* June 7 – George Szell, Hungarian conductor ( d. 1970 )

He was friends of, and played with, the most distinguished conductors of the day, including Wilhelm Furtwängler, Bruno Walter, Otto Klemperer, George Szell, Willem Mengelberg, and Sir Adrian Boult.

When Monteux left the orchestra in 1952, various conductors led the orchestra, including Leopold Stokowski, Georg Solti, Erich Leinsdorf, Karl Münchinger, George Szell, Bruno Walter, Ferenc Fricsay, and William Steinberg.

Besides visiting composers, some legendary conductors have led the orchestra, including Artur Rodziński, Walter Damrosch, Sir Thomas Beecham, John Barbirolli, Andre Kostelanetz, Lorin Maazel, Leonard Bernstein, Guido Cantelli, Victor de Sabata, Dmitri Mitropoulos, Erich Leinsdorf, George Szell, Charles Münch, Paul Paray, Rafael Kubelík, Daniel Barenboim, István Kertész, Karl Richter, Antal Doráti, Leonard Slatkin, Andrew Davis, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Yevgeny Svetlanov, Simon Rattle, Kurt Masur, Neeme Järvi, Kiril Kondrashin, Eugene Ormandy, Georg Solti, Alex Shkurko, Michael Kamen, Christopher Hogwood and Bruno Walter

Subsequent principal conductors, with the title of Music Director, were Artur Rodziński ( 1933 – 1943 ), Erich Leinsdorf ( 1943 – 1944 ), George Szell ( 1946 – 1970 ), Pierre Boulez ( Musical Advisor 1970-1972 ), Lorin Maazel ( 1972 – 1982 ), and Christoph von Dohnányi ( 1984 – 2002 ).

* 1946-1970 George Szell

The Orchestra has also had many distinguished guest conductors, including Leonard Bernstein, Aaron Copland, Edward Elgar, Morton Gould, Walter Hendl, Erich Kunzel, Erich Leinsdorf, Charles Munch, Eugene Ormandy, André Previn, Sergei Prokofiev, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Maurice Ravel, Arnold Schoenberg, Leonard Slatkin, Leopold Stokowski, Richard Strauss, George Szell, Michael Tilson Thomas, Bruno Walter, and John Williams.

The early 1960s saw the videotaped telecast series Music from Chicago, conducted by Fritz Reiner and guest conductors including Arthur Fiedler, George Szell, Pierre Monteux, and Charles Münch.

The orchestra's guest directors included most of the leading conductors of the day: Monteux, Ernest Ansermet, Erich Kleiber, Erich Leinsdorf, Charles Munch, Fritz Reiner, George Szell, Bruno Walter, and the young Lorin Maazel, among others.

During this period the orchestra was conducted by a series of guest conductors, who included Furtwängler, George Szell, Pierre Monteux, Koussevitzky, and Bruno Walter.

During this time, besides performing his duties as a research supervisor and chairman of the physics department, Reines sang in the Cleveland Orchestra Chorus under the direction of Robert Shaw in performances with George Szell and the Cleveland Orchestra.

By 1939 the orchestra's board was planning an ambitious programme for 1940, with guests including Bruno Walter, Leopold Stokowski, Erich Kleiber and George Szell.

** George Szell ( conductor ), David Oistrakh, Mstislav Rostropovich & the Cleveland Orchestra for Brahms: Double Concerto ( Concerto in A Minor for Violin and Cello )

Other conductors who worked closely with the Concertgebouw Orchestra included Pierre Monteux, Eugen Jochum, George Szell and Kirill Kondrashin, who was the Permanent Guest Conductor from 1978 to 1981.

* European archive Copyright free LP recording of Brahms 3rd symphony by George Szell ( conductor ) and the ( Royal ) Concertgebouw Orchestra at the European Archive ( for non-American viewers only ).

* In 1966 Columbia Records released a recording with George Szell conducting the Cleveland Orchestra, also including Leos Janácek's Sinfonietta.

Sir Thomas Beecham, George Szell and Bruno Walter were among the leading conductors engaged during Johnson's tenure.

