Page 12: Historical Events In 1917

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

Jul 28   Silent Parade in NYC to protest murders of blacks in race riots in the year 1917.   

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

Jul 31   3rd battle of Ypres begins on this day in history.   

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   Third battle of Ypres begins in the year 1917.   

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

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

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 in the year 1917.   

Aug 03   Jordan Whitfield, PA, actor (Swamp Fox) in the year 1917.   

Aug 04   Pravda calls for killing all capitalists, priests & officers in the year 1917.   

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   On this day in history the birth of Robert Mitchum, American actor   

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

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   In the year 1917 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   On this day in history prv. Michael James O'Rourke (7th Cdn. infantry Batt.) wins the Victoria Cross at Hill 70 France   

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

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

Aug 17   In the year 1917 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   Dutch Naval Air Force forms (MLD) on this day in history.   

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

Aug 19   Sunday benefit baseball game at Polo Grounds results in John McGraw & Christy Mathewson's arrest for violating Blue laws on this day in history.   

Aug 19   Sunday benefit baseball game at the Polo Grounds results in John McGraw andChristy Mathewson's arrest on this day in history.   

Aug 20   JFW Adolf Ritter von Baeyer, German chemist (Nobel 1905), dies on this day in history.   

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Jan 01   On this day in history birth of jule Gregory Charney, American meteorologist (d. 1981)   

Jan 01   Albert Mol, Dutch actor (d. 2004) was born in the year 1917.   

Jan 02   Vera Zorina, German dancer (d. 2003) was born on this day in history.   

Jan 03   Vernon Walters, NYC, US permanent rep to the UN was born in the year 1917.   

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

Jan 04   On this day in history birth of maurice Wohl, English broker/multi-millionaire   

Jan 05   Reginald Smith Brindle, composer was born on this day in history.   

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

Jan 02   Edward B Tylor, English anthropologist, dies at 84 on this day in history.   

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

Jan 10   Buffalo Bill Cody died on this day in history.   

Jan 16   George Dewey, U.S. admiral (b. 1837) died on this day in history.   

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

Jan 25   Edwin Tyler, cricketer (slow-lefty played once for England 1896), dies in the year 1917.   

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

Feb 05   In the year 1917 paul Rubens, composer, dies at 41