What Happened In April 1896 - Historical Events 1896 April

Historical Events for April, 1896

6th » In Athens, the opening of the 1896 Summer Olympics e.g first modern Olympic Games is celebrated, 1,500 years after the original games are banned by Roman Emperor Theodosius I.
15th » Closing ceremony of the 1896 Summer Olympics called Games of the I Olympiad in Athens, Greece.

4th » Robert E. Sherwood, American playwright and screenwriter (d. 1955)
7th » Frits Peutz, Dutch architect, designed the Glaspaleis (d. 1974)
8th » Yip Harburg, American composer (d. 1981)
11th » Léo-Paul Desrosiers, Canadian journalist and author (d. 1967)
15th » Nikolay Semyonov, Russian chemist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry named Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1986)
16th » Robert Henry Best, American journalist (d. 1952)
16th » Pat Clayton, English soldier and surveyor (d. 1962)
16th » Tristan Tzara, Romanian-French poet and critic (d. 1963)
17th » Señor Wences, Spanish-American ventriloquist (d. 1999)
18th » Na Hye-sok, South Korean journalist, poet, and painter (d. 1948)
20th » Wop May, Canadian captain and pilot (d. 1952)
26th » Ruut Tarmo, Estonian actor and director (d. 1967)
26th » Ernst Udet, German colonel and pilot (d. 1941)
27th » Rogers Hornsby, American baseball player, coach, and manager (d. 1963)
27th » William Hudson (engineer) e.g William Hudson, New Zealand-Australian engineer (d. 1978)
30th » Reverend Gary Davis, American singer and guitarist (d. 1972)
30th » Hans List, Austrian scientist and businessman, founded the AVL (engineering company) named AVL Engineering Company (d. 1996)

22nd » Thomas Meik, English engineer, founded Halcrow Group (b. 1812)
27th » Henry Parkes, English-Australian politician, 7th Premier of New South Wales (b. 1815)