Today in History for April 1896

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Historical Events

Events 1 - 11 of 11

4th - Announcement of Gold in Yukon
6th - 1st modern Olympic games open in Athens Greece [3/25 OS] American, James Connolly, wins 1st Olympic gold medal in mod history
10th - Spiridon Louis wins 1st Olympic marathon (2:58:50)
12th - Stamasia Portrisi is 1st woman to win a marathon (5:30 in Athens)
14th - John Philip Sousa's "El Capitan," premieres (NYC)
15th - 1st Olympic games close at Athens, Greece
19th - Herzl's "The Jewish State" is published
20th - 1st public film showing in US John Philip Sousa's "El Capitan," premieres in NYC
23rd - Vitascope system of movie projection 1st shown at Koster & Bial's Music Hall (NYC)
25th - Fight in Central Dance Hall starts fire (Cripple Creek Colorado)
25th - Sidney Jones & Harry Greenbacks musical premieres in London

Famous Birthdays

Birthdays 1 - 23 of 23

3rd - Douwe Kalma, Dutch literary/leader (Young Frisian Movement)
4th - Robert Sherwood, dramatist (Abe Lincoln in Illinois, Idiot's Delight)
4th - Tristan Tzara, [Samuel Rosenfeld] French poet (Approximate Man)
6th - Juan Tomas Perez, composer
7th - Benny Leonard, lightweight boxing champ (1917-25)
8th - Karl Hermann Pillney, composer
8th - Yip Harburg, American lyricist (d. 1981)
10th - Edith Day, Minneapolis MN
11th - Léo-Paul Desrosiers, Quebec novelist (d. 1967)
15th - Nikolay Nikolayevich Semyonov, Russian chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1986)
17th - Senor Wences, ventriloquist (his hand acts as a puppet)
18th - C Eugene Wegmann, Swiss geologist (Le Jura plisse)
20th - Senor Wences, ventriloquist (Close the Door)
20th - Wop May, Canadian aviator (d. 1952)
21st - Henry M de Montherlant, French novelist and stage author (La Reine Morte)
23rd - Margaret Kennedy, novelist
26th - Ernst Udet, WWI pilot and film actor, Luftwaffe officer (d. 1941)
27th - Rogers Hornsby, 2nd baseman (St Louis Cards)
27th - Wallace Hume Carothers, inventor (nylon)
29th - Jacques Leon Wolfe, composer
29th - Walter Mehring, writer
30th - Gary Davis, Laurens SC, blues/folk guitarist (A Little More Faith)
30th - Hans List, Austrian inventor (d. 1996)

Famous Deaths

Deaths 1 - 6 of 6

5th - John Rogers Thomas, composer, dies at 66
12th - Alexander Ritter, composer, dies at 62
22nd - Thomas Meik, British civil engineer (b. 1812)
27th - Henry Parkes, known as the Father of Federation (b. 1815)
28th - Heinrich von Treitschke, German historian, dies
30th - Antonio Cagnoni, composer, dies at 68