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History on the year of 1917

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04 Jan 1917 WW2 Richard O'Connor was Mentioned in Despatches. 
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09 Jan 1917 WW1 Begin of Battle of Khadairi Bend
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17 Jan 1917 WW2 Robert Greim was promoted to the rank of Oberleutnant. 
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22 Jan 1917 WW2 150,000 workers marched through Petrograd, Russia and tens of thousands did so in other Russian cities. Most were demonstrating about their hunger, but a minority carry banners bearing political demands. 
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26 Jan 1917 WW2 Robert Saundby was transferred from No. 24 Squadron to the No. 41 Squadron RFC. 
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26 Jan 1917 WW2 Louis Zamperini was born in Olean, New York, United States. 
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27 Jan 1917 WW2 Georg von Bismarck was promoted to the rank of Oberleutnant. 
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29 Jan 1917 WW2 Henry Arnold's son Henry Arnold, Jr. was born. 
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30 Jan 1917 WW2 Henry Arnold was ordered to travel to the Panama Canal Zone in search for locations to build a new airfield. 
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01 Feb 1917 WW2 James Lacey was born in Wetherby, West Riding of Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom. 
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03 Feb 1917 WW2 The United States broke off Diplomatic Relations with Germany. 
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05 Feb 1917 WW2 Henry Arnold assumed command of 7th Aero Squadron in New York, New York, United States; the squadron was destined for the Panama Canal Zone. 
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13 Feb 1917 WW2 Ivan Bagramyan enrolled at the Praporshchik Military Academy in Tiflis, Russia (now Tblisi, Georgia). 
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15 Feb 1917 WW2 Quintin Brand was promoted to the rank of captain and became a flight commander of No. 1 Squadron of the British Royal Flying Corps. 
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19 Feb 1917 WW2 The US Ambassador in London, England, United Kingdom was briefed by Reginald "Blinker" Hall, head of the top secret Room 40, about the contents of the intercepted Zimmermann telegram. 
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20 Feb 1917 WW2 Robert Saundby became the flight commander of No. 11 Training Squadron RFC at Scampton near Lincoln, England, United Kingdom. 
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26 Feb 1917 WW2 The 4th Company of the Pavlovsky Regiment of the Russian Imperial Guard mutinied and came out in support of workers demonstrating against the regime in Petrograd, Russia. 
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26 Feb 1917 WW1 Begin of Battle of Nahr-al-Kalek
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27 Feb 1917 WW2 One day after the 4th Company of the Pavlovsky Regiment of the Russian Imperial Guard mutinied, other reserve guards units joined the revolution in Petrograd, Russia. Defying orders to surrender their arms the mutineers wrecked the police barracks and by noon several public buildings were in flames and there was outbreaks of sporadic shooting throughout the city. 
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28 Feb 1917 WW2 The revolutionaries were in full control of Petrograd, Russia. A Revolutionary headquarters was set up in the Tauride Palace and as the rebellious units of the Russian Army made their way they expected to ally themselves with the State Duma (the Parliamentary institute established following the 1905 revolt, but which Tsar Nicholas had now ordered to be dissolved). It was soon apparent however that the real power at the Tauride Palace laid in the hands of the Soviet (council) of Workers' and Soldier's Deputies, who despite a show of support for Alexander Kerensky's Provisional Government, had an agenda of their own. News of the insurrection in Petrograd reaches the Tsar, who was away on a tour of inspection of front-line units. He hastily set out to return to the capital but his train was diverted to Pskov, the Headquarters of General Russky's Northern Army Group. Unknown to Tsar Nicholas, Russky, who the Tsar believed to be a loyal subordinate, had been given secret orders by Rodzianko, the President of the Dumo (supported by some members of the General Staff) to persuading the Tsar to abdicate. 
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02 Mar 1917 WW2 Tsar Nicholas of Russia reluctantly agreed to abdicate and renounced his son's right to the throne in favour of his brother, The Grand Duke Michael, and signed the abdication documents. Five hours later Rodzianko telephoned Russky and bluntly told him that the abdication manifesto was useless as the people did not want Michael any more than they wanted Nicholas. It was only then that Russky and the other Army Commanders, realized that they had been nothing more than blind instruments in the hands of forces beyond their control. 