* George Szell ( 1942 – 1946 )

* Leon Fleisher with George Szell and the Cleveland Orchestra

* Rudolf Serkin with George Szell and the Cleveland Orchestra

George Szell, conductor

Hungarian-born conductors include Antal Doráti ; Ádám, György and Iván Fischer ; Eugene Ormandy ; Fritz Reiner ; George Szell and Georg Solti.

This has included such notables as the Berlin Philharmonic, Charles Rosen, the Juilliard String Quartet, Antal Doráti conducting the Hague Philharmonic and George Szell conducting the Cleveland Orchestra.

Among his students were Joseph Haas, Sándor Jemnitz, Jaroslav Kvapil, Ruben Liljefors, George Szell and Cristòfor Taltabull.

Classic works of this Urban Gothic include Robert Louis Stevenson's Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde ( 1886 ), Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray ( 1891 ), George du Maurier's Trilby ( 1894 ), Richard Marsh's The Beetle: A Mystery ( 1897 ), Henry James ' The Turn of the Screw ( 1898 ), and the stories of Arthur Machen.

* 1978 – Ronald George Wreyford Norrish, English chemist, Nobel Prize laureate ( b. 1897 )

Abbott was a religious figure of some public note and was called upon on October 30, 1897, to deliver an address in New York at the funeral of economist, Henry George.

* 1897 – Ronald George Wreyford Norrish, British chemist, Nobel laureate ( d. 1978 )

* 1897 – George Hendric Houghton, American clergyman ( b. 1820 )

* 1839 – Henry George, American economist ( d. 1897 )

On 13 May 1897, Marconi, assisted by George Kemp, a Cardiff Post Office engineer, transmitted the first wireless signals over water to Lavernock ( near Penarth in Wales ) from Flat Holm.

* George Wellington ( 1852 – 1927 ) U. S. Senator from Maryland ( 1897 – 1903 )

* June 7 – Ronald George Wreyford Norrish, British chemist, Nobel Prize laureate ( b. 1897 )

* September 21 – Henry George, American writer, politician and political economist ( d. 1897 )

* March 3 – George Pullman, American inventor and industrialist ( d. 1897 )

* February 1 – George Hendric Houghton, American Protestant Episcopal clergyman ( d. 1897 )

Famous illustrators for British editions include: Arthur Boyd Houghton, John Tenniel, John Everett Millais and George John Pinwell for Dalziel's Illustrated Arabian Nights Entertainments, published in 1865 ; Walter Crane for Aladdin's Picture Book ( 1876 ); Albert Letchford for the 1897 edition of Burton ’ s translation ; Edmund Dulac for Stories from the Arabian Nights ( 1907 ), Princess Badoura ( 1913 ) and Sindbad the Sailor & Other Tales from the Arabian Nights ( 1914 ).

In 1897 he merged his growing London practice with that of Arthur Rhys Roberts ( who was to become Official Solicitor ) under the name of Lloyd George, Roberts and Co ..

Some charities and volunteer organizations have also been founded as gifts to, or in honour of, some of Canada's monarchs or members of the Royal Family, such as the Victorian Order of Nurses ( a gift to Queen Victoria for her Diamond Jubilee in 1897 ), the Canadian Cancer Fund ( set up in honour of King George V's Silver Jubilee in 1935 ), and the Queen Elizabeth II Fund to Aid in Research on the Diseases of Children.

On 1 November 1897 a band of twenty to thirty armed men stormed into the residence of a German missionary, George Stenz, and killed two priests who were his guests while looking for Stenz, who was sleeping in the servant's quarters.

Engineer Leslie George Frise ( 1897 – 1979 ) developed an aileron shape that is often used due to its ability to counteract adverse yaw.

They have been patented over 200 times in the U. S. alone, as in U. S. Patent 0586456, awarded in 1897 to George E. Rideout.

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

In 1897 the northeastern portion of the county was separated to form the new Dorchester County, with its seat at Saint George.

The church was built between 1888 and 1897 and designed by George Fellowes Prynne, a pupil of George Edmund Street.

The church was built between 1888 and 1897 and designed by George Fellowes Prynne, a pupil of George Edmund Street.

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.