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Events on the year of 1917 in history

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08 Jan 1917 Austria-Hungarian troops conquer Forlani Italy
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09 Jan 1917 World War I: the Battle of Rafa is fought near the Egyptian border with Palestine.
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11 Jan 1917 The Kingsland munitions factory explosion occurs as a result of sabotage.
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11 Jan 1917 Guy Bolton & PG Wodehouse's "Have a Heart" premieres in New York City NY
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17 Jan 1917 US pays Denmark $25 million for Virgin Islands (or 3 / 21)
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17 Jan 1917 The United States pays Denmark $25 million for the Virgin Islands.
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19 Jan 1917 Silvertown explosion: Seventy-three are killed and 400 injured in an explosion in a munitions plant in London.
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19 Jan 1917 Silvertown Essex's ammunition factory explodes; 300 die
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22 Jan 1917 World War I: President Woodrow Wilson of the still-neutral United States calls for "peace without victory" in Europe.
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27 Jan 1917 Coen de Koning wins 2nd official 11 cities race (9 53) (record)
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28 Jan 1917 Municipally-owned streetcars take to the streets of San Francisco.
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29 Jan 1917 English submarine K13 leaves Gaire Loch
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30 Jan 1917 1st jazz record recorded (Dark Town Strutters Ball)
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31 Jan 1917 World War I: Germany announces that its U-boats will resume unrestricted submarine warfare after a two-year hiatus.
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31 Jan 1917 Germany notifies US that U-boats will attack neutral merchant ship
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01 Feb 1917 Admiral Tirpitz announces unlimited submarine war
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03 Feb 1917 US liner Housatonic sunk by German sub and diplomatic relations severed
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03 Feb 1917 World War I: The United States breaks off diplomatic relations with Germany a day after the latter announced a new policy of unrestricted submarine warfare.
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04 Feb 1917 Belgium Council of Flanders established
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05 Feb 1917 Morosco Theater opens at 217 W 45th St. NYC (demolished 1982)
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05 Feb 1917 Present Mexican constitution adopted
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05 Feb 1917 The Congress of the United States passes the Immigration Act of 1917 over President Woodrow Wilson's veto. Also known as the Asiatic Barred Zone Act, it forbade immigration from nearly all of south and southeast Asia.
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05 Feb 1917 The current constitution of Mexico is adopted, establishing a federal republic with powers separated into independent executive, legislative, and judicial branches.
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10 Feb 1917 Johanna Westerdijk installed as Netherlands 1st female professor
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15 Feb 1917 San Francisco Public Library (Main Branch at Civic center) dedicated
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16 Feb 1917 1st synagogue in 425 years opens in Madrid
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20 Feb 1917 Ammunitions ship explodes in Archangelsk harbor, about 1,500 die
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20 Feb 1917 Kern, Bolton & Wodehouse's musical "Oh, Boy!" premieres in New York NY
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21 Feb 1917 British Mendi sinks off Isle of Wight, 627 die
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21 Feb 1917 Train near Chirurcha Romania catches fire & explodes; 100s die
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22 Feb 1917 German Navy torpedoes 7 Dutch ships
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23 Feb 1917 First demonstrations in Saint Petersburg, Russia. The beginning of the February Revolution.
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23 Feb 1917 February revolution begins in Russia
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24 Feb 1917 Russian revolution breaks out (3 / 8 NS)
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24 Feb 1917 World War I: The U.S. ambassador to the United Kingdom is given the Zimmermann Telegram, in which Germany pledges to ensure the return of New Mexico, Texas, and Arizona to Mexico if Mexico declares war on the United States.
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24 Feb 1917 German plan to get Mexican help in WWI exposed (Zimmerman telegram)
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24 Feb 1917 Red Sox sell Smokey Joe Wood, his arm dead at 26, to Cleveland for $15,000
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26 Feb 1917 The Original Dixieland Jass Band records the first jazz record, for the Victor Talking Machine Company in New York.
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26 Feb 1917 1st Annual fair at Utrecht Harbor (Netherlands)
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28 Feb 1917 Russian Duma sets up Provisional Committee; workers set up Soviets
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28 Feb 1917 AP reports M
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01 Mar 1917 1st federal land bank chartered
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01 Mar 1917 The U.S. government releases the unencrypted text of the Zimmermann Telegram to the public.
