1917 Calendar
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1917 Historical Event(s)
January 19, 1917
– Silvertown explosion: 73 are killed and 400 injured in an explosion in a munitions plant in London.
January 22, 1917
– World War I: President Woodrow Wilson of the still-neutral United States calls for “peace without victory” in Europe.
January 23, 1917
– New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Fire Snake in Chinese astrology.
March 25, 1917
– The Georgian Orthodox Church restores its autocephaly abolished by Imperial Russia in 1811.
April 6, 1917
– World War I: The United States declares war on Germany (see President Woodrow Wilson’s address to Congress).
May 13, 1917
– Three children report the first apparition of Our Lady of Fátima in Fátima, Portugal.
June 4, 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.
June 5, 1917
– World War I: Conscription begins in the United States as “Army registration day”.
June 7, 1917
– World War I: Battle of Messines – Allied ammonal mines underneath German trenches at Messines Ridge are detonated, killing 10,000 German troops.
December 6, 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 ship SM.
Who Were Born On 1917?
January 17, 1917
– M. G. Ramachandran, Indian politician, actor (d. 1987)
March 2, 1917
– David Goodis, American writer (d. 1967)
June 13, 1917
– Teddy Turner, British comedian (d. 1992)
July 17, 1917
– Phyllis Diller, American comedienne
July 25, 1917
– Whipper Billy Watson, Canadian professional wrestler (d. 1990)
August 29, 1917
– Isabel Sanford, American actress (d. 2004)
September 6, 1917
– John Berry, American film director (d. 1999)
September 27, 1917
– William T. Orr, American television producer (d. 2002)
November 29, 1917
– Merle Travis, American singer/guitarist (d. 1983)
December 31, 1917
– Wilfrid Noyce, English mountaineer (d. 1962)