Historical Events In 1917

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

Jul 28   Silent Parade in NYC to protest murders of blacks in race riots on this day in history.  

Jul 30   Board of Commissioners of Cleveland Metroparks has its 1st meeting on this day in history.  

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

Jul 31   On this day in history 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, on this day in history.  

Jul 31   Third battle of Ypres begins in the year 1917.  

Aug 01   On this day in history benjamin Roberts, British industrial relations expert  

Aug 01   Frank Little, IWW organizer is lynched in Butte, Montana on this day in history.  

Aug 01   Frank Little, IWW organizer, lynched in Butte, MT in the year 1917.  

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   On this day in history jordan Whitfield, PA, actor (Swamp Fox)  

Aug 04   In the year 1917 pravda calls for killing all capitalists, priests & officers  

Aug 05   In the year 1917 british troops attack canal of Ypres in Boesinghe Belgium  

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

Aug 06   The birth of Robert Mitchum, American actor in the year 1917.  

Aug 06   World War I: Battle of MărăşeÅŸti between the Romanian and German armies begins in the year 1917.  

Aug 11   Dik Browne, cartoonist (Hi & Lois, Hagar the Horrible) on this day in history.  

Aug 12   In the year 1917 douglas Gunsekera, banker  

Aug 13   In the year 1917 phillies steal 5 bases in an inning against Braves  

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

Aug 14   China declares war on Germany and Austria at start of WW I in the year 1917.  

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

Aug 16   Prv. Harry Brown (10th Cdn. infantry Batt.) wins the Victoria Cross at Hill 70, France in the year 1917.  

Aug 16   Roque Cordero, Panama, composer (Sonata Breve) on this day in history.  

Aug 17   Italy declares war on Germany & Turkey in the year 1917.  

Aug 17   P Roger Peyrefitte, French writer (Singular Love) in the year 1917.  

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

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

Aug 18   On this day in history dutch Naval Air Force forms (MLD)  

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

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   Sunday benefit baseball game at the Polo Grounds results in John McGraw andChristy Mathewson's arrest in the year 1917.  

Aug 20   JFW Adolf Ritter von Baeyer, German chemist (Nobel 1905), dies in the year 1917.  

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Jan 01   On this day in history 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   Vera Zorina, German dancer (d. 2003) was born in the year 1917.  

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

Jan 03   Roger W. Straus, Jr., American publisher (d. 2004) was born in the year 1917.  

Jan 04   Maurice Wohl, English broker/multi-millionaire was born in the year 1917.  

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

Jan 05   In the year 1917 birth of wieland Wagner, German opera director  

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

Jan 06   On this day in history hendrik P G Quack, lawyer/economist (Bank of Neth), dies at 82  

Jan 10   On this day in history death of buffalo Bill Cody  

Jan 16   In the year 1917 death of george Dewey, U.S. admiral (b. 1837)  

Jan 17   On this day in history hendrik Goeman Borgesius, Dutch politician, dies at 70  

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

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

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