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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 ...
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 ...
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.
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
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 second inauguration of Woodrow Wilson as president of the United States was held privately on Sunday, March 4, 1917, at the President's Room inside the United States Capitol in Washington, D.C., and publicly on Monday, March 5, 1917, at the East Portico of the Capitol.
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 ...
1994); Barry Commoner, American biologist, leading expert on ecology and pioneer of environmentalism, author of The Closing Circle and The Poverty of Power, in New York City (d. 2012); Marshall Reed, American actor, best known for his character actors and stunt work in Westerns including Riding with Buffalo Bill, in Englewood, Colorado (d. 1980)