What Happened In July 1897 - Historical Events 1897 July

Historical Events for July, 1897

2nd » Italian scientist Guglielmo Marconi obtains a patent for radio in London.
11th » Salomon August Andrée leaves Spitsbergen to attempt to reach the North Pole by balloon. He later crashes and dies.
26th » Anglo-Afghan War: The Pashtun people Pashtun fakir Saidullah leads an army of more than 10,000 to begin a Siege of Malakand siege of the British garrison in the Malakand Agency of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa North West Frontier Province of India.

4th » Alluri Sita Rama Raju, Indian activist (d. 1924)
6th » Richard Krautheimer, German-American historian and scholar (d. 1994)
8th » Johannes Kaiv, Estonian diplomat (d. 1965)
10th » Jack Diamond (gangster) or Jack Diamond, American gangster (d. 1931)
10th » Karl Plagge, German general and engineer (d. 1957)
11th » Bull Connor, American police officer (d. 1973)
18th » Ernest Eldridge, English race car driver (d. 1935)
20th » Tadeus Reichstein, Polish-Swiss chemist, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine named Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1996)
24th » Amelia Earhart, American pilot and author (d. 1937)
26th » Harold D. Cooley, American lawyer and politician (d. 1974)
26th » Paul Gallico, American author (d. 1976)
29th » Neil Ritchie, Guyanese-English general (d. 1983)