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Historical Events In 1917

Saturday, 10 June 2023

Aug 21   Company Sgt. Major Robert Hanna (29th Cdn. Infantry Batt.) wins the Victoria Cross at Hill 70, France in the year 1917.  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

Aug 21   Cpl. Fliip Konowal (47th Cdn. Infantry Batt.) wins the Victoria Cross at Hill 70, France on this day in history.  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

Aug 22   On this day in history john Lee Hooker, Clarksdale Mississippi, blues guitarist (Canned Heat)  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

Aug 22   Pitts Pirates play 4th straight extra inning game, Carson Bigbee sets record of 11 at-bats, they lose in 22 innings to Dodgers on this day in history.  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

Aug 23   Ontario cabinet passes order-in-council allowing the city of Berlin to change its name to Kitchener, effective Sept. 1; due to wartime anti-German sentiment on this day in history.  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

Aug 23   In the year 1917 race riot in Houston Texas (2 blacks & 11 whites killed)  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

Aug 24   On this day in history dennis James, Jersey City NJ, wrestling announcer/TV host (PDQ)  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

Aug 25   37th US Mens Tennis: R Lindley Murray beats N W Niles (57 86 63 63) on this day in history.  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

Aug 25   Don Defore, Cedar Rapids Iowa, actor (George-Hazel, Ozzie & Harriet) in the year 1917.  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

Aug 26   In the year 1917 jan Clayton, Tularosa NM, actress (Ellen Miller-Lassie)  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

Aug 27   In the year 1917 indians set club record by stealing eight bases in a game  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

Aug 27   Squadron of minesweepers departs U.S. for service off France in the year 1917.  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

Aug 28   In the year 1917 10 suffragists arrested as they picket the White House  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

Aug 28   10 suffragists arrested as they picket White House on this day in history.  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

Aug 28   Jack Kirby, cartoonist (X-Men, Spiderman, Hulk, Capt America) on this day in history.  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

Aug 29   Isabel Sanford, NYC, actress (Louise-Jeffersons/All in the Family) in the year 1917.  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

Aug 30   Denis Healey, English politician in the year 1917.  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

Aug 30   In the year 1917 uritsky, leader of Petrogradse Czech, dies  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

Sep 02   Cleveland Amory, Nahant Mass, conservationist/TV reviewer (TV Guide) on this day in history.  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

Sep 02   On this day in history deutsche Vaterlands Party forms (by admiral Tirpitz)  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

Sep 03   1st night bombing of London by German fighter planes on this day in history.  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

Sep 03   On this day in history eddie "Brat" Stanky, Phil Rizzuto's nemisis/2nd baseman (Dodgers)  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

Sep 03   On this day in history fanya Kaplan, Russian who shot at Lenin on Aug 30th, executed  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

Sep 04   In the year 1917 henry Ford II, automaker (Ford Motor Co)  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

Sep 05   Jack Buetel, Dallas Tx, actress (Outlaw, Half Breed) on this day in history.  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

Sep 06   On this day in history french pilot Georges Guynemer shoots down 54th German aircraft  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

Sep 06   George Mann, captain English cricket team on this day in history.  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

Sep 07   In the year 1917 john Cornforth, Australian chemist, Nobel Prize laureate  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

Sep 08   On this day in history charles Edouard Lefebvre, composer, dies at 74  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

Sep 10   Franfo Fortini, poet on this day in history.  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

Sep 11   Ferdinand Marcos, Philippines Pres (1965-86) in the year 1917.  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

Sep 11   Georges Guynemer, French WW I pilot, dies at 22 on this day in history.  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

Sep 12   In the year 1917 christian Geel, Dutch poet/sculptor/artist  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

Sep 12   On this day in history eric Lundie, cricketer (WWI Test S Africa v England 1914), dies  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

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Famous Birthdays In 1917

Famous People Born In This Year In History

Jan 01   Jule Gregory Charney, American meteorologist (d. 1981) was born on this day in history.  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

Jan 01   Albert Mol, Dutch actor (d. 2004) was born on this day in history.  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

Jan 02   Vera Zorina, German dancer (d. 2003) was born in the year 1917.  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

Jan 03   Vernon Walters, NYC, US permanent rep to the UN was born in the year 1917.  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

Jan 03   In the year 1917 birth of roger W. Straus, Jr., American publisher (d. 2004)  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

Jan 04   Maurice Wohl, English broker/multi-millionaire was born on this day in history.  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

Jan 05   In the year 1917 birth of reginald Smith Brindle, composer  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

Jan 05   Wieland Wagner, German opera director was born in the year 1917.  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

Famous Deaths In 1917

Famous People Died In This Year In History

Jan 02   On this day in history edward B Tylor, English anthropologist, dies at 84  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

Jan 06   Hendrik P G Quack, lawyer/economist (Bank of Neth), dies at 82 on this day in history.  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

Jan 10   On this day in history death of buffalo Bill Cody  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

Jan 16   George Dewey, U.S. admiral (b. 1837) died on this day in history.  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

Jan 17   In the year 1917 hendrik Goeman Borgesius, Dutch politician, dies at 70  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

Jan 25   In the year 1917 edwin Tyler, cricketer (slow-lefty played once for England 1896), dies  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

Jan 29   In the year 1917 evelyn Baring earl Cromer, English consul-general in Egypt, dies at 75  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

Feb 05   On this day in history paul Rubens, composer, dies at 41  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

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