After Thompson came to London to live, he received a letter from Katie, which was dated February 8, 1897.

But during the second half of the century its fortunes reached a low point and when in 1897 Cyrus H. K. Curtis purchased it -- `` paper, type, and all '' -- for $1,000 it was a 16-page weekly filled with unsigned fiction and initialed miscellany, and with only some 2,000 subscribers.

The first regular auto racing venue was Nice, France, run in late March, 1897, as a " Speed Week.

Doubleday's purported invention of baseball was such a widely accepted belief in the late 19th century, that the legend was recorded on a Civil War monument in Maryland in 1897.

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.

The distinction of a Knight Commander of the Indian Empire was conferred upon him by Queen Victoria in 1897 ( and later Knight Grand Commander in 1902 by Edward VII ) and he received like recognition for his public services from the German Emperor, the Sultan of Turkey, the Shah of Persia and other potentates.

His attitude during the Greco-Turkish War ( 1897 ) was one of strict neutrality.

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

The credit for detecting its value belongs to Gaston Paris, although his edition ( 1897 ) was partially anticipated by the editors of the Monumenta Germaniae Historica, who published some selections in the twenty-seventh volume of their Scriptores ( 1885 ).

In 1896, delegates from the stronger and wealthier VFA clubs — Carlton, Collingwood, Essendon, Fitzroy, Geelong, Melbourne, St Kilda and South Melbourne — met to form a breakaway competition and in 1897, the Victorian Football League ( VFL ), was born as an eight-team competition.

Forgotten for many years, the grave was discovered in 1897 and the Premier of New South Wales, Sir Henry Parkes, had it restored.

Antoine Thomson d ' Abbadie d ' Arrast ( January 3, 1810 – March 19, 1897 ) was an Irish-French and Basque explorer, geographer, ethnologue, linguist and astronomer notable for his travels in Ethiopia during the first half of the 19th century.

The plum pudding model of the atom by J. J. Thomson, who discovered the electron in 1897, was proposed in 1904 before the discovery of the atomic nucleus in order to add the electron to the atomic model.

Benjamin Lee Whorf ( April 24, 1897 – July 26, 1941 ) was an American linguist and fire prevention engineer.

The son of Harry and Sarah ( Lee ) Whorf, Benjamin Lee Whorf was born on April 24, 1897 in Winthrop, Massachusetts.

The rule was subsequently ended in 1897.

The Achaemenid collection was enhanced with the addition of the Oxus Treasure in 1897, by acquisition from the German scholar Ernst Herzfeld, and then by the work of Sir Aurel Stein.

Waldemar Haffkine, a doctor who worked in Bombay, India, was the first to invent and test a plague vaccine against bubonic plague in 1897.

Many notable sea canals were completed in this period, starting with the Suez Canal ( 1869 )-which carries tonnage many times that of most other canals-and the Kiel Canal ( 1897 ), though the Panama Canal was not opened until 1914.

The Little Bears ( 1893 – 96 ) was the first American comic with recurring characters, while the first color comic supplement was published by the Chicago Inter-Ocean sometime in the latter half of 1892, followed by the New York Journals first color Sunday comic pages in 1897.

The one who did the most to help Peirce in these desperate times was his old friend William James, dedicating his Will to Believe ( 1897 ) to Peirce, and arranging for Peirce to be paid to give two series of lectures at or near Harvard ( 1898 and 1903 ).

In 1897, Coolidge was admitted to the bar, becoming a country lawyer

Max and Moritz provided an inspiration for German immigrant Rudolph Dirks, who created the Katzenjammer Kids in 1897.

The most famous Gothic villain ever, Count Dracula was created by Bram Stoker in his novel Dracula ( 1897 ).

In 1897, the Commission de décimalisation du temps was created by the French Bureau of Longitude, with the mathematician Henri Poincaré as secretary.

The part of Melissande was created by Sarah Bernhardt, who also was the original Photine of La Samaritaine ( Theatre de la Renaissance, 14 April 1897 ), a Biblical drama in three scenes taken from the gospel story of the woman of Samaria.

He moved to Punaauia in 1897, where he created the masterpiece painting " Where Do We Come From?

It is a network of four art museums: Tate Britain, London ( previously known as the Tate Gallery, founded 1897 ), Tate Liverpool ( founded 1988 ), Tate St Ives, Cornwall ( founded 1993 ) and Tate Modern, London ( founded 2000 ), with a complementary website, Tate Online ( created 1998 ).

In 1897, Big Horn County was created by removing lands from Sheridan County, along with lands from Fremont County, and Johnson County.

* 1897 Lytle Lake is created.

In 1785, York County was one of the original counties in the newly created state of South Carolina, and its boundaries remained unchanged until 1897, when a small portion of the northwestern corner was ceded to the newly-formed Cherokee County, South Carolina.

In 1897, Felix Hoffmann created a synthetically altered version of salicin ( in his case derived from the Spiraea plant ), which caused less digestive upset than pure salicylic acid.

Overpeck Township was formed on March 23, 1897 to be coextensive with Ridgefield Park village, and was created within Ridgefield Township for the purpose of administering a Board of Education.

* Steeplechase Horse Race – created by a Coney Island resident George C. Tilyou in 1897, this ride consisted of people riding wooden horses around the park on a steel track.

His Venus auf Erden (" Venus on Earth "), a revue-like one-act play was created in 1897 at the Apollo Theater in Friedrichstraß.

It was renamed " the " in 1886, and then in 1897 when the Imperial University system was created.

The still-existent Order of the Crown, originally created in 1897 under the authority of Leopold II, denoted supposed heroic deeds and service achieved while serving in the Congo Free State.

The salad was first created between 1893 and 1896 at the Waldorf Hotel in New York City ( the precursor of the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, which came into being with the merger of the Waldorf with the adjacent Astoria Hotel, opened in 1897 ).

* Publisher Albert Lewis Kanter ( 1897 – 1973 ), created Classic Comics for Elliot Publishing Company in 1941 with its debut issues being The Three Musketeers.

The Whip position was first created in the House of Representatives in 1897 by Speaker Thomas Reed ( R-ME ), who appointed James A. Tawney ( R-MN ) as the first whip.

In 1897, the company created an average for railroad stocks.

Under the illusory peace created by the Pact, the end of 1897 saw greater determination pm the part of the Filipinos to carry on the revolution.

In 1897 President Grover Cleveland created thirteen protected forests but lumber interests had Congress cancel the move.

In 1897, Felix Hoffmann created a synthetically altered version of salicin, derived from the species, which caused less digestive upset than pure salicylic acid.

Roscoe Henry Hillenkoetter ( May 8, 1897 – June 18, 1982 ), born in St. Louis, Missouri, was the third director of the post-World War II U. S. Central Intelligence Group ( CIG ), the third Director of Central Intelligence ( DCI ), and the first director of the Central Intelligence Agency created by the National Security Act of 1947.

One of the earliest forms of the genre was the character Flaxman Low, created in 1897 by mother and son Kate and Hesketh Hesketh-Prichard.

The seventh Earl served as Governor of New Zealand from 1892 to 1897 and was created Baron Fairlie, of Fairlie in the County of Ayr, in the Peerage of the United Kingdom, in 1897.