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08 Mar 1917 WW2 In Russia women textile workers took to the streets demanding bread. By the afternoon they had been joined by metal-workers from the war industries whose protests were aimed at the Government and the war. Within two days 200,000 workers would be on strike. 
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11 Mar 1917 WW2 In Petrograd, Russia the soldiers in the Pavlovskiy barracks mutinied, and by the following morning 20,000 of them were protesting on the streets. 
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11 Mar 1917 WW1 Begin of Capture of Baghdad
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13 Mar 1917 WW1 Begin of Samarrah Offensive
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19 Mar 1917 WW1 Begin of Seizure of Falluja
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20 Mar 1917 WW2 Dame Vera Lynn, the popular World War II singer and actress, was born at East Ham, London, England, United Kingdom. 
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21 Mar 1917 WW2 British No. 100 Squadron RFC, the first RFC squadron specifically trained for night operations, moved from Hingham, Norfolk, England, United Kingdom (where it was formed) to Saint-André-aux-Bois in France. The unit's first aircraft were twelve F.E.2Bs. 
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25 Mar 1917 WW1 Begin of Battle of Jebel Hamlin
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26 Mar 1917 WW1 Begin of First Battle of Gaza
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28 Mar 1917 WW2 Chuichi Nagumo was attached to the Third Fleet. 
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30 Mar 1917 RELIGIOUS All imperial lands, as well as lands belonging to monasteries, were confiscated by the Russian provisional government.
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31 Mar 1917 WW2 Yamashiro was commissioned into service. 
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31 Mar 1917 WW2 Destroyer Kashi was completed and entered Japanese naval service. 
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01 Apr 1917 WW2 Quintin Brand was promoted to the rank of lieutenant. 
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01 Apr 1917 WW2 Kichisaburo Nomura was promoted to the rank of captain. 
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03 Apr 1917 WW2 King Karl of Austria-Hungary and his Foreign Minister Ottokar Czernin visited the German Kaiser, ostensibly to complain about the declaration of unrestricted U-boat warfare, but secretly to press for the need for peace. 
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03 Apr 1917 WW2 USS Arizona completed post-shakedown overhaul and departed Brooklyn Navy Yard, New York, United States. 
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04 Apr 1917 WW2 USS Arizona arrived at Norfolk, Virginia, United States and joined US Navy Battleship Division 8. 
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05 Apr 1917 WW2 Overnight, the British No. 100 Squadron RFC, the first British purpose-trained night operations squadron, flew B.E.2E aircraft during its first operation with two raids on Douai airfield in France, at that time home to the notorious Manfred von Richtofen's Jasta 11 "Flying Circus". 
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06 Apr 1917 WW2 The United States declared war on Germany. 
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06 Apr 1917 WW2 HMS Effingham was laid down at Portsmouth Dockyard, England, United Kingdom. 
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09 Apr 1917 WW1 Begin of Battle of Vimy Ridge
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11 Apr 1917 WW2 Milton Miles enlisted in the United States Navy. 
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11 Apr 1917 WW1 Begin of Battle of Shiala
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16 Apr 1917 WW1 Begin of Second Battle of the Aisne
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17 Apr 1917 WW1 Begin of Second Battle of Gaza
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21 Apr 1917 WW1 Begin of Battle of Istabulat
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26 Apr 1917 WW2 Quintin Brand was awarded the Military Cross award. 
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30 Apr 1917 WW1 Begin of Battle of the Boot
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01 May 1917 WW2 Quintin Brand was transferred to England. 
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01 May 1917 WW2 Henry Arnold began a period of various staff positions in Washington DC, United States. 
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07 May 1917 WW2 British Major Edward "Mick" Mannock RFC (who had been posted to No. 40 Squadron in France on 1 Apr), later the top scoring British Empire ace of the war with 73 kills, claimed his first aerial victory with the destruction of a balloon. 
