Page 9: Historical Events In 1917

May 29   On this day in history the birth of John F. Kennedy, Former (35th) American President   

May 30   Alexander I becomes king of Greece on this day in history.   

May 31   1First jazz record released (Dark Town Strutters Ball) in the year 1917.   

May 31   In the year 1917 1st jazz record released (Dark Town Strutters Ball)   

Jun 01   Hank Gowdy is 1st baseball player to enlist during WW I on this day in history.   

Jun 01   William S. Knowles, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate on this day in history.   

Jun 02   Capt. William Avery Bishop Cdn. (Royal Flying Corps.) wins the Victoria Cross for service over France on this day in history.   

Jun 02   On this day in history max Showalter, Caldwell Ks, actor/composer (Stockard Channing Show)   

Jun 04   In the year 1917 1st Pulitzer prize awarded to Richards & Elliott (Julia Ward Howe)   

Jun 04   Allen Greenwood, deputy CEO (British Aerospace) on this day in history.   

Jun 05   10 million US men begin registering for draft in WW I in the year 1917.   

Jun 05   In the year 1917 carel van Dillen, resistance fighter   

Jun 05   On this day in history some ten million men begin registering for the draft in World War I.   

Jun 06   On this day in history iacob Moresianu, composer, dies at 59   

Jun 06   Kirk Kerkorian, CEO (MGM, UA) in the year 1917.   

Jun 07   Battle of Messines, Belgium on this day in history.   

Jun 07   Crpl Samuel Frickleton, 3rd Battalion, 3rd NZ (Rifle) Brigade, won the Victoria Cross at Messines, Belgium on this day in history.   

Jun 07   Gwendolyn Brooks, US poet (Bean Eaters, Annie Allen, Pulitzer 1950) on this day in history.   

Jun 08   Byron R Whizzer White, Ft Collins, NFLer/Supreme Court Just (1962-93) in the year 1917.   

Jun 08   On this day in history walt Disney graduates from Benton High School   

Jun 10   60,000 people of Petrograd welcome Prince Kropotkin (banned 41 years) on this day in history.   

Jun 10   William Barr, rector (Exeter College, Oxford) on this day in history.   

Jun 11   In the year 1917 james Bostock, painter/engraver   

Jun 11   On this day in history king Alexander assumes the throne of Greece after his father Constantine I abdicated under pressure by allied armies occupying Athens.   

Jun 12   Maria Teresa Carreno, composer, dies at 63 on this day in history.   

Jun 12   On this day in history priscilla Lane, US, actress (Arsenic & Old Lace)   

Jun 12   Secret Service extends protection of president to his family in the year 1917.   

Jun 13   On this day in history germany bombs London   

Jun 14   1e German air attack on England, 100+ killed in East-London in the year 1917.   

Jun 14   Al "Lash" LaRue, Gretna La, actor (Lash of the West, Wyatt Earp) in the year 1917.   

Jun 14   Gen Pershing & his HQ staff arrived in Paris during WW I in the year 1917.   

Jun 15   Al "Lash" La Rue, cowboy actor (Black Lash, Lash of the West) in the year 1917.   

Jun 16   1st Congress of Soviets convene in Russia in the year 1917.   

Jun 16   Katharine Graham, NYC, newspaper publisher (Wash Post) on this day in history.   

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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 in the year 1917.   

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

Jan 03   Vernon Walters, NYC, US permanent rep to the UN was born on this day in history.   

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

Jan 04   On this day in history birth of maurice Wohl, English broker/multi-millionaire   

Jan 05   Reginald Smith Brindle, composer was born in the year 1917.   

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

Jan 02   In the year 1917 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   In the year 1917 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   In the year 1917 evelyn Baring earl Cromer, English consul-general in Egypt, dies at 75   

Feb 05   Paul Rubens, composer, dies at 41 on this day in history.