooklyn game at Baltimore.

His opinions on civil rights for African Americans are remarkable only for the abandonment of his usual antistatism in voting to uphold Jim Crow laws-the most notable being Plessy v. Ferguson ( 1896 ), in which he silently joined the majority.

In its most contentious post-war interpretation of the equal protection clause, Plessy v. Ferguson ( 1896 ), the Supreme Court upheld a Louisiana Jim Crow law that required the segregation of blacks and whites on railroads and mandated separate railway cars for members of the two races.

James Edward " Jim " Jordan ( November 16, 1896 – April 1, 1988 ) was the actor who played Fibber McGee in Fibber McGee and Molly and the albatross Orville in Disney's The Rescuers ( 1977 ).

The tramp writer Jim Phelan was born in Inchicore in 1896.

* Jim Atkinson ( 1896 – 1956 ), Australian sportsman from Tasmania

However, despite the driest summer he had yet played through, 1896 proved to be Hearne's great year: his 257 wickets included an amazing haul of 56 for just over 13 each against the Australians: a feat bettered only by Jim Laker in 1956 under more helpful weather conditions.

Jim Ivy became an integral part of the University of Mississippi in 1896.

Jim Foulis also worked as a golf course designer from 1896 until his death, designing the first golf courses in many communities across the Midwest.

At the same time states passed Jim Crow laws to create legal racial segregation in public facilities and services ; the phrase separate but equal, upheld in the 1896 Supreme Court case Plessy v. Ferguson, came to represent the notion that whites and blacks should have access to physically separate but ostensibly equal facilities.

The transfer of the Medical School to Mason Science College gave considerable impetus to the growing importance of that college and in 1896 a move to incorporate it as a university college was made.

In 1896, Jones and Mason conducted such a revival in Jackson, Mississippi that led to their expulsion from the local baptist association.

In 1896 the Montcliffe Colliery was owned by Adam, Mason and Son and managed by Joseph Crankshaw and Joseph Kenwright.

In 1896, Jones, Mason, and two other radical preachers held a faith healing revival in Jackson.

Reynolds Hall: Herbert Mason Sears, a successful Boston banker, realtor, investor, philanthropist, and avid sailor, acquired the property called “ Wood Rock ” in 1896, and enhanced the property in 1907.