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| Born : | 07/19/1896 | A J Cronin, England, author (Citadel, Shining Victory) |
| Born : | 01/06/1896 | Abram N Pritzker, US businessman (Hyatt Hotels, McCall's magazine) |
| Born : | 09/04/1896 | Agnes Ayres, [Hinkle], US, actress (Sheik, Souls at Sea) |
| Born : | 08/18/1896 | Alan Mowbray, London England, actor (Dante, Colonel Flack) |
| Born : | 02/16/1896 | Alexander Brailowsky, Russia, pianist (Chopin) |
| Born : | 01/04/1896 | Andre Aime Rene Masson, French Surrealist artist (Labyrinth) |
| Born : | 02/18/1896 | Andre Breton, France, surrealist poet/writer (founder of surrealism) |
| Born : | 09/16/1896 | Andre Cheron, French chess/bridge theorist |
| Born : | 09/04/1896 | Antonin Artaud, French songwriter/director (Le Theatre de Seraphin) |
| Born : | 12/27/1896 | Arch Ward, sportswriter (proposed baseball's all-star game) |
| Born : | 01/07/1896 | Arnold Ridley, English actor/dramatist (The Ghost Train) |
| Born : | 04/21/1896 | Attila Hirbiger, Austrian actor |
| Born : | 04/07/1896 | Benny Leonard, lightweight boxing champ (1917-25) |
| Born : | 06/19/1896 | Bessie Wallis Warfield Simpson, Duchess of Windsor, divorcee |
| Born : | 06/18/1896 | Blanche Sweet, Chicago, actress (Home Sweet Home, Avenging Conscience) |
| Born : | 11/08/1896 | Bucky Harris, baseball manager (Phillies, Yankees) |
| Born : | 04/18/1896 | C Eugne Wegmann, Swiss geologist |
| Born : | 12/21/1896 | Carl Romme, lawyer/KVP-min Socialist Business |
| Born : | 11/11/1896 | Charles "Lucky" Luciano, Sicily, NYC Mafia gangster |
| Born : | 07/26/1896 | Charles Butterworth, US, lawyer/actor (Mad Genius) |
| Born : | 10/22/1896 | Charles Glenn King, biochemist (discovered vitamin C) |
| Born : | 01/23/1896 | Charlotte A E M W, grand duchess of Luxembourg (1919-64) |
| Born : | 03/16/1896 | Conrad Nagel, Keokuk Iowa, actor (Celebrity Time) |
| Born : | 12/29/1896 | David Alfaro Siqueiros, Mexico, painter/muralist (Lib of Chile) |
| Born : | 03/01/1896 | Dimitri Mitropoulos, Athens Greece, conductor |
| Born : | 04/03/1896 | Douwe Kalma, Fries literature/leader Jongfriese Motion |
| Born : | 11/01/1896 | Edmund Blunden, English poet/critic (Undertones of War) |
| Born : | 02/22/1896 | Edvin Wide, Sweden, 10K runner (Olympic-silver-1924) |
| Born : | 10/07/1896 | Elijah Muhammad, US, leader of Nation of Islam |
| Born : | 02/22/1896 | Enid Markey, Dillon Colo, actress (Aunt Violet-Bringing Up Buddy) |
| Born : | 08/07/1896 | Ernesto Lecuona, Havana Cuba, composer (Malague€a) |
| Born : | 10/31/1896 | Ethel Waters, Chester Pa, actress (Beulah)/singer (Stormy Weather) |
| Born : | 10/12/1896 | Eugenio Montale, Italy, poet/translator (Xenia-Nobel 1975) |
| Born : | 01/11/1896 | Eva Le Gallienne, actress/director (Resurrection) |
| Born : | 01/04/1896 | Everett McKinley Dirkson, (Sen-R-Ill) |
| Born : | 12/27/1896 | Ewan Calague, economist/statistician (Social Security Board) |
| Born : | 09/24/1896 | F Scott Fitzgerald, St Paul Minn, author (Great Gatsby) |