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02 Mar 1917 Jones Act: Puerto Rico territory created, US citizenship granted
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02 Mar 1917 The enactment of the Jones–Shafroth Act grants Puerto Ricans United States citizenship.
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03 Mar 1917 Congress passes 1st excess profits tax on corporations
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03 Mar 1917 Great monarch Michael resigns after 1 day as Czar
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03 Mar 1917 Nicholas II, last Russian tsar, abdicates (OS)
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04 Mar 1917 Jeannette Rankin (Rep-R-Mont) becomes 1st female member of Congress
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04 Mar 1917 Jeannette Rankin of Montana becomes the first female member of the United States House of Representatives.
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05 Mar 1917 1st jazz recording for Victor Records released
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07 Mar 1917 1st jazz record "Dixie Jazz Band One Step, " recorded by Nick LaRocca Original Dixieland Jazz Band, released by RCA Victor in Camden, New Jersey
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08 Mar 1917 The United States Senate votes to limit filibusters by adopting the cloture rule.
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08 Mar 1917 International Women's Day protests in St. Petersburg mark the beginning of the February Revolution (so named because it was February on the Julian calendar).
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10 Mar 1917 Some provinces and cities in the Philippines are incorporated due to the ratification of Act No. 2711 or the Administrative Code of the Philippines.
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11 Mar 1917 1st NHL championship game ever played, Toronto Arenas beats Montreal Canadiens 7-3 in 1st of 2 game set (second game on March 13)
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11 Mar 1917 World War I: Mesopotamian campaign: Baghdad falls to Anglo-Indian forces commanded by General Stanley Maude.
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11 Mar 1917 1st NHL championship game ever played, Toronto Arenas beats Montr
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11 Mar 1917 British troops occupy Baghdad
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12 Mar 1917 Stalin, Kamenev and Muranov arrive in St. Petersburg
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12 Mar 1917 Russian Dumas sets up Provisional Committee; workers set up Soviets
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15 Mar 1917 Nicholas II, last Russian tsar, says he will abdicate [3 / 3 OS]
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15 Mar 1917 Tsar Nicholas II of Russia abdicates the Russian throne and his brother the Grand Duke becomes Tsar.
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17 Mar 1917 1st exclusively women's bowling tournament begins in St Louis
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17 Mar 1917 Tsar Nicolas II of Russia abdicates the throne
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19 Mar 1917 US Supreme Court upheld 8-hour work day for railroad employees (Adamson Act)
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21 Mar 1917 1st female US Navy Petty Officer is Loretta Walsh
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23 Mar 1917 Tornadoes kills 211 over 4 days in Midwest US
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23 Mar 1917 4 day series of tornadoes kills 211 in Midwest US
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25 Mar 1917 The Georgian Orthodox Church restores its autocephaly abolished by Imperial Russia in 1811.
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26 Mar 1917 Stanley Cup: Seattle Metropolitans (PCHA) beat Montreal Canadiens (NHL), 3 games to 1 - Seattle is 1st US team to win Stanley Cup
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26 Mar 1917 World War I: First Battle of Gaza – British troops are halted after 17,000 Turks block their advance.
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26 Mar 1917 Stanley Cup: Seattle Metropolitans (PCHA) beat Montr
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27 Mar 1917 Seattle Metropolitans, 1st US team to win Stanley Cup beat Canadiens
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28 Mar 1917 Jews are expelled from Tel Aviv & Jaffa by Turkish authorities
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28 Mar 1917 Puccini's "La Rondine" premieres in Monte Carlo
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31 Mar 1917 The United States takes possession of the Danish West Indies after paying $25 million to Denmark, and renames the territory the United States Virgin Islands.
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31 Mar 1917 US purchases Danish West Indies for $25M & renames them Virgin Islands
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02 Apr 1917 Jeannette Rankin becomes 1st women member of US House of Reps
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02 Apr 1917 President Wilson asks Congress to declare war against Germany
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02 Apr 1917 World War I: United States President Woodrow Wilson asks the U.S. Congress for a declaration of war on Germany.
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03 Apr 1917 Lenin leaves Switzerland for Petrograd
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06 Apr 1917 US declares war on Germany, enters World War I
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06 Apr 1917 World War I: The United States declares war on Germany (see President Woodrow Wilson's address to Congress).
