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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 ...
February 17 – New York City Food Riot of 1917 February 24 – World War I : United States ambassador to the United Kingdom, Walter H. Page, is shown the intercepted Zimmermann Telegram , in which Germany offers to give Texas, Arizona, and New Mexico back to Mexico if Mexico declares war on the United States.
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 .
In April 1917, the United States Army had fewer than 300,000 men, including National Guard units, compared to British and French armies of 4.1 and 8.3 million respectively. The Selective Service Act of 1917 drafted 2.8 million men, although training and equipping such numbers was a huge logistical challenge.
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.
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 ...
The following events occurred in May 1917: Tuesday, May 1, 1917. Venustiano Carranza was inaugurated as the 37th President of Mexico. [1]