Notable Historical Events - 1917
1917 Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
Jan 1 |
T. E Lawrence joins the forces of the Arabian sheik Feisal al Husayn, beginning his adventures that will lead him to Damascus by October, 1918 |
Jan 2 |
Royal Bank of Canada takes over Quebec Bank |
Jan 8 |
Austria-Hungarian troops conquer Forlani Italy |
Jan 9 |
World War I: the Battle of Rafa occurs near the Egyptian border with Palestine. |
Jan 10 |
The Allied Governments respond to US President Wilson's December 1916 note, giving their terms for ending the war |
Jan 11 |
Guy Bolton & PG Wodehouse's "Have a Heart," premieres in NYC |
Jan 16 |
The Greek Government accepts reparations for Allied losses sustained in recent actions in Greece |
Jan 17 |
US pays Denmark $25 million for Virgin Islands (or 3/21) |
Jan 19 |
Silvertown Essex's ammunition factory explodes; 300 die |
Jan 27 |
Coen de Koning wins 2nd official 11 cities race (9:53) (record) |
Jan 28 |
Municipally owned streetcars take to the streets of San Francisco, California. |
Jan 29 |
British submarine K13 leaves Gaire Loch |
Jan 31 |
Germany notifies US that U-boats will attack neutral merchant ship |
Jan 31 |
Mexican President Carranza announces a new constitution with many liberal elements; most of which his regime will not implement |
Feb 1 |
German Admiral Tirpitz announces unlimited submarine war |
Feb 3 |
US liner Housatonic is sunk by German submarine, on the same day that US President Wilson breaks off diplomatic relations with Germany |
Feb 4 |
Belgian Council of Flanders established |
Feb 5 |
Congress overrides Wilson's veto, curtailing Asian immigration |
Feb 5 |
Morosco Theater opens at 217 W 45th St NYC (demolished 1982) |
Feb 5 |
The last of the American troops commanded by General John Pershing leave Mexico; President Carranza will be assassinated within the next year |
Feb 10 |
Johanna Westerdijk installed as Neth 1st female professor |
Feb 15 |
SF Public Library (Main Branch at Civic center) dedicated |
Feb 16 |
1st synagogue in 425 years opens in Madrid |
Feb 17 |
In Australia, Nationalist Party takes over a coalition government |
Feb 20 |
Ammunition ship explodes in Archangel harbour, about 1,500 die |
Feb 20 |
Kern, Bolton & Wodehouse's musical "Oh, Boy!," premieres in NYC |
Feb 21 |
British Mendi sinks off Isle of Wight, 627 die |
Feb 21 |
Train near Chirurcha, Romania, catches fire & explodes; hundreds die |
Feb 22 |
German Navy torpedoes 7 Dutch ships |
Feb 22 |
[NS Mar 7] Russian February Revolution begins with strike at Putilov factory in Petrograd |
Feb 24 |
German plan to get Mexican help in WW I exposed (Zimmerman telegram) |
Feb 24 |
Red Sox sell Smokey Joe Wood, his arm dead at 26, to Cleve for $15,000 |
Feb 26 |
1st jazz records recorded - "Dixie Jazz Band One Step," and "Livery Stable Blues" by Original Dixieland Jass Band for the Victor Talking Machine Company |
Feb 26 |
[NS Mar 11] Russian February Revolution: Tsar Nicolas II orders army to quell civil unrest in Petrograd - army mutinies |
Feb 26 |
1st Annual fair at Utrecht Harbor (Netherlands) |
Feb 28 |
AP reports Mexico & Japan will allie with Germany if US enters WW I |
Mar 1 |
1st federal land bank chartered |
Mar 1 |
U.S. government releases the plaintext of the Zimmermann Telegram to the public. |
Mar 2 |
Jones Act: Puerto Rico territory created, US citizenship granted |
Mar 3 |
US Congress passes 1st excess profits tax on corporations |
Mar 7 |
1st jazz record record released on a 78 by Original Dixieland Jass Band for the Victor Talking Machine Company ("Dixie Jazz Band One Step," one side "Livery Stable Blues" other) |
Mar 7 |
Russian February Revolution breaks out [OS=Feb 24] with strike at Putilov factory in Petrograd |
Mar 10 |
Batangas was formally founded as one of the Philippines's earliest encomiendas. |
Mar 11 |
