1896

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

Events

• October: The Alabama Girls' Industrial School opened to students.
• The Southern League of Professional Baseball Clubs folded for a second time.

Business

• The company that would become Royal Cup Coffee was founded.

Individuals

Births

Durward Nickerson

• January 5: Dick Griffin, U.S. Marshal
• May 20: Jaybird Coleman, harmonica player
• July 2: Frank Calloway, artist and mental patient
• July 20: James Meissner, aviator
• August 13: Asa Rountree, Jr, Director of the Alabama Department of Aeronautics
• November 23: Henry Higginbotham, miner
• December 30: Homer Norton, college football coach
• Abraham Bengis, rabbi
• Afton Lee, Sr, businessman
• Durward Nickerson, messenger
• Willie Peterson, suspected murderer
• George Turner, architect
• Sidney van Sheck, artist and engineer

Deaths

• George R. Ward, innkeeper

Works

Buildings

• Buck Creek Mill
• Woodlawn Infirmary

Context

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.

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