Historical Events In 1917
Wednesday, 06 July 2022
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 Cpl. Fliip Konowal (47th Cdn. Infantry Batt.) wins the Victoria Cross at Hill 70, France in the year 1917.
Aug 22 On this day in history john Lee Hooker, Clarksdale Mississippi, blues guitarist (Canned Heat)
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.
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 On this day in history 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 Jan Clayton, Tularosa NM, actress (Ellen Miller-Lassie) in the year 1917.
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 In the year 1917 10 suffragists arrested as they picket the White House
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 In the year 1917 denis Healey, English politician
Aug 30 Uritsky, leader of Petrogradse Czech, dies in the year 1917.
Sep 02 On this day in history cleveland Amory, Nahant Mass, conservationist/TV reviewer (TV Guide)
Sep 02 Deutsche Vaterlands Party forms (by admiral Tirpitz) on this day in history.
Sep 03 1st night bombing of London by German fighter planes on this day in history.
Sep 03 Eddie "Brat" Stanky, Phil Rizzuto's nemisis/2nd baseman (Dodgers) in the year 1917.
Sep 03 Fanya Kaplan, Russian who shot at Lenin on Aug 30th, executed in the year 1917.
Sep 04 Henry Ford II, automaker (Ford Motor Co) in the year 1917.
Sep 05 In the year 1917 jack Buetel, Dallas Tx, actress (Outlaw, Half Breed)
Sep 06 On this day in history french pilot Georges Guynemer shoots down 54th German aircraft
Sep 06 George Mann, captain English cricket team on this day in history.
Sep 07 On this day in history john Cornforth, Australian chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
Sep 08 In the year 1917 charles Edouard Lefebvre, composer, dies at 74
Sep 10 Franfo Fortini, poet in the year 1917.
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 Christian Geel, Dutch poet/sculptor/artist on this day in history.
Sep 12 On this day in history eric Lundie, cricketer (WWI Test S Africa v England 1914), dies
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