Page 12: Historical Events In 1896

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 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   

Dec 25   "Stars and Stripes Forever" written by John Philip Sousa   

Dec 27   Arch Ward, sportswriter (proposed baseball's all-star game).   

Dec 28   Roger Huntington Sessions, Brooklyn NY, composer (Black Masks)   

Dec 29   David Alfaro Siqueiros, Mexico, painter/muralist (Lib of Chile)   

Dec 29   inaugural issue of newspaper Le Soleil is published.   

Dec 30   Jose Mercado Rizal, anti-Spanish rule of Philippines proponent, dies.   

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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,