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07 May 1917 WW2 British Captain Albert Ball VC, DFC & 2 Bars & MC, RFC (43 kills and one balloon) was killed when, in his SE.5a aircraft, he dived into cloud in pursuit of a German aircraft over Lens, France. He was buried by the Germans with full Military honours. 
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07 May 1917 WW2 The keel of Tenryu was laid down at the Yokosuka Naval Arsenal, Japan. 
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12 May 1917 WW1 Begin of Tenth Battle of the Isonzo
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13 May 1917 RELIGIOUS Near Fatima, Portugal, three shepherd children reported that Mary, the mother of Jesus, had appeared to them. Since 1930, this appearance has come to be known as Our Lady of Fatima.
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14 May 1917 WW1 Begin of Battle of Otranto Straits
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15 May 1917 WW2 George Patton was promoted to the rank of captain. 
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15 May 1917 WW2 Friedrich Christiansen scored his first air-to-air victory, a British Pup aircraft, over Dover, England, United Kingdom. 
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15 May 1917 WW2 George Brett was promoted to the rank of captain. 
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15 May 1917 WW2 Richard O'Connor was Mentioned in Despatches. 
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20 May 1917 WW2 The first submarine to be sunk by an aeroplane was the German U-36 attacked in the North Sea by a flying boat piloted by British Flight Sub-Lieutenant C. R. Morrish. 
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21 May 1917 WW2 Graves Erskine joined the United States Marine Corps Reserve while attending Louisiana State University in Louisiana, United States. 
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25 May 1917 WW2 Robert Greim achieved his first kill as a fighter pilot over France. 
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25 May 1917 WW2 Crown Prince Yi Un graduated from the Japanese Army Academy. 
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25 May 1917 WW2 A fleet of 23 German Gotha G.IV bombers commanded by Hauptmann Ernst Brandenburg set out to bomb London, England, United Kingdom, but on reaching the Thames River ran into bad weather and diverted to find an alternative target. The English coastal town of Folkestone was thronged with shoppers when the German aircraft struck. Ninety-five civilians were killed and the air raid cause widespread panic among a populace who now believed that Germany could rain death from the skies over Britain unopposed. The Germans lost two aircraft. 
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27 May 1917 RELIGIOUS Benedict XV promulgated the "Codex iuris canonici." Divided into five books and 2,414 regulations, the CIC was the first revision of canon law in the Catholic church in modern times, and went into effect at Pentecost the following year.
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29 May 1917 WW2 Jack Knight was born. 
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29 May 1917 WW2 John Kennedy was born. 
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04 Jun 1917 WW2 George Giffard was awarded the Distinguished Service Order. 
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04 Jun 1917 WW2 Roger Backhouse was made a Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George. 
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07 Jun 1917 WW1 Begin of Battle of Messines
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13 Jun 1917 WW2 At midday German Gotha bombers launched from bases in Belgium bombed London, England, United Kingdom, killing 162 civilians and injuring 432. Daily air raids would continue for a month, largely unopposed by the RNAS and Royal Flying Corps. The effect on civilian morale was considerable and damaging, and worker's productivity levels plummeted. The psychological impact was perhaps as damaging to Britain as the loss of life and physical destruction caused by the falling bombs. 
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17 Jun 1917 WW2 Robert Saundby and two other pilots together shot down Zeppelin L48. 
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24 Jun 1917 RELIGIOUS Death of Orville J. Nave (born 1841), U.S. Armed Services chaplain and compiler of the popular 'Nave's Topical Bible.'
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26 Jun 1917 WW2 The US 1st Division (soon to be known as the "Big Red One") consisting of the 16th, 18th, 26th and 28th Infantry regiments arrived in France. 
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26 Jun 1917 WW2 Furious was commissioned into service. 
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27 Jun 1917 WW2 A Sopwith Camel single-seat biplane fighter of No.70 Sqn RFC scored the type's first victory over the Western Front in WW1. 
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27 Jun 1917 WW2 Henry Arnold was promoted to the temporary rank of major. 
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29 Jun 1917 WW2 Miles Browning graduated from the United States Naval Academy. 
