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1917 (''' MCMXVII ''') was a Common Year Starting On Monday of the Gregorian Calendar (see link for calendar) or a Common Year Starting On Tuesday of the 13-day slower Julian Calendar .
Events
January-February
March-April
May-October
- May 9 - The Nivelle Offensive was abandoned.
- May 13 - Three peasant children claim to see the Virgin Mary above a Holm Oak tree in Cova Da Iria near Fatima , Portugal .
- May 13 - The Nuncio Eugenio Pacelli, the future Pope Pius XII , is consecrated Archbishop by Pope Benedict XV L'Osservatore Romano, Weekly Edition in English, 12/19 August 1998, page 9
- passes the U.S. Congress giving the President the power of Conscription .
- May 21 - Over 300 acres (73 blocks) destroyed in Great Atlanta Fire Of 1917
- May 26 - Tornado strikes Mattoon , Illinois causing devastation and killing 101 persons.
- May 27 - Over 30.000 French troops refuse to go to the trenches in Missy-aux-Bois
- June 1 - French infantry regiment seizes Missy-aux-Bois and declares anti-war military government. French army soon apprehend them
- begins in the United States as "Army registration day."
- June 13 - World War I: First major German bombing raid on London left 162 dead and 432 injured
- June 15 - The United States enacts the Espionage Act .
- July 1 - Labor Dispute ignites a Race Riot in East St. Louis, Illinois . Over 250 dead.
- July 6 - Arabian troops led by T.E. Lawrence capture Aqaba from the Turks.
- July 12 - Phelps Dodge Corporation deports over 1000 suspected IWW members from Bisbee, Arizona
- July 17 - King George V Of The United Kingdom issues a Proclamation stating that the male line descendants of the British Royal Family will bear the surname Windsor .
- July 20 - Corfu Declaration that enabled post-war Kingdom Of Yugoslavia was signed by the Yugoslav Committee and Kingdom of Serbia
- July 20 (N.S.) ( July 7 , O.S.) - Alexander Kerensky becomes Premier of the Russian Provisional Government , replacing Prince Georgy Lvov .
- July 25 - Sir Thomas Whyte introduces the first Income Tax in Canada as a "temporary" measure (lowest bracket is 4% and highest is 25%).
- July 28 - The Silent Protest was organized by the NAACP in New York to protest the East St. Louis Massacre of July 2nd, as well as lynchings in Texas and Tennessee.
- August 17 - One of literature's most important and most famous meetings takes place when Wilfred Owen introduces himself to Siegfried Sassoon at Craiglockhart War Hospital in Edinburgh .
- is passed in the Canadian House Of Commons giving the Canadian government the right to conscript men into the army.
- outside of Paris , Dutch dancer Mata Hari is executed by Firing Squad for Spying for Germany.
- October 19 - Love Field in Dallas, Texas is opened.
- declared in state of war with Germany.