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09 Apr 1917 Battle of Arras begins
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09 Apr 1917 Vimy Ridge France stormed by Canadian troops
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09 Apr 1917 World War I: The Battle of Arras: The battle begins with Canadian Corps executing a massive assault on Vimy Ridge.
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10 Apr 1917 Munition factory explosion at Eddystone PA, kills 133 workers
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11 Apr 1917 Babe Ruth beats New York Yankees, pitching 3-hit 10-3 win for Red Sox
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12 Apr 1917 World War I: Canadian forces successfully complete the taking of Vimy Ridge from the Germans.
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12 Apr 1917 Bijou Theater opens at 222 W 45th St New York NY (Demolished in 1982)
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12 Apr 1917 Domenico Scarlatti & Jean Cocteau's ballet premieres in Rome
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14 Apr 1917 Chicago White Sox Ed Cicotte no-hits St Louis Browns, 11-0
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16 Apr 1917 Vladimir Lenin returns to Petrograd, Russia from exile in Switzerland.
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16 Apr 1917 Lenin returns to Russia to start Bolshevik Revolution
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19 Apr 1917 21st Boston Marathon won by Bill Kennedy of New York in 2:28:37.2
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20 Apr 1917 Pravda (Lenin names Russia "Free land of world")
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24 Apr 1917 Yankee lefty George Mogridge no-hits Red Sox 2-1 at Fenway
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04 May 1917 Arabs sack Tel Aviv
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07 May 1917 Red Sox Babe Ruth beats Washingston Senator Walter Johnson, 1-0
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10 May 1917 Atlantic ships get destroyer escorts to stop German attacks
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11 May 1917 Britain grants Royal Letters Patent to New Zealand
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12 May 1917 42nd Preakness: E Haynes aboard Kalitan wins in 1:54.4
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12 May 1917 43rd Kentucky Derby: Charles Borel on Omar Khayyam wins in 2:04.6
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13 May 1917 Three children report the first apparition of Our Lady of Fátima in Fátima, Portugal.
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13 May 1917 1st appearance of Mary to 3 shepherd children in Fatima, Portugal
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13 May 1917 Ernest Bloch's "Schelomo" premieres
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18 May 1917 World War I: The Selective Service Act of 1917 is passed, giving the President of the United States the power of conscription.
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18 May 1917 Satie/Massine/Picasso's ballet "Parade" premieres in Paris France
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18 May 1917 US passes Selective Service act
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19 May 1917 the Norwegian football club Rosenborg BK is founded.
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20 May 1917 Turkish Government authorizes Jews to return to Tel Aviv & Jaffa
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21 May 1917 The Commonwealth War Graves Commission is established through royal charter to mark, record and maintain the graves and places of commemoration of Commonwealth of Nations military forces.
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21 May 1917 The Great Atlanta fire of 1917 causes $5.5 million in damages, destroying some 300 acres including 2,000 homes, businesses and churches, displacing about 10,000 people but leading to only one fatality (due to heart attack).
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21 May 1917 Leo Pinckney, 1st American drafted during WWI
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23 May 1917 Dutch 2nd Chamber okays 1908 conscription draft
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26 May 1917 Several powerful tornadoes rip through Illinois, including the city of Mattoon, killing 101 people and injuring 689.
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26 May 1917 Walt Cruise hit 1st homerun out of Braves Field
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27 May 1917 Race riot in East St. Louis Illinois, 1 black killed
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30 May 1917 Alexander I becomes king of Greece.
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31 May 1917 1st jazz record released (Dark Town Strutters Ball)
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01 Jun 1917 Hank Gowdy is 1st baseball player to enlist during WWI
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04 Jun 1917 1st Pulitzer prize awarded to Richards and Elliott (Julia Ward Howe)
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04 Jun 1917 American men begin registering for the draft
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04 Jun 1917 Order of British Empire inaugurated
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04 Jun 1917 The first Pulitzer Prizes are awarded: Laura E. Richards, Maude H. Elliott, and Florence Hall receive the first Pulitzer for biography (for Julia Ward Howe). Jean Jules Jusserand receives the first Pulitzer for history for his work With Americans of Past and Present Days. Herbert B. Swope receives the first Pulitzer for journalism for his work for the New York World.
