Other Things in 1897

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January 23 <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/January_23> - Elva Zona
Heaster<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elva_Zona_Heaster>found dead in
Greenbrier
County <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenbrier_County%2C_West_Virginia>, West
Virginia <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Virginia>. The resulting murder
trial of her husband was perhaps the only case in United States history
where the testimony of a ghost helped secure a conviction.

July 11 <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/July_11> - S. A. Andrée's Arctic
balloon expedition of
1897<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S._A._Andr%C3%A9e%27s_Arctic_balloon_expedition_of_1897>begins.
The ill-fated expedition to fly over the arctic results in the death
of the entire team within months

September 10 <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/September_10> - In the Lattimer
Massacre <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lattimer_Massacre>, a sheriff's posse
killes more than nineteen unarmed immigrant miners in
Pennsylvania<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pennsylvania>.


France <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/France> allows women to study at the Ecole
des Beaux-Arts <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecole_des_Beaux-Arts>.
First use of the word computer
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer>meaning an electronic
calculation device.
J. J. Thomson <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._J._Thomson> discovers the
electron <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electron> as a subatomic
particle<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subatomic_particle>


J. J. Thomson <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._J._Thomson> discovers the
electron <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electron> as a subatomic
particle<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subatomic_particle>
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