Historical Events In 1917

Aug 21   On this day in history company Sgt. Major Robert Hanna (29th 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 in the year 1917.  

Aug 22   John Lee Hooker, Clarksdale Mississippi, blues guitarist (Canned Heat) on this day in history.  

Aug 22   In the year 1917 pitts Pirates play 4th straight extra inning game, Carson Bigbee sets record of 11 at-bats, they lose in 22 innings to Dodgers  

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.  

Aug 23   In the year 1917 race riot in Houston Texas (2 blacks & 11 whites killed)  

Aug 24   Dennis James, Jersey City NJ, wrestling announcer/TV host (PDQ) in the year 1917.  

Aug 25   37th US Mens Tennis: R Lindley Murray beats N W Niles (57 86 63 63) in the year 1917.  

Aug 25   Don Defore, Cedar Rapids Iowa, actor (George-Hazel, Ozzie & Harriet) in the year 1917.  

Aug 26   In the year 1917 jan Clayton, Tularosa NM, actress (Ellen Miller-Lassie)  

Aug 27   Indians set club record by stealing eight bases in a game on this day in history.  

Aug 27   Squadron of minesweepers departs U.S. for service off France in the year 1917.  

Aug 28   On this day in history 10 suffragists arrested as they picket the White House  

Aug 28   In the year 1917 10 suffragists arrested as they picket White House  

Aug 28   In the year 1917 jack Kirby, cartoonist (X-Men, Spiderman, Hulk, Capt America)  

Aug 29   In the year 1917 isabel Sanford, NYC, actress (Louise-Jeffersons/All in the Family)  

Aug 30   Denis Healey, English politician on this day in history.  

Aug 30   Uritsky, leader of Petrogradse Czech, dies in the year 1917.  

Sep 02   Cleveland Amory, Nahant Mass, conservationist/TV reviewer (TV Guide) in the year 1917.  

Sep 02   Deutsche Vaterlands Party forms (by admiral Tirpitz) in the year 1917.  

Sep 03   On this day in history 1st night bombing of London by German fighter planes  

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

Sep 03   Fanya Kaplan, Russian who shot at Lenin on Aug 30th, executed in the year 1917.  

Sep 04   In the year 1917 henry Ford II, automaker (Ford Motor Co)  

Sep 05   In the year 1917 jack Buetel, Dallas Tx, actress (Outlaw, Half Breed)  

Sep 06   French pilot Georges Guynemer shoots down 54th German aircraft in the year 1917.  

Sep 06   On this day in history george Mann, captain English cricket team  

Sep 07   On this day in history john Cornforth, Australian chemist, Nobel Prize laureate  

Sep 08   On this day in history charles Edouard Lefebvre, composer, dies at 74  

Sep 10   In the year 1917 franfo Fortini, poet  

Sep 11   Ferdinand Marcos, Philippines Pres (1965-86) on this day in history.  

Sep 11   Georges Guynemer, French WW I pilot, dies at 22 on this day in history.  

Sep 12   On this day in history christian Geel, Dutch poet/sculptor/artist  

Sep 12   In the year 1917 eric Lundie, cricketer (WWI Test S Africa v England 1914), dies  

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Jan 01   In the year 1917 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   In the year 1917 birth of vera Zorina, German dancer (d. 2003)  

Jan 03   Vernon Walters, NYC, US permanent rep to the UN was born on this day in history.  

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

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

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   George Dewey, U.S. admiral (b. 1837) died in the year 1917.  

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 on this day in history.  

Jan 29   Evelyn Baring earl Cromer, English consul-general in Egypt, dies at 75 on this day in history.  

Feb 05   Paul Rubens, composer, dies at 41 in the year 1917.