| Date | Event |
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1917 |
Laurindo Almeida Was Born |
|
1917 |
Desi Arnaz Was Born |
|
1917 |
Richard Arnell Was Born |
|
1917 |
Esmeralda Athanasiu-Gardeev Died |
|
March
17
1917 |
Brian Boydell Was Born |
|
1917 |
Rudolf Brucci Was Born |
|
1917 |
Teresa Carreño Died |
|
1917 |
Edward T. Cone Was Born |
|
1917 |
Robert Erickson Was Born |
|
1917 |
John Gardner Was Born |
|
1917 |
Ronald Hanmer Was Born |
|
1917 |
Lou Harrison Was Born |
|
1917 |
Jean Hubeau Was Born |
|
1917 |
Francis Jackson Was Born |
|
1917 |
Prenkë Jakova Was Born |
|
1917 |
Scott Joplin Died |
|
1917 |
William P. Latham Was Born |
|
1917 |
Charles-Edouard Lefebvre Died |
|
1917 |
Ludwig Minkus Died |
|
1917 |
Thelonious Monk Was Born |
|
1917 |
James Penberthy Was Born |
|
1917 |
Emile Pessard Died |
|
1917 |
Spyridon Samaras Died |
|
1917 |
Philipp Scharwenka Died |
|
1917 |
Robert Ward Was Born |
|
1917 |
Isang Yun Was Born |
|
January
09
1917 |
Battle Of Rafa: Egypt/Palestine Border |
|
January
11
1917 |
Kingsland: Sabotage Causes Munitions Factory Explosion |
|
January
17
1917 |
The United States Pays $25million For Virgin Islands |
|
January
19
1917 |
Silvertown Explosion, 73 Killed, Hundreds Injured |
|
January
22
1917 |
Wilson Calls For Peace In Europe |
|
January
28
1917 |
Streetcars Appear In San Francisco |
|
January
31
1917 |
Germany Conducts Unrestricted U-boat Warfare |
|
February
03
1917 |
WWI: U.S. Breaks Relations With Germany |
|
February
05
1917 |
Mexico Establishes Independent Government Branches |
|
February
05
1917 |
U.S. Congress Overrides Wilson Immigration Veto |
|
February
23
1917 |
February Revolution Begins In Saint Petersburg, Russia |
|
February
24
1917 |
U.S. Ambassador To UK Given Zimmermann Telegram |
|
February
26
1917 |
Victor Talking Machine Recorded First Jazz Record |
|
March
01
1917 |
Zimmermann Telegram: Unencrypted Released By US Govt |
|
March
02
1917 |
Jones–Shafroth Act Grants Puerto Ricans US Citizenship |
|
March
04
1917 |
Rankin: First Female Member Of US House |
|
March
08
1917 |
Women's Day Protests Mark Start Of The February Revolution |
|
March
08
1917 |
U.S. Senate Votes To Limit Filibusters |
|
March
10
1917 |
Ratification Act Incorporates Philippine Cities, Provinces |
|
March
11
1917 |
Baghdad Falls To Maude |
|
March
15
1917 |
Nicholas II Abdicates Tsardom; Brother Ascends |
|
March
25
1917 |
Georgian Orthodox Church Restores Autocephaly |
|
March
26
1917 |
WWI: British Troops Halted In Gaza |
|
March
31
1917 |
US Takes Possession Of Danish West Indies For $25 Million |
|
April
02
1917 |
Woodrow Wilson Asks For War Declaration |
|
April
06
1917 |
The United States Declares War On Germany |
|
April
09
1917 |
Canadians Excecute Assault On Vimy Ridge In Aras Battle |
|
April
12
1917 |
Vimy Ridge Taken By Canadian Forces From Germans |
|
April
16
1917 |
Lenin Returns To Russia From Exile |
|
May
13
1917 |
First Apparition Of Fatima, Portugal |
|
May
18
1917 |
President Of U.S. Can Now Conscript |
|
May
19
1917 |
Norwegian Football Club BK Founded |
|
May
21
1917 |
British Commonwealth War Graves Commission Established |
|
May
21
1917 |
Great Atlanta Fire, 1917, One Death |
|
May
26
1917 |
101 Die In Mattoon Illnois |
|
May
30
1917 |
Alexander I Becomes King Of Greece |
|
June
04
1917 |
First Pulitzers Awarded For Biography, History, Journalism |
|
June
05
1917 |
WWI: U.S. Conscription Begins |
|
June
07
1917 |
Allies Kill 10,000 Germans In Messines |
|
June
11
1917 |
Constantine Abdicates Leaving Alexander King Of Greece |
