* 1861 – Stanislas de Guaita, French occultist ( d. 1897 )

* 1897 – Humberto Mauro, Brazilian director and screenwriter ( d. 1983 )

Australia resoundingly won the 1897 – 98 series by 4 – 1 under the captaincy of Harry Trott.

* 1897 – Anglo-Afghan War: The Siege of Malakand ends when a relief column is able to reach the British garrison in the Malakand states adjacent to India's North West Frontier Province.

* 1897 – Karl-Otto Koch, German SS officer ( d. 1945 )

* 1897 – Max Weber, Swiss politician ( d. 1974 )

* 1897 – Jandamarra, Indigenous-Australian resistance leader ( b. c. 1873 )

* 1897 – Franco-Hova Wars: The town of Anosimena is captured by French troops from Menabe defenders in Madagascar.

* 1897 – Maurice Fernandes, Guyanese cricketer ( d. 1981 )

During the Invasion of the Kuril Islands, Akira Nakamura ( b. 1897 ) was captured by the Soviet army and his elder son Takeshi Nakamura ( 1925 – 1945 ) was killed in the battle.

), Prosopographia Imperii Romani, 3 vol., Berlin, 1897 – 1898.

* 1897 – Thomas Edison patents the Kinetoscope, the first movie projector.

* 1897 – The town of Ambiky is captured by France from Menabe in Madagascar.

* 1897 – The Greco-Turkish War is declared between Greece and the Ottoman Empire.

* 1897 – Ardito Desio, Italian topographer ( d. 2001 )

* 1897 – Claire Windsor, American actress ( d. 1972 )

* 1975 – Fredric March, American actor ( b. 1897 )

* 1994 – Salimuzzaman Siddiqui, Pakistani scientist and scholar ( b. 1897 )

Oldtiden og den ældre Middelalder, pp. 570 – 735 ( Copenhagen, 1897 – 1905 ).

* 1897 – The Aurora, Texas UFO incident

* 1897 – Thornton Wilder, American dramatist ( d. 1975 )

* 1897 – Enid Blyton, English author ( d. 1968 )

* 1897 – Louise Bogan, American poet ( d. 1970 )

Instrumentenk., 1897, 17, and 1898, 18, p. 4 ).

* Around the World with the Yellow Kid-a strip that sent the Kid on a world tour in the manner of Nellie Bly ( 17 January-30 May 1897 )

* February 17 – Nita Naldi, American actress ( b. 1897 )

* May 17 – Sebastian Kneipp, German naturopath ( d. 1897 )

The opera quickly became popular throughout Italy and productions were soon mounted by the following companies: The Teatro di San Carlo ( 14 March 1896, with Elisa Petri as Musetta and Antonio Magini-Coletti as Marcello ); The Teatro Comunale di Bologna ( 4 November 1896, with Amelia Sedelmayer as Musetta and Umberto Beduschi as Rodolfo ); The Teatro Costanzi ( 17 November 1896, with Maria Stuarda Savelli as Mimì, Enrico Giannini-Grifoni as Rodolfo, and Maurizio Bensaude as Marcello ); La Scala ( 15 March 1897, with Angelica Pandolfini as Mimì, Camilla Pasini as Musetta, Fernando De Lucia as Rodolfo, and Edoardo Camera as Marcello ); La Fenice ( 26 December 1897, with Emilia Merolla as Mimì, Maria Martelli as Musetta, Giovanni Apostolu and Franco Mannucci as Rodolfo, and Ferruccio Corradetti as Marcello ); Teatro Regio di Parma ( 29 January 1898, with Solomiya Krushelnytska as Mimì, Lina Cassandro as Musetta, Pietro Ferrari as Rodolfo, and Pietro Giacomello as Marcello ); And the Teatro Donizetti di Bergamo ( 21 August 1898, with Emilia Corsi as Mimì, Annita Barone as Musetta, Giovanni Apostolu as Rodolfo, and Giovanni Roussel as Marcello ).

Thornton Niven Wilder ( April 17, 1897 – December 7, 1975 ) was an American playwright and novelist.

After being launched on 17 May 1897, it was eventually purchased by the Navy and renamed USS Holland.

Charles Taze Russell was born to Scottish-Irish parents, immigrant Joseph Lytel () Russell ( d. December 17, 1897 ) and Ann Eliza Birney ( d. January 25, 1861 ), on February 16, 1852 in Allegheny, Pennsylvania, USA.

Holland continued to improve his designs and worked on several experimental boats, prior to his successful efforts with a privately built type, launched on 17 May 1897.

In 1897, Ayer decided to donate his 17, 000 pieces to The Newberry Library, a project that tarried until 1911.

On August 17, 1897, Pineville was the site of a bank robbery which was one of the few at that time that involved a woman as an active participant in the actual robbery.

A post office was opened in La Crosse in 1881, and La Crosse was incorporated as a town on 17 December 1897.

On August 17, 1897, Pineville was the site of a bank robbery which was one of the few at that time that involved a woman as an active participant in the actual robbery.

On February 17, 1897, Aguinaldo and a group of katipuneros defeated Spanish forces led by General Camilo de Polavieja at the Battle of Zapote Bridge in Cavite.

( New Mexico Volunteer Militia redesignated 17 March 1897 as the New Mexico National Guard.

In 1897, he became chairman of George Younger and Son, the family brewing business founded by his great-grandfather, George Younger ( baptised 17 February 1722 ), of Alloa, Clackmannanshire.

The name was changed to Agdenes on 17 May 1897 by a royal resolution.

On December 31, 1897, their older daughter, Lucille Pulitzer, died at the age of 17 from typhoid fever.

On March 17, 1897, in Carson City, Nevada, he knocked out American Jim Corbett, generally recognized as the legitimate World Heavyweight Champion ( having won the title from John L. Sullivan in 1892 ) in round 14.

* The Victorian Football Association ( now called the Victorian Football League ) is formed on 17 May and is the highest level of the sport in Victoria until surpassed in 1897 by the breakaway Victorian Football League ( now known as the Australian Football League ).

In this uprising, he deposed President Vicente Lucio Salazar and declared himself anticlerical dictator on June 5, 1895 and was later named constitutional president from January 17, 1897 until September 1, 1901.

As to Izhorians, in 1834 there were 17, 800 of them, in 1897 — 21, 000, in 1926 — 26, 137.

Marcel André Henri Félix Petiot ( 17 January 1897 – 25 May 1946 ) was a French doctor and serial killer.