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1917




Events:

   * January 2 - The Royal Bank of Canada takes over Quebec Bank.
   * January 17 - The United States pays Denmark $25 million for the Virgin
     Islands
   * January 22 - World War I: President Woodrow Wilson calls for "peace
     without victory" in Europe.
   * January 25 - The Danish West Indies is sold to the United States for
     $25 million
   * January 28 - The United States ends search for Pancho Villa
   * January 31 - World War I: Germany announces its U-boats will engage in
     unrestricted submarine warfare.
   * February 3 - World War I: The United States. brakes off diplomatic
     relations with Germany a day after Germany announced a new policy of
     unrestricted submarine warfare.
   * February 5 - The constitution of Mexico is adopted.
   * February 23 - The Russian Revolution begins with the overthrow of the
     Tsar system.
   * February 24 - World War I: United States ambassador to the United
     Kingdom Walter H. Page is given the Zimmermann Telegram, in which
     Germany offers to give the American Southwest back to Mexico if Mexico
     will declare war on the United States.
   * March 2 - The enactment of the Jones Act grants Puerto Ricans United
     States citizenship.
   * March 4 - Jeannette Rankin of Montana becomes the first woman member of
     the United States House of Representatives.
   * March 8 - The United States Senate adopts the cloture rule in order to
     limit filibusters.
   * March 15 - Tsar Nicholas II of Russia abdicates and the Russian
     Revolution begins.
   * March 21 - The Danish West Indies become the Virgin Islands when
     Denmark transfers control over the islands to the United States after
     the purchase of the islands on January 25.
   * March 26 - World War I: Battle of Gaza - British cavalry troops retreat
     after 17,000 Turks block their advance.
   * March 31 - The United States takes possession of the Virgin Islands
     after paying $25 million to Denmark.
   * April 2 - President Woodrow Wilson asks Congress for a declaration of
     war on Germany.
   * April 6 - World War I: United States declares war on Germany.
   * April 9 - 12 - World War I: Canada wins the Battle of Vimy Ridge.
   * May 13 - Three peasant children claim to see the Virgin Mary above a
     holmoak tree in Cova da Irianear near Fatima, Portugal.
   * May 18 - World War I: The Selective Service Act passes the United
     States Congress giving the President the power to draft soldiers.
   * June 15 - The United States enacts the Espionage Act that suspends
     constitutional freedoms.
   * July 6 - Arabian troops led by T.E. Lawrence capture Aqaba from the
     Turks.
   * July 7 - Aleksandr Kerensky forms a provisional government in Russia
     after the deposing of the tsar.
   * July 17 - King George V of the United Kingdom issues a Proclamation
     stating that the male line descendants of the British royal family will
     bear the surname Windsor.
   * July 25 - Sir Thomas Whyte introduces the first income tax in Canada as
     a "temporary" measure (lowest bracket is 4% and highest is 25%).
   * December 6 - Finland declared its independence.
   * December 6 - Belgian Ship Imo collided with French ship Mont Blanc at
     Halifax. Mont Blanc was loaded with ammunition and caught fire;
     eventually exploding at 9:06am, taking most of Halifax with it. Until
     Hiroshima, this incident was the biggest manmade explosion ever.
   * December 25 - Why Marry?, first dramatic play to win a Pulitzer Prize,
     opens at the Astor Theatre in New York City.
   * Passchendale, the Third Battle of Ypres.
   * United States enters World War I.
   * Halifax explosion kills more than 1900 people, destroys part of the
     city of Halifax, Nova Scotia.
   * Lions Clubs International was formed.
   * First commercially issued recordings of jazz music, by Original
     Dixieland Jass Band.
   * Conscription crisis in Canada.

Art, Culture & Fashion

   * 1917 in film
        o Technicolor is introduced
   * 1917 in sports
        o March 25 - Seattle Metropolitains become first U. S. team to win
          Stanley Cup

Births:

   * January 10 - Hilde Krahl, actress (+ 1999)
   * January 10 - Jerry Wexler, record producer
   * January 24 - Ernest Borgnine, actor
   * January 25 - Ilya Prigogine, winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry
     1977 (+ 2003)
   * January 29 - John Raitt, actor, singer
   * February 6 - Zsa Zsa Gabor, actress
   * February 11 - Richard Jock Kinneir, graphic designer.
   * February 11 - Sidney Sheldon, author.
   * February 14 - Herbert A. Hauptman, biophysicist, winner of the Nobel
     Prize in Chemistry 1985
   * February 19 - Carson McCullers, author (+ 1967)
   * February 25 - Anthony Burgess, author of Clockwork Orange (+ 1993)
   * March 1 - Dinah Shore, singer, television personality
   * March 1 - Robert Lowell, poet
   * March 2 - Desi Arnaz, actor, bandleader, musician (+ 1986)
   * March 20 - Dame Vera Lynn, actress, singer
   * March 27 - Cyrus Vance, United States politician (+ 2002)
   * May 14 - Lou Harrison, composer (+ 2003)
   * May 21 - Raymond Burr, actor (+ 1993)
   * May 28 - Papa John Creech (+ 1994)
   * May 29 - John Kennedy, United States President (+ 1963)
   * July 4 - Manolete (Manuel Rodr’guez S‡nchez), bullfighter (+ 1947)
   * August 15 - Jack Lynch, Taoiseach of the Republic of Ireland (+1999)
   * August 28 - Jack Kirby (comic book artist)
   * October 21 - Dizzy Gillespie, American jazz musician
   * December 22 - Gene Rayburn, television host.

Deaths:

   * January 10 - William F. Cody, frontiersman
   * January 16 - George Dewey, Admiral
   * March 31 - Emil Adolf von Behring, winner of the Nobel Prize in
     Physiology or Medicine 1901
   * April 1 - Scott Joplin, musician, composer
   * May 17 - Charles Anthoni Johnson Brooke, ruler of Sarawak
   * May 20 - Philipp von Ferrary, stamp collector
   * June 30 - Antonio de La Gandara, painter
   * September 27 - Edgar Degas, painter
   * October 13 - Florence La Badie, pioneer actress
   * October 15 - Mata Hari, Dutch dancer and spy (executed)
   * October 28 - Prince Christian of
     Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg, husband of Princess Helena
     of the United Kingdom, aunt of King George V.
   * November 17 - Auguste Rodin, sculptor
   * John William Waterhouse, Artist

Nobel Prizes:

   * Physics Charles Glover Barkla
   * Chemistry - not awarded
   * Medicine - not awarded
   * Literature - Karl Adolph Gjellerup, Henrik Pontoppidan
   * Peace - International Red Cross, Geneva.

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