The term " Cheer Leader " had been used as early as 1897, with Princeton's football officials having named three students as Cheer Leaders: Thomas, Easton and Guerin from Princeton's classes of 1898, 1898 and 1899, respectively, on October 26, 1897 ; these students would cheer for the team also at football practices, and special cheering sections were designated in the stands for the games themselves for both the home and visiting teams.

Beatty then took command of Fateh between October 1897 and August 1898 when the gunboats were frequently in action advancing along the Nile ahead of the army.

(; 29 October 1897 – 1 May 1945 ) was a German politician and Reich Minister of Propaganda in Nazi Germany from 1933 to 1945.

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.

Paavo Johannes Nurmi () ( 13 June 1897 – 2 October 1973 ) was a Finnish middle and long distance runner.

* McFadden ’ s Row of Flats ( 18 October 1896 – 10 January 1897 )

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.

First made at 60 Broad Street, Worcester, England, by two dispensing chemists, John Wheeley Lea and William Henry Perrins, the Lea & Perrins brand was commercialised in 1837 and has been produced in the current Midlands Road factory in Worcester since 16 October 1897.

* October 27 – Arthur Rhys-Davids, British World War I fighter ace ( b. 1897 )

* October 10 – Joseph Darnand, Vichy France politician ( executed ) ( b. 1897 )

* October 29 – Harvey Hendrick, American baseball player ( b. 1897 )

* October 2 – William Corby, American Catholic priest ( d. 1897 )

* October 26 – Jackson Scholz, American runner ( b. 1897 )

* October 13 – Nils Asther, Danish-born actor ( b. 1897 )

* October 31 – Karl Weierstrass, German mathematician ( d. 1897 )

On 2 October 1897 the same company gave the opera's first staging at the Royal Opera House in London and on 14 October 1897 in Los Angeles for the opera's United States premiere.

Michael " Hinky Dink " Kenna ( August 20, 1858 – October 9, 1946 ) was one of the two aldermen elected in Chicago's First Ward, from 1897 to 1923.

Characteristically, when the Arts and Crafts Society began in October 1897 in Chicago, it was at Hull House, one of the first American settlement houses for social reform.

* GC of the Order of Leopold of Belgium ( 4 October 1897 )

* Fähnrich zur See-25 October 1897

They were married in New York City on October 27, 1897, when she was 18.

In October 1991, during the " honeymoon " period after his resistance to the Soviet coup, Yeltsin convinced the legislature to grant him special executive ( and legislative ) powers for one year so that he might implement his economic reforms.

Edward was convinced that this was the moment to act, and on 19 October, Montague led a force of twenty three armed men into the castle by a secret tunnel.

Hitler, with an eye always to helping the party to grow through propaganda, convinced the leadership committee to invest in an advertisement in the Münchener Beobachter ( later renamed the Völkischer Beobachter ) for a mass meeting in the Hofbräuhaus, to be held on 16 October 1919.

A long conversation on a train in October 1942 convinced Groves and Nichols that Oppenheimer thoroughly understood the issues involved in setting up a laboratory in a remote area.

" In October 1923 in Ezra Pound's Paris flat, Ford Madox Ford convinced Joyce to contribute some of his new writings to the Transatlantic Review, a new journal Ford was editing.

Tried separately in late October 1770, Preston was acquitted after the jury was convinced that he had not ordered the troops to fire.

During the Estates-General Henry suspected that the members of the third estate were being manipulated by the League and became convinced that Guise had encouraged the duke of Savoy's invasion of Saluzzo in October.

When he visited Denmark for a peace congress in October 2002 ( the World Chechen Congress event in Copenhagen ), the Russians demanded his arrest and extradition ; Zakayev was held for over a month, but was released after Danish authorities stated they were not convinced that sufficient evidence had been provided.

Young eventually returned on October 7 or 8th at the Third Eye in Redondo Beach, California, and after bidding adieu to Greene and Stone ( Ertegün convinced the duo to release the band from production and management agreements ), the band divided its time between playing concert gigs and putting the finishing touches on its second album, ultimately titled Buffalo Springfield Again, produced by Ertegün himself.