1st NHL championship game ever played, Toronto Arenas beats Montreal Canadiens 7-3 in 1st of 2 game set (second game on March 13) |
Mar 11 |
World War I: Baghdad falls to Anglo-Indian forces commanded by General Stanley Maude. |
Mar 12 |
[OS Feb 27] Russian Duma sets up the Provisional Committee; Soviets form Executive Committee |
Mar 12 |
Stalin, Kamenev & Muranov arrives in Petrograd/St Petersburg |
Mar 15 |
[OS Mar 2] Nicholas II, the last Russian Tsar abdicates, nominates his brother Grand Duke Michael to secceed him |
Mar 16 |
[OS Mar 3] Russian Grand Duke Michael, brother of Tsar Nicholas II declines the Russian throne |
Mar 17 |
1st exclusively women's bowling tournament begins in St Louis |
Mar 17 |
Delta Phi Epsilon is founded at New York University Law School. |
Mar 17 |
Albert Anastasia is convicted of murdering longshoreman George Turino |
Mar 19 |
US Supreme Court upheld 8-hr work day for railroad employees |
Mar 21 |
Loretta Walsh becomes US Navy's 1st female Petty Officer |
Mar 23 |
Tornadoes kills 211 over 4 days in Midwest US |
Mar 25 |
Canadian ace Billy Bishop claims his first victory, shooting down a Leutnant Theiller |
Mar 26 |
Stanley Cup: Seattle Metropolitans (PCHA) beat Montreal Canadiens (NHL), 3 games to 1 - Seattle is 1st US team to win Stanley Cup |
Mar 28 |
Jews are expelled from Tel Aviv & Jaffa by Turkish authorities |
Mar 28 |
Puccini's "La Rondine" premieres in Monte Carlo |
Mar 31 |
US purchases Danish West Indies for $25M & renames them Virgin Islands |
Apr 2 |
Jeannette Rankin (Rep-R-Mont) begins her term as 1st woman member of US House of Reps |
Apr 2 |
US President Wilson asks Congress to declare war against Germany |
Apr 3 |
Lenin arrives in Petrograd from Switzerland [NS=April 16] |
Apr 6 |
US declares war on Germany, enters World War I |
Apr 7 |
De Falla's ballet "El Sombrero de tres Picos" premieres in Madrid |
Apr 7 |
James Barries' "Old Lady Shows Her" premieres in London |
Apr 9 |
Battle of Arras begins |
Apr 9 |
Vimy Ridge France stormed by Canadian troops |
Apr 10 |
Munition factory explosion at Eddystone PA, kills 133 workers |
Apr 11 |
Babe Ruth beats NY Yanks, pitching 3-hit 10-3 win for Red Sox |
Apr 12 |
Bijou Theater opens at 222 W 45th St NYC (Demolished 1982) |
Apr 12 |
Domenico Scarlatti & Jeab Cocteaus ballet premieres in Rome |
Apr 14 |
Chicago White Sox Ed Cicotte no-hits St Louis Browns, 11-0 |
Apr 16 |
[OS Apr 3] Lenin arrives back from exile in Russia at Finland Station, Petrograd to join the Russian Revolution |
Apr 16 |
[OS Apr 4] Lenin issues his radical April Theses calling for Soviets to take power during Russian Revolution |
Apr 19 |
21st Boston Marathon won by Bill Kennedy of NY in 2:28:37.2 |
Apr 24 |
Yankee lefty George Mogridge no-hits Red Sox 2-1 at Fenway |
May 2 |
Cin Fred Tooney & Chic's Hippo Vaughn pitch duel no-hitter, Vaughn gives up 2 hits & a run in 10th, so Cin wins 1-0 |
May 3 |
1st performance of Ernest Bloch's symphony "Israel" |
May 4 |
Arabs sack Tel Aviv |
May 5 |
St Louis Brown Ernie Koob no-hits Chicago White Sox, 1-0 |
May 6 |
St Louis Brown Bob Groom no-hits Chicago White Sox, 3-0 |
May 7 |
Red Sox Babe Ruth beats Wash Senator Walter Johnson, 1-0 |
May 10 |
Atlantic ships get destroyer escorts to stop German attacks |
May 11 |
King George V grants Royal Letters Patent to New Zealand |
May 12 |
42nd Preakness: E Haynes aboard Kalitan wins in 1:54.4 |
May 12 |
43rd Kentucky Derby: Charles Borel on Omar Khayyam wins in 2:04.6 |
May 13 |
1st appearance of Mary to 3 shepherd children in Fatima, Portugal |
May 13 |
Ernest Bloch's "Schelomo" premieres |
May 18 |
Satie/Massine/Picasso's ballet "Parade" premieres in Paris |
May 18 |
US passes Selective Service act |
May 20 |
Turkish government authorizes Jews to return to Tel Aviv & Jaffa |
May 21 |
Leo Pinckney, 1st American drafted during WW I |
May 21 |
The Great Fire of Atlanta: at least 10,000 people were displaced, but there was only one fatality |
May 23 |
