1897

YEAR
1897
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Events

• Dracula, written by Bram Stoker, is published.
• By this year Theodore Roosevelt had six children.
• The first turbine-powered steamship sets sail.
• The first Stanley Steamer automobile rolls out of the plant (127 mph top speed).
• William McKinley is elected president of United States of America. McKinley rewards Roosevelt with the cabinet position of assistant secretary of the Navy.
• Cyrus Curtis buys the Saturday Evening Post for just one thousand dollars.
• S. A. Andree's attempted mission to reach the North Pole in a balloon fails after 65 hours of flight, and there are no survivors.
• Several people in the United States of America see strange airships.
• A telegraph operator begins working in Durango, Colorado.
• James Creelman interviews the Mexican president Porfiro Diaz.

Births

• Frank Jones (Approximate)
• Sidney Bechet
• Quentin Roosvelt
• Mack Stanton in United States.
• Lonely Wolf
• Sallah Mohammed Faisel el-Kahir in Cairo, Egypt.

Deaths

• S. A. Andree in White Island, Barents Sea

Appearances

• The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Revolution (Mentioned only)
• The Roaring Twenties (Glossary)
• Indiana Jones and the Sky Pirates (Mentioned only)

Sources

• The World of Indiana Jones
•  Research Begins in the Library on IndianaJones.com (backup link on Archive.org)
• Theodore Roosevelt and The American Century (Non-fiction source)
• American Dreams - Norman Rockwell & The Saturday Evening Post (Non-fiction source)
• Dracula - Fact and Fiction (Non-fiction source)
• Indiana Jones: The Ultimate Guide

External links

• 1897 on Wikipedia