Historical Events In 1917
Saturday, 07 September 2024
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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