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1897 Calendar

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•  January 23, 1897 – Elva Zona Heaster is found dead in Greenbrier County, West Virginia. The resulting murder trial of her husband is perhaps the only case in United States history where the alleged testimony of a ghost helped secure a conviction.
•  February 7, 1897 – Greco-Turkish War: The first full-scale battle takes place when the Greek expeditionary force in Crete defeats a 4,000-strong Ottoman force at Livadeia.
•  April 17, 1897 – The Aurora, Texas UFO incident
•  April 18, 1897 – The Greco-Turkish War is declared between Greece and the Ottoman Empire.
•  July 2, 1897 – Italian scientist Guglielmo Marconi obtains a patent for radio in London.
•  August 2, 1897 – Anglo-Afghan wars: The Siege of Malakand ends when a relief column is able to reach the British garrison in the Malakand region of colonial India’s North West Frontier Province.
•  September 10, 1897 – Lattimer massacre: A sheriff’s posse kills 20 unarmed immigrant miners in Pennsylvania, United States.
•  December 6, 1897 – London becomes the world’s first city to host licensed taxicabs.
•  December 9, 1897 – Activist Marguerite Durand founds the feminist daily newspaper, La Fronde, in Paris.
•  December 12, 1897 – Belo Horizonte, the first planned city in Brazil, is founded.

•  February 10, 1897 – John Franklin Enders, American scientist, Nobel Prize Laureate (d. 1985)
•  April 24, 1897 – Manuel Ávila Camacho, President of Mexico (d. 1955)
•  May 17, 1897 – Odd Hassel, Norwegian chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1981)
•  June 11, 1897 – Grand Duchess Tatiana of Russia (d. 1918)
•  June 16, 1897 – Georg Wittig, German chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1987)
•  August 2, 1897 – Max Weber, Swiss Federal Councilor (d. 1974)
•  August 11, 1897 – Enid Blyton, English author (d. 1968)
•  August 31, 1897 – Fredric March, American actor (d. 1975)
•  November 13, 1897 – Gertrude Olmstead, American actress (d. 1975)
•  December 5, 1897 – Gershom Scholem, German-born Israeli Jewish philosopher and historian (d. 1982)