Historical Events In 1917

Mar 02 Puerto Ricans are granted US citizenship.

Mar 15 Nicholas II, last Russian tsar, says he will abdicate

Mar 23 4 day series of tornadoes kills 211 in Midwest US

Mar 02 Jones Act Puerto Rico territory created, US citizenship granted

Mar 11 British troops occupy Baghdad

Mar 27 Lt. Frederick M. W. Harvey (Lord Strathcona's Horse Cdn.) wins the Victoria Cross at Gyencourt France

Mar 28 Jews are expelled from Tel Aviv & Jaffa by Turkish authorities

Mar 04 Peace activist and suffragist Jeanette Rankin became the first woman elected to the US House of Representatives.

Mar 08 Russian revolution breaks out (in Petrograd/St Petersburg)

Mar 22 One week after socialist revolutionaries forced Russian Czar Nicholas II to abdicate, the United States becomes the first government in the world to recognize Russia’s provincial government

Mar 12 Izvestia, the official Soviet newspaper, founded

Mar 19 US Supreme Court upheld 8-hour work day for railroad employees (Adamson Act)

Mar 01 IN Edmonton Alberta the Alberta Provincial Police Force is founded later duties are taken over by the RCMP in rural areas

Mar 11 1st NHL championship game ever played, Toronto Arenas beats Montréal Canadiens 7-3 in 1st of 2 game set (second game on March 13)

Mar 20 Lieutenant FH McNamara, 1 Squadron, Australian Flying Corps, becomes the only member of the AFC to win a Victoria Cross for his action in the raid on Tel el Hasi, Palestine

Mar 14 China severs diplomatic relations with Germany in World War I.

Mar 02 Jones Act: Puerto Rico territory created, US citizenship granted

Mar 03 Nicholas II, last Russian tsar, abdicates

Mar 23 Launching of USS New Mexico, first dreadnought with turboelectric drive

Mar 12 Russian Dumas sets up Provisional Committee; workers set up Soviets

Mar 31 US purchases Danish West Indies for $25M and renames them Virgin Islands

Mar 21 Loretta Walsh becomes first woman Navy petty officer when sworn in as Chief Yeoman.

Mar 12 Stalin, Kamenev &Muranov arrive in St Petersburg

Mar 05 The first jazz recording for Victor Records released

Mar 01 Firt federal land bank chartered

Mar 17 Tsar Nicolas II of Russia abdicates the throne

Mar 03 Congress passes first excess profits tax on corporations

Mar 03 Great monarch Michael resigns after 1 day as czar

Mar 04 Jeannette Rankin (Representative-Republican-MT) becomes first female member of Congress

Mar 19 Navy Department authorizes enrollment of women in Naval Reserve with ratings of yeoman, radio electrician, or other essential ratings.

Aug 28 10 suffragists arrested as they picket the White House

Aug 06 The birth of Robert Mitchum, American actor

Aug 15 Prv. Michael James O'Rourke (7th Cdn. infantry Batt.) wins the Victoria Cross at Hill 70 France

Aug 18 Capt. (acting Major) Okill Massey Learmonth (2nd Cdn. Infantry Batt.) wins the Victoria Cross at Hill 70, France

Aug 21 Cpl. Fliip Konowal (47th Cdn. Infantry Batt.) wins the Victoria Cross at Hill 70, France

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