Page 9: Historical Events In 1917

Jun 01   Hank Gowdy is 1st baseball player to enlist during WW I.   

Jun 01   William S. Knowles, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate.   

Jun 02   In this year, Capt. William Avery Bishop Cdn. (Royal Flying Corps.) claims the Victoria Cross for service over France.   

Jun 02   Max Showalter, Caldwell Ks, actor/composer (Stockard Channing Show).   

Jun 04   1st Pulitzer prize awarded to Richards and Elliott (Julia Ward Howe).   

Jun 04   Allen Greenwood, deputy CEO (British Aerospace)   

Jun 05   10 million US men begin registering for draft in WW I   

Jun 05   Carel van Dillen, resistance fighter   

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

Jun 06   Iacob Moresianu, composer, dies at 59   

Jun 06   Kirk Kerkorian, CEO (MGM, UA).   

Jun 07   Battle of Messines, Belgium   

Jun 07   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).   

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

Jun 08   Walt Disney graduates from Benton High School.   

Jun 10   60000 people of Petrograd welcome Prince Kropotkin (banned 41 years).   

Jun 10   William Barr, rector (Exeter College, Oxford)   

Jun 11   James Bostock, painter/engraver.   

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

Jun 12   Maria Teresa Carreno, composer, dies at 63   

Jun 12   Priscilla Lane, US, actress (Arsenic and Old Lace)   

Jun 12   Secret Service extends protection of president to his family   

Jun 13   Germany bombs London.   

Jun 14   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).   

Jun 14   Gen Pershing and his HQ staff arrived in Paris during WW I   

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

Jun 16   1st Congress of Soviets convene in Russia.   

Jun 16   Katharine Graham, NYC, newspaper publisher (Wash Post).   

Jun 16   The inaugural Congress of Soviets convene in Russia.   

Jun 17   British king George V takes the name Windsor   

Jun 17   Dean Martin, American film actor and singer is born.   

Jun 18   Akhmet Jevdet Ismail Hajiyev, composer   

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Jan 01   Jule gregory charney: American meteorologist    

Jan 01   Albert mol: Dutch actor    

Jan 02   Vera zorina: German dancer   

Jan 03   Vernon walters: Nyc, us permanent rep to the un   

Jan 03   Roger w. straus: Jr., american publisher   

Jan 04   Maurice wohl: English broker/multi-millionaire   

Jan 05   Reginald smith brindle: Composer   

Jan 05   Wieland wagner: German opera director   

Jan 02   Edward b tylor: English anthropologist,   

Jan 06   Hendrik p g quack: Lawyer/economist (bank of neth),    

Jan 10   Buffalo bill cody: Buffalo bill cody   

Jan 16   George dewey: U.s. admiral (b. 1837)   

Jan 17   Hendrik goeman borgesius: Dutch politician,   

Jan 25   Edwin tyler: Cricketer (slow-lefty played once for england 1896),    

Jan 29   Evelyn baring earl cromer: English consul-general in egypt,   

Feb 05   Paul rubens: Composer,