General fact: 1297 is a number for which we're missing a fact (submit one to numbersapi at google mail!).
Mathematical fact: 1297 is a Tetranacci-like number starting from 1, 1, 1, and 1.
Trivia: 1297 is an uninteresting number.
Historical date: July 20th is the day in 1960 that the Polaris missile is successfully launched from a submarine, the USS George Washington, for the first time.