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1 Events of 1917
2 Births
3 Deaths
- 3.1 January - June
- 3.2 July - December
4 Nobel prizes
5 Notes
6 External links

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Events of 1917

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January

January 2 - The Royal Bank of Canada takes over Quebec Bank.
January 11 - Kingsland Explosion at Kingsland, NJ (now Lyndhurst, NJ) Due to German sabotage, leading to the U.S. involvement in World War I.
January 19 - Silvertown explosion: a blast at a munitions factory in London kills 73 and injures over 400. The resulting fire causes over £2,000,000 worth of damage.
January 22 - World War I: President Woodrow Wilson calls for "peace without victory" in Europe.
January 25 - The Danish West Indies is sold to the United States for $25 million
January 25 - Anti-prostitution drive in San Francisco attracts huge crowds to public meetings. At one meeting attended by 7000 people, 20000 are kept out for lack of room. In a conference with Rev. Paul Smith, an outspoken foe of prostitution, 300 prostitutes make a plea for toleration explaining they had been forced into the practice by poverty. When Smith asked if they would take other work at $8 to $10 a week, the ladies laughed derisively, which lost them public sympathy. The police close about 200 houses of prostitution shortly thereafter www.timeanddate.com/calendar/index.html?year=1917&country=19 Julian-1917]
July 1 - Labor Dispute ignites a Race Riot in East St. Louis, Illinois. Over 250 dead.
July 6 - Arabian troops led by Robert Constant capture Aqaba from the Turks.
July 6 - Conscription crisis in Canada leads to passing of the Military Service Act.
July 12 - Phelps Dodge Corporation deports over 1000 suspected IWW members from Bisbee, Arizona.
July 17 - King George V of the United Kingdom issues a Proclamation stating that the male line descendants of the British Royal Family will bear the surname Windsor.
July 20 - Corfu Declaration that enabled post-war Kingdom of Yugoslavia was signed by the Yugoslav Committee and Kingdom of Serbia.
July 20 (N.S.) (July 7, O.S.) - Alexander Kerensky becomes premier of the Russian Provisional Government, replacing Prince Georgy Lvov.
July 25 - Sir Thomas Whyte introduces the first income tax in Canada as a "temporary" measure (lowest bracket is 4% and highest is 25%).
July 28 - The Silent Protest was organized by the NAACP in New York to protest the East St. Louis Massacre of July 2, as well as lynchings in Texas and Tennessee.

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August

August - The Green Corn Rebellion, an uprising by several hundred farmers against the World War I draft, takes place in central Oklahoma.
August 2 - Squadron Commander E.H. Dunning www.timeanddate.com/calendar/index.html?year=1917&country=19 Julian-1917]
November - Don Republic declares independence from Bolshevist Russia
November 2 - Zionism: The Balfour Declaration proclaims British support for the "establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people" with the clear understanding "that nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities".
November 6 - World War I: Third Battle of Ypres ends: After three months of fierce fighting, Canadian forces take Passchendaele in Belgium.
November 7
- October Revolution begins: The workers of St. Petersburg in Russia, led by the Bolshevik leader Vladimir Lenin, attacked the Kerensky Provisional Government ( Julian Calendar shows an October 25 date).
- The Safavid Empire of Persia (which provided weapons for Russia) refuses to support the Allied Forces after the October Revolution.
November 7 - World War I: Third Battle of Giza ends - United Kingdom forces capture Giza from the Ottoman Empire.
November 15 - Finland takes a step towards full sovereignty, ending the personal union with Russia.
November 16 - British troops occupy Tel Aviv and Jaffa in Palestine.
November 16 - Georges Clemenceau becomes prime minister of France
November 18 - Sigma Alpha Rho, Jewish high school fraternity, is founded in West Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
November 20 - World War I: Battle of Cambrai begins - British forces make early progress in an attack on German positions but are soon beaten back.
November 20 - Ukraine is declared a republic.
November 22 - In Montreal, Canada, the National Hockey Association breaks up.
November 26 - The National Hockey League is formed as a replacement.
November 29 - Striking coal miners at Rostov declare Don Soviet Republic - it lasts two weeks.

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December

December 3 - After nearly 20 years of planning and construction, the Quebec Bridge opens to traffic (the bridge partially collapsed on August 29 1907 and September 11 1916).
December 6 - Finland's declaration of independence.
December 6 - Halifax Explosion: Two freighters collide in Halifax Harbour at Halifax Nova Scotia and cause a huge explosion that kills at least 1963 people, injures 9000 and destroys part of the city. Until Hiroshima, this was the biggest manmade explosion in recorded history.
December 11 - British troops take Jerusalem from the troops of the Ottoman Empire
December 25 - Why Marry?, first dramatic play to win a Pulitzer Prize, opens at the Astor Theatre in New York City.
December 26 - United States president Woodrow Wilson uses the Federal Possession and Control Act to place most U.S. railroads under the United States Railroad Administration, hoping to more efficiently transport troops and materials for the war effort.