| Born : | 06/22/1896 | Francis C Denebrink, US Naval officer (WW I, WW II, Korea) |
| Born : | 10/02/1896 | Fritz Eberhard, [Hellmut Rauschenplat], W-German lawyer/resistor (Law) |
| Born : | 04/30/1896 | Gary Davis, Laurens SC, blues/folk guitarist (A Little More Faith) |
| Born : | 09/27/1896 | George Bender, Cleveland, (Rep/Sen-R-Oh) |
| Born : | 01/20/1896 | George Burns, [Nathan Birnbaum], NYC, actor/comedian (Oh God) |
| Born : | 05/29/1896 | George L Funke, botanist (Flower Physiology) |
| Born : | 12/06/1896 | George Trafton, NFL center (Chicago Bears) |
| Born : | 12/02/1896 | Georgi K Zjoekov, marshal of Moskow/Stalingrad |
| Born : | 11/27/1896 | Giovanni B Angioletti, Italian author (Il giorno del giudizio) |
| Born : | 12/23/1896 | Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, Sicilian writer (Der Leopard) |
| Born : | 09/12/1896 | Giuseppe Zoppi, Swiss writer (Il Libro Dell'Alpe) |
| Born : | 01/18/1896 | Hans H Holm, Norwegian poet (Jonsoknatt) |
| Born : | 02/07/1896 | Harold Hoffman, South Amboy NJ, (Gov-NJ) |
| Born : | 01/17/1896 | Harry Reser, Ohio, orch leader (Sammy Kaye Show) |
| Born : | 01/05/1896 | Hendrik Algra, Dutch 2nd chamber member (ARP) |
| Born : | 02/20/1896 | Henri de Lubac sj, French theologist/anti-fascist |
| Born : | 08/17/1896 | Henry P De Vries, painter/poet (Laws of the Americas) |
| Born : | 07/24/1896 | Hermann Kasack, German writer (Die Stadt hinter dem Strom) |
| Born : | 10/28/1896 | Howard Hanson, Wahoo Nebraska, composer/conductor (Nordic) |
| Born : | 12/06/1896 | Ira Gershwin, lyricist ('S Wonderful, I Got Rhythm) |
| Born : | 12/14/1896 | James H Doolittle, General (US Air Force) |
| Born : | 01/08/1896 | Jaromir Weinberger, Prague, Czechoslovakia, composer (Bird's Opera) |
| Born : | 06/16/1896 | Jean Peugeot, French auto manufacturer (Peugot) |
| Born : | 08/09/1896 | Jean Piaget, Switz, pioneer developmental psychologist/zoologist |
| Born : | 07/21/1896 | Jean Rivier, Villemomble France, composer (Venitienne) |
| Born : | 03/19/1896 | Jean Wiener, French composer/writer (Olive Chez les Ngres) |
| Born : | 11/06/1896 | Jim Jordan, radio comedian (Fibber McGee) |
| Born : | 02/25/1896 | John J McClellan, (Sen-D-Ark) |
| Born : | 01/14/1896 | John dos Passos, novelist (1919, Big Money, 42nd Parallel) |
| Born : | 11/23/1896 | Joris Vriamont, Flemish author/music publisher |
| Born : | 11/23/1896 | Klement Gottwald, premier/president of Czechoslovakia (1946-53) |
| Born : | 11/16/1896 | Lawrence Tibbett, Bakersfield Calif, baritone (Metropolitan 1923-50) |
| Born : | 08/13/1896 | Leo[nhard] Pappenheim, conductor |
| Born : | 08/09/1896 | Leonide Massine, choreographer (Diaghilev Ballet Russe 1914-20) |
| Born : | 10/14/1896 | Lillian Gish, silent film/stage actress (Birth of a Nation) |
| Born : | 12/27/1896 | Louis Bromfield, Mansfield Ohio, writer (Early Autumn, Pulitzer-1926) |
| Born : | 11/14/1896 | Mamie G Doud Eisenhower, 1st lady (1953-61) |
| Born : | 01/08/1896 | Manuel Rojas Sepulveda, Chile, writer (Men of the South) |
| Born : | 04/23/1896 | Margaret Kennedy, novelist |
