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In 1897, after he died, the firm became Armstrong Whitworth which is now part of Rolls Royce plc and BAE Systems.
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By mid-1896 all of Satie's financial means had vanished, and he had to move to cheaper and much smaller lodgings, first at the, and two years later, after he'd composed the two first sets of in 1897, to Arcueil, a suburb some five kilometres from the centre of Paris.
However, most chemists followed Kekulé's lead in pursuing and developing what some have called " classical " structure theory, which was modified after the discovery of electrons ( 1897 ) and the development of quantum mechanics ( in the 1920s ).
It was identified in 1897 by the Italian physician Camillo Golgi and named after him in 1898.
Sixty-six years after opening the mine in 1897, Hoover still had a partial share in the Sons of Gwalia mines when it finally closed in 1963, just one year before the former President's death in New York City in 1964.
In 1897 the Pender Laboratory was founding at University College, London and Fleming took up the Pender Chair after the £ 5000 was endowed as a memorial to John Pender, the founder of Cable and Wireless.
In 1897 Max Weber Sr. died, two months after a severe quarrel with his son that was never resolved.
In the 15 years after 1897 the stand capacity at the ground increased to nearly 20, 000.
The Gazeta Ludowa was published in Lyck in 1896 – 1902, with 2, 500 copies in 1897 and the Mazur in Ortelsburg after 1906 with 500 copies in 1908 and 2, 000 prior to World War I.
Nobel's instructions named a Norwegian Nobel Committee to award the Peace Prize, the members of whom were appointed shortly after the will was approved in April 1897.
The first four lines had appeared in 1880, rising to 13 by 1897, all horse-drawn, but after electrification between 1898 and 1902 the number of lines had soared to 35 by 1908 and ultimately reached 40, carrying between them 600 trams every hour, day and night.
The use of fork and spoon were introduced by King Chulalongkorn after his return from a tour of Europe in 1897 CE.
The Crimean peninsula was changing hands as well, in 1897 it was a part of the Taurida Governorate, but after the October Revolution became part of the Russian SFSR, and later was turned under the administration of the Ukrainian SSR.
The first Vabis automobile ( though the name was not applied until after this ) was a four-seater designed by Gustaf Erikson in Surahammar in 1897.
Victoria is named after Queen Victoria, as 1897 was the 60th anniversary of her coronation.
* April 16 – Lucius D. Clay, American military governor of Germany after World War II ( b. 1897 )
He was arrested on a denunciation for his revolutionary activities for the first time in 1897 after which he served almost a year in the Kovno prison.
Yerkes renewed the campaign in 1897, and, after a hard-fought battle, secured from the Illinois Legislature a bill granting city councils the right to approve extended franchises.
In Germany, after unification in 1871, the Arts and Crafts movement developed nationalist associations under the encouragement of the Bund für Heimatschutz ( 1897 ) and the Vereinigte Werkstätten für Kunst im Handwerk founded in 1898 by Karl Schmidt.
It is named after Cesare Burali-Forti, who discovered it in 1897.
Pavlov performed and directed experiments on digestion, eventually publishing The Work of the Digestive Glands in 1897, after 12 years of research.
The Act also included a unique provision that stated tin-plates should be admitted free of any duty after 1897, unless domestic production in any year reached one third the imports in that year.
Anna Leonowens met Chulalongkorn again when he visited London in 1897, thirty years after she had left Siam, and the king took the opportunity to express his thanks in person.
It ceased in 1897 after complaints by tradesmen and it was officially stopped under section 72 of the Highway Act 1835.
He had a brother and two sisters, the youngest born in 1897 shortly after they settled in the Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York.
) 1897 – 17 July 1918 ), ( after 1900, Tatiana's birthday was celebrated on 11 June ) was the second daughter of Tsar Nicholas II, the last monarch of Russia, and of Tsarina Alexandra.
1897 and died
He died in 1897, and bequeathed the Abbadi domain and castle in Hendaye, yielding 40, 000 francs a year, to the Academy of Sciences.
Queen Ranavalona III was deposed on January 1897 and was exiled to Algiers in Algeria, where she died in 1917.
Lady Aberdare, born 1827, died in April 1897 and was a proponent of women's education and active in the establishment of Aberdare Hall in Cardiff.
His condition gradually worsened and he died on 3 April 1897, aged 63.
She died in 1897, and was buried in the McDucks ' cemetery.
Putnam ’ s activities with the American Library Association led him to join with Justin Winsor and Melvil Dewey as official delegates to the International Conference of Librarians in London in 1897 When Winsor died shortly thereafter, Putnam served the remainder of his term as President of the ALA.
Athol Estes Porter died on July 25, 1897, from tuberculosis ( then known as consumption ).
The most recent memorial was installed in 1958 to commemorate Isaac Pitman, the developer of Pitman shorthand, who died in 1897.
He died in Washington in 1897 and is buried in Terre Haute.
Sixteen months after Millais ' death, Effie died at Bowerswell on 23 December 1897 and was buried in Kinnoull churchyard, Perth, which is depicted in Millais's painting The Vale of Rest.
After receiving her teacher certification from the University of Colorado in Boulder, she began teaching in Wabbaseka in 1897 and died there in 1944.
Castro died at the age of 90 in 1897.
* Hugo Fox ( born February 2, 1897 in South Whitley ; died December 29, 1969 in South Whitley ) was the principal bassoonist of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra from 1922 to 1949.
He retained close contact with the community which bore his name, until he died of appendicitis on July 30, 1897 at age forty.
After a short illness Giles died of pneumonia at his nephew's house in Coolgardie on 13 November 1897 and was buried at the Coolgardie Cemetery.
After 1897 the tradition died out, apparently because the ' real Gypsies ' had disappeared.
Nordholm was born in Stockholm, Sweden, 1897, the son of Per Gustav Nordholm from Blekinge, Sweden, and died in Raleigh, Wake County, North Carolina, USA in 1987.
He died in 1897 and was buried in Denbigh, McHenry County, North Dakota.
His wife Elena died in 1897 and in 1899 he married Nina Boucicault ( Nina was a first cousin of her namesake, Nina Boucicault, the celebrated Irish stage and film actress ), who helped him entertain on a lavish scale.
On December 31, 1897, their older daughter, Lucille Pulitzer, died at the age of 17 from typhoid fever.
He died there on 25 February 1897.
Haj Mohammed Effendi Amin el-Husseini (, Muhammad Amin al-Husayni ; born c. 1897 ; died 4 July 1974 ) was a Palestinian Arab nationalist and Muslim leader in Mandatory Palestine.
* January 2-Justin Winsor, historian and librarian ( died 1897 )
* April 4-Margaret Oliphant ( died 1897 )
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