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01 Jul 1917 WW2 The last Russian offensive of the Great War began. Under the command of General Aleksei Brusilov the South West Army Group attacked with twenty-three divisions (mainly comprising Finns, Siberians and Poles - the Russian being mostly unreliable). At first the offensive went well with an advance of 30 miles being achieved but the main body of Russian infantry refused to follow up and it was not long before a strong German counter-offensive threw the Russians back to the Galician frontier. Brusilov was dismissed and replaced by Lavr Kornilov. 
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05 Jul 1917 WW2 Robert Saundby was awarded the Military Cross for being one of the three pilots that together shot down Zeppelin L48 in the previous month. 
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05 Jul 1917 WW2 Graves Erskine joined the United States Marine Corps at the rank of second lieutenant. 
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06 Jul 1917 WW2 T. E. Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia) with his Arab irregulars under Auda ibu Tayi captured the town of Aqaba, Ottoman Syria. 
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09 Jul 1917 WW2 The Vickers-built Dreadnought HMS Vanguard was lost through an internal explosion at Scapa Flow, Scotland, United Kingdom with the loss of 804 crew. 
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10 Jul 1917 WW2 At Maroeuil, France, Captain Allin, commanding the British 42nd Chinese Labour Company, ordered an armed party to fire on the Chinese labourers who were rioting over harsh treatment by their British officers and non-commissioned officers. Five Chinese were killed and 14 were wounded. The company commander was removed from command on 17 Oct 1917 by a court of inquiry. 
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15 Jul 1917 WW2 The Provisional government in Russia collapsed and the Bolsheviks tried to take power in Petrograd, Russia. 
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17 Jul 1917 WW2 After days of street fighting, Russia's Minister of War, Aleksandr Kerensky, took charge of the Provisional Government. Lenin went into hiding for the moment. 
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21 Jul 1917 WW2 In Russia the Provisional Government was reorganized with Alexande Kerensky assuming the post of Prime Minister. 
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30 Jul 1917 WW2 Quintin Brand was appointed a flight commander of No. 112 Squadron of the British Royal Flying Corps. 
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31 Jul 1917 WW2 The third battle of Ypres (also known as Passchendale) began. It was a British offensive designed with the aim of breaking through the German trench lines to the German submarine bases in Belgium and to relieve pressure on the collapsing Russian army in the east. Neither of these objectives was achieved. For much of the three months battle successive attacks by Gough’s Fifth army and Plumer’s Second army foundered in terrain that had been turned into a swamp by intensive artillery bombardment, thus precluding the use of tanks. The limit of the British advance was five miles, at a cost of 250,000 casualties. 
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31 Jul 1917 WW2 Lieutenant General Yujiro Nakamura succeeded Lieutenant General Akira Nakamura as the Governor-General of Kwantung Leased Territory in northeastern China. 
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31 Jul 1917 WW1 Begin of Third Battle of Ypres
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31 Jul 1917 WW1 Begin of Third Battle of Ypres (2)
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31 Jul 1917 WW1 Begin of Battle of Passchendaele
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01 Aug 1917 WW2 Karl Wiligut was promoted to the rank of colonel. 
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02 Aug 1917 WW2 British Squadron Commander E. H. Dunning achieved the first RNAS landing on a ship under way at sea when, in a Sopwith Pup, he touched down on the deck of the aircraft carrier HMS Furious. 
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05 Aug 1917 WW2 Henry Arnold was promoted to the temporary rank of colonel. 
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06 Aug 1917 WW2 Kenkichi Ueda was attached to Japanese Army cavalry command. 
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06 Aug 1917 WW2 General Satoshi Matsukawa was named the commanding officer of the Japanese Chosen Army in occupied Korea, relieving Yoshifuru Akiyama. Matsukawa named Lieutenant General Kentaro Ichikawa as his chief of staff. 
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08 Aug 1917 WW2 Edward Brooks was made a second lieutenant in the US Regular Army. 
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16 Aug 1917 WW2 Richard O'Connor was awarded the Distinguished Service Order. 
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16 Aug 1917 WW2 Robert Greim achieved ace status while fighting in France. 
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19 Aug 1917 WW1 Begin of Eleventh Battle of the Isonzo
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22 Aug 1917 WW2 Omar Bradley was promoted to the rank of captain. 
