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Famous Births
- May 29: John F. Kennedy - 35th President
- December 16: Arthur C. Clarke - Novelist
Famous Deaths
Top Grossing Films
- Joan the Woman
- A Romance of the Redwoods
- The Woman God Forgot
- The Devil-Stone IMBD: Top Grossing Films of 1917
Championship Teams
Nobel Laureates
- Peace: The Red Cross
- Physics: Charles Glover Barkla
- Chemistry: None
- Medicine: None
- Literature: Karl Adolph Gjellerup, Henrik Pontoppidan NoblePrize.org: 1917 Noble Winners
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1917 Questions
Is this what happened during the Spanish Flu outbreak of 1918? Soldiers in Kansas were vaccinated -- IN 1917 -- well before WWI began 2 AnswersThis is a myth/conspiracy theory. There were no influenza vaccines in 1917. At the time, the causative agent of influenza was thought to be a bacterium (Hemop... read more
What is price? 2 AnswersThe blob of text above is cut and pasted from your Amazon profile, and doesn't help clarify what it is about price pressures you don't understand. In fact, it s... read more -
January 1917
- January 17: Zimmermann Telegram intercepted by the British.
March 1917
- March 26: The Seattle Metropolitans became the first U.S. team to win the Stanley Cup as they defeated the Montreal Canadiens.
April 1917
- April 2: Woodrow Wilson asks Congress to declares war on Germany.
- April 6: World War I: Four days after Woodrow Wilson asked Congress to approve a declaration of war against Germany, they did, thus entering the United States into the war.
- April 16: After years of exile Vladimir Lenin returns to Russia.
October 1917
November 1917
- November 6: After three months of fighting the Battle of Passchendaele finally ends when Canadian forces take the village of Passchendaele in Belgium.
December 1917
- December 6: Off the coast of Nova Scotia a munitions ship explodes in the Halifax harbor creating the largest pre-atomic bomb explosion, it killed over 1,800 people.
- December 9: World War I: The holy city of Jerusalem surrenders to British troops as they enter the city respectfully.
- December 19: The NHL opened with two games, one featuring the Montreal Canadiens beating the Ottawa Senators 7-4.



