* 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 )

Arizona State Sun Devils football was founded in 1897 under coach Fred Irish.

* 1954 – Fred Rose, American songwriter and music publishing executive ( b. 1897 )

In 1897, this company was liquidated, and its interests were sold first to William Ansel Kinney, and then to Fred Wunderburg.

* Fred Kearney ( 1897 – 1998 ), Canadian ice hockey player

) ( 1926 ), William George Mascord ( 1929 ), Fred Mold ( 1930 ) and Arthur Fairfax ( 1897 and 1905 ).

* Dardanella, words by Fred Fisher, music by Felix Bernard ( 1897 – 1944 ) & Johnny S. Black ( 1895 – 1936 ), McCarthy & Fisher Inc. ( 1919 )

Fred George Aandahl ( April 9, 1897 – April 7, 1966 ) was a Republican politician from North Dakota.

The Eastern group was the Association of Pentecostal Churches of America, a denomination formed on 13 April 1897 through the merger of two older bodies: The Central Evangelical Holiness Association ( organised 13 – 14 March 1890 ) and led by Fred A. Hillery and C. Howard Davis ; and three churches organised by William Howard Hoople since January 1894, and formed into the Association of Pentecostal Churches of America.

In 1942, Acuff and songwriter Fred Rose ( 1897 – 1954 ) formed Acuff-Rose Music.

Fowler's Folly fell into disrepair, and finally-condemned as a public hazard-it was dynamited in 1897 by Fred C. Haight, demolition engineer for the city of Fishkill.

Fred Clifford Clarke ( October 3, 1872 – August 14, 1960 ) was a Major League Baseball player from 1894 to and manager from 1897 to 1915.

The most successful of Audran's many comic operas were: Le grand mogol ( Marseille, 1877 ; Paris, 1884 ; London, as The Grand Mogul, 1884 with a libretto by Farnie, starring Florence St. John, Fred Leslie and Arthur Roberts ; New York as The Snake Charmer, 1881 ); La mascotte ( Paris, 1880 ; New York, 1881 ; London, as The Mascotte, 1881 with a libretto by Farnie, and cast including Lionel Brough and Henry Bracy ); Gillette de Narbonne ( Paris, 1882 ; London, as Gillette, 1883, libretto by Savile Clarke, with additional music by Walter Slaughter and Hamilton Clarke ); La cigale et la fourmi ( the grasshopper and the ant ) ( Paris, 1886 ; London, as La Cigale, 1890 ; English version by F. C. Burnand, starring Geraldine Ulmar, Eric Lewis and Brough ); Miss Helyett ( Paris, 1890 ; London, as Miss Decima, 1891, libretto by Burnand ); and La poupée ( Paris, 1896 ; London, 1897, libretto by Arthur Sturgess, starring Courtice Pounds and Willie Edouin ).

In 1897, Fred Barton ( snr ) held the first Presbyterian church service on Raymond Island, in a private home.

* Fred T. Jane's To Venus in Five Seconds ( 1897 ) is a satire and parody of the popular fiction of its era ; it features Venusian natives that blend the characteristics of elephants and horse-flies.

The work premiered at the Savoy Theatre in London on 20 February 1897, running for only 61 performances until 24 April 1897, despite a strong cast including George Grossmith, Ilka Palmay, Scott Russell, Fred Billington, Florence Perry and Walter Passmore.

A second candidate was presented by A. T. Martin, another antiquarian, who proposed in an article written in 1897, that the author was Thomas Malory of Papworth St. Agnes in Huntingdonshire.

In 1897, the volume 9 of this one which contained new translations, was published by T. & T. Clark as an additional volume to complete the original ANCL.

The first aerial photograph by rocket was of Karlskoga using one of Alfred Nobel cameras c. 1897, rocket possibly by Captain Wilhelm T. Unge.

Describes the photophone work of Hammond V Hayes at the Bell Labs ( patented 1897 ) and the German engineer H T Simon in the same year.

* 1897 T. Tertius Noble

In 1897, T. R. H the Duke and Duchess of York ( George V and Queen Mary ), grandparents to Elizabeth II, visited Newcastle to open the Slieve Donard Hotel.

Shortly after the 1897 beet campaign, a new town emerged, now commemorated on the National Register of Historic Places as the Henry T. Oxnard Historic District.

The college appointed Mr T Harold Hughes ( 1897 – 1949 ) as the Architect for the site.

The Whitaker Orphan's Home was established in 1897 by W. T.

* Mahan, A. T. ( 1897 ).

The Joseph T. Barnes family moved to the settlement in 1897.

Horace Porter, ( April 15, 1837 – May 29, 1921 ) was an American soldier and diplomat who served as a lieutenant colonel, ordnance officer and staff officer in the Union Army during the American Civil War, personal secretary to General and President Ulysses S. Grant and to General William T. Sherman, vice president of the Pullman Palace Car Company and U. S. Ambassador to France from 1897 to 1905.

The observatory, which calls itself " the birthplace of modern astrophysics ," was founded in 1897 by George Ellery Hale and financed by Charles T. Yerkes.

A Commission had attempted recently to revive the school by securing the brilliant and academically distinguished T. E. Brown ( 1830 – 1897 ) as headmaster.

Thomas Edward Brown ( 5 May 1830 – 29 October 1897 ), commonly referred to as T. E.

In 1897, D. T.

* T. longiceps ( nomen dubium ) Marsh, 1897 ( based on YPM 616, a large right dentary with teeth from the late Maastrichtian-age Upper Cretaceous Lance Formation of Wyoming, U. S. A., later assigned to Anatotitan )

* Emma Barton ( with William T. Sidgwick ), ed., Life and Letters of William Barton Rogers ( Boston, 1897 )

Their last daughter, Soong May-ling came in 1897 and was followed by the brothers T. L.

John Donald MacArthur ( March 6, 1897 – January 6, 1978 ) was an American businessman and philanthropist who established the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, benefactor in the MacArthur Fellowships.

* T Field ( 1897 – 1913 )

The patent for an Exhaust muffler for engines was awarded to Milton O. Reeves and Marshall T. Reeves of Columbus, Indiana of the Reeves Pulley Company on 11 May 1897.

* Autobiography Autobiography of A. T. Still 1897

He assumed the gubernatorial duties as Acting Governor in 1896 as a result of the death of Frederic T. Greenhalge and was later elected as the 39th Governor in November, serving from 1897 until 1900.