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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. ...
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 ...
The history of the United States from 1917 to 1945 was marked by World War I, the interwar period, the Great Depression, and World War II. The United States tried and failed to broker a peace settlement for World War I , then entered the war after Germany launched a submarine campaign against U.S. merchant ships that were supplying Germany's ...
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
Although U.S. capital investments within the Philippines and Puerto Rico were small, some politicians hoped they would be strategic outposts for expanding trade with Latin America and Asia, particularly China. That never happened and after 1903 American attention turned to the Panama Canal as the key to opening new trade routes. The Spanish ...
Japanese diplomat Ishii Kikujirō meeting with United States Secretary of State Robert Lansing in Washington, D.C. to sign the Lansing–Ishii Agreement.. British Foreign Secretary Arthur Balfour made the Balfour Declaration, proclaiming British support for the "establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people..., it being clearly understood that nothing shall be done which ...
How the war came to America (1917) online 840pp; The Papers of Woodrow Wilson edited by Arthur S. Link complete in 69 vol, at major academic libraries. Annotated edition of all of WW's letters, speeches and writings plus many letters written to him; Wilson, Woodrow. Why We Are at War six war messages to Congress, Jan- April 1917
1917 in the United States by state or territory (53 C) 1917 disestablishments in the United States (29 C, 6 P) 1917 establishments in the United States (56 C, 44 P)