1917 Calendar
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1917 Historical Events
- January 19, 1917 – Silvertown explosion: 73 are killed and 400 injured in an explosion in a munitions plant in London.
- January 23, 1917 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Fire Snake in Chinese astrology.
- February 5, 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.
- February 24, 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.
- April 9, 1917 – World War I: The Battle of Arras – the battle begins with Canadian Corps executing a massive assault on Vimy Ridge.
- June 11, 1917 – King Alexander assumes the throne of Greece after his father Constantine I abdicates under pressure by allied armies occupying Athens.
- July 2, 1917 – The East St. Louis Riots end.
- July 12, 1917 – The Bisbee Deportation occurs as vigilantes kidnap and deport nearly 1,300 striking miners and others from Bisbee, Arizona.
- October 25, 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.
- December 18, 1917 – The resolution containing the language of the Eighteenth Amendment to enact Prohibition is passed by the United States Congress.
Who Were Born On 1917?
- January 18, 1917 – Wang Yung-ching, Taiwanese businessman (d. 2008)
- April 29, 1917 – Maya Deren, Ukraine-born American avant-garde filmmaker (d. 1961)
- June 15, 1917 – John Bennett Fenn, American chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 2010)
- July 24, 1917 – Jack Moroney, Australian cricketer (d. 1999)
- October 20, 1917 – Jean-Pierre Melville, French director (d. 1973)
- October 28, 1917 – Jack Soo, American actor (d. 1979)
- November 18, 1917 – Pedro Infante, Mexican actor and singer (d. 1957)
- December 16, 1917 – Nabi Bux Khan Baloch, Sindhi scholar (d. 2011)
- December 21, 1917 – Sophie Masloff, American politician
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