Dutch 2nd Chamber approves 1908 conscription draft |
May 26 |
Walt Cruise hit 1st HR out of Braves Field |
May 27 |
Race riot in East St Louis Illinois, 1 black killed |
May 30 |
Jazz standard "Dark Town Strutters Ball" by Original Dixieland Jass Band first recorded |
Jun 1 |
Hank Gowdy is 1st baseball player to enlist during WW I |
Jun 2 |
Canadian ace Billy Bishop undertakes a solo mission behind enemy lines, shooting down three aircrafts as they were about to take off and several more on the ground, for which he is awarded the Victoria Cross |
Jun 4 |
1st Pulitzer prize awarded to Richards & Elliott (Julia Ward Howe) |
Jun 4 |
American men begin registering for the draft |
Jun 4 |
Most Excellent Order of British Empire inaugurated by King George V to recognise the efforts of his people in WW1 |
Jun 5 |
10 million US men begin registering for draft in WW I |
Jun 7 |
Melvin Jones and a number of other Chicago businessmen found Lions Clubs International, now the largest service organization in the world |
Jun 8 |
Walt Disney graduates from Benton High School |
Jun 10 |
60,000 people of Petrograd Russia welcome Prince Kropotkin (banned 41 years) returning after February Russian Revolution |
Jun 10 |
Limburgse mine workers strike |
Jun 11 |
King Alexander assumes the throne of Greece after his father Constantine I abdicated under pressure by allied armies occupying Athens. |
Jun 12 |
Secret Service extends protection of president to his family |
Jun 13 |
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. |
Jun 14 |
1st German air attack on England, 100+ killed in East London |
Jun 14 |
Gen Pershing & his HQ staff arrived in Paris during WW I |
Jun 16 |
1st All Russian Congress of the Soviets convenes in Petrograd, Russia [OS Jun 3] |
Jun 16 |
49th Belmont: James Butwell aboard Hourless wins in 2:17.8 |
Jun 21 |
Hawaiian Red Cross forms |
Jun 23 |
31st US Womens Tennis: Molla Mallory beat Marion Vanderhoef (4-6 6-0 6-2) |
Jun 23 |
Ammunition factory in Boleweg Bohemia explodes, killing 1,000 |
Jun 23 |
Ernie Shore replaces Red Sox pitcher Babe Ruth with a runner on, he throws him out & retires all 26 he faces for a perfect game |
Jun 24 |
Russian Black Sea fleet mutinies at Sebastopol |
Jun 26 |
1st US Expeditionary Force arrive in France during WW I |
Jun 27 |
1st baseball player (Hank Gowdy) to enter WW I military service |
Jun 28 |
Potato entrepreneurs begins in Amsterdam |
Jul 1 |
257cm-mirror for Mount Wilson Observatory mounted |
Jul 1 |
Race riots in East St Louis Illinois (40 to 200 reported killed) |
Jul 1 |
Reds' Fred Toney pitches completes doubleheader victories over Pirates |
Jul 1 |
Robins (Dodgers) play their 1st Sunday game in Brooklyn |
Jul 2 |
Riots in East St Louis Mo |
Jul 3 |
Spontaneous demonstration at Tauride-palace Petrograd |
Jul 6 |
T E Lawrence captures port of Aqaba from Turks |
Jul 9 |
British warship "Vanguard" explodes at Scapa Flow killing 804 |
Jul 10 |
Emma Goldman imprisoned for obstructing draft |
Jul 12 |
The Bisbee Deportation occurs as vigilantes kidnap and deport nearly 1,300 striking miners and others from Bisbee, Arizona. |
Jul 13 |
Vision of Virgin Mary appeared to children of Fatima, Portugal |
Jul 17 |
Royal Proclamation by King George V changes name of British Royal family from German Saxe-Coburg-Gotha to Windsor |
Jul 20 |
Pact of Corfu signed: Serbs, Croats & Slovenes form Yugoslavia |
Jul 20 |
WW I draft lottery held; #258 is 1st drawn |
Jul 21 |
Russian Revolution: Socialist Alexander Kerensky becomes Russian Prime Minister |
Jul 22 |
British bomb German lines at Ypres, 4,250,000 grenades |
Jul 23 |
Cleveland Metropolitan Park District establishes |
Jul 25 |
Sir Thomas Whyte introduces the first income tax in Canada as a "temporary" measure (lowest bracket is 4% and highest is 25%). |
Jul 26 |
J. Edgar Hoover gets job in US Department of Justice |
Jul 27 |
