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 on this day in history.   

Aug 21   In the year 1917 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 on this day in history.   

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 on this day in history.   

Aug 23   In the year 1917 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) in the year 1917.   

Aug 25   Don Defore, Cedar Rapids Iowa, actor (George-Hazel, Ozzie & Harriet) on this day in history.   

Aug 26   Jan Clayton, Tularosa NM, actress (Ellen Miller-Lassie) on this day in history.   

Aug 27   Indians set club record by stealing eight bases in a game on this day in history.   

Aug 27   In the year 1917 squadron of minesweepers departs U.S. for service off France   

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

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

Aug 28   Jack Kirby, cartoonist (X-Men, Spiderman, Hulk, Capt America) on this day in history.   

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

Sep 02   In the year 1917 cleveland Amory, Nahant Mass, conservationist/TV reviewer (TV Guide)   

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

Sep 03   In the year 1917 1st night bombing of London by German fighter planes   

Sep 03   In the year 1917 eddie "Brat" Stanky, Phil Rizzuto's nemisis/2nd baseman (Dodgers)   

Sep 03   Fanya Kaplan, Russian who shot at Lenin on Aug 30th, executed on this day in history.   

Sep 04   Henry Ford II, automaker (Ford Motor Co) in the year 1917.   

Sep 05   Jack Buetel, Dallas Tx, actress (Outlaw, Half Breed) in the year 1917.   

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

Sep 06   In the year 1917 george Mann, captain English cricket team   

Sep 07   On this day in history john Cornforth, Australian chemist, Nobel Prize laureate   

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

Sep 10   Franfo Fortini, poet in the year 1917.   

Sep 11   In the year 1917 ferdinand Marcos, Philippines Pres (1965-86)   

Sep 11   Georges Guynemer, French WW I pilot, dies at 22 in the year 1917.   

Sep 12   In the year 1917 christian Geel, Dutch poet/sculptor/artist   

Sep 12   In the year 1917 eric Lundie, cricketer (WWI Test S Africa v England 1914), dies   

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

Jan 01   Albert Mol, Dutch actor (d. 2004) was born on this day in history.   

Jan 02   Vera Zorina, German dancer (d. 2003) was born in the year 1917.   

Jan 03   On this day in history birth of vernon Walters, NYC, US permanent rep to the UN   

Jan 03   Roger W. Straus, Jr., American publisher (d. 2004) was born in the year 1917.   

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   Wieland Wagner, German opera director was born on this day in history.   

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   Buffalo Bill Cody died in the year 1917.   

Jan 16   George Dewey, U.S. admiral (b. 1837) died on this day in history.   

Jan 17   In the year 1917 hendrik Goeman Borgesius, Dutch politician, dies at 70   

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

Jan 29   In the year 1917 evelyn Baring earl Cromer, English consul-general in Egypt, dies at 75   

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