November
December
Unknown dates
Ongoing events
Births
January
February
March
- March 1 - Harry Caray , baseball broadcaster (d. 1998 )
- March 1 - Robert Lowell , American poet (d. 1977 )
- March 2 - Desi Arnaz , Cuban-born actor, bandleader, and musician (d. 1986 )
- March 16 - Samael Aun Weor , Columbian writer (d. 1977 )
- March 19 - Dinu Lipatti , Romanian pianist (d. 1950 )
- March 20 - Dame Vera Lynn , English actress and singer
- March 24 - John Kendrew , British molecular biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize In Chemistry (d. 1997 )
- March 26 - Rufus Thomas , American singer (d. 2001 )
- March 27 - Cyrus Vance , American politician (d. 2002 )
April
- April 1 - Sydney Newman , Canadian-born British television producer (d. 1997 )
- April 1 - Franz-Otto Krǖger , German actor (d. 1998 )
- April 5 - Robert Bloch , American writer (d. 1994 )
- April 10 - Robert B. Woodward , American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1979 )
- April 12 - Helen Forrest , American jazz singer (d. 1999 )
- April 14 - Marvin Miller , Excecutive Director of the Major League Baseball Players Association
- April 17 - Bill Clements , Governor of Texas
- April 25 - Ella Fitzgerald , American jazz singer (d. 1996 )
- April 26 - Virgil Trucks , American baseball pitcher
May
June
July
August
September
October
- October 2 - Christian De Duve , English-born biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize In Physiology Or Medicine
- October 8 - Danny Murtaugh , baseball player and manager (d. 1976 )
- October 8 - Rodney Robert Porter , English biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize In Physiology Or Medicine (d. 1985 )
- October 15 - Jan Miner , American actress (d. 2004 )
- October 21 - Dizzy Gillespie , American musician (d. 1993 )
- October 22 - Joan Fontaine , British-American actress
- October 30 - Maurice Trintignant , French race car driver (d. 2005 )
- October 31 - Thomas Hill , Canadian actor
November
December
- December 6 - Kamal Jumblatt , leader of the Lebanese Druze (d. 1977 )
- December 9 - James Rainwater , American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1986 )
- December 10 - Sultan Yahya Petra , King of Malaysia (d. 1979 )
- December 20 - David Bohm , American-born physicist, philosopher, and neuropsychologist (d. 1992 )
- December 21 - Heinrich Böll , German writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1985 )
- December 22 - Gene Rayburn , American television personality (d. 1999 )
- December 27 - Onni Palaste , Finnish writer
- December 30 - Seymour Melman , American industrial engineer (d. 2004 )
Unknown dates
Deaths
- January 2 - Edward Burnett Tylor , English anthropologist (b. 1832 )
- January 10 - William F. Cody (Buffalo Bill), American frontiersman (b. 1846 )
- January 16 - George Dewey , U.S. admiral (b. 1837 )
- February 5 - Jaber II Al-Sabah , Emir of Kuwait (b. 1860 )
- February 10 - John William Waterhouse , Italian-born artist (b. 1849 )
- March 8 - Ferdinand Von Zeppelin , German inventor (b. 1838 )
- March 17 - Franz Brentano , German philosopher and psychologist (b. 1838 )
- March 31 - Emil Adolf Von Behring , German winner of the Nobel Prize In Physiology Or Medicine (b. 1854 )
- April 1 - Scott Joplin , American musician and composer (b. 1868 )
- April 14 - L. L. Zamenhof , Polish creator of Esperanto (b. 1859 )
- May 17 - Charles Anthoni Johnson Brooke , ruler of Sarawak (b. 1829 )
- May 20 - Philipp Von Ferrary , Italian stamp collector (b. 1850 )
- June 30 - Antonio De La Gandara , French painter (b. 1861 )
- July 27 - Emil Kocher , Swiss medical researcher, recipient of the Nobel Prize In Physiology Or Medicine (b. 1841 )
- August 13 - Eduard Buchner , German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1860 )
- August 20 - Adolf Von Baeyer , German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1835 )
- August 30 - Alan Leo , British astrologer (b. 1860 )
- September 27 - Edgar Degas , French painter (b. 1834 )
- October 13 - Florence La Badie , Canadian actress (b. 1888 )
- October 15 - Mata Hari , Dutch dancer and spy (executed) (b. 1876 )
- October 23 - Eugène Grasset , Swiss artist (b. 1845 )
- October 28 - Prince Christian Of Schleswig-Holstein (b. 1831 )
- November 8 - Colin Blythe , English cricketer (b. 1879 )
- November 11 - Queen Liliuokalani Of Hawai'i (b. 1838 )
- November 17 - Auguste Rodin , French sculptor (b. 1840 )
- December 8 - Mendele Moykher Sforim , Russian Yiddish and Hebrew writer (b. 1836 )
- December 10 - Mackenzie Bowell , Prime Minister Of Canada (b. 1824 )
Nobel prizes
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