1917 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1917?
- January 23, 1917 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Fire Snake in Chinese astrology.
- February 26, 1917 – The Original Dixieland Jass Band records the first jazz record, for the Victor Talking Machine Company in New York.
- March 11, 1917 – World War I: Baghdad falls to Anglo-Indian forces commanded by General Stanley Maude.
- March 25, 1917 – The Georgian Orthodox Church restores its autocephaly abolished by Imperial Russia in 1811.
- March 26, 1917 – World War I: First Battle of Gaza – British troops are halted after 17,000 Turks block their advance.
- April 6, 1917 – World War I: The United States declares war on Germany (see President Woodrow Wilson’s address to Congress).
- April 9, 1917 – World War I: The Battle of Arras – the battle begins with Canadian Corps executing a massive assault on Vimy Ridge.
- May 18, 1917 – World War I: The Selective Service Act of 1917 is passed, giving the President of the United States the power of conscription.
- June 23, 1917 – In a game against the Washington Senators, Boston Red Sox pitcher Ernie Shore retires 26 batters in a row after replacing Babe Ruth, who had been ejected for punching the umpire.
- July 2, 1917 – The East St. Louis Riots end.
- October 15, 1917 – World War I: At Vincennes outside of Paris, Dutch dancer Mata Hari is executed by firing squad for spying for the German Empire.
- November 6, 1917 – World War I: Third Battle of Ypres ends: After three months of fierce fighting, Canadian forces take Passchendaele in Belgium.
- November 8, 1917 – The People’s Commissars give authority to Vladimir Lenin, Leon Trotsky, and Joseph Stalin.
- November 9, 1917 – Joseph Stalin enters the provisional government of Bolshevik Russia.
- November 25, 1917 – German forces defeat Portuguese army of about 1200 at Negomano on the border of modern-day Mozambique and Tanzania.
- December 6, 1917 – Finland declares independence from Russia.
- December 11, 1917 – British General Edmund Allenby enters Jerusalem on foot and declares martial law.
- December 15, 1917 – World War I: An armistice is reached between the new Bolshevik government and the Central Powers.
- December 18, 1917 – The resolution containing the language of the Eighteenth Amendment to enact Prohibition is passed by the United States Congress.
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