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26 Aug 1917 WW2 Friedrich Ruge was awarded the Iron Cross 2nd Class medal. 
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29 Aug 1917 RELIGIOUS Death of Ernest W. Shurtleff, 55, American Congregational clergyman and author of the hymn, "Lead On, O King Eternal." Shurtleff died during World War I, while doing relief work along with his wife.
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30 Aug 1917 WW2 Kenkichi Ueda was assigned the concurrent duty with the Japanese Army Technical Bureau. 
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31 Aug 1917 WW2 George Giffard was awarded the Croix de Guerre medal of France. 
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01 Sep 1917 WW2 Friedrich Christiansen was named the commanding officer of the German naval air station at Zeebrugge, Belgium. 
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01 Sep 1917 WW2 The German 8th Army attacked Riga, Latvia in an attempt to bring about the downfall of the Provisional Government and force Russia to sue for peace. Apart from some resistance by one division whose commander had somehow managed to rally his men, most Russian soldiers refused to fight and melted away (their officers being killed by the deserters on frequent occasions). 
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02 Sep 1917 WW2 Wolfgang Kapp and Alfred von Tirpitz established the Fatherland Party with the aim of rekindling the militaristic spirit of 1914 by appealing for National unity to achieve a German victory. 
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03 Sep 1917 WW2 Four Gotha bombers attacked Chatham, England, United Kingdom. One bomb fell on a naval barracks killing 131 ratings. 
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03 Sep 1917 WW2 The American 1st Aero Squadron arrived in France. 
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03 Sep 1917 WW2 The German 8th Army captured Riga, Latvia and pushed on some distance beyond. 
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07 Sep 1917 WW2 The future Group Captain Leonard Cheshire, VC, the highly decorated WW2 pilot and later founder of the Cheshire Homes for the disabled, was born at Chester, England, United Kingdom. 
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10 Sep 1917 WW2 Masafumi Arima was assigned to Iwate. 
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12 Sep 1917 WW2 In Paris, Paul Painlevé replaced Alexandre Ribot as Prime Minister of France. 
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17 Sep 1917 WW2 Arthur Coningham was awarded the Military Cross medal. 
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22 Sep 1917 WW2 Vampire was commissioned into service. 
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26 Sep 1917 WW2 Arthur Coningham was awarded the Distinguished Service Order medal of Britain. 
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28 Sep 1917 WW1 Begin of Battle of Ramadi
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01 Oct 1917 WW2 Henry Arnold was made the executive officer of the Air Division of the US Army Signal Corps. 
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13 Oct 1917 WW2 Franklin Roosevelt met with US President Woodrow Wilson at 2300 hours in Washington DC, United States. 
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13 Oct 1917 RELIGIOUS The Virgin Mary last appeared to three shepherd children near Fatima, Portugal. Six visions had occurred between May and October, each on the 13th of the month. (This last vision was attended by over 50,000 pilgrims.)
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16 Oct 1917 WW2 The keel of submarine R-1 was laid down by Fore River Shipbuilding, Quincy, Massachusetts, United States. 
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16 Oct 1917 WW2 Robert Greim achieved his 7th kill over France. 
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16 Oct 1917 WW2 The keel of submarine R-5 was laid down at Fore River Shipbuilding in Quincy, Massachusetts, United States. 
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17 Oct 1917 WW2 The Russian battleship Slava was scuttled after being badly damaged in action with the German dreadnought König. 
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18 Oct 1917 WW2 Douglas MacArthur departed from Hoboken, New Jersey, United States for France for WW1 action aboard USS Covington. 
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23 Oct 1917 WW2 In Petrograd, Russia the central committee of the Bolshevik Party decided that the time was ripe for an armed insurrection to seize power from the Provisional Government. 
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24 Oct 1917 WW1 Begin of Twelfth Battle of the Isonzo
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24 Oct 1917 WW1 Begin of Battle of Caporetto
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26 Oct 1917 WW2 In Russia the first Bolshevik Government was established; Joseph Stalin was given the Commissariat of Nationality Affairs with responsibility for preventing the non-Russian borderlands (including his own native Georgia) from seceding from the new revolutionary community. 
