Page 12: Historical Events In 1917

Jul 27   The Allies reach the Yser Canal at the Battle of Passchendaele in the year 1917.   

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   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   In the year 1917 crpl.Leslie Wilton ANDREW, 2nd Battalion, Wellington Infantry Regiment won the Victoria Cross at La Bassee-Ville, France,   

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   Frank Little, IWW organizer, lynched in Butte, MT on this day in history.   

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   In the year 1917 jordan Whitfield, PA, actor (Swamp Fox)   

Aug 04   On this day in history 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   In the year 1917 robert Mitchum, Bridgeport Ct, actor (Winds of War, North & South)   

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

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

Aug 11   On this day in history dik Browne, cartoonist (Hi & Lois, Hagar the Horrible)   

Aug 12   On this day in history douglas Gunsekera, banker   

Aug 13   On this day in history phillies steal 5 bases in an inning against Braves   

Aug 14   China declares war on Germany & Austria at start of WW I in the year 1917.   

Aug 14   China declares war on Germany and Austria at start of WW I in the year 1917.   

Aug 15   Prv. Michael James O'Rourke (7th Cdn. infantry Batt.) wins the Victoria Cross at Hill 70 France in the year 1917.   

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

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

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

Aug 17   P Roger Peyrefitte, French writer (Singular Love) in the year 1917.   

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

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   On this day in history sgt. Fredrick Hobson (20th Cdn. infanctry Batt.) wins the Victoria Cross at Hill 70, France   

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

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   On this day in history 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   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 in the year 1917.   

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

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

Jan 05   Reginald Smith Brindle, composer was born on this day in history.   

Jan 05   Wieland Wagner, German opera director was born in the year 1917.   

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 in the year 1917.   

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

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

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 in the year 1917.