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* 1896 – The United States Supreme Court rules in Plessy v. Ferguson that the " separate but equal " doctrine is constitutional.
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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 – Anglo-Zanzibar War: the shortest war in world history ( 09: 00 to 09: 45 ) between the United Kingdom and Zanzibar.
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 – 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.
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* Rhodes ; James Ford History of the United States from the Compromise of 1850 to the McKinley-Bryan Campaign of 1896 Volume: 6.
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
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reduced, while the last vestige of the British quarantine law was removed by the Public Health Act 1896, which repealed the Quarantine Act 1825 ( with dependent clauses of other acts ), and transferred from the privy council to the Local Government Board the powers to deal with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 )
* 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.
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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