Page 12: Historical Events In 1917

Jul 27   The Allies reach the Yser Canal at the Battle of Passchendaele on this day in history.   

Jul 28   Silent Parade in NYC to protest murders of blacks in race riots in the year 1917.   

Jul 30   Board of Commissioners of Cleveland Metroparks has its 1st meeting on this day in history.   

Jul 31   3rd battle of Ypres begins in the year 1917.   

Jul 31   On this day in history charlie Finlason, cricketer (S Africa's 1st Test), dies   

Jul 31   Crpl.Leslie Wilton ANDREW, 2nd Battalion, Wellington Infantry Regiment won the Victoria Cross at La Bassee-Ville, France, on this day in history.   

Jul 31   Third battle of Ypres begins on this day in history.   

Aug 01   Benjamin Roberts, British industrial relations expert in the year 1917.   

Aug 01   On this day in history frank Little, IWW organizer is lynched in Butte, Montana   

Aug 01   On this day in history frank Little, IWW organizer, lynched in Butte, MT   

Aug 01   Start of Third Battle of Ypres - Australian soldiers in action at Menin Road, Glencorse Wood, Polygon Wood, Broodseinde Ridge and Passchendaele in the year 1917.   

Aug 03   Jordan Whitfield, PA, actor (Swamp Fox) on this day in history.   

Aug 04   In the year 1917 pravda calls for killing all capitalists, priests & officers   

Aug 05   British troops attack canal of Ypres in Boesinghe Belgium on this day in history.   

Aug 06   On this day in history robert Mitchum, Bridgeport Ct, actor (Winds of War, North & South)   

Aug 06   The birth of Robert Mitchum, American actor in the year 1917.   

Aug 06   World War I: Battle of MărăşeÅŸti between the Romanian and German armies begins on this day in history.   

Aug 11   Dik Browne, cartoonist (Hi & Lois, Hagar the Horrible) in the year 1917.   

Aug 12   Douglas Gunsekera, banker in the year 1917.   

Aug 13   Phillies steal 5 bases in an inning against Braves on this day in history.   

Aug 14   On this day in history china declares war on Germany & Austria at start of WW I   

Aug 14   In the year 1917 china declares war on Germany and Austria at start of WW I   

Aug 15   On this day in history prv. Michael James O'Rourke (7th Cdn. infantry Batt.) wins the Victoria Cross at Hill 70 France   

Aug 16   Prv. Harry Brown (10th Cdn. infantry Batt.) wins the Victoria Cross at Hill 70, France on this day in history.   

Aug 16   In the year 1917 roque Cordero, Panama, composer (Sonata Breve)   

Aug 17   In the year 1917 italy declares war on Germany & Turkey   

Aug 17   P Roger Peyrefitte, French writer (Singular Love) on this day in history.   

Aug 18   Capt. (acting Major) Okill Massey Learmonth (2nd Cdn. Infantry Batt.) wins the Victoria Cross at Hill 70, France in the year 1917.   

Aug 18   Casper Weinberger, US Secretary of Defense (1981-87) on this day in history.   

Aug 18   Dutch Naval Air Force forms (MLD) on this day in history.   

Aug 18   Sgt. Fredrick Hobson (20th Cdn. infanctry Batt.) wins the Victoria Cross at Hill 70, France on this day in history.   

Aug 19   In the year 1917 sunday benefit baseball game at Polo Grounds results in John McGraw & Christy Mathewson's arrest for violating Blue laws   

Aug 19   Sunday benefit baseball game at the Polo Grounds results in John McGraw andChristy Mathewson's arrest in the year 1917.   

Aug 20   JFW Adolf Ritter von Baeyer, German chemist (Nobel 1905), dies in the year 1917.   

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Jan 01   In the year 1917 birth of jule Gregory Charney, American meteorologist (d. 1981)   

Jan 01   In the year 1917 birth of albert Mol, Dutch actor (d. 2004)   

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 in the year 1917.   

Jan 03   In the year 1917 birth of roger W. Straus, Jr., American publisher (d. 2004)   

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

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

Jan 05   In the year 1917 birth of wieland Wagner, German opera director   

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

Jan 06   Hendrik P G Quack, lawyer/economist (Bank of Neth), dies at 82 in the year 1917.   

Jan 10   Buffalo Bill Cody died on this day in history.   

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 in the year 1917.   

Jan 25   Edwin Tyler, cricketer (slow-lefty played once for England 1896), dies in the year 1917.   

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