The Allies reach the Yser Canal at the Battle of Passchendaele. |
Jul 28 |
Silent Parade 10,000 African-American march on 5th Ave (NYC) protesting against lynching |
Jul 30 |
Board of Commissioners of Cleveland Metroparks has its 1st meeting |
Jul 31 |
3rd battle of Ypres begins |
Aug 1 |
Frank Little, IWW organizer, lynched in Butte, MT |
Aug 4 |
Pravda calls for the killing of all capitalists, priests & officers |
Aug 5 |
British troops attack canal of Ypres in Boesinghe Belgium |
Aug 6 |
World War I: Battle of Mărăşeşti between the Romanian and German armies begins. |
Aug 13 |
Phillies steal 5 bases in an inning against Braves |
Aug 14 |
China declares war on Germany & Austria at start of WW I |
Aug 14 |
Leeuwen soccer team forms |
Aug 17 |
Italy declares war on Turkey |
Aug 18 |
Dutch Naval Air Force forms (MLD) |
Aug 18 |
A Great Fire in Thessaloniki, Greece destroys 32% of the city leaving 70,000 individuals homeless. |
Aug 19 |
Sunday benefit baseball game at Polo Grounds results in John McGraw & Christy Mathewson's arrest for violating Blue laws |
Aug 22 |
Pittsburgh Pirates play 4th straight extra inning game, Carson Bigbee sets record of 11 at-bats, they lose in 22 innings to Dodgers |
Aug 23 |
Race riot in Houston Texas (2 blacks & 11 whites killed) |
Aug 25 |
37th US Men's Tennis: R Lindley Murray beats N W Niles (5-7 8-6 6-3 6-3) |
Aug 27 |
Indians set club record by stealing eight bases in a game |
Aug 28 |
Ten suffragists arrested as they picket the White House |
Sep 2 |
Deutsche Vaterlands Partei formed by admiral Tirpitz |
Sep 3 |
1st night bombing of London by German aircraft |
Sep 3 |
German troops overrun Riga, Latvia |
Sep 3 |
Grover Cleveland Alexander pitches complete wins in a doubleheader |
Sep 3 |
Utrecht soccer team Holland forms |
Sep 6 |
French pilot Georges Guynemer shoots down 54th German aircraft |
Sep 15 |
Russia proclaimed a republic by Alexander Kerensky's Provisional government |
Sep 20 |
British assault on Polygon Forest, France |
Sep 20 |
Paraguay becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty. |
Sep 26 |
British assault on Menin-street, France |
Sep 27 |
Broadhurst Theater opens at 235 W 44th St NYC |
Sep 27 |
EHC soccer team forms in Hoensbroek Neth |
Oct 4 |
British assault on Broodseinde, France |
Oct 8 |
Leon Trotsky named chairman of the Petrograd Soviet as Bolsheviks gain control |
Oct 10 |
Giants Rube Benton is 1st lefty to pitch a World Series no hitter |
Oct 10 |
Plymouth Theater opens at 236 W 45th St NYC |
Oct 12 |
The First Battle of Passchendaele, now Passendale |
Oct 13 |
Soviets accept establishment of Petrograd Military |
Oct 15 |
Chicago White Sox beat NY Giants, 4 games to 2 in 14th World Series |
Oct 15 |
World War I: At Vincennes outside of Paris, Dutch dancer Mata Hari is executed by firing squad for spying for Germany. |
Oct 17 |
1st British bombing of Germany |
Oct 19 |
Love Field in Dallas, Texas is opened. |
Oct 21 |
1st Americans to see action on front lines of WW I |
Oct 21 |
Petrograds garrison accepts Revolutionary Military Committee |
Oct 23 |
1st Infantry division "Big Red One" shoots 1st US shot in WW I |
Oct 23 |
Lenin speaks against Kamenev, Kollontai, Stalin & Trotsky |
Oct 24 |
Battle at Caporetto: German & Austria smash Italian army |
Oct 25 |
Pan-Russian Congress opens in Petrograd |
Oct 26 |
Petrograd Soviet accepts establishment of Military |
Oct 26 |
World War I:Brazil declared in state of war with Central Powers. |
Oct 30 |
British government gives final approval to Balfour Declaration |
Oct 31 |
Eugene O'Neill's "In the Zone" premieres in NYC |
Oct 31 |
World War I: Battle of Beersheba in southern Palestine- "last successful cavalry charge in history" |
Nov 1 |
In WW I, the 1st US soldiers are killed in combat |
Nov 2 |
Balfour Declaration proclaims support for a Jewish state in Palestine |
Nov 2 |
Lansing-Ishii Agreement; US recognizes Japan's privileges in China |