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31 Oct 1917 WW1 Begin of Third Battle of Gaza
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31 Oct 1917 WW1 Begin of Battle of Beersheba
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05 Nov 1917 WW1 Begin of Capture of Tikrit
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07 Nov 1917 WW2 Erwin Rommel led a small force across the Piave River and set a trap that captured 8,000 Italian soldiers at Longarone, Italy. 
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07 Nov 1917 WW2 Edward Brooks married Beatrice Aurora Leavitt. 
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07 Nov 1917 WW2 The Bolshevik revolt overthrew Czar Nicholas and seized Petrograd, Russia. The Provisional Government fell and Prime Alexander Minister Kerensky fled the country. The "Ten days that shook the world" had begun and communist forces began to gain control over Russia. 
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08 Nov 1917 WW2 Vladimir Lenin and his Council of People's Commissars proclaimed a Government of Workers and Peasants. Leon Trotsky was installed as Commissar for Foreign Affairs and Josef Stalin, at that time a minor figure in the Bolshevik Party, as Commissar for the Nationalities. 
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13 Nov 1917 WW1 Begin of Battle of Mughar Ridge
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15 Nov 1917 WW2 Ira Eaker, until this point a second lieutenant in the reserve, received a commission in the Regular Army of the United States. 
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19 Nov 1917 WW2 The destroyer USS Chauncey was lost after a collision with USS Caya in the Straits of Gibraltar. 
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20 Nov 1917 WW2 At the Battle of Cambrai in France, the British Army launched its first full-scale offensive that was designed exclusively to accommodate a new British secret weapon, the Tank (so-called because when the first shipment came from England they were described as water tanks to maintain secrecy). Following a surprise artillery barrage 476 tanks, packed tightly for a mass attack moved against the German lines. Supported by infantry and 289 British aircraft the gains were dramatic, breaching the almost impregnable Hindenberg Line to a depth of 4-5 miles in some places. However, these gains seemed to surprise British High Command equally as much as the Germans and the following cavalry failed to take advantage. Ultimately most of the captured ground would be retaken within a few weeks. Nevertheless, Cambrai demonstrated how a well-thought out attack, combining tanks en masse with surprise, could be used to break the trench deadlock. 
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20 Nov 1917 WW1 Begin of Battle of Cambrai
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21 Nov 1917 WW2 Lenin ordered General Dukhonin to begin armistice negotiations with representatives of the Central Powers. Dukhonin refused to obey and was dismissed. 
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21 Nov 1917 WW2 Chung Il-kwon was born in Primorsky Krai, Russia. 
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24 Nov 1917 WW2 In Russia, the old Tsarist courts and legal codes were abolished. Judges were told by Lenin to make use of what they needed from the old legislation but to be guided by revolutionary consciousness when arriving at their judgements. 
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24 Nov 1917 WW2 Masafumi Arima departed for a training tour in the Inland Sea of Japan. 
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25 Nov 1917 WW2 Marcel Albert was born. 
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28 Nov 1917 WW2 Lenin's new commander in chief, a former Tsarist officer named Ensign Krylenko, ordered all hostilities to end on all fronts. 
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01 Dec 1917 WW2 Hiroaki Abe was promoted to the rank of lieutenant. 
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01 Dec 1917 WW2 Ise was commissioned into service. 
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01 Dec 1917 WW2 Mississippi was commissioned into service. 
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01 Dec 1917 WW2 Nobutake Kondo enrolled at the Japanese Naval War College. 
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01 Dec 1917 WW2 Settsu completed a period of refitting and joined Battleship Division 2 of the First Fleet. Captain Sukejiro Inutsuka was named the commanding officer of Settsu. 
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01 Dec 1917 WW2 Rear Admiral Heigo Teraoka was named the chief of staff of Chinkai Guard District in southern Korea. 
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02 Dec 1917 WW2 Russian General Dukhonin and his staff were placed under arrest, ordered by Lenin. 
