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.

In 1896, at the age of 30, Kandinsky gave up a promising career teaching law and economics to enroll in art school in Munich.

Bruckner died in Vienna in 1896 at the age of 72.

Supercentenarian Walter Breuning, the world's oldest verified living man from September 21, 1896 to his death on April 14, 2011, began working as a railroader for Hill's company in 1913 at the age of 17.

He was born about 1815-16, signed together with his cousin, Mistāwasis in 1876 the Treaty 6 at Fort Carlton, where he agreed that his group were settled into a reserve near the present-day Prince Albert, died 4 December 1896 at the age of 81 years )

In 1896, at the age of 18, he travelled to Paris to buy his first car, a Peugeot Phaeton, and joined the Automobile Club of France.

Some scholars in the modern age also found his poetry perplexing, at least up until the discovery in 1896 of some poems by his rival Bacchylides, when comparisons of their work showed that many of Pindar's idiosyncrasies are typical of archaic genres rather than of the poet himself.

Macmillan was in close friendship in old age with Ava Anderson, Viscountess Waverley, née Bodley ( 1896 – 1973 ), the widow of John Anderson, 1st Viscount Waverley.

In 1896, at the age of 38, he again borrowed money to purchase The New York Times, a money-losing newspaper that had a wide range of competitors in New York City.

In October 1896, at the age of seventeen, he moved to Vienna to study Civil Engineering at the Vienna University of Technology and graduated in 1902 with the best marks.

Paul Verlaine died in Paris at the age of 51 on 8 January 1896 ; he was buried in the Cimetière des Batignolles ( he was first buried in the 20th division, but his grave was moved to the 11th division-on the round about, a much better location-when the Boulevard Périphérique was built ).

Stowe died on July 1, 1896, at age eighty-five in Hartford, Connecticut.

Valadon's 1896 marriage to stockbroker Paul Moussis ended in 1909 when she left him for painter André Utter, who was half her age ,.

An 1896 interview of Grossmith reveals him feeling his age and considering the end of his touring career, while enjoying time spent at home with his family, dogs and antique piano collection.

When he was the age of 3, in 1959, his parents divorced and he and his brothers were brought up by his maternal grandmother Alicia Acton ( born Chapman ; 1896 – 1968 ) until 1962, when his mother re-married Ernest W. Hook .. Like his band-mate Bernard Sumner, he took his step-father's surname, although in contrast of his friend he kept it, even more, he created his nickname, Hooky, from it.

Taylor turned professional in 1896 at the age of 18 and soon emerged as the " most formidable racer in America.

* Melchora Aquino – was a Filipina revolutionary who became known as Tandang Sora because of her age when the 1896 Philippine Revolution broke out ( she was already 84 ).

Its longest serving member of staff was Armitage Denton, who joined in 1896 at the age of 22, and he remained there until his retirement in 1939 ; he was appointed Chief Librarian in 1929.

Calment smoked from the age of 21 ( 1896 ) to 117 ( 1992 ), though according to an unspecified source, she smoked no more than two cigarettes per day.

**** Alice Twombly ( 1879 – 1896 ) Died at the age of sixteen on the eve of her society debut.

Melchora Aquino de Ramos ( January 6, 1812 – March 2, 1919 ) was a Filipina revolutionary who became known as " Tandang Sora " in the history of the Philippines because of her age when the Philippine Revolution broke out in 1896 ( she was already 84 at the time ).

He died at Versailles on 26 June 1896 at the age of 82, the duchess having died at Claremont on 10 November 1857.

Boulanger entered the Conservatoire in 1896 at the age of nine.

He died in New York City on October 17, 1896, at the age of 50.