Nov 3 |
1st class US mail now costs 3 cents per ounce |
Nov 5 |
Gen Pershing & US troops see action on Western Front for 1st time |
Nov 5 |
Supreme Court decision (Buchanan v Warley) strikes down Lousiville, Kenticky, ordinance requiring blacks & whites to live in separate areas |
Nov 6 |
[OS Oct 24] Bolshevik revolution begins with bombardmentt of the Winter Palace in Petrograd during the Russian October Revolution |
Nov 6 |
NY allows women to vote |
Nov 7 |
British capture Gaza, Palestine, from Turks |
Nov 7 |
October Revolution (Oct 25 OS) in Russia, Lenin and the Bolsheviks seize power, capture the Winter Palace, overthrowing Provisional Government |
Nov 8 |
People's Commissars gives authority to Lenin, Trotsky & Stalin during October Revolution |
Nov 8 |
Telephone Co runs 1st ad for Army operators, gets 7,000 applicants |
Nov 10 |
41 suffragists are arrested in front of White House |
Nov 10 |
Faure's 2nd Violo Sonate, premieres |
Nov 10 |
New bolshevik government under Lenin suspends freedom of press (temporary) during October Revolution |
Nov 16 |
British occupy Tel Aviv and Jaffa |
Nov 17 |
Lenin defends "temporary" removal of freedom of the press |
Nov 18 |
Sigma Alpha Rho, a Jewish high school fraternity, is founded in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. |
Nov 20 |
First successful tank use in battle (Britain breaks through German lines) at Battle of Cambrai WWI |
Nov 20 |
Ukrainian Republic declared |
Nov 21 |
M Gorki calls Lenin a blind fanatic/unthinking adventurer |
Nov 22 |
NHL forms with Montreal Canadiens, Montreal Maroons, Toronto Arenas, Ottawa Senators & Quebec Bulldogs; National Hockey Association disbands |
Nov 24 |
Nine police officers and one civilian are killed when a bomb explodes at the Milwaukee, Wisconsin police headquarters building. |
Nov 28 |
Sigmund Rombergs revue "Over the Top" premieres in NYC |
Dec 1 |
Boys Town founded by Father Edward Flanagan west of Omaha Neb |
Dec 2 |
Han Yong-woon, found Zen awakening at Osean Monastery Korea |
Dec 3 |
After nearly 20 years of planning and construction, the Quebec Bridge opens to traffic. |
Dec 6 |
Finland declares independence from Russia (National Day) |
Dec 6 |
French munition ship "Mont Blanc" explodes in Halifax, kills 1,700 |
Dec 7 |
US becomes 13th country to declare war on Austria during World War I |
Dec 9 |
British forces under General Allenby capture Jerusalem |
Dec 11 |
13 black soldiers hanged for participation in Houston riot |
Dec 11 |
German-occupied Lithuania proclaims independence from Russia |
Dec 12 |
French troop train derails in French Alps killing 543 |
Dec 12 |
Rev Edward Flanagan forms Boys Town outside Omaha, Nebraska |
Dec 14 |
UFA, Universal Film AG, forms in Germany |
Dec 15 |
Moldavian Republic declares independence from Russia |
Dec 15 |
World War I: An armistice is reached between the new Russian Bolshevik government and the Central Powers. |
Dec 18 |
Soviet regiment (Stalin/Lenin) declares Finland Independent |
Dec 19 |
1st NHL game played on artificial ice (Toronto) |
Dec 19 |
Quebec Bulldogs play their 1st professional hockey game |
Dec 20 |
Cheka formed - Soviet state security force and forerunner to the KGB, under Felix Dzerzhinsky after decree by Lenin |
Dec 22 |
Flanders declares it's independence, under Pieter Tack |
Dec 23 |
3 British warships come close to Holland |
Dec 25 |
"Why Marry" 1st drama to win Pulitzer Prize, premieres in NYC |
Dec 25 |
Hirsch/Harbach's musical "Going Up" premieres in NYC |
Dec 26 |
1st NHL defensemen to score a goal: Toronto Maple Leaf Harry Cameron |
Dec 26 |
Fed government took over operation of American RR for duration of WW I |
Dec 30 |
-32°F (-36°C) in Mountain City, Tennessee (state record) |
Dec 30 |
-37°F (-38°C) in Lewisburg, WV (state record) |
Dec 31 |
Dutch Social-democratic trade union NVV counts 159,450 members |
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