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05 Jun 1917 10 million US men begin registering for draft in WWI
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05 Jun 1917 World War I: Conscription begins in the United States as "Army registration day".
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07 Jun 1917 World War I: Battle of Messines – Allied soldiers detonate ammonal mines underneath German trenches at Messines Ridge, killing 10,000 German troops.
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08 Jun 1917 Walt Disney graduates from Benton High School
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10 Jun 1917 60,000 people of Petrograd welcome Prince Kropotkin (banned 41 years)
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10 Jun 1917 Limburgse mine workers strike
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11 Jun 1917 King Alexander assumes the throne of Greece after his father Constantine I abdicates under pressure by allied armies occupying Athens.
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12 Jun 1917 Secret Service extends protection of president to his family
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13 Jun 1917 Germany bombs London
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13 Jun 1917 World War I: The deadliest German air raid on London during World War I is carried out by Gotha G bombers and results in 162 deaths, including 46 children, and 432 injuries.
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14 Jun 1917 1e German air attack on England, 100+ killed in East-London
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14 Jun 1917 Gen Pershing & his HQ staff arrived in Paris during WW I
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16 Jun 1917 49th Belmont: James Butwell aboard Hourless wins in 2:17.8
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16 Jun 1917 1st Congress of Soviets convene in Russia
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17 Jun 1917 British King George V takes the name Windsor
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19 Jun 1917 After WWI King George V ordered members of British royal family to dispense with German titles and surnames, they take the name Windsor
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19 Jun 1917 After WW I King George V ordered members of British royal family to
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20 Jun 1917 J Palisa discovers asteroid #876 Scott
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21 Jun 1917 Hawaiian Red Cross forms
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21 Jun 1917 Hawaiian Red Cross founded
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23 Jun 1917 31st US Womens Tennis: Molla Mallory beat Marion Vanderhoef (46 60 62)
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23 Jun 1917 Ammunition factory in Boleweg Bohemia explodes, killing 1,000
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23 Jun 1917 Ernie Shore replaces Red Sox pitcher Babe Ruth with a runner on, he throws him out and retires all 26 he faces for a perfect game
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23 Jun 1917 In a game against the Washington Senators, Boston Red Sox pitcher Ernie Shore retires 26 batters in a row after replacing Babe Ruth, who had been ejected for punching the umpire.
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23 Jun 1917 Molla Bjurstedt wins the US Lawn Tennis Assn title
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24 Jun 1917 Russian Black Sea fleet mutiny at Sebastopol
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26 Jun 1917 The first U.S. troops arrive in France to fight alongside Britain and France against Germany in World War I.
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26 Jun 1917 1st American Expeditionary Force arrive in France during WW I
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27 Jun 1917 1st baseball player (Hank Gowdy) to enter WW I military service
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28 Jun 1917 Potato entrepreneurs begins in Amsterdam
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28 Jun 1917 Raggedy Ann doll invented
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30 Jun 1917 World War I: Greece declares war on the Central Powers.
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01 Jul 1917 257cm-mirror for Mount Wilson Observatory mounted
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01 Jul 1917 Race riots in East St. Louis Illinois (40 to 200 reported killed)
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01 Jul 1917 Reds Fred Toney pitches completes doubleheader victories over Pirates
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01 Jul 1917 Robins (Dodgers) play their 1st Sunday game in Brooklyn
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02 Jul 1917 Riots in East St. Louis, Missouri
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02 Jul 1917 The East St. Louis Riots end.
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03 Jul 1917 Spontaneous demonstration at Tauride-palace Petrograd
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06 Jul 1917 T E Lawrence captures Port of Agaba from Turkey
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06 Jul 1917 World War I: Arabian troops led by T. E. Lawrence ("Lawrence of Arabia") and Auda ibu Tayi capture Aqaba from the Ottoman Empire during the Arab Revolt.
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09 Jul 1917 British warship "Vanguard" explodes at Scapa Flow killing 804
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10 Jul 1917 Emma Goldman imprisoned for obstructing the draft
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12 Jul 1917 The Bisbee Deportation occurs as vigilantes kidnap and deport nearly 1,300 striking miners and others from Bisbee, Arizona.
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13 Jul 1917 Vision of Virgin Mary appeared to children of F
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17 Jul 1917 King George V issues a Proclamation stating that the male line descendants of the British Royal Family will bear the surname Windsor.
