From 1896 until 1910 John H. Whipple was manager of Western Union at the Center in the drugstore he purchased from Clark Wait.

On the fateful day in 1896 when the great waves approached Japan, fishermen at sea noticed no unusual swells.

Suffering from angina, Nobel died at home, of a cerebral haemorrhage in 1896.

Schweitzer saw many operas of Richard Wagner at Straßburg ( under Otto Lohse ), and in 1896 he pulled together the funds to visit Bayreuth to see Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen and Parsifal, and was deeply affected.

Melos, long marked as a source of early objects but not systematically excavated until taken in hand by the British School at Athens in 1896, yielded at Phylakope remains of all the Aegean periods, except the Neolithic.

After several publishers had turned it down, he published it at his own expense in 1896.

At the 1896 event, silver was awarded to winners and bronze to runners-up, while at 1900 other prizes were given, not medals.

Although historically inaccurate, the legend of the Greek messenger Pheidippides running to Athens with news of the victory became the inspiration for this athletic event, introduced at the 1896 Athens Olympics, and originally run between Marathon and Athens.

Langdon ( 1896 ) records six crosses in the parish of which the finest is at Carminow.

The notation travelled from France to Britain, where it became standard, although at least one journal did not change from using to until 1896.

In 1896, Beaux returned to France to see a group of her paintings presented at the Salon.

After 1896 the system was changed to one on which a motor car was added to each train to maneuver at the terminals, while en route, the trains were still propelled by the cable.

The Royal National Lifeboat Institution opened a lifeboat station at the Sand Quay in 1878, but it was closed in 1896.

Robert Garrett at the 1896 Summer Olympics

The Tigers constructed Bennett Park at the corner of Michigan Avenue and Trumbull Avenue and began playing there in 1896.

The first game at the corner was an exhibition on April 13, 1896.

They played their first Western League game at Bennett Park on April 28, 1896, defeating the Columbus Senators 17 – 2.

They play at Craven Cottage, a ground on the banks of the River Thames in Fulham which has been their home since 1896.

Fulham started playing at their current ground Craven Cottage in 1896, their first game against now defunct rivals Minerva F. C .. Fulham are the oldest established club in southern England currently playing professional football, though there are many non-league sides like Cray Wanderers which are several decades older.

He moved to Vienna with his family in 1888, and studied at the Vienna Conservatory ( composition with Robert Fuchs, cello with Ferdinand Hellmesberger and theory ( the counterpoint class ) with Anton Bruckner ), graduating " with excellence " in 1896.

Written in 1896 at age 22.

* La bohème, libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa ( premiered at the Teatro Regio of Torino, 1 February 1896 )

* 2011 – Eunice Sanborn, American supercentenarian, world's oldest living person at time of her death ( b. 1896 )

* 1896 – William Jennings Bryan delivers his Cross of Gold speech advocating bimetallism at the 1896 Democratic National Convention in Chicago, Illinois.

The Eisenhower home served as the local meeting hall from 1896 to 1915, though Eisenhower never joined the International Bible Students.

When the National Federation of Afro-American Women was founded in 1896, Tubman was the keynote speaker at its first meeting.

He abandoned this idea after being criticised in Welsh newspapers for bringing about the defeat of the Liberal Party in the 1895 election and when, at a meeting in Newport on 16 January 1896, the South Wales Liberal Federation, led by David Alfred Thomas and Robert Bird moved that he be not heard.

His fine presence and his tact on ceremonial occasions rendered the state some service when in 1896 he received the Tsar at Paris, and in 1897 returned his visit, after which meeting the Franco-Russian Alliance was publicly announced again.

In 1896, at a meeting of the Educational Association of China, Rev.

He accordingly introduced in the Riksdag of 1896 a very moderate bill for the extension of the franchise, which was, nevertheless, rejected by both chambers, all similar proposals by private members meeting the same fate.

Cricket was first recorded in 1841, and the club was officially formed in 1896 at a meeting held in the Six Bells public house.

He demonstrated deglutition in a goose at the APS meeting in December 1896 and published his first paper on this research in the first issue of the American Journal of Physiology in January 1898.

* The first meeting in the American football rivalry between Brigham Young University and the University of Utah took place in April 1896, when BYU was known as Brigham Young Academy.

In 1895, the leading Lancashire and Yorkshire clubs formed the breakaway Northern Union ( later known as the Rugby Football League ), Salford initially remained loyal to the Rugby Football Union but in April 1896 Salford held a special meeting to discuss joining the new organisation.

In 1896, after meeting Gómez in Havana ( crossing once more the trail from Mariel to Majana via Mariel Bay ), he returned to the fields of Pinar del Río, where he faced bloody clashes with outnumbering forces, led by Spanish generals famous for their victories in Africa and the Philippines, and provided with artillery and the most modern weapons for infantry including the Mauser bolt-action rifle.

Her interest in wider library issues was demonstrated shortly after she arrived, as she was reimbursed $ 55 for the expense of attending a meeting of the American Library Association in Chicago in 1896.

Otta as a placename came to be in 1896 when the railroad came to terminate here for a decade and some, until continuing to Dombås in 1912, ultimately being completed all the way to Trondheim in 1922 ; Before this location was called " Åmot " meaning " rivers against " signifying the meeting of the 2 major rivers.

The union was formed on Tuesday, February 4, 1896 at a meeting in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania with 16 delegates from the local unions in Boston, Massachusetts, Buffalo, New York, Chicago, Illinois, Cleveland, Ohio, New York City, New York, Detroit, Michigan, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and Pittsburgh.

At a meeting regarding the improvement of the school grounds on June 4, 1896, the committee was directed to wait on the Board of Education the following Monday evening to secure the cooperation of the board in having dirt being taken from the Hill Street cut used in filling up the grounds of the high school, so that shrubbery could be grown about the building.

The Australasian Student Christian Union was established at a meeting in Wyselaski Hall, Ormond College, University of Melbourne, in 1896, fourteen years before the 1910 Edinburgh Missionary Conference that is commonly considered to have inaugurated the modern ecumenical movement.

When the Catholic Chaplaincy to the University was established in 1896 the society found a natural home there, often meeting in the Chaplain's rooms.