Events Date 1917 P 2 | History by KabAstro

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Mata Hari Executed

Oct 15 Dutch exotic dancer Mata Hari is executed by firing squad for spying for Germany during WWI at Vincennes near Paris

Exotic Dancer, Courtesan and German Spy Mata Hari

Oct 17 1st British bombing of Germany
Oct 19 US Army opens Love Field, a military airplane pilot training center, in Dallas, Texas

Alice Paul Enters Jail

Oct 20 US suffragette Alice Paul begins a 7 month jail sentence for peacefully picketing in support of the women's Suffrage (right to vote) Amendment at the White House in Washington, D.C.

Oct 21 1st Americans to see action on front lines of WWI: US troops enter front lines at Sommervillier under French command
Oct 21 Petrograds garrison accepts Revolutionary Military Committee
Oct 23 1st Infantry division "Big Red One" shoots 1st US shot in WW I
Oct 24 Battle at Caporetto: German & Austria smash Italian army
Oct 25 Pan-Russian Congress opens in Petrograd
Oct 26 Petrograd Soviet accepts establishment of Military
Oct 26 World War I: Brazil declares it is in a state of war with the Central Powers
Oct 27 20,000 women march in a suffrage parade in New York, US

Balfour Declaration

Oct 30 British government gives final approval to Balfour Declaration

In the Zone

Oct 31 Eugene O'Neill's play "In the Zone" premieres in NYC

Oct 31 World War I: Battle of Beersheba in southern Palestine - "last successful cavalry charge in history" performed by the 4th Australian Light Horse
Nov 2 Balfour Declaration proclaims support for a Jewish state in Palestine
Nov 2 In WWI the 1st US soldiers are killed in combat: James Gresham, Thomas Enright and Merle Hay
Nov 2 Lansing-Ishii Agreement; US recognizes Japan's privileges in China
Nov 3 1st class US mail now costs 3 cents per ounce
Nov 5 Gen Pershing & US troops see action on Western Front for 1st time
Nov 5 Supreme Court decision (Buchanan v Warley) strikes down Louisville, Kentucky, ordinance requiring backs & whites to live in separate areas
Nov 6 New York State adopts a constitutional amendment giving women the right to vote in state elections

Red October

Nov 6 [OS Oct 24] Bolshevik revolution begins with bombardment of the Winter Palace in Petrograd during the Russian October Revolution

Protesters scatter in Petrograd shortly after Russian government troops opened fire

Nov 7 British capture Gaza, Palestine, from Turks

Soviet Government Forms

Nov 7 The Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic is proclaimed; first Council of People's Commissars is formed with Vladimir Lenin as leader and including Leon Trotsky and Joseph Stalin

Marxist Revolutionary and Soviet Leader Vladimir Lenin

Nov 7 [OS Oct 25] October Revolution in Russia; Lenin and the Bolsheviks seize power, capture the Winter Palace and overthrow the Provisional Government.
Nov 8 Telephone Co runs 1st advertisement for Army operators, receives 7,000 applicants
Nov 10 41 suffragists are arrested in front of White House
Nov 10 Faure's 2nd Violo Sonate premieres
Nov 10 New bolshevik government under Lenin suspends freedom of press (temporary) during October Revolution
Nov 16 British occupy Tel Aviv and Jaffa
Nov 17 Vladimir Lenin defends "temporary" removal of freedom of the press
Nov 18 Sigma Alpha Rho, a Jewish high school fraternity, is founded in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Nov 20 1st successful tank use in battle, at the Battle of Cambrai in World War I as Britain uses the new technology to break through German lines
Nov 20 Ukrainian Republic declared

Gorky Insults Lenin

Nov 21 Maxim Gorky calls Vladimir Lenin a blind fanatic and unthinking adventurer

Nov 24 Nine police officers and one civilian are killed when a bomb explodes at the Milwaukee, Wisconsin police headquarters building.
Nov 26 NHL forms with Montreal Canadiens, Montreal Maroons, Toronto Arenas, Ottawa Senators & Quebec Bulldogs; National Hockey Association disbands
Nov 26 The new government of Russia offers an armistice to Germany and Austria-Hungary
Nov 28 Sigmund Romberg's revue "Over the Top" premieres in NYC
Nov 29 A Supreme Allied War Council meets at Versailles to define war aims
Dec 1 Boys Town founded by Father Edward Flanagan west of Omaha, Nebraska
Dec 2 Han Yong-woon, found Zen awakening at Osean Monastery Korea
Dec 3 After nearly 20 years of planning and construction, the Quebec Bridge finally opens to traffic after two prior collapses
Dec 3 The Supreme Allied War Council, meeting at Versailles to define war aim, fails to reach an agreement
Dec 5 Austro-German Forces launch an offensive against the Italians on the western end of their line, around Asiago
Dec 6 French munition ship SS Mont Blanc collides with Norwegian SS Imo in Halifax harbour, Canada, resulting explosion kills at least 1,700 and injures more than 9,000 people - world’s largest pre-atomic explosion [1]
Dec 6 Taking advantage of the temporary relaxation of authority in Russia, Finland declares itself a republic, following the Ukraine on 20 November

US's 42nd Rainbow Division

Dec 7 The USA's 42nd 'Rainbow' Division arrives in France (with Colonel Douglas MacArthur among its ranks)

Dec 7 US becomes 13th country to declare war on Austria during World War I
Dec 9 British forces under General Allenby capture Jerusalem
Dec 11 13 black soldiers hanged for participation in Houston riot
Dec 11 German-occupied Lithuania proclaims independence from Russia
Dec 12 French troop train derails in French Alps killing 543
Dec 12 Rev Edward Flanagan forms Boys Town outside Omaha, Nebraska
Dec 14 UFA, Universal Film AG, forms in Germany
Dec 15 Moldavian Republic declares independence from Russia
Dec 15 World War I: An armistice is reached between the new Russian Bolshevik government and the Central Powers

Prohibition Passes

Dec 18 The 18th Amendment to the US Constitution, authorizing prohibition of alcohol, is approved by the US congress and sent to the states for ratification [1]

The Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which established prohibition

Dec 18 The Soviet government issues a decree recognizing Finland's newly-declared independence [N.S. December 31]
Dec 19 1st NHL game played on artificial ice in Toronto
Dec 19 Quebec Bulldogs play their 1st professional hockey game
Dec 20 A second nationwide referendum on military conscription is rejected by the Australian public
Dec 20 Soviet state security force and forerunner to the KGB, the Cheka forms, under Felix Dzerzhinsky after decree by Vladimir Lenin
Dec 22 Flanders declares its independence, under Pieter Tack
Dec 22 In the NHL's first official week of play, 3 players score hat tricks in the same game, for the same team; Corb Denneny, Reg Noble, & Harry Meeking each score 3 for the Toronto Arenas in an 11-4 win over the Ottawa Senators
Dec 23 3 British warships come close to Holland
Dec 25 "Why Marry" 1st drama to win Pulitzer Prize, premieres in NYC
Dec 25 Louis Hirsch and Otto Harbach's musical "Going Up" premieres in New York City
Dec 26 1st NHL defensemen to score a goal: Toronto Maple Leaf Harry Cameron
Dec 26 US Federal government took over operation of American railroads for duration of WW I
Dec 30 -32°F (-36°C) in Mountain City, Tennessee (state record)
Dec 30 -37°F (-38°C) in Lewisburg, WV (state record)
Dec 31 Dutch Social-democratic trade union NVV counts 159,450 members