April 1917 calendar

Events

• 02 Apr 1917 Jeannette Rankin becomes 1st women member of US House of Reps
• 03 Apr 1917 Lenin leaves Switzerland for Petrograd.
• 06 Apr 1917 World War I: The United States declares war on Germany (see President Woodrow Wilson's address to Congress).
• 09 Apr 1917 Vimy Ridge France stormed by Canadian troops.
• 10 Apr 1917 Munition factory explosion at Eddystone Pennsylvania, kills 133 workers.
• 11 Apr 1917 Babe Ruth beats New York Yankees, pitching 3-hit 10-3 win for Boston Red Sox.
• 12 Apr 1917 Domenico Scarlatti and Jean Cocteau's ballet premieres in Rome.
• 14 Apr 1917 Chicago White Sox Ed Cicotte no-hits Saint Louis Browns, 11-0.
• 16 Apr 1917 Lenin returns to Russia to start Bolshevik Revolution.
• 19 Apr 1917 21st Boston Marathon won by Bill Kennedy of New York in 2:28:37.2.
• 20 Apr 1917 Pravda (Lenin names Russia "Free land of world").
• 24 Apr 1917 Congress passes the First Liberty Bond Act.

Famous Birthday

• Ella Fitzgerald

  American singer, a vocalist with an incredible velvety voice, producing equally beautiful sounds regardless of whether she was singing scat,...

• Celeste Holm

  American actress, singer, pianist and entertainer born to Norwegian parents.

• Yvette Chauviré

  French prima ballerina and actress, the étoile of the Paris Opera Ballet, and later its director.

• Renée Lebas

  French singer and music producer.

• Lucienne Delyle
• RG Armstrong

  American actor.

• Robert O Anderson

  American businessman (d. 2007).

• Pierre Monfrais

  French Chairman and Managing Director of Heudron Dairy,1960-'77 and President of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Eure, 1968-'86 and...

• Richard Headrick

  American preacher called "The Little Minister.

• Lou Monte

  New Jersey, United States -- Singer (Peppino the Italian Mouse).

• Leo Abse

  Biographer / MP.

• Robert Bloch

  American writer of science and weird fiction, a scenarist and copy-writer.

• Joanne S Clancy
• Valerie Hobson

  North Ireland -- Actress (Great Expectations).

• Mongo Santamaria

  Cuban percussionist and band leader (Born 1922).

• Vincent O'Brien

  Irish horse trainer (Born1917).

• Brad Dexter

  American actor and producer (d. 2002).

• Charlotte Salomon
• Dorian Leigh

  American model, one of the earliest modelling icons of the fashion industry.

• Robert Anderson

  American entrepreneur and corporate executive, self-made oil magnate and cattle baron who took over the direction of the Atlantic Richfield...

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Famous Deaths

• James Hope Moulton

  British scholar of Classical Greek (Born 1863).

• Ludovich Lazarus Zamenhof

  Polish creator of Esperanto (Born 1859).

• Oskar Blumenthal writer

  dies.

• Spyridon Filiskos Samaras composer

  dies at age 53.

• Edward Thomas poet

  killed in WWI.

• Lew [Lejzer L] Zamenhof

  Polish doctor/linguist (creator of Esperanto language), dies at age 57.

• Moritz F Freiherr von Bissing Governor-General of Belgium (1914-17)

  dies at age 73.

• Scott Joplin

  American musician, one of the greatest jazz composers of the 20th century, the father of ragtime.

• Vladimir Serbsky

  Russian psychiatrist and academic (d. 1917).

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Top #5 songs in the USA

1. American Quartet - How's Every Little Thing in Dixie?
2. Grace Kerns - Poor Butterfly
3. Ada Jones - Put On Your Slippers & Fill Up Your Pipe (You're Not Going Bye-Bye Tonight
4. Reinald Werrenrath - Pack Up Your Troubles in Your