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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. ...
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 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 ...
Died: Anton Haus, Austro-Hungarian naval officer, Grand Admiral of the Austro-Hungarian Navy from 1916 to 1917 (b. 1851); Frank Allan, Australian cricketer, bowler for the Australia national cricket team in 1878 to 1879 (b. 1849); Harry Page Woodward, British-Australian geologist, discovered the rich iron ore deposits existing in Australia (b ...
John D. Rockefeller: The Heroic Age of American Enterprise (1940); 710pp; favorable scholarly biography; online; Nevins, Allan. The Emergence of Modern America, 1865–1878 (1933) ISBN 0-403-01127-2, social history; Oberholtzer, Ellis Paxson. A History of the United States since the Civil War. Volume V, 1888–1901 (Macmillan, 1937). 791pp ...
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