Page 13: Historical Events In 1917

Aug 21   In the year 1917 company Sgt. Major Robert Hanna (29th Cdn. Infantry Batt.) wins the Victoria Cross at Hill 70, France   

Aug 21   Cpl. Fliip Konowal (47th Cdn. Infantry Batt.) wins the Victoria Cross at Hill 70, France on this day in history.   

Aug 22   John Lee Hooker, Clarksdale Mississippi, blues guitarist (Canned Heat) on this day in history.   

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   In the year 1917 37th US Mens Tennis: R Lindley Murray beats N W Niles (57 86 63 63)   

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

Aug 26   On this day in history jan Clayton, Tularosa NM, actress (Ellen Miller-Lassie)   

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

Aug 27   Squadron of minesweepers departs U.S. for service off France in the year 1917.   

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

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

Aug 28   Jack Kirby, cartoonist (X-Men, Spiderman, Hulk, Capt America) in the year 1917.   

Aug 29   Isabel Sanford, NYC, actress (Louise-Jeffersons/All in the Family) in the year 1917.   

Aug 30   Denis Healey, English politician on this day in history.   

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

Sep 02   Cleveland Amory, Nahant Mass, conservationist/TV reviewer (TV Guide) on this day in history.   

Sep 02   On this day in history deutsche Vaterlands Party forms (by admiral Tirpitz)   

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

Sep 03   On this day in history 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) on this day in history.   

Sep 05   In the year 1917 jack Buetel, Dallas Tx, actress (Outlaw, Half Breed)   

Sep 06   In the year 1917 french pilot Georges Guynemer shoots down 54th German aircraft   

Sep 06   George Mann, captain English cricket team in the year 1917.   

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   In the year 1917 franfo Fortini, poet   

Sep 11   Ferdinand Marcos, Philippines Pres (1965-86) in the year 1917.   

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

Sep 12   Christian Geel, Dutch poet/sculptor/artist in the year 1917.   

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

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Jan 01   Jule Gregory Charney, American meteorologist (d. 1981) was born in the year 1917.   

Jan 01   In the year 1917 birth of albert Mol, Dutch actor (d. 2004)   

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

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

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   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 on this day in history.   

Jan 06   Hendrik P G Quack, lawyer/economist (Bank of Neth), dies at 82 on this day in history.   

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

Jan 16   In the year 1917 death of george Dewey, U.S. admiral (b. 1837)   

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

Feb 05   In the year 1917 paul Rubens, composer, dies at 41