Page 12: Historical Events In 1896

Nov 27   "Also Sprach Zarathustra" (Thus Spake Zarathustra) debuts in Frankfurt   

Nov 27   Giovanni B Angioletti, Italian author (Il giorno del giudizio).   

Nov 28   Lilia Skala, Vienna, actress (House of Games, Flashdance, Charly).   

Nov 29   Philip L Carret, Lynn Mass, CEO (Pioneer Fund)   

Dec 01   1st certified public accountants receive certificates (NY).   

Dec 01   Petko Staynov, composer   

Dec 01   The inaugural certified public accountants receive certificates, New York   

Dec 02   Georgi K Zjukov, marshal of Moskow/Stalingrad [NS-Dec 11]   

Dec 02   Gerhart Hauptmann's "Die versunkene Glocke," premieres in Berlin   

Dec 03   Boleslaw Szabelski, composer.   

Dec 04   Nikolai S Tichonov, Russian writer (against Pasternak) [NS].   

Dec 05   (Lady Huxley) Juliette Baillot, author   

Dec 05   Henrik Ibsen's "Kejsor og Galileer," premieres in Leipzig   

Dec 06   Arnold Foster, composer   

Dec 06   D T Suzuki are discovered the awakening at Engakuji temple, in Kamakura.   

Dec 06   Ira Gershwin, American lyricist; with brother George is born.   

Dec 07   Juan Maria Thomas Sabater, composer   

Dec 08   Earnest Angel, German statistician (Law of Angel), dies at 75   

Dec 08   Start of Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of Missing 3 Quarter" (BG)   

Dec 10   1st intercollegiate basketball game (Wesleyan beats Yale 4-3).   

Dec 10   Alfred Nobel, Swedish Nobel Prize ceremony on this date, dies at 63.   

Dec 11   Georgi K Zjukov, Russian minister of Defense (WW II) [OS-Dec 2].   

Dec 12   Eslanda Goode, US anthropology/author under Paul Robeson   

Dec 14   James Doolittle aviator U.S. Army Air Force Lt. General awarded Congressional Medal of Honor for leading 1st U.S. aerial raid against Japan in WWII was born.   

Dec 14   James Doolittle aviator: U.S. Army Air Force Lt. General awarded Congressional Medal of Honor for leading 1st U.S. aerial raid against Japan in WWII was born   

Dec 14   James H Doolittle, USAF General (Raid on Tokyo 1942)   

Dec 14   The Glasgow Underground Railway is opened by the Glasgow District Subway Company.   

Dec 15   Carl Ferdinand Cori, US bio-chemist.   

Dec 15   Herman Hollerith, inventor of the tabulating machine used in the 1890 U.S. census, was saved from financial ruin when the Russian government contracted his tabulating machine for their census.   

Dec 15   John GR Acquoy, Dutch theologist/church historian, dies at 67   

Dec 19   John Seldon Whale, theologian   

Dec 21   Carl Romme, Dutch catholic foreman/KVP-min Socialist Business.   

Dec 22   Nikolay Semyonovich Tikhonov, St Petersburg Russia, poet.   

Dec 23   Alberto Hemsi, composer.   

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Jan 01   Maurice jacobson: Composer   

Jan 01   Teinosuke kinugasa: Japans actor/director (jujiro, jigoku-mon)   

Jan 02   Dziga vertiv: [denis a kaufman], russian director (sjagai, soviet!)   

Jan 02   Ernst-lothar von knorr: Composer   

Jan 02   Sir lawrence wackett: Australian aircraft engineer   

Jan 04   Everett mckinley dirkson: (sen-r-ill)   

Jan 04   Everett dirksen: American politician   

Jan 04   Everett dirksen: American politician (sen-r-ill)   

Jan 01   Alfred ely beach: American inventor (b. 1826)   

Jan 04   Joseph hubert reinkens: German old catholic bishop (b. 1821)   

Jan 08   William rainey marshall: Governor of minnesota (b. 1825)   

Jan 15   Matthew b brady: Us photographer (civil war),   

Jan 18   Charles floquet: French statesman (b. 1828)   

Jan 20   Heinrich m von battenberg: German son-in-law of victoria,   

Jan 25   Frans c baeckelmans: Flemish architect (court of justice),   

Jan 28   Joseph barnby: Composer,