Feeling increasingly oppressed by life under Bolshevik rule, the family left Petrograd, on 5 October 1920, for Riga, but encounters with anti-Semitism and difficulties with the Latvian authorities convinced them to leave, and they moved to Britain in early 1921 ( Mendel in January, Isaiah and Marie at the beginning of February ), when Berlin was eleven.

In October 2005, Baltimore resigned the office of the president, saying, " This is not a decision that I have made easily, but I am convinced that the interests of the Institute will be best served by a presidential transition at this particular time in its history ..." Former Georgia Tech Provost Jean-Lou Chameau succeeded Baltimore as president of Caltech.

Napoleon gradually became more convinced that the Austrians were massed at Ulm and ordered sizeable portions of the French army to concentrate around Donauwörth ; on 6 October, three French infantry and cavalry corps headed to Donauwörth to seal off Mack's escape route.

This led to Lawson resigning as chancellor to be replaced by his old protégé John Major, who, with Douglas Hurd, the then Foreign Secretary, convinced the Cabinet to sign Britain up to the ERM in October 1990, effectively guaranteeing that the British Government would follow an economic and monetary policy that would prevent the exchange rate between the pound and other member currencies from fluctuating by more than 6 %.

Joan's first child by Monthermer was born in October 1297 ; by the summer of 1297, when the marriage was revealed to Edward I, Joan's condition would certainly have been apparent, and would have convinced Edward that he had no choice but to recognize his daughter's marriage.

" He was willing to wait until the seriously ill Honecker died, but by October was convinced that the situation was too grave to wait for what he'd called " a biological solution.

In October at Halloween Havoc, Raven refused to wrestle Chris Jericho for the WCW Television Championship, but eventually was convinced to return to the ring.

According to the Boston Evening Transcript of October 4, 1904, Dugan had deposited a forged check for $ 955 in the Peoples Bank of Roxbury, Massachusetts, and convinced the bank manager to let him withdraw $ 500.

On October 31, 1763, finally convinced that the French in Illinois would not come to his aid at Detroit, Pontiac lifted the siege and removed to the Maumee River, where he continued his efforts to rally resistance against the British.

Even when the two corps assaulting Beersheba ( the XX Corps and Desert Mounted Corps ) began open movements on 29 October, the Ottoman forces remained convinced this was a minor outflanking movement of one infantry and one mounted division and that the main attack would still fall on Gaza.

As the convinced royalist Hertling objected to handing over the reins to the Reichstag, on 3 October Emperor Wilhelm II appointed Prince Maximilian of Baden as the new Imperial Chancellor.

On October 27, 1943, Vincent convinced Petrillo to allow his union musicians to record sides for the military, as long as the records were not offered for purchase in the United States.

Émile Benveniste ( 27 May 1902, Aleppo, Syria3 October 1976, Paris ) was a French Jewish structural linguist, semiotician, an apprentice of Antoine Meillet and his successor, who, in his later years, was converted to the structuralist view of language through the work of Ferdinand de Saussure, although he was unwilling to agree with it at first, being a convinced follower of the sociological stance of his teacher.

Soon after these measures were passed, Borden convinced a faction of Liberals ( using the name Liberal-Unionists ) along with Gideon Decker Robertson who was described as a " Labour " Senator ( but was unaffiliated with any Labour Party ) to join with them, forming the Unionist government in October 1917.

Accompanied by You Chaoqing ( 尤超清 ), Mao went to meet Yuan on October 6, 1927 at Dacang ( 大仓 ) village near Maoping ( 茅坪 ), and convinced Yuan to join his men.

Wang Zuo was initially somewhat wary, but as with Yuan, Mao approached Wang with a large gift of seventy rifles and horse saddles, and the offer of Communist instructors to give his force military training, thus successfully convinced Wang to welcome him into Wang's base at Ciping ( 茨坪 ) on October 27, 1927.