Page 13: 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   On this day in history cpl. Fliip Konowal (47th Cdn. Infantry Batt.) wins the Victoria Cross at Hill 70, France   

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

Aug 22   Pitts Pirates play 4th straight extra inning game, Carson Bigbee sets record of 11 at-bats, they lose in 22 innings to Dodgers in the year 1917.   

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   On this day in history race riot in Houston Texas (2 blacks & 11 whites killed)   

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) on this day in history.   

Aug 25   Don Defore, Cedar Rapids Iowa, actor (George-Hazel, Ozzie & Harriet) in the year 1917.   

Aug 26   Jan Clayton, Tularosa NM, actress (Ellen Miller-Lassie) in the year 1917.   

Aug 27   In the year 1917 indians set club record by stealing eight bases in a game   

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

Aug 28   In the year 1917 10 suffragists arrested as they picket the White House   

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

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) on this day in history.   

Aug 30   On this day in history denis Healey, English politician   

Aug 30   In the year 1917 uritsky, leader of Petrogradse Czech, dies   

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

Sep 02   Deutsche Vaterlands Party forms (by admiral Tirpitz) on this day in history.   

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) in the year 1917.   

Sep 03   Fanya Kaplan, Russian who shot at Lenin on Aug 30th, executed in the year 1917.   

Sep 04   In the year 1917 henry Ford II, automaker (Ford Motor Co)   

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

Sep 06   On this day in history french pilot Georges Guynemer shoots down 54th German aircraft   

Sep 06   On this day in history george Mann, captain English cricket team   

Sep 07   John Cornforth, Australian chemist, Nobel Prize laureate in the year 1917.   

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

Sep 10   On this day in history franfo Fortini, poet   

Sep 11   Ferdinand Marcos, Philippines Pres (1965-86) on this day in history.   

Sep 11   On this day in history georges Guynemer, French WW I pilot, dies at 22   

Sep 12   Christian Geel, Dutch poet/sculptor/artist on this day in history.   

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 in the year 1917.   

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

Jan 02   Vera Zorina, German dancer (d. 2003) was born on this day in history.   

Jan 03   In the year 1917 birth of vernon Walters, NYC, US permanent rep to the UN   

Jan 03   Roger W. Straus, Jr., American publisher (d. 2004) was born on this day in history.   

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

Jan 05   In the year 1917 birth of reginald Smith Brindle, composer   

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

Jan 02   Edward B Tylor, English anthropologist, dies at 84 in the year 1917.   

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

Jan 10   On this day in history death of buffalo Bill Cody   

Jan 16   George Dewey, U.S. admiral (b. 1837) died in the year 1917.   

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

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

Jan 29   Evelyn Baring earl Cromer, English consul-general in Egypt, dies at 75 on this day in history.   

Feb 05   On this day in history paul Rubens, composer, dies at 41