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May 14 – Sidney Bechet, African American jazz saxophonist (died 1959 in France) June 6 – Homer E. Capehart, U.S. Senator from Indiana from 1945 to 1963 (died 1979) July 9 – Albert C. Wedemeyer, U.S. Army general (died 1989) July 10 – John Gilbert, silent film actor (died 1936) July 20 – Tom Dickinson, American football player (died 1999)
November 19 – Don Carlos Buell, United States Army officer who fought in the Seminole War, the Mexican–American War and the American Civil War (born 1818) December 15 – Calvin S. Brice, U.S. Senator from Ohio from 1891 to 1897 (born 1845) December 18 – Thomas W. Osborn, U.S. Senator from Florida from 1868 to 1873 (born 1833)
1897 was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar, the 1897th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 897th year of the 2nd millennium, the 97th year of the 19th century, and the 8th year of the 1890s decade. As of the start of 1897, the ...
1897 – Boston subway completed; 1897 – Dingley tariff; 1898 – The City of Greater New York is created through the annexation of Brooklyn, Western Queens County, and Staten Island into New York City; 1898 – USS Maine explodes in Havana, Cuba harbor, precipitating the Spanish–American War; 1898 – De Lôme Letter
In 1897 the Lattimer massacre happened. The violent deaths of 19 unarmed striking immigrant anthracite coal miners at the Lattimer mine near Hazleton, Pennsylvania , on September 10, 1897. [ 28 ] [ 29 ] The miners, mostly of Polish , Slovak , and Lithuanian ethnicity, were shot and killed by a Luzerne County sheriff's posse .
This timeline of the American Old West is a chronologically ordered list of events significant to the development of the American West as a region of the continental United States. The term "American Old West" refers to a vast geographical area and lengthy time period of imprecise boundaries, and historians' definitions vary.
America Online CEO Stephen M. Case, left, and Time Warner CEO Gerald M. Levin listen to senators' opening statements during a hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee on the merger of the two ...
May 27 – 1896 St. Louis–East St. Louis tornado: The costliest and third deadliest tornado in U.S. history levels a mile wide swath of downtown St. Louis, Missouri, incurring over $10,000,000 in damages at contemporaneous prices, [2] killing more than 255 and injuring over 1,000 people.