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
1917 Timeline
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.
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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.
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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.
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What is IBM?(1 Answer)
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No-Brainer. International Business Machines. (I grew up near one of their manufacturing locations in NJ.) In 1924, "The Computing- Tabulating- Recording Co. is renamed International Business Machines Corporation ...
who founded Nikon?
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"The company was founded in 1917 as Nippon Kōgaku Kōgyō K.K. (日本光学工業㈱) with the merger of two Japanese optical firms with military connections." http://www.camerapedia.org ...
What are examples of "Nationalization" in American History?(5 Answers)
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After the United States entered World War I in 1917, the country's railways proved inadequate to the task of supplying the nation's war effort. On December ...
