1917 Calendar
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1917 Historical Event(s)
January 23, 1917
– New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Fire Snake in Chinese astrology.
January 28, 1917
– Municipally owned streetcars take to the streets of San Francisco, California.
March 4, 1917
– Jeannette Rankin of Montana becomes the first female member of the United States House of Representatives.
March 11, 1917
– World War I: Baghdad falls to Anglo-Indian forces commanded by General Stanley Maude.
April 12, 1917
– World War I: Canadian forces successfully complete the taking of Vimy Ridge from the Germans.
May 26, 1917
– Several powerful tornadoes rip through Illinois, including the city of Mattoon, killing 101 people and injuring 689.
July 17, 1917
– King George V of the United Kingdom issues a Proclamation stating that the male line descendants of the British royal family will bear the surname Windsor.
August 18, 1917
– A Great Fire in Thessaloniki, Greece destroys 32% of the city leaving 70,000 individuals homeless.
November 8, 1917
– The People’s Commissars give authority to Vladimir Lenin, Leon Trotsky, and Joseph Stalin.
December 6, 1917
– Halifax Explosion: In Canada, a munitions explosion kills more than 1,900 people and destroys part of the City of Halifax, Nova Scotia.
Who Were Born On 1917?
January 30, 1917
– Paul Frère, Belgian racing driver and motorsport journalist (d. 2008)
February 17, 1917
– Guillermo González Camarena, Mexican inventor (d. 1965)
February 19, 1917
– Carson McCullers, American author (d. 1967)
May 12, 1917
– Frank Clair, American-born Canadian football coach (d. 2005)
May 23, 1917
– Edward Norton Lorenz, American mathematician and meteorologist (d. 2008)
June 1, 1917
– William S. Knowles, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
July 1, 1917
– Humphry Osmond, British psychiatrist (d. 2004)
October 13, 1917
– George Osmond, American patriach of The Osmonds (d. 2007)
November 22, 1917
– Andrew Fielding Huxley, British scientist, Nobel laureate
December 15, 1917
– Shan-ul-Haq Haqqee, linguist and writer of Pakistan (d. 2005)