Nervi 1896

Nervi 1896

• Schickert's Park Hotel opens in Nervi • Born in Vienna , a famous Austrian writer who later died in Nervi on 8.2.1938 under dramatic circumstances •Dies in Nervi as a result of an accident that occurred in Turin a few months before the twenty-two-year-old Count Mirafiori who was said to be the grandson of King Vittorio Emanuele • On 15.8.1896 is purchased for the sum of L. 9000 the land for the construction of the civil hospital of Nervi in the locality "Ronco" (continued)

- Car production begins in Switzerland - February- Anti-Turkish insurrection in Crete 1/2 - The Regio, the Boheme, is represented under the direction of Toscanini. 1/3 - The Italian army is defeated at Adua 23/3 - Before Andrea Chenier's Umbero Giordano in Turin 6/4 - The first Olympics of the modern era opened in Athens 20/4 - First public film show in the USA 4/6 - Henry Ford tests his first car June - Marconi patents his wireless invention in England 12/8 - Gold discovered in the Yukon 24/9 - Born in St. Paul, Minnesota, F. Scott Fitzgerald, one of the greatest American writers 1/11 - the first photo of a woman (Zulu) bare-breasted in National Geographic Magazine