What Happened In February 1896 In History

Historical Events for February, 1896

• 23rd » The Tootsie Roll is invented.

Famous Birthdays on February in 1896

• 2nd » Kazimierz Kuratowski, Polish mathematician and logician (d. 1980)
• 4th » Friedrich Glauser, Swiss author (d. 1938)
• 4th » Friedrich Hund, German physicist (d. 1997)
• 9th » Alberto Vargas, Peruvian painter (d. 1982)
• 15th » Arthur Shields, Irish actor (d. 1970)
• 16th » Eugénie Blanchard, French super-centenarian (d. 2010)
• 19th » André Breton, French poet (d. 1966)
• 21st » Suryakant Tripathi, Indian poet (d. 1961)
• 24th » Richard Thorpe, American director and screenwriter (d. 1991)
• 26th » Andrei Zhdanov, Ukrainian-Russian politician (d. 1948)
• 28th » Philip Showalter Hench, American physician, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine e.g Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1965)
• 29th » Morarji Desai, Indian politician, 4th Prime Minister of India (d. 1995)
• 29th » Roy Parker, American baseball player (d. 1954)
• 29th » William A. Wellman, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 1975)

Famous Deaths for February 1896

• 12th » Ambroise Thomas, French composer (b. 1811)

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