Historical Events In 1917

Aug 21   Company Sgt. Major Robert Hanna (29th Cdn. Infantry Batt.) wins the Victoria Cross at Hill 70, France in the year 1917.   

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

Aug 22   In the year 1917 john Lee Hooker, Clarksdale Mississippi, blues guitarist (Canned Heat)   

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 in the year 1917.   

Aug 23   Race riot in Houston Texas (2 blacks & 11 whites killed) on this day in history.   

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

Aug 26   On this day in history jan Clayton, Tularosa NM, actress (Ellen Miller-Lassie)   

Aug 27   On this day in history indians set club record by stealing eight bases in a game   

Aug 27   On this day in history squadron of minesweepers departs U.S. for service off France   

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

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

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

Aug 29   Isabel Sanford, NYC, actress (Louise-Jeffersons/All in the Family) in the year 1917.   

Aug 30   Denis Healey, English politician in the year 1917.   

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

Sep 02   Cleveland Amory, Nahant Mass, conservationist/TV reviewer (TV Guide) in the year 1917.   

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

Sep 03   On this day in history 1st night bombing of London by German fighter planes   

Sep 03   Eddie "Brat" Stanky, Phil Rizzuto's nemisis/2nd baseman (Dodgers) on this day in history.   

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) on this day in history.   

Sep 05   On this day in history jack Buetel, Dallas Tx, actress (Outlaw, Half Breed)   

Sep 06   French pilot Georges Guynemer shoots down 54th German aircraft on this day in history.   

Sep 06   George Mann, captain English cricket team in the year 1917.   

Sep 07   John Cornforth, Australian chemist, Nobel Prize laureate on this day in history.   

Sep 08   Charles Edouard Lefebvre, composer, dies at 74 in the year 1917.   

Sep 10   In the year 1917 franfo Fortini, poet   

Sep 11   Ferdinand Marcos, Philippines Pres (1965-86) in the year 1917.   

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   Eric Lundie, cricketer (WWI Test S Africa v England 1914), dies on this day in history.   

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Jan 01   Jule Gregory Charney, American meteorologist (d. 1981) was born on this day in history.   

Jan 01   Albert Mol, Dutch actor (d. 2004) was born in the year 1917.   

Jan 02   In the year 1917 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   On this day in history birth of roger W. Straus, Jr., American publisher (d. 2004)   

Jan 04   Maurice Wohl, English broker/multi-millionaire was born in the year 1917.   

Jan 05   On this day in history birth of reginald Smith Brindle, composer   

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

Jan 02   On this day in history edward B Tylor, English anthropologist, dies at 84   

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

Jan 10   In the year 1917 death of buffalo Bill Cody   

Jan 16   On this day in history death of george Dewey, U.S. admiral (b. 1837)   

Jan 17   Hendrik Goeman Borgesius, Dutch politician, dies at 70 on this day in history.   

Jan 25   In the year 1917 edwin Tyler, cricketer (slow-lefty played once for England 1896), dies   

Jan 29   On this day in history evelyn Baring earl Cromer, English consul-general in Egypt, dies at 75   

Feb 05   In the year 1917 paul Rubens, composer, dies at 41