1896

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1896 was the 25th year after the founding of the City of Birmingham.

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In 1896, Utah was admitted as a state. The first modern Olympic Games were held. The Supreme Court case of Plessy v. Ferguson was decided, upholding segregation as "separate but equal." Charles Dow published the first edition of the Dow Jones Industrial Average. A tornado struck downtown St. Louis, Missouri, killing more than 255 and injuring over 1,000 people. An earthquake and tsunami in Sanriku, Japan killed 27,000. The Atlantic City rail crash killed 50 and seriously injured approximately 60. Republican William McKinley defeated William Jennings Bryan in the presidential election.

Notable books published in 1896 included The Damnation of Theron Ware by Harold Frederic, The Well at the World's End by William Morris, Tom Sawyer, Detective by Mark Twain, Facing the Flag by Jules Verne, The Island of Doctor Moreau by H. G. Wells, and poetry collection A Shropshire Lad by Alfred Edward Housman. Notable music released included "El Capitan March" by John Philip Sousa, "A Hot Time In The Old Town" by Joseph Hayden & Theodore A. Metz, Also sprach Zarathustra by Richard Strauss, and opera La Bohème by Giacomo Puccini.

Notable births in 1896 included comedian George Burns, baseball player Rogers Hornsby, film director Howard Hawks, physicist Robert S. Mulliken, actress Hope Summers, inventor Léon Theremin, writer F. Scott Fitzgerald, singer and actress Ethel Waters, baseball player Bucky Harris, baseball player Jimmy Dykes, and lyricist Ira Gershwin. Notable deaths included journalist Thomas W. Knox, photographer Mathew Brady, author Harriet Beecher Stowe, composer Anton Bruckner, inventor George Washington Gale Ferris Jr, and inventor Alfred Nobel.

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