| Born : | 09/06/1896 | Mario Praz, Italian literary (La carne, la morte, e il diavolo) |
| Born : | 05/28/1896 | Marius Monnikendam, choir composer |
| Born : | 08/08/1896 | Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, Wash DC, writer (The Yearling) |
| Born : | 10/15/1896 | Melville Cooper, Birmingham England, TV panelist (I Got a Secret) |
| Born : | 09/13/1896 | Morris Kirksey, US, 4 X 100m (Olympic-gold-1920) |
| Born : | 10/20/1896 | Nat Holman, basketball coach (CCNY) |
| Born : | 02/10/1896 | Olin Howlin, Denver Colo, actor (Swifty-Circus Boy) |
| Born : | 02/29/1896 | Omer CFL Tulippe, Belgian geographer |
| Born : | 11/16/1896 | Oswald Mosley, baron/British nazi |
| Born : | 01/11/1896 | Paddy Driscoll, NFL QB/coach (Chic Cardinals, Bears) |
| Born : | 02/22/1896 | Paul Van Ostaijen, Flemish poet/writer/critic (Occupied City) |
| Born : | 08/24/1896 | Phil Baker, Phila, comedian (Who's Whose) |
| Born : | 06/18/1896 | Philip Barry, US, dramatist (Philadelphia Story) |
| Born : | 11/29/1896 | Philip L Carret, Lynn Mass, CEO (Pioneer Fund) |
| Born : | 02/28/1896 | Philip Showalter Hench, Pittsburgh, physician (cortisone-Nobel) |
| Born : | 05/11/1896 | Philippo de Pisis, Italian painter |
| Born : | 08/21/1896 | Raymond Herreman, Flemish writer (Rose of Jericho) |
| Born : | 08/30/1896 | Raymond Massey, Toronto Canada, actor (Dr Gillespie-Dr Kildare) |
| Born : | 08/21/1896 | Roark Bradford, writer/humorist (Ol' Man Adan an' His Chillun) |
| Born : | 06/07/1896 | Robert Mulliken, US, chemist/physicist (Nobel 1966) |
| Born : | 06/06/1896 | Robert Sheriff, playwright (Journey's End) |
| Born : | 04/04/1896 | Robert Sherwood, dramatist (Abe Lincoln in Illinois, Idiot's Delight) |
| Born : | 09/25/1896 | Roberto Gerhard, composer |
| Born : | 11/29/1896 | Rod(erique) La Rocque (La Tour), US western actor |
| Born : | 12/28/1896 | Roger Sessions, Brooklyn NY, composer (Black Maskers) |
| Born : | 04/27/1896 | Rogers Hornsby, 2nd baseman (St Louis Cards) |
| Born : | 01/20/1896 | Rolfe Sedan, NYC, actor (Mailman-George Burns Show) |
| Born : | 10/11/1896 | Roman Jakobson, linguist/Slavic scholar (Fundamentals of Language) |
| Born : | 10/30/1896 | Ruth Gordon, Mass, actress (Rosemary's Baby, Harold and Maude) |
| Born : | 09/27/1896 | Sam Ervin, (Sen-D-NC), Watergate committee chairman |
| Born : | 09/25/1896 | Sandro Pertini, president Italy |
| Born : | 07/06/1896 | Thomas W McKnew, president (National Geographic Society) |
| Born : | 06/09/1896 | Tonio Selwart, Germany, actor (Barefoot Contessa, Naked Maja) |
| Born : | 04/04/1896 | Tristan Tzara, [Samuel Rosenfeld] French poet (Approximate Man) |
| Born : | 07/16/1896 | Trygve Halvdan Lie, 1st UN secretary general (1946-52) |
| Born : | 11/25/1896 | Virgil Thomson, KC Mo, composer/music critic (4 Saints in 3 Acts) |
| Born : | 06/07/1896 | Vivien Kellems, TV hostess (Power of Women) |
| Born : | 04/27/1896 | Wallace Hume Carothers, inventor (nylon) |
| Born : | 05/28/1896 | Warren Giles, baseball's National League president |
