Historical Events In 1917

May 29   The birth of John F. Kennedy, Former (35th) American President in the year 1917.  

May 30   In the year 1917 alexander I becomes king of Greece.  

May 31   In the year 1917 1First jazz record released (Dark Town Strutters Ball)  

May 31   In the year 1917 1st jazz record released (Dark Town Strutters Ball)  

Jun 01   In the year 1917 hank Gowdy is 1st baseball player to enlist during WW I  

Jun 01   In the year 1917 william S. Knowles, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate  

Jun 02   Capt. William Avery Bishop Cdn. (Royal Flying Corps.) wins the Victoria Cross for service over France on this day in history.  

Jun 02   In the year 1917 max Showalter, Caldwell Ks, actor/composer (Stockard Channing Show)  

Jun 04   On this day in history 1st Pulitzer prize awarded to Richards & Elliott (Julia Ward Howe)  

Jun 04   Allen Greenwood, deputy CEO (British Aerospace) in the year 1917.  

Jun 05   10 million US men begin registering for draft in WW I in the year 1917.  

Jun 05   Carel van Dillen, resistance fighter in the year 1917.  

Jun 05   Some ten million men begin registering for the draft in World War I in the year 1917.  

Jun 06   Iacob Moresianu, composer, dies at 59 on this day in history.  

Jun 06   Kirk Kerkorian, CEO (MGM, UA) in the year 1917.  

Jun 07   Battle of Messines, Belgium in the year 1917.  

Jun 07   In the year 1917 crpl Samuel Frickleton, 3rd Battalion, 3rd NZ (Rifle) Brigade, won the Victoria Cross at Messines, Belgium  

Jun 07   Gwendolyn Brooks, US poet (Bean Eaters, Annie Allen, Pulitzer 1950) in the year 1917.  

Jun 08   Byron R Whizzer White, Ft Collins, NFLer/Supreme Court Just (1962-93) in the year 1917.  

Jun 08   In the year 1917 walt Disney graduates from Benton High School  

Jun 10   60,000 people of Petrograd welcome Prince Kropotkin (banned 41 years) on this day in history.  

Jun 10   In the year 1917 william Barr, rector (Exeter College, Oxford)  

Jun 11   James Bostock, painter/engraver on this day in history.  

Jun 11   King Alexander assumes the throne of Greece after his father Constantine I abdicated under pressure by allied armies occupying Athens on this day in history.  

Jun 12   Maria Teresa Carreno, composer, dies at 63 on this day in history.  

Jun 12   In the year 1917 priscilla Lane, US, actress (Arsenic & Old Lace)  

Jun 12   On this day in history secret Service extends protection of president to his family  

Jun 13   In the year 1917 germany bombs London  

Jun 14   On this day in history 1e German air attack on England, 100+ killed in East-London  

Jun 14   Al "Lash" LaRue, Gretna La, actor (Lash of the West, Wyatt Earp) in the year 1917.  

Jun 14   On this day in history gen Pershing & his HQ staff arrived in Paris during WW I  

Jun 15   Al "Lash" La Rue, cowboy actor (Black Lash, Lash of the West) in the year 1917.  

Jun 16   1st Congress of Soviets convene in Russia on this day in history.  

Jun 16   Katharine Graham, NYC, newspaper publisher (Wash Post) on this day in history.  

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Jan 01   Jule Gregory Charney, American meteorologist (d. 1981) was born in the year 1917.  

Jan 01   Albert Mol, Dutch actor (d. 2004) was born on this day in history.  

Jan 02   On this day in history 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 on this day in history.  

Jan 04   Maurice Wohl, English broker/multi-millionaire was born on this day in history.  

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

Jan 05   On this day in history birth of wieland Wagner, German opera director  

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

Jan 06   In the year 1917 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   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 in the year 1917.  

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