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03 Dec 1917 WW2 Dukhonin released Generals Denikin, Lekomsky, Romanovsky, Markov, Kormnilov, and Krasnov from Bykhov prison. It was soon learnt that these commanders were making their way southwards to link up with General Kaledin's Cossack Union of the Don. Lenin's new commander-in-chief Krylenko arrived at Mogilev, Russia at the head of a contingent or armed sailors to receive Dukhonin's surrender; one of the sailors shoot Dukhonin dead before Krylenko can intervene. 
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03 Dec 1917 WW2 Russian and German delegates began formal armistice talks at Brest-Litovsk, Russia. 
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03 Dec 1917 WW2 The British Cabinet decided to support Anti-Bolshevik elements in Russia. 
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06 Dec 1917 WW2 The Destroyer USS Jacob Jones was lost after being torpedoed by a German submarine off the Scillies off the southwestern tip of the Cornish peninsula of England, United Kingdom. 
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07 Dec 1917 WW2 The British War Cabinet met to discuss growing reports of prevailing chaos in Siberia, Russia. Agreement was reached that the most effective way of restoring order would be if the Japanese were to intervene. The Japanese however proved to be reluctant to commit themselves without American backing although they were prepared to protect Japanese interests in Vladivostok. 
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08 Dec 1917 WW2 Wanda Gertz was arrested in Poland for participating in a pro-Polish demonstration; she would remain in jail for six months. 
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08 Dec 1917 WW1 Begin of Fall of Jerusalem
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10 Dec 1917 WW2 Russian revolutionary forces captured Rostov, Russia. Kaledin's Cossacks refused to fight and he had no choice but to appeal to General Alekseev to help retake the town. 
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10 Dec 1917 WW2 Erwin Rommel was awarded the Pour le Mérite. 
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11 Dec 1917 WW2 Friedrich Christiansen shot down the British airship C27 near the Belgian coast. 
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11 Dec 1917 WW2 Arthur Coningham was Mentioned in Despatches. 
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12 Dec 1917 WW2 Several Japanese troopships arrived off Vladivostok, Russia, which brought about a strong protest from the US government. A US warship was sent to the scene, although for the moment no Japanese soldier actually set foot ashore. 
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12 Dec 1917 WW2 Vice Admiral Tomojiro Chisaka was named the commanding officer of the Mako naval port at Pescadores islands, Taiwan. 
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14 Dec 1917 WW2 The British government agreed to provide Russian General Kaledin with financial support, although ultimately no British finds reached the Cossacks. 
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15 Dec 1917 WW2 Alekseev's small Volunteer Army recaptured Rostov, Russia. After this the Krug (Cossack Parliament) allowed the volunteers to remain on Cossack soil on the understanding that it came under control of the Don Coalition Government and that it assisted in protecting the western Don from Bolshevik invasion. 
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15 Dec 1917 WW2 Chuichi Nagumo was named the commanding officer of destroyer Kisaragi. 
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16 Dec 1917 WW2 An armistice between Russia and the Central Powers commenced. 
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17 Dec 1917 RELIGIOUS Confiscation of the property of the Russian Orthodox Church and abolition of religious instruction in schools was announced by the Bolshevik government.
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18 Dec 1917 WW2 Richard O'Connor was Mentioned in Despatches. 
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20 Dec 1917 WW2 The All-Russian Extraordinary Commission for Combating Counter-Revolution, Speculation, Sabotage and Misconduct in Office (VCheKa) was established. The new security force would become a virtual law unto itself during the civil war, when an estimated 250,000 people were executed by its hands. 
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22 Dec 1917 WW2 The US Vice-Consul, General Poole, and the French representative, Colonel Hucher, arrived in Novocherkassk, Russia. After conferring with both Kaledin and Alekseev both officials urged their respective governments to give support to the Volunteer Army, which was now some 3,500 strong and equipped largely with weapons provided by the Cossacks. 
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24 Dec 1917 WW2 A conference at the Supreme Allied Council discussed the possibility of organizing a Ukrainian Army to open a campaign in Romania. 
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25 Dec 1917 WW2 Crown Prince Yi Un was promoted to the rank of second lieutenant in the Japanese Army. 
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