| Born : | 06/30/1896 | Wilfred Pelletier, Montreal Canada, conductor (Voice of Firestone) |
| Born : | 12/05/1896 | Willem F M Lampe, perfect minister Dutch Antilles |
| Born : | 06/16/1896 | William Fitzgerald Jenkins, author (Time Tunnel, Land of Giants) |
| Born : | 02/29/1896 | William W Wellman, Brookline Mass, director (Star is Born) |
| Died : | 12/10/1896 | Alfred Nobel, dies; Swedish Nobel Prize ceremony on this date |
| Died : | 05/27/1896 | Allard Pierson, theologist/philosopher/art historian/poet, dies |
| Died : | 10/11/1896 | Anton Bruckner, Austrian composer (Te Deum, Wagner Symphony), dies |
| Died : | 09/18/1896 | Armand-Hippolyte-Louis Fizeau, physicist, dies |
| Died : | 02/12/1896 | C L Ambroise Thomas, French composer (Mignon), dies |
| Died : | 10/30/1896 | Charles Tupper, PM of Canada (C) (1896), dies |
| Died : | 05/20/1896 | Clara Josephine Schumann, pianist, dies |
| Died : | 07/16/1896 | Edmond-Louis-Antoine Huot de Goncourt, novelist, dies |
| Died : | 06/25/1896 | Emile AH Seipgens, priest/brewery/literature, dies at 58 |
| Died : | 09/24/1896 | Francis SK Fitzgerald, US writer (Great Gatsby, Zelda), dies |
| Died : | 11/22/1896 | George Washington Gale Ferris, inventor (Ferris wheel), dies |
| Died : | 06/02/1896 | Gerhard Rohlfs, German explorer (Abbsynia/Ethiopia), dies |
| Died : | 01/20/1896 | Heinrich M von Battenberg, German son-in-law of Victoria, dies at 37 |
| Died : | 04/28/1896 | Heinrich von Treitschke, German historian, dies |
| Died : | 02/12/1896 | Isaac Murphy, jockey, 628 wins on 1,412 mounts (44.5%) dies at 35 |
| Died : | 12/30/1896 | Jose Mercado Rizal, anti-Spanish rule of Philippines proponent dies |
| Died : | 01/15/1896 | Matthew Brady, photographer, dies |
| Died : | 08/09/1896 | Otto Lilenthal, killed during a glider test |
| Died : | 08/10/1896 | Otto Lilienthal, German aircraft pioneer, dies |
| Died : | 01/08/1896 | Paul M Verlaine, French poet (Elegies, Bonne Chanson), dies |
| Died : | 12/28/1896 | Roger Sessions, US composer (Black Masks) |
| Died : | 07/16/1896 | William Hamilton Gibson, illustrator/author/novelist, dies |
| Interest: | 06/18/1896 | [Ang] Commem of Bernard Mizeki, catechist, martyr in Rhodesia |
| Interest: | 12/26/1896 | [RC] Commemoration of St Vicenta Maria Lopez y Vicuna, foundress |
| Special : | 05/26/1896 | 1st American intercollegiate bicycle race, Manhattan Beach NY |
| Special : | 10/27/1896 | 1st Pali Road completed in Hawaii (winds so strong streams flow UP!) |
| Special : | 11/24/1896 | 1st US absentee voting law enacted by Vermont |
| Special : | 01/06/1896 | 1st US women's 6-day bicycle race starts, Madison Square Garden |
| Special : | 03/06/1896 | 1st auto in Detroit, Charles B King rides his "Horseless Carriage" |
| Special : | 11/01/1896 | 1st bare women breast (Zulu) to appear in National Geographic Mag |
| Special : | 12/01/1896 | 1st certified public accountants receive certificates, NY |
| Special : | 09/07/1896 | 1st closed-circuit auto race, at Cranston, RI |