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17 Jul 1917 British Royal family changes its name from Hanover to Windsor
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20 Jul 1917 Pact of Corfu signed: Serbs, Croats and Slovenes form Yugoslavia
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20 Jul 1917 World War I: The Corfu Declaration, which leads to the creation of the post-war Kingdom of Yugoslavia, is signed by the Yugoslav Committee and Kingdom of Serbia.
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20 Jul 1917 WW I draft lottery held; #258 is 1st drawn
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22 Jul 1917 Alexander Kerensky becomes Russian Prime Minister
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22 Jul 1917 British bomb German lines at Ypres, 4,250,000 grenades
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22 Jul 1917 M Wolf discovers asteroids #879 Ricarda, #880 Herba & #881 Athene
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23 Jul 1917 Cleveland Metropolitan Park District establishes
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25 Jul 1917 Sir Robert Borden introduces the first income tax in Canada as a "temporary" measure (lowest bracket is 4% and highest is 25%).
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26 Jul 1917 J Edgar Hoover gets job on ministry of Justice
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28 Jul 1917 Silent Parade in NYC to protest murders of blacks in race riots
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30 Jul 1917 Board of Commissioners of Cleveland Metroparks has its 1st meeting
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31 Jul 1917 3rd battle of Ypres begins
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01 Aug 1917 Frank Little, IWW organizer, lynched in Butte, Montana
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04 Aug 1917 Pravda calls for killing all capitalists, priests and officers
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05 Aug 1917 British troops attack canal of Ypres in Boesinghe Belgium
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06 Aug 1917 World War I: Battle of Mărăşeşti between the Romanian and German armies begins.
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13 Aug 1917 Phillies steal 5 bases in an inning against the Braves
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14 Aug 1917 Leeuwen soccer team forms
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14 Aug 1917 China declares war on Germany & Austria at start of WW I
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17 Aug 1917 Italy declares war on Germany and Turkey
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18 Aug 1917 Dutch Naval Air Force forms (MLD)
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19 Aug 1917 Sunday benefit baseball game at the Polo Grounds results in John McGraw & Christy Mathewson's arrest for violating Blue laws
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22 Aug 1917 Pittsburgh Pirates play 4th straight extra inning game, Carson Bigbee sets record of 11 at-bats, they lose in 22 innings to Dodgers
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23 Aug 1917 Race riot in Houston Texas (2 blacks & 11 whites killed)
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25 Aug 1917 37th US Mens Tennis: R Lindley Murray beats N W Niles (57 86 63 63)
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27 Aug 1917 Indians set club record by stealing eight bases in a game
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28 Aug 1917 Ten Suffragettes are arrested while picketing the White House.
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28 Aug 1917 10 suffragists arrested as they picket the White House
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30 Aug 1917 Vietnamese prison guards led by Trịnh Văn Cấn mutiny at the Thái Nguyên penitentiary against local French authority.
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02 Sep 1917 Deutsche Vaterlands Party forms (by Admiral Tirpitz)
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03 Sep 1917 1st night bombing of London by German fighter planes
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03 Sep 1917 German troops over run Riga Latvia
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03 Sep 1917 Grover Cleveland Alexander pitches complete wins in a doubleheader
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03 Sep 1917 Utrecht soccer team Holland forms
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06 Sep 1917 French pilot Georges Guynemer shoots down 54th German aircraft
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14 Sep 1917 Kerenski regime declares Russian Republic
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14 Sep 1917 Russia is officially proclaimed a republic.
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14 Sep 1917 Provisional government of Russia established, Republic proclaimed
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15 Sep 1917 Russia proclaimed a republic by Alexander Kerensky
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20 Sep 1917 British assault on Polygon-forest, France
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26 Sep 1917 British assault on Menin-street, France
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26 Sep 1917 World War I: The Battle of Polygon Wood begins.
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27 Sep 1917 Broadhurst Theater opens at 235 W 44th St, New York City
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27 Sep 1917 EHC soccer team forms in Hoensbroek Neth
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04 Oct 1917 British assault on Broodseinde, France
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04 Oct 1917 World War I: The Battle of Broodseinde fought between the British and German armies in Flanders.
