1917 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1917?
- January 9, 1917 – World War I: the Battle of Rafa occurs near the Egyptian border with Palestine.
- January 11, 1917 – The Kingsland munitions factory explosion occurs as a result of sabotage.
- January 17, 1917 – The United States pays Denmark $25 million for the Virgin Islands.
- January 23, 1917 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Fire Snake in Chinese astrology.
- February 5, 1917 – The Congress of the United States passes the Immigration Act of 1917 over President Woodrow Wilson’s veto. Also known as the Asiatic Barred Zone Act, it forbade immigration from nearly all of south and southeast Asia.
- February 24, 1917 – World War I: The U.S. ambassador to the United Kingdom is given the Zimmermann Telegram, in which Germany pledges to ensure the return of New Mexico, Texas, and Arizona to Mexico if Mexico declares war on the United States.
- March 8, 1917 – The United States Senate votes to limit filibusters by adopting the cloture rule.
- 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).
- 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.
- May 26, 1917 – Several powerful tornadoes rip through Illinois, including the city of Mattoon, killing 101 people and injuring 689.
- June 5, 1917 – World War I: Conscription begins in the United States as “Army registration day”.
- June 26, 1917 – The first U.S. troops arrive in France to fight alongside Britain and France against Germany in World War I.
- July 25, 1917 – Sir Robert Borden introduces the first income tax in Canada as a “temporary” measure (lowest bracket is 4% and highest is 25%).
- October 17, 1917 – First British bombing of Germany in World War I.
- November 7, 1917 – World War I: Third Battle of Gaza ends: British forces capture Gaza from the Ottoman Empire.
- 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.
- December 12, 1917 – In Nebraska, Father Edward J. Flanagan founds Boys Town as a farm village for wayward boys.
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