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Centuries : 19th century - 20th century 21st century
Decades : 1850s 1860s 1870s 1880s 1890s - 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s
Years: 1897 1898 1899 1900 1901 - 1902 - 1903 1904 1905 1906 1907
Events
January 28 - The Carnegie Institution[?] is founded in Washington, DC with a $10 million gift from Andrew Carnegie .
France , Loisy[?] 's L'évangile et l'Eglise[?] Modernist Crisis[?]
February 11 - Police beat up universal suffrage demonstrators in Brussels .
March 10 - Circuit Court's decision disallows Thomas Edison from having a monopoly on motion picture technology.
March 10 - Boer War : South African Boers win their last battle over British forces, with the capture of a British general and 200 of his men.
April 2 - "Electric Theatre", the first movie theater in the United States , opens in Los Angeles, California .
May 8 - In Martinique , Mount Pelee[?] erupts destroys the town of St. Pierre[?] and kills over 30,000 people. Only a small handful of St. Pierre's residents survived the blast.
May 15 - In a field outside Grass Valley, California , Lyman Gilmore[?] reportedly becomes the first person to fly a powered airplane (a steam -powered glider).
May 17 - Archaeologist Spyridon Stais[?] finds the Antikythera mechanism
May 20 - Cuba gains independence from the United States
Art, Culture & Fashion
Births
January 6 - Max Güde[?] , attorney (+ 1984 )
January 20 - Nazim Hikmet[?] , lyricist and dramatist († 1963 )
January 31 - Alva Mydral[?] , politician (+ 1986 )
January 31 - Tallulah Bankhead , actress (+ 1968 )
February 1 - Langston Hughes writer
February 4 - Charles Lindbergh American aviator
February 8 - Lyle Talbot[?] , actor (+ 1996 )
February 10 - Walter Houser Brattain , scientist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1956
February 11 - Arne Jacobsen Danish architect/designer
February 20 - Ansel Adams , photographer (+ 1984 )
February 27 - John Steinbeck American writer
February 27 - Gene Sarazen , golfer
March 7 - Heinz Rühmann[?] , actor (+ 1994 )
March 9 - Will Geer[?] , actor (+ 1978 )
March 16 - Leon Roppolo , jazz clarinetist (+ 1943 )
March 17 - Bobby Jones[?] , golfer (+ 1971 )
March 21 - Son House , blues musician
March 24 - Thomas Dewey , politician (+ 1971 )
March 28 - Dame Flora Robson , actress (+ 1984 )
March 29 - William Walton , composer
March 29 - Marcel Aymé[?] , narrator and dramatist, humorist and satirist (+ 1967 )
April 4 - Louise Leveque de Vilmorin[?] , actress (+ 1969 )
May 6 - Max Ophüls , director (+ 1957 )
May 10 - Anatole Litvak[?] , film director (+ 1974 )
May 10 - David O. Selznick , Hollywood film producer (+ 1965 )
May 15 - Richard J. Daley , mayor of Chicago, Illinois (+ 1976 )
May 18 - Meredith Willson[?] , composer (+ 1984 )
May 21 - Marcel Lajos Breuer[?] , architect (+ 1981 )
July 4 - George Murphy[?] , dancer, actor, Senator from California (+ 1992 )
July 26 - Gracie Allen , actress, comedienne
August 8 - Paul Dirac , physicist
August 10 - Norma Shearer , Academy Award winning actress (+ 1983 )
August 11 - Alfredo Binda , Italian cyclist
August 19 - Ogden Nash , poet
August 22 - Leni Riefenstahl , German film director
August 25 - Stefan Wolpe , composer (+ 1972 )
October 5 - Ray Kroc[?] , founder of McDonald's Corporation
Deaths
Nobel Prizes
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