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George Drumm writes the concert march "Hail, America" in New York City. The calendar year is the coolest averaged over the contiguous United States in mean temperature (average of 50.06 °F or 10.03 °C against a long-term average of 51.86 °F or 11.03 °C) [ 12 ] and minimum temperature (37.62 °F or 3.12 °C against a long-term average of 39. ...
Good times were widespread for all sectors (except agriculture and coal mining). New industries flourished especially electric power, movies, automobiles, gasoline, tourist travel, highway construction, and housing. "The business of America is business," proclaimed President Coolidge. [24] Entrepreneurship flourished and was widely hailed.
1917 – U.S. Virgin Islands purchased from Denmark; 1917 – Temperance movement leads to prohibition laws in 29 states; 1917–1919 – Silent Sentinels hold a vigil outside the White House gates in favor of women's suffrage, a nearly two–and–a–half year demonstration organized by Alice Paul and the National Woman's Party
The following events occurred in October 1917: Mata Hari , former famed exotic dancer, executed in France for spying. Battlefield after the first day of fighting at the First Battle of Passchendaele .
1917 was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Sunday of the Julian calendar, the 1917th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 917th year of the 2nd millennium, the 17th year of the 20th century, and the 8th year of the 1910s decade. As of the start of 1917, the ...
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Mourners gather near the site where Daunte Wright was killed, April 11, 2021. On April 11, 2021, at 1:48 p.m., 20-year-old Daunte Wright was shot and killed during a traffic stop by Kim Potter, an officer with the police department of Brooklyn Center, a suburb of Minneapolis. His girlfriend, a passenger in his car, was also injured.
2021 begins with 346,000 pandemic-related deaths, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). [126] Over 20 million people had been infected and 4.2 million have received the first vaccine dose by January 2, well behind the projected 20 million doses by the end of 2020. [127]