|
June
13
1917 |
German Air Raid On London Had Many Casualties |
|
June
23
1917 |
Ernie Shore Retires 26 Batters |
|
June
26
1917 |
US Troops Arrive In France, WWI |
|
June
30
1917 |
Greece Declared War On The Central Powers |
|
July
02
1917 |
The East St. Louis Riots End |
|
July
06
1917 |
World War I: Arabian Troops Capture Aqaba |
|
July
12
1917 |
Bisbee Deport 1,300 Miners And Others |
|
July
17
1917 |
Windsor Is The Surname Of The Royals |
|
July
20
1917 |
Yugoslavia Created By The Corfu Declaration |
|
July
25
1917 |
Canada Introduces The First Income Tax |
|
July
27
1917 |
Passchendaele: Allies Reach Yser Canal |
|
August
06
1917 |
Romanian And German Armies Begin Battle In WWI |
|
August
18
1917 |
70,000 Greek Homeless From Thessaloniki Fire |
|
August
28
1917 |
White House Picketing: 10 Suffragettes Arrested |
|
August
30
1917 |
Vietnamese Prison Gu.ard Mutiny Ay Thai Nguyen |
|
September
14
1917 |
Russia Officially Proclaimed A Republic |
|
September
26
1917 |
The Battle Of Polygon Erupts In Belgium |
|
October
04
1917 |
Brits, Germans Fight Flander's Battle Of Broodseinde |
|
October
12
1917 |
WWI:Passchendaele Takes Most Lives In NZ History |
|
October
13
1917 |
Sun Phenomenon Witnessed By 70,000 In Portugal |
|
October
15
1917 |
Mata Hari Executed At Vincennes |
|
October
17
1917 |
World War I: Britain Bombs Germany |
|
October
19
1917 |
The Love Field In Dallas Is Opened |
|
October
23
1917 |
Lenin Calls For The October Revolution |
|
October
24
1917 |
Italy Beaten At Caporetto |
|
October
25
1917 |
The October Revolution Is November 7 |
|
October
26
1917 |
Italy Suffers Catastrophic Defeat |
|
October
26
1917 |
Brazil Becomes Involved In WWI |
|
October
31
1917 |
Cavalry Charge Of Beersheba |
|
November
02
1917 |
British Acknowledge Jewish State With Balfour Declaration |
|
November
02
1917 |
Russian Revolution Committee Meets |
|
November
05
1917 |
Provisional Government Overthrown In Tallinn, Estonia |
|
November
05
1917 |
Patriarch Of Moscow And Russian Orthodox Church Goes To St. Tickhon |
|
November
06
1917 |
Canadians Take Passchendaele Ending Battle Of Ypres |
|
November
07
1917 |
The Bolsheviks Storm The Winter Palace |
|
November
07
1917 |
Capture Of Gaza By The British Forces |
|
November
08
1917 |
People's Commissars Authorize Lenin, Trotsky, And Stalin |
|
November
09
1917 |
Joseph Stalin Enter Government Of Russia |
|
November
20
1917 |
Ukraine Is Declared A Republic |
|
November
20
1917 |
British Battle Germans At Cambrai During WW1 |
|
November
24
1917 |
Nine Milwaukee Police Killed By Bomb |
|
November
25
1917 |
Portuguese Was Defeated At Negomano |
|
November
26
1917 |
Canadian Teams First To Form The National Hockey League |
|
November
28
1917 |
Provincial Assembly Declares Itself Sovereign Estonian Power |
|
December
02
1917 |
Russia Signs Armistice At Brest-Litovsk |
|
December
06
1917 |
Finland Declares Independence From Russia |
|
December
06
1917 |
1,900 Killed In Explosion In Halifax |
|
December
06
1917 |
Jones First Destroyer To Be Sunk |
|
December
07
1917 |
WWI: U.S. Declares War On Austria-Hungary |
|
December
09
1917 |
WWI: Allenby Captures Jerusalem, Palestine |
|
December
11
1917 |
General Allenby Declares Martial Law In Jerusalem |
|
December
12
1917 |
Father Flanagan Founds Nebraskan Boys Town |
|
December
15
1917 |
In WWI Bolshevik Government And Central Powers Declared Armistice |
|
December
18
1917 |
United States Congress Passes Eighth Amendment Enacting Prohibition |
|
December
20
1917 |
Cheka Is Founded |