Page 12: Historical Events In 1917

Jul 27   The Allies reach the Yser Canal at the Battle of Passchendaele on this day in history.   

Jul 28   On this day in history silent Parade in NYC to protest murders of blacks in race riots   

Jul 30   On this day in history board of Commissioners of Cleveland Metroparks has its 1st meeting   

Jul 31   3rd battle of Ypres begins in the year 1917.   

Jul 31   In the year 1917 charlie Finlason, cricketer (S Africa's 1st Test), dies   

Jul 31   Crpl.Leslie Wilton ANDREW, 2nd Battalion, Wellington Infantry Regiment won the Victoria Cross at La Bassee-Ville, France, in the year 1917.   

Jul 31   In the year 1917 third battle of Ypres begins   

Aug 01   In the year 1917 benjamin Roberts, British industrial relations expert   

Aug 01   In the year 1917 frank Little, IWW organizer is lynched in Butte, Montana   

Aug 01   In the year 1917 frank Little, IWW organizer, lynched in Butte, MT   

Aug 01   Start of Third Battle of Ypres - Australian soldiers in action at Menin Road, Glencorse Wood, Polygon Wood, Broodseinde Ridge and Passchendaele on this day in history.   

Aug 03   In the year 1917 jordan Whitfield, PA, actor (Swamp Fox)   

Aug 04   On this day in history pravda calls for killing all capitalists, priests & officers   

Aug 05   British troops attack canal of Ypres in Boesinghe Belgium in the year 1917.   

Aug 06   On this day in history robert Mitchum, Bridgeport Ct, actor (Winds of War, North & South)   

Aug 06   In the year 1917 the birth of Robert Mitchum, American actor   

Aug 06   World War I: Battle of MărăşeÅŸti between the Romanian and German armies begins on this day in history.   

Aug 11   Dik Browne, cartoonist (Hi & Lois, Hagar the Horrible) in the year 1917.   

Aug 12   Douglas Gunsekera, banker in the year 1917.   

Aug 13   On this day in history phillies steal 5 bases in an inning against Braves   

Aug 14   In the year 1917 china declares war on Germany & Austria at start of WW I   

Aug 14   On this day in history china declares war on Germany and Austria at start of WW I   

Aug 15   Prv. Michael James O'Rourke (7th Cdn. infantry Batt.) wins the Victoria Cross at Hill 70 France in the year 1917.   

Aug 16   Prv. Harry Brown (10th Cdn. infantry Batt.) wins the Victoria Cross at Hill 70, France on this day in history.   

Aug 16   In the year 1917 roque Cordero, Panama, composer (Sonata Breve)   

Aug 17   On this day in history italy declares war on Germany & Turkey   

Aug 17   On this day in history p Roger Peyrefitte, French writer (Singular Love)   

Aug 18   On this day in history capt. (acting Major) Okill Massey Learmonth (2nd Cdn. Infantry Batt.) wins the Victoria Cross at Hill 70, France   

Aug 18   In the year 1917 casper Weinberger, US Secretary of Defense (1981-87)   

Aug 18   In the year 1917 dutch Naval Air Force forms (MLD)   

Aug 18   Sgt. Fredrick Hobson (20th Cdn. infanctry Batt.) wins the Victoria Cross at Hill 70, France on this day in history.   

Aug 19   In the year 1917 sunday benefit baseball game at Polo Grounds results in John McGraw & Christy Mathewson's arrest for violating Blue laws   

Aug 19   In the year 1917 sunday benefit baseball game at the Polo Grounds results in John McGraw andChristy Mathewson's arrest   

Aug 20   On this day in history jFW Adolf Ritter von Baeyer, German chemist (Nobel 1905), dies   

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Jan 01   In the year 1917 birth of jule Gregory Charney, American meteorologist (d. 1981)   

Jan 01   In the year 1917 birth of albert Mol, Dutch actor (d. 2004)   

Jan 02   On this day in history birth of vera Zorina, German dancer (d. 2003)   

Jan 03   In the year 1917 birth of vernon Walters, NYC, US permanent rep to the UN   

Jan 03   On this day in history birth of roger W. Straus, Jr., American publisher (d. 2004)   

Jan 04   In the year 1917 birth of maurice Wohl, English broker/multi-millionaire   

Jan 05   On this day in history birth of reginald Smith Brindle, composer   

Jan 05   Wieland Wagner, German opera director was born in the year 1917.   

Jan 02   In the year 1917 edward B Tylor, English anthropologist, dies at 84   

Jan 06   In the year 1917 hendrik P G Quack, lawyer/economist (Bank of Neth), dies at 82   

Jan 10   In the year 1917 death of buffalo Bill Cody   

Jan 16   On this day in history death of george Dewey, U.S. admiral (b. 1837)   

Jan 17   Hendrik Goeman Borgesius, Dutch politician, dies at 70 in the year 1917.   

Jan 25   On this day in history edwin Tyler, cricketer (slow-lefty played once for England 1896), dies   

Jan 29   Evelyn Baring earl Cromer, English consul-general in Egypt, dies at 75 in the year 1917.   

Feb 05   Paul Rubens, composer, dies at 41 on this day in history.