1896

{| align=right cellpadding=3 id=toc style="margin-left: 15px;"\n|- \n| align="center" colspan=2 | Years:
1893 1894 1895 - 1896 - 1897 1898 1899 \n|-\n| align="center" colspan=2 | Decades:
1860s 1870s 1880s - 1890s - 1900s 1910s 1920s \n|- \n| align="center" | Centuries:
18th century - 19th century - 20th century

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Table of contents

1 Events 2 Births 3 Deaths

Events

\n* January 4 - Utah is admitted as the 45th U.S. state.\n* January 5 - An Austrian newspaper reports that Wilhelm Röntgen discovered a type of radiation later known as X-rays.\n* January 12 - H.L. Smith takes the first X-ray photograph.\n* January 18 - The X-ray machine is exhibited for the first time.\n* February 1 - The opera La Bohème premieres (Turin).\n* February 11 - Oscar Wilde's play Salomé premieres in Paris.\n* March 1 - With the Battle of Adowa, Ethiopia defended its independence from Italy. Henri Becquerel discovers radioactivity.\n* May 1 - Charles Tupper becomes Canada's sixth prime minister.\n* May 14 - Tsar Nicholas II of Russia crowned in Moscow, in the first coronation ever filmed. One thousand spectators crushed to death in Khodynskoe Fields during coronation celebrations.\n* May 18 - The U.S. Supreme Court announces its decision in the infamous case Plessy v. Ferguson.\n* May 26 - Charles Dow publishes the first edition of the Dow Jones Industrial Average.\n* June 4 - Henry Ford test-drives the first automobile he designed - the Quadricycle (it was also the first automobile he ever drove).\n* June 8 – Fritjof Nansen reaches the Antarctic Circle\n* June 15 – Earthquake and tsunami in Sanriku, Japan, kills 27.000\n* July 9 - William Jennings Bryan delivers his Cross of gold speech.\n* July 11 - Wilfrid Laurier becomes Canada's seventh prime minister.\n* August 16 - George Carmack discovers gold in the Klondike.\n* August 27 - The shortest war in the world - 9.02 - 9.40 between Britain and Zanzibar\n* October 3 – Dalton brothers try to rob two banks but only Emmet Dalton survives the shootout\n* November - William McKinley defeats William Jennings Bryan in the U.S. presidential election. \n* Nepalese archaeologists rediscover the great stone pillar of Ashoka at Lumbini, using Fa Xian's records.

Births

\n* January 2 - Dziga Vertov, filmmaker\n* January 4 - Everett Dirksen, American politician (d. 1969)\n* January 12 - Rex Ingram, director and actor (d. 1950)\n* January 14 - Martin Niemöller, German theologian and pacifist (d. 1984)\n* January 14 - John Dos Passos, author (d. 1970)\n* January 23 - Grand Duchess Charlotte of Luxembourg\n* February 11 - Else Lasker-Schuler, writer\n* February 18 - André Breton, poet, principal theoretician of surrealism (d. 1966)\n* March 12 - Sir John Abbott, third Prime Minister of Canada\n* March 20 - Wilfrid Reid "Wop" May, world war 1 ace\n* March 29 - Wilhelm Ackermann, mathematician\n* April 30 - Gary Davis, reverend\n* May 11 - Mari Sandoz, writer (d. 1966)\n* May 30 - Howard Hawks, director (d. 1977)\n* June 19 - Wallis Simpson, Duchess of Windsor\n* July 16 - Trygve Lie, the first United Nations Secretary General (d. 1968)\n* August 18 - Jack Pickford, actor, Hollywood's first "bad boy" (d. 1933)\n* August 30 - Raymond Massey, actor (d. 1983)\n* October 1 - Liaquat Ali Khan, first Prime Minister of Pakistan (d. 1951)\n* October 28 - Howard Hanson, composer\n* October 31 - Ethel Waters, singer (d. 1977)\n* November 8 - Bucky Harris, Baseball Hall of Famer (d. 1977)\n* December 6 - Ira Gershwin, lyricist\n* December 14 - George VI Windsor, father of Elizabeth II\n* December 14 - Jimmy Doolittle, American World War II General.\n* December 24 - F Scott Fitzgerald, American writer.

Deaths

\n* January 8 - Paul Verlaine, lyric poet\n* May 20 - Clara Schumann, Austrian composer\n* August 10 - Otto Lilienthal, aviation pioneer\n* August 17 - Bridget Driscoll, world's first automobile fatality\n* October 11 - Anton Bruckner, Austrian composer\n* October 23 – Columbus Delano, American statesman \n* December 10 - Alfred Nobel, Swedish inventor of dynamite and creator of the Nobel Prize\n* December 30 - José Rizal, national hero of the Philippines \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n