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 on this day in history.   

Jul 30   In the year 1917 board of Commissioners of Cleveland Metroparks has its 1st meeting   

Jul 31   In the year 1917 3rd battle of Ypres begins   

Jul 31   In the year 1917 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   In the year 1917 third battle of Ypres begins   

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

Aug 01   Frank Little, IWW organizer is lynched in Butte, Montana in the year 1917.   

Aug 01   Frank Little, IWW organizer, lynched in Butte, MT in the year 1917.   

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

Aug 03   Jordan Whitfield, PA, actor (Swamp Fox) in the year 1917.   

Aug 04   On this day in history pravda calls for killing all capitalists, priests & officers   

Aug 05   On this day in history british troops attack canal of Ypres in Boesinghe Belgium   

Aug 06   Robert Mitchum, Bridgeport Ct, actor (Winds of War, North & South) in the year 1917.   

Aug 06   In the year 1917 the birth of Robert Mitchum, American actor   

Aug 06   In the year 1917 world War I: Battle of MărăşeÅŸti between the Romanian and German armies begins.   

Aug 11   In the year 1917 dik Browne, cartoonist (Hi & Lois, Hagar the Horrible)   

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   In the year 1917 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   Prv. Michael James O'Rourke (7th Cdn. infantry Batt.) wins the Victoria Cross at Hill 70 France on this day in history.   

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

Aug 16   Roque Cordero, Panama, composer (Sonata Breve) in the year 1917.   

Aug 17   On this day in history italy declares war on Germany & Turkey   

Aug 17   In the year 1917 p Roger Peyrefitte, French writer (Singular Love)   

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   In the year 1917 casper Weinberger, US Secretary of Defense (1981-87)   

Aug 18   In the year 1917 dutch Naval Air Force forms (MLD)   

Aug 18   Sgt. Fredrick Hobson (20th Cdn. infanctry Batt.) wins the Victoria Cross at Hill 70, France in the year 1917.   

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 on this day in history.   

Aug 20   JFW Adolf Ritter von Baeyer, German chemist (Nobel 1905), dies 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   On this day in history birth of albert Mol, Dutch actor (d. 2004)   

Jan 02   In the year 1917 birth of vera Zorina, German dancer (d. 2003)   

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 in the year 1917.   

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

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

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

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 on this day in history.   

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

Jan 29   On this day in history evelyn Baring earl Cromer, English consul-general in Egypt, dies at 75   

Feb 05   Paul Rubens, composer, dies at 41 in the year 1917.