1897

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1897 was the 26th year after the founding of the City of Birmingham.

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Tom Ashford in 1895

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Joseph Zoettl

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Bull Connor

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In 1897, William McKinley succeeded Grover Cleveland as President. Grant's Tomb was dedicated. Teatro Massimo opened in Palermo, Italy. Oscar Wilde was released from prison. The United Mine Workers Union was established. Mark Twain, responding to rumors that he was dead, was quoted by the New York Journal as saying, "The report of my death was an exaggeration." Queen Victoria celebrated her Diamond Jubilee. The Klondike Gold Rush began. Ransom E. Olds founded Oldsmobile. The Boston subway, the first underground metro in North America, opened. Spain granted Puerto Rico autonomy. The play Cyrano de Bergerac premiered in Paris.

Notable books published in 1897 included The Spoils of Poynton and What Maisie Knew by Henry James, Captains Courageous by Rudyard Kipling, Dracula by Bram Stoker, and The Invisible Man by H. G. Wells. Notable music released included "On The Banks Of The Wabash Far Away" by Paul Dresser, The Sorcerer's Apprentice by Paul Dukas, and Hymnus amoris by Carl Nielsen.

Notable births in 1897 included actress Marion Davies, composer Quincy Porter, singer Marian Anderson, baseball player Lefty O'Doul, psychiatrist Wilhelm Reich, film director Frank Capra, stooge Moe Howard, aviator Amelia Earhart, actor Charles Boyer, country singer Jimmie Rodgers, actor Walter Pidgeon, writer William Faulkner, Pope Paul VI, religious leader Elijah Muhammad, Nazi propagandist Joseph Goebbels, and mobster Lucky Luciano. Notable deaths included mathematician Karl Weierstrass, aboriginal insurrectionist Jandamarra, composer Johannes Brahms, saint Thérèse of Lisieux, and economist Henry George.

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