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08 Oct 1917 Trotski named Chairman of Petrograd Soviet
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10 Oct 1917 Giants Rube Benton is 1st lefty to pitch a World Series no hitter
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10 Oct 1917 Plymouth Theater opens at 236 W 45th St, New York City
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12 Oct 1917 World War I: The First Battle of Passchendaele takes place resulting in the largest single day loss of life in New Zealand history.
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13 Oct 1917 Soviet accept establishment of Petrograd Military
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13 Oct 1917 The "Miracle of the Sun" is witnessed by an estimated 70,000 people in the Cova da Iria in Fátima, Portugal.
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15 Oct 1917 Chicago White Sox beat the New York Giants, 4 games to 2 in 14th World Series
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15 Oct 1917 World War I: At Vincennes outside Paris, Dutch dancer Mata Hari is executed by firing squad for spying for the German Empire.
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17 Oct 1917 1st British bombing of Germany
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17 Oct 1917 First British bombing of Germany in World War I.
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19 Oct 1917 The Love Field in Dallas is opened.
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21 Oct 1917 Petrograds garrison accepts Revolutionary Military Committee
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21 Oct 1917 1st Americans to see action on the front lines of WW I
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23 Oct 1917 1st Infantry division "Big Red One" shoots 1st US shot in WWI
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23 Oct 1917 Lenin speaks against Kamenev, Kollontai, Stalin and Trotsky
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23 Oct 1917 Lenin calls for the October Revolution.
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24 Oct 1917 Battle at Caporetto: German and Austria smash Italian army
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24 Oct 1917 Battle of Caporetto; Italy suffers a catastrophic defeat by the forces of Austria-Hungary and Germany on the Austro-Italian front of World War I (lasts until 19 November - also called Twelfth Battle of the Isonzo).
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25 Oct 1917 In Russia, Bolsheviks led by Vladimir Lenin seizes power
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25 Oct 1917 Pan-Russian Congress opens in Petrograd
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25 Oct 1917 Traditionally understood date of the October Revolution, involving the capture of the Winter Palace, Petrograd, Russia. The date refers to the Julian Calendar date, and corresponds with November 7 in the Gregorian calendar.
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26 Oct 1917 Petrograd Soviet accepts establishment of Military
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26 Oct 1917 World War I: Battle of Caporetto; Italy suffers a catastrophic defeat to the forces of Austria-Hungary and Germany. The young unknown Oberleutnant Erwin Rommel captures Mount Matajur with only 100 Germans against a force of over 7000 Italians.
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26 Oct 1917 World War I: Brazil declares war on the Central Powers.
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30 Oct 1917 British government gives final approval to Balfour Declaration
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31 Oct 1917 World War I: Battle of Beersheba: The "last successful cavalry charge in history".
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01 Nov 1917 In WWI, the 1st US soldiers are killed in combat
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02 Nov 1917 1st US soldiers killed in combat in WWI
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02 Nov 1917 Balfour Declaration proclaims support for a Jewish state in Palestine
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02 Nov 1917 The Balfour Declaration proclaims British support for the "establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people" with the clear understanding "that nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities".
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02 Nov 1917 The Military Revolutionary Committee of the Petrograd Soviet, in charge of preparation and carrying out the Russian Revolution, holds its first meeting.
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03 Nov 1917 1st class mail now costs 3 cents per ounce
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05 Nov 1917 Gen Pershing and US troops see action on Western Front for 1st time
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05 Nov 1917 Supreme Court decision (Buchanan vs. Warley) strikes down Lousiville Ky ordiance requiring blacks and whites to live in separate areas
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05 Nov 1917 October Revolution: In Tallinn, Estonia, Communist leader Jaan Anvelt leads revolutionaries in overthrowing the Provisional Government (As Estonia and Russia are still using the Julian Calendar, subsequent period references show an October 23 date).
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05 Nov 1917 St. Tikhon of Moscow is elected the Patriarch of Moscow and of the Russian Orthodox Church.
