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 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 current constitution of Mexico is adopted, establishing a federal republic with powers separated into independent executive, legislative, and judicial branches.
- February 26, 1917 – The Original Dixieland Jass Band records the first jazz record, for the Victor Talking Machine Company in New York.
- March 1, 1917 – The U.S. government releases the unencrypted text of the Zimmermann Telegram to the public.
- March 10, 1917 – Batangas is formally founded as one of the Philippines’s earliest encomiendas.
- April 9, 1917 – World War I: The Battle of Arras – the battle begins with Canadian Corps executing a massive assault on Vimy Ridge.
- 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.
- June 13, 1917 – World War I: the deadliest German air raid on London during World War I is carried out by Gotha G bombers and results in 162 deaths, including 46 children, and 432 injuries.
- July 6, 1917 – World War I: Arabian troops led by T. E. Lawrence (“Lawrence of Arabia”) and Auda ibu Tayi capture Aqaba from the Ottoman Empire during the Arab Revolt.
- August 6, 1917 – World War I: Battle of Mărăşeşti between the Romanian and German armies begins.
- September 14, 1917 – Russia is officially proclaimed a republic.
- October 13, 1917 – The “Miracle of the Sun” is witnessed by an estimated 70,000 people in the Cova da Iria in Fátima, Portugal.
- October 19, 1917 – The Love Field in Dallas, Texas is opened.
- November 20, 1917 – World War I: Battle of Cambrai begins – British forces make early progress in an attack on German positions but are later pushed back.
- December 2, 1917 – An armistice is signed between Russia and the Central Powers at Brest-Litovsk and peace talks leading to the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk began.
- December 12, 1917 – In Nebraska, Father Edward J. Flanagan founds Boys Town as a farm village for wayward boys.
- December 18, 1917 – The resolution containing the language of the Eighteenth Amendment to enact Prohibition is passed by the United States Congress.
- December 20, 1917 – Cheka, the first Soviet secret police, is founded.
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