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This year in history
In the year 1896

	February 1st	The opera La boheme, by Giacomo Puccini was first performed.
	March 1st	Greek conductor and composer, Dimitri Mitropoulos, was born in Athens. He spent most of his career in the United States, where he was the conductor of the New York Philharmonic Orchestra between the years 1951 and 1957.
	March 30th	Greek politician, Harilaos Trikoupis, died in Cannes, France. He was Prime Minister of Greece 7 times, but retired to France after suffering a huge defeat in the elections of 1895.
	April 6th	Opening of the first modern Olympic Games in Athens. The games had been banned 1500 years before by the Roman emperor, Theodosius the first.
	May 26th	Nicholas the 2nd became Tsar of Russia. He was the last Emperor of Russia, as his rule ended with the Russian Revolution of 1917.
	June 2nd	Italian inventor, Guglielmo Marconi, received a patent for the radio.
	August 8th	American author, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, was born in Washington, District of Columbia. She is generally regarded as one of the great American writers of the 20th century.
	September 24th	American novelist, F. Scott Fitzgerald, was born in Minnesota. He is considered as one of the greatest American Novelists of the 20th century, even though he only wrote 4 novels.
	November 1st	The first ever picture exposing the naked breasts of a woman appeared in National Geographic magazine.
	December 10th	Swedish inventor, Alfred Nobel, died at the age 63. He was the inventor of dynamite and the founder of the Nobel Prizes.

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