Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
April 22 – Ambrose Schindler, American football player, actor (died 2018) April 23 – Dorian Leigh, model (died 2008) April 25 – Ella Fitzgerald, African American jazz singer (died 1996) [17] April 26 – Virgil Trucks, baseball player (died 2013) April 28 – Robert Cornthwaite, character actor (died 2006) April 29 Celeste Holm, actress ...
American imports and exports plunged by more than two thirds, but since international trade was less than 5% of the American economy, the damage done was limited. The entire world economy, led by the United States, had fallen into a downward spiral that got worse and worse, and in 1931–32 began plunging downward even faster.
The American steamship Old Colony, docked in Halifax for repairs, suffered little damage and was quickly converted to serve as a hospital ship, staffed by doctors and orderlies from the British and American navy vessels in the harbour. [85] Dazed survivors immediately feared that the explosion was the result of a bomb dropped from a German ...
On Dec. 30, 1917, 107 years ago today, much of the eastern two-thirds of the nation was in the grips of a record-smashing cold outbreak. This outbreak didn't merely top records for a specific ...
A local group is calling for reparations to descendants of victims in the 1917 massacre, commonly called the East St. Louis race riot. Here’s a summary of what happened.
Main page; Contents; Current events; Random article; About Wikipedia; Contact us
1917 American novels (24 P) P. 1917 in American politics (4 C, ... Pallas Pictures; Pancho Villa Expedition; 1917 Pulitzer Prize; S. Spirit of 1917; 1917 State of the ...
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 ...