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06 Nov 1917 Bolshevik revolution begins with capture of Winter Palace
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06 Nov 1917 New York allows women to vote
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07 Nov 1917 British capture Gaza Palestine from Turks
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07 Nov 1917 October Revolution (October 26 OS) in Russia, Lenin seizes power
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08 Nov 1917 Telephone Co runs 1st ad for Army operators, gets 7,000 applicants
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10 Nov 1917 New soviet government suspends freedom of press (temporary)
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10 Nov 1917 41 suffragists are arrested in front of the White House
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16 Nov 1917 British occupy Tel Aviv and Jaffa
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17 Nov 1917 Lenin defended "temporary" removal of freedom of the press
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20 Nov 1917 1st tank battle (Britain breaks through German lines)
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20 Nov 1917 Ukrainian Republic declared
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21 Nov 1917 M Gorki calls Lenin a blind fanatic / unthinking adventurer
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22 Nov 1917 National Hockey Association disbands
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22 Nov 1917 NHL founded with Montreal Canadiens, Montreal Maroons, TorontArenas, Ottawa Senators & Quebec Bulldogs
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26 Nov 1917 The National Hockey League is formed, with the Montreal Canadiens, Montreal Wanderers, Ottawa Senators, Quebec Bulldogs, and Toronto Arenas as its first teams.
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28 Nov 1917 Sigmund Rombergs revue "Over the Top, " premieres in New York City
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28 Nov 1917 The Estonian Provincial Assembly declares itself the sovereign power of Estonia.
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01 Dec 1917 Boys Town founded by Father Edward Flanagan west of Omaha Neb
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02 Dec 1917 Han Yong-woon, found Zen awakening at Osean Monastery Korea
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02 Dec 1917 World War I: Russia and the Central Powers sign an armistice at Brest-Litovsk, and peace talks leading to the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk begin.
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06 Dec 1917 French munition ship "Mont Blanc" explodes in Halifax, kills 1,700
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06 Dec 1917 Finland declares independence from Russia.
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06 Dec 1917 Halifax Explosion: A munitions explosion near Halifax, Nova Scotia kills more than 1,900 people in the largest artificial explosion up to that time.
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06 Dec 1917 World War I: USS Jacob Jones is the first American destroyer to be sunk by enemy action when it is torpedoed by German submarine SM U-53.
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07 Dec 1917 US becomes 13th country to declare war on Austria during World War I
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07 Dec 1917 World War I: The United States declares war on Austria-Hungary.
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09 Dec 1917 British forces under General Allenby capture Jerusalem
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09 Dec 1917 World War I: Field Marshal Allenby captures Jerusalem, Palestine.
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11 Dec 1917 World War I: British General Edmund Allenby enters Jerusalem on foot and declares martial law.
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11 Dec 1917 13 black soldiers hanged for alleged participation in Houston riot
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11 Dec 1917 German-occupied Lithuania proclaims independence from Russia
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12 Dec 1917 French troop train derails in French Alps killing 543
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12 Dec 1917 In Nebraska, Father Edward J. Flanagan founds Boys Town as a farm village for wayward boys.
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12 Dec 1917 Worst train disaster (derailment near mouth of Mount Cenis tunnel) ever (Modane France-543 French troops killed)
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12 Dec 1917 Reverend Edward Flanagan founds Boys Town outside Omaha NE
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14 Dec 1917 UFA, "Universal Film AG", forms in Germany
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15 Dec 1917 World War I: An armistice is reached between the new Bolshevik government and the Central Powers.
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15 Dec 1917 Moldavian Republic declares independence from Russia
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18 Dec 1917 The resolution containing the language of the Eighteenth Amendment to enact Prohibition is passed by the United States Congress.
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18 Dec 1917 Soviet regiment (Stalin/Lenin) declares Finland Independent
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19 Dec 1917 Quebec Bulldogs play their 1st professional hockey game
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19 Dec 1917 1st NHL game played on artificial ice (Toronto)
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19 Dec 1917 Qu
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20 Dec 1917 Cheka, the first Soviet secret police force, is founded.
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20 Dec 1917 Russian secret police in Czechoslovakia forms under Felix Dzerzjinski
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22 Dec 1917 Flanders declares it's independence, under Pieter Tack
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23 Dec 1917 3 British warships come close to Holland
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25 Dec 1917 "Why Marry, " 1st drama to win Pulitzer Prize, premieres in New York City
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25 Dec 1917 Hirsch/Harbach's musical "Going Up" premieres in New York NY
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26 Dec 1917 Federal government took over operation of American RR for duration of WWI
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26 Dec 1917 1st NHL defensemen to score a goal: Toronto Maple Leaf Harry Cameron
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31 Dec 1917 Dutch Social-democratic trade union NVV counts 159,450 members
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