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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 ...
April 10 – Daniel W. Voorhees, U.S. Senator from Indiana from 1877 to 1897 (born 1827) April 23 – John Henry Raap, Chicago entrepreneur and retailer (born 1840) August 14 – James Z. George, U.S. Senator from Mississippi from 1881 to 1897 (born 1826) October 3 – Samuel J. R. McMillan, U.S. Senator from Minnesota from 1875 to 1887 (born 1826)
May 6 – John Jacob Abel announces the successful isolation of epinephrine in a paper read before the Association of American Physicians. [7]August 10 – History of aspirin: At the German Bayer chemical and dyestuffs company, pharmacist Felix Hoffmann successfully synthesizes acetylsalicylic acid, a synthetically altered version of salicin, as a less-irritating replacement for standard ...
Tammany and Consolidation, 1855–1897 (Civil War, 1861–1865) Early 20th century, 1898–1945 Post–World War II, 1946–1977 Modern and post-9/11, 1978–present: See also; Timelines: New York City • Manhattan • Bronx • Brooklyn • Queens • Staten Island Transportation Category
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. Scores more workers were ...
In 1897, an editorial writer from the New York Sun answered a letter from a little girl wondering about Santa Claus. 'Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus': Read the essay from 1897 that made us ...
Stephen Grover Cleveland (March 18, 1837 – June 24, 1908) served as the 22nd and 24th president of the United States, from 1885 to 1889 and again from 1893 to 1897.He was the first Democrat to win election to the presidency after the Civil War and the first of two U.S. presidents to serve nonconsecutive terms.
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 ...