Historical Events In 1917

Aug 21   Company Sgt. Major Robert Hanna (29th Cdn. Infantry Batt.) wins the Victoria Cross at Hill 70, France on this day in history.  

Aug 21   On this day in history cpl. Fliip Konowal (47th Cdn. Infantry Batt.) wins the Victoria Cross at Hill 70, France  

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

Aug 25   On this day in history don Defore, Cedar Rapids Iowa, actor (George-Hazel, Ozzie & Harriet)  

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   In the year 1917 squadron of minesweepers departs U.S. for service off France  

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

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

Aug 28   On this day in history jack Kirby, cartoonist (X-Men, Spiderman, Hulk, Capt America)  

Aug 29   On this day in history isabel Sanford, NYC, actress (Louise-Jeffersons/All in the Family)  

Aug 30   On this day in history denis Healey, English politician  

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

Sep 02   In the year 1917 cleveland Amory, Nahant Mass, conservationist/TV reviewer (TV Guide)  

Sep 02   In the year 1917 deutsche Vaterlands Party forms (by admiral Tirpitz)  

Sep 03   1st night bombing of London by German fighter planes in the year 1917.  

Sep 03   Eddie "Brat" Stanky, Phil Rizzuto's nemisis/2nd baseman (Dodgers) in the year 1917.  

Sep 03   In the year 1917 fanya Kaplan, Russian who shot at Lenin on Aug 30th, executed  

Sep 04   Henry Ford II, automaker (Ford Motor Co) on this day in history.  

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

Sep 06   In the year 1917 french pilot Georges Guynemer shoots down 54th German aircraft  

Sep 06   George Mann, captain English cricket team on this day in history.  

Sep 07   John Cornforth, Australian chemist, Nobel Prize laureate in the year 1917.  

Sep 08   Charles Edouard Lefebvre, composer, dies at 74 on this day in history.  

Sep 10   On this day in history franfo Fortini, poet  

Sep 11   In the year 1917 ferdinand Marcos, Philippines Pres (1965-86)  

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   Jule Gregory Charney, American meteorologist (d. 1981) was born on this day in history.  

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 on this day in history.  

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

Jan 05   In the year 1917 birth of reginald Smith Brindle, composer  

Jan 05   Wieland Wagner, German opera director was born on this day in history.  

Jan 02   Edward B Tylor, English anthropologist, dies at 84 in the year 1917.  

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

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   In the year 1917 hendrik Goeman Borgesius, Dutch politician, dies at 70  

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

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.