* 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 )

* Dorothy Day ( 1897 – 1980 )

** Dorothy Arzner, American film director ( b. 1897 )

; Dorothy Day: Dorothy Day ( 1897 – 1980 ) was a journalist turned social activist.

Mary Ford was born Iris Colleen Summers in El Monte, California, the second daughter of Marshall McKinley Summers ( born February 13, 1896 in Ridgway, Illinois ; died August 5, 1981 in Los Angeles, California ), a Nazarene minister, who later became a painting contractor, and his wife, Dorothy May White Summers ( born April 5, 1897 in Missouri ; died February 22, 1988 in South El Monte, California ), and was the sister of Byron Fletcher Summers ( born December 25, 1918 in Missouri ; died April 2, 1994 ), Esther Eva Summers Wootten ( born 1922 in Los Angeles, California ), and Bruce Wendell Summers ( born February 22, 1929 in California ; died November 15, 2007 ).

Dorothy Julia " Dodie " Pennebaker Brando ( February 7, 1897 – August 16, 1954 ) was the mother of Marlon Brando and among the members of the Omaha Community Playhouse's first cast.

Dorothy Arzner ( January 3, 1897 – October 1, 1979 ) was an American film director.

Dorothy Howell was born in Chicago, the daughter of Edwin John Howell, Jr. ( 1897 – 1946 ), a Chicago firefighter, and Della Murray ( 1902 – 1960 ).

Dorothy Day, American Christian anarchism | Christian anarchist and anarcho-pacifistDorothy Day, ( November 8, 1897 – November 29, 1980 ) was an American journalist, social activist and devout Catholic convert ; she advocated the Catholic economic theory of distributism.

The bells hang in a timber frame installed in 1897 by George Day & Son of Eye, Suffolk.

" O Canada " was originally commissioned by the Lieutenant Governor of Quebec, the Honourable Théodore Robitaille ( 1834 – 1897 ), for the 1880 St. Jean-Baptiste Day ceremony.

Other commentators have theorized that the Lectures represented official church doctrine in 1835, but that by 1897 or 1921 when the work was decanonized by the major Latter Day Saint denominations, the doctrine concerning the Godhead had changed, and the Lectures were no longer generally consistent accepted doctrines.

His orchestral works include the overture Cervantes, performed at Schwarzburg-Sondershausen in 1877, three Scottish Rhapsodies, a violin concerto premiered by Pablo de Sarasate at the Birmingham Festival of 1885, a " Scottish " concerto for piano ( 1897 ), a suite, London Day by Day ( 1902 ), and a Canadian Rhapsody ( 1905 ).

* Forever and a Day ( 1943 ) ( segment " 1897 ")

* University of Michigan vs. University of Chicago, Thanksgiving Day, November 25, 1897, won by Chicago 21-12.

Subsequently he had songs used in Baron Golosh, The Circus Girl ( 1896 ), the London production of the American musical A Day in Paris ( 1897 ), Carl Kiefert's The Ballet Girl ( 1897 ) and The Yashmak ( 1897 ).

Among his more important works may be named Women Gleaning, and The Day after St Sebastian's Day ( 1855 ), which gained him a third-class medal ; Blessing the Fields ( 1857 ), a second-class medal ; Erecting a Calvary ( 1859 ), now in the Lille gallery ; The Return of the Gleaners ( 1859 ), now in the Luxembourg ; Evening and Women Weeding ( 1861 ), a first-class medal ; Grandfather's Birthday ( 1862 ); The Close of Day ( 1865 ); Harvest ( 1867 ); Potato Gatherers ( 1868 ); A Pardon, Brittany ( 1869 ); The Fountain ( 1872 ), medal of honour ; The Bonfires of St John ( 1875 ); Women mending Nets ( 1876 ), in the Douai museum ; A Gleaner ( 1877 ), Luxembourg ; Evening, Finistère ( 1881 ); The Song of the Lark ( 1884 ); The Last Sunbeam ( 1885 ); The Shepherd's Star ( 1888 ); The Call Home ( 1889 ); The Last Gleanings ( 1895 ); Gathering Poppies ( 1897 ); The Alarm Cry ( 1899 ); Twilight Glory ( 1900 ).

Wordsworth was twice married, first in 1835 to Charlotte Day ( d. 1839 ), and secondly in 1846 to Katherine Mary Barter ( d. 1897 ).

* This Day at Thy Creating Word, to the tune Martham, words by W. W. How ( 1897 )

University School in Shaker Heights, Ohio, which opened in 1890, Detroit Country Day School now located in Beverly Hills Michigan, the Gilman School in Baltimore, Maryland, which opened in 1897, The Summit Country Day School in Cincinnati, Ohio, which opened in 1890, or the McDonogh School in Owings Mills, Maryland, which opened in 1873.

George Whiting Flagg ( June 26, 1816-January 5, 1897 )( DOD-verified New York Times Jan. 12, 1897-Death List Of A Day ) from New Haven, Connecticut, was an American painter of historical scenes and genre pictures.

On Easter Day, 1897, it was formally announced that Christ Church would become the Cathedral of the new diocese.

Ellen Craft ( 1826 – 1897 ) and William Craft ( September 25, 1824 – January 29, 1900 ) were slaves from Macon, Georgia in the United States who escaped to the North in December 1848 by traveling openly by train and steamboat, arriving in Philadelphia on Christmas Day.

In 1897, Bishop Maher of Port Augusta arranged for the Sisters of St Joseph to take charge of the St Anacletus Catholic Day School at Petersburg ( now Peterborough ).