| Special : | 01/18/1896 | 1st demonstration of an x-ray machine in the US, NYC |
| Special : | 05/09/1896 | 1st horseless carriage show in London (featured 10 models) |
| Special : | 12/10/1896 | 1st intercollegiate basketball game (Wesleyan beats Yale 4-3) |
| Special : | 05/27/1896 | 1st major tornado to strike urban US (St Louis and E St Louis Mo) |
| Special : | 04/05/1896 | 1st modern Olympic Games officially opens in Athens |
| Special : | 03/12/1896 | 1st movie in Netherland (Kalverstr 220) |
| Special : | 01/12/1896 | 1st x-ray photo in US, Dr Henry Smith, Davidson, NC |
| Special : | 01/16/1896 | A Charlois discovers asteroid #414 Liriope |
| Special : | 05/04/1896 | A Charlois discovers asteroid #416 Vaticana |
| Special : | 12/07/1896 | A Charlois discovers asteroid #423 Diotima |
| Special : | 12/31/1896 | A Charlois discovers asteroid #424 Gratia |
| Special : | 12/28/1896 | A Charlois discovers asteroid #425 Cornelia |
| Special : | 01/07/1896 | A Charlois discovers asteroids #410 Chloris and #411 Xanthe |
| Special : | 09/07/1896 | A H Whiting won 1st closed-circuit auto race held |
| Special : | 01/04/1896 | AFL charters Actors' National Protective Union, NYC |
| Special : | 04/04/1896 | Announcement of Gold in Yukon |
| Special : | 01/05/1896 | Austrian newspaper "Wiener Presse" publishes 1st public account of |
| Special : | 03/02/1896 | Battle of Aduwa, Abyssinia (Ethiopia) defeats invading Italians |
| Special : | 03/01/1896 | Battle of Aduwa: 80,000 Ethiopians destroy 20,000 Italians |
| Special : | 05/27/1896 | Bay District Race Track closes |
| Special : | 08/29/1896 | Chop suey invented in NYC by chef of visiting Chinese Ambassador |
| Special : | 07/28/1896 | City of Miami incorporated |
| Special : | 08/20/1896 | Dial telephone patented |
| Special : | 05/26/1896 | Dow Jones Industrial Average adopted |
| Special : | 10/08/1896 | Dow Jones starts reporting an average of industrial stocks |
| Special : | 07/13/1896 | Ed Delahanty, becomes 2nd major leaguer to hit 4 HRs in a game |
| Special : | 01/07/1896 | Fanny Farmer publishes her 1st cookbook |
| Special : | 04/25/1896 | Fight in Central Dance Hall starts fire (Cripple Creek Colorado) |
| Special : | 06/07/1896 | G Harpo and F Samuelson leave NY to row the Atlantic (takes 54 days) |
| Special : | 10/08/1896 | G Witt discovers asteroid #422 Berolina |
| Special : | 08/01/1896 | George Samuelson completes rowing Atlantic (NY to England) |
| Special : | 06/06/1896 | George Samuelson leaves NY harbor to row across Atlantic |
| Special : | 01/05/1896 | German physicist Wilhelm Roentgen's discovers x-rays |
| Special : | 08/12/1896 | Gold discovered at Klondike River at Dawson |
| Special : | 08/16/1896 | Gold discovered in Klondike, found at Bonanza Creek, Ala |
| Special : | 08/17/1896 | Gold is discovered on Klondike River |
| Special : | 05/04/1896 | Grease fire ignites « ton of dynamite at Cripple Creek Colorado |
| Special : | 04/10/1896 | Greek runner Spiridon Loues wins 1st modern Olympic marathon in Athens |
| Special : | 08/11/1896 | Harvey Hubbell patents electric lamp |
| Special : | 06/04/1896 | Henry takes his 1st Ford through streets of Detroit |
| Special : | 11/03/1896 | J H Hunter patents portable weighing scales |
| Special : | 09/26/1896 | John Philip Sousa led band's 1st performance (Plainfield, NJ) |
| Special : | 05/26/1896 | Last Czar of Russia, Nicholas II, crowned |
| Special : | 02/17/1896 | London Country Councils' Muzzling Order becomes effective |
| Special : | 05/14/1896 | Lowest US temperature in May recorded (-10øF-Climax, Colo) |
| Special : | 02/07/1896 | M Wolf discovers asteroid #415 Palatia |
| Special : | 05/06/1896 | M Wolf discovers asteroid #417 Suevia |
| Special : | 01/07/1896 | M Wolf discovers asteroids #412 Elisabetha and #413 Edburga |
| Special : | 03/20/1896 | Marines land in Nicaragua to protect US citizens |
| Special : | 03/25/1896 | Modern Olympics begin in Athens (4/6 New Style) |
| Special : | 12/30/1896 | Montreal Victorias beat Winn Victorias 6-5 for Stanley Cup |
| Special : | 07/21/1896 | National Federation of Afro-American Women and Colored Women's |
| Special : | 02/01/1896 | Opera "La Boheme" is produced (Turin) |
| Special : | 05/18/1896 | Plessy v. Ferguson upholds "separate but equal" policy |
| Special : | 11/14/1896 | Power plant at Niagara Falls begins operation |
| Special : | 04/23/1896 | Premier of motion pictures (Koster and Bial's Music Hall, NYC) |
| Special : | 10/01/1896 | Sherlock Holmes adventure "Veiled Lodger" takes place (BG) |
| Special : | 12/08/1896 | Start of Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of Missing 3 Quarter" (BG) |
| Special : | 11/19/1896 | Start of Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of Sussex Vampire" (BG) |
| Special : | 03/14/1896 | Sutro Baths (SF) opens by Cliff House (closed Sept 1, 1952) |
| Special : | 06/16/1896 | Temperture hits 127øF at Fort Mojave, Calif |
| Special : | 03/28/1896 | The opera "Andrea Chenier" is produced (Milan) |
| Special : | 05/27/1896 | Tornado (900 kph?) hits St Louis Missouri; 306 die |
| Special : | 05/15/1896 | Tornado kills 78 in Texas |
| Special : | 06/11/1896 | US Assay Office in Deadwood, South Dakota authorized |
| Special : | 01/04/1896 | Utah admitted as 45th state |
| Special : | 04/23/1896 | Vitascope system of movie projection 1st demonstrated (NYC) |
| Special : | 03/31/1896 | Whitcomb Judson, Chicago, patents a hookless fastening (zipper) |
| Special : | 01/01/1896 | Wilhelm Runtgen announces his discovery of x-rays |
| Special : | 07/08/1896 | William Jennings Bryan "cross of gold" speech at Dem convention |
| Special : | 11/03/1896 | William McKinley (R) defeats William Jennings Bryan (D) for president |
| Special : | 02/14/1896 | Winnipeg Victorias beat Montreal Victorias 2-0 for Stanley Cup |
| Special : | 10/01/1896 | Yosemite becomes a National Park |
| Special : | 08/27/1896 | Zanzibar loses to England in a 38 minute war (9:02 AM-9:40 AM) |
| Special : | 02/17/1896 | -5øF lowest temperature for this date in NYC |
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