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1896 Calendar

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•  January 16, 1896 – Defeat of Cymru Fydd at South Wales Liberal Federation AGM, Newport, Monmouthshire.
•  March 9, 1896 – Prime Minister Francesco Crispi resigns following the Italian defeat at the Battle of Adowa.
•  April 15, 1896 – Closing ceremony of the Games of the I Olympiad in Athens, Greece.
•  June 15, 1896 – The deadliest tsunami in Japan’s history kills more than 22,000 people.
•  July 8, 1896 – William Jennings Bryan delivers his Cross of Gold speech advocating bimetalism at the 1896 Democratic National Convention in Chicago.
•  July 28, 1896 – The city of Miami, Florida is incorporated.
•  August 23, 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).
•  August 27, 1896 – Anglo-Zanzibar War: the shortest war in world history (09:00 to 09:45) between the United Kingdom and Zanzibar.
•  September 22, 1896 – Queen Victoria surpasses her grandfather King George III as the longest reigning monarch in British history.
•  November 1, 1896 – A picture showing the unclad (bare) breasts of a woman appears in National Geographic magazine for the first time.

•  January 23, 1896 – Alf Hall, South African cricketer (d. 1964)
•  April 11, 1896 – Léo-Paul Desrosiers, Quebec novelist (d. 1967)
•  April 20, 1896 – Wilfrid R. “Wop” May, Canadian aviator (d. 1952)
•  April 30, 1896 – Hans List, Austrian inventor (d. 1996)
•  July 16, 1896 – Otmar Freiherr von Verschuer, German biologist and eugenicist (d. 1969)
•  July 28, 1896 – Barbara La Marr, American actress (d. 1926)
•  August 31, 1896 – Félix-Antoine Savard, Canadian priest and novelist (d. 1982)
•  September 8, 1896 – Howard Dietz, American lyricist and librettist (d. 1983)
•  October 30, 1896 – Kostas Karyotakis, Greek poet (d. 1928)
•  November 25, 1896 – Virgil Thomson, American composer and music critic (d. 1989)