Page 9: Historical Events In 1897

Oct 22   World's 1st car dealer opens in London   

Oct 24   Francis Turner Palgrave, poet/editor (Golden Treasury), dies at 73   

Oct 24   Lazar Weiner, composer   

Oct 28   Hans Speidel, nazi chief-staff/NATO-supreme commander.   

Oct 28   Hercules Robinson, S Africa Commissioner (1880-891895-97), dies at 72.   

Oct 29   Hope Emerson, Hawarden Iowa, actress (I Married Joan, Peter Gunn)   

Oct 29   Joseph Goebbels, Nazi propaganda chief is born   

Oct 31   Wilbur (Pete) Henry, NFL tackle (Canton, NY Giants, Pottsville)   

Nov 01   Naomi Mitchison, author (African Heroes, Return to Fairy Hill)   

Nov 02   Dennis King, Coventry England, comedian (Devil's Brother)   

Nov 03   Karel Salmon, composer.   

Nov 04   Oscar Lorenzo Fernandez, Brazilian conductor/composer (Imbapara).   

Nov 06   Edouard Deldevez, composer, dies at 80.   

Nov 06   Peter Pan opens in NY at Empire Theater.   

Nov 07   Ruth Pitter, British(?) poet.   

Nov 08   Dorothy Day, author (Stump the Authors)   

Nov 09   Moritz Heuzenroeder, composer, dies at 48   

Nov 09   Ronald G W Norrish, British chemist (Nobel 1967).   

Nov 11   Gordon W Allport, US, psychologist (personalities)   

Nov 12   Karl Marx, Germany, composer/conductor.   

Nov 14   John Steuart Curry, US painter/lithographer (Baptism in Kansas)   

Nov 15   John Mercer Langston, US black jurist, dies at 67.   

Nov 15   Sacheverell Sitwell, English poet/author (People's Palace)   

Nov 16   Halliwell Hobbes, Stratford-on-Avon Engld, actor (Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde)   

Nov 17   Ed Baker, Davis WV, actor (Keystone Kops)   

Nov 18   Jules Buffano, St Louis Mo, pianist (Jimmy Durante Show)   

Nov 20   Lores Bonney, aviator.   

Nov 23   Andrew J Beard invents "jerry coupler," to connect railroad cars   

Nov 23   Eli Olds of Lansing, Michigan, is issued a U.S. patent for his "motor carriage," a gasoline-powered vehicle that he constructed the year before   

Nov 24   Canadian Intercollegiate Rugby Football Union forms in Kingston.   

Nov 25   Spain grants Puerto Rico autonomy.   

Nov 28   Uno Choyo, writer.   

Nov 29   1st motorcycle race (Surrey England).   

Nov 29   Emiel van Hemeldonck, Belgian writer (Little Emperor)   

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Jan 01   Walter greaza: St paul minn, actor (martin kane private eye)   

Jan 02   Jim londos: Greek wrestler   

Jan 03   Marion davies: [marion cecelia douras], bkln, actress (operator 13)   

Jan 03   Pola negri: [barbara a chalupec], polish/us actress (madame bovary)   

Jan 05   Jack wagner: Oh, actor (jive junction)   

Jan 05   Theo mackeben: German pianist/composer (lady fanny, bel ami)   

Jan 06   Billy greene: Actor (burton-one man's family)   

Jan 08   Dennis wheatley: British author   

Jan 12   Isaac pitman: British inventor (pitman shorthand) (b. 1813)   

Jan 30   John cottam: Cricket (test for aust 1897, no sheffield matches),    

Feb 01   Constantin von ettingshausen: Austrian geologist (b. 1826)   

Feb 05   Hoss radbourn: Pitcher won 60 games in 1884,   

Feb 06   Ebenezer c brewer: British writer (dictionary of phrase & fable),   

Feb 07   Galileo ferraris: Italian physicist (ferrari),   

Feb 19   Karl t weierstrass: German mathematician,    

Feb 23   Woldemar bargiel: Composer,