Discover what happened in this year with HISTORY’s summaries of major events, anniversaries, famous births and notable deaths.
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On February 1, 1896, Giacomo Puccini's [La Bohème](http://one of the opera world's most beloved classics) premieres at the Teatro Regio in Turin, Italy. It would go on to become one of the opera world's most enduring, and beloved, classics.
Apr
06
On April 6, 1896, the Olympic Games, a long-lost tradition of ancient Greece, are reborn in Athens 1,500 years after being banned by Roman Emperor Theodosius I. At the opening of the Athens Games, King Georgios I of Greece and a crowd of 60,000 spectators welcomed athletes from 13 nations to the international competition.
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May
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In a major victory for supporters of racial segregation, the U.S. Supreme Court rules seven to one that a Louisiana law providing for “equal but separate accommodations for the white and colored races” on its railroad cars is constitutional. The high court held that as long as equal accommodations were provided, segregation was not discrimination and thus did not deprive African Americans of equal protection under the law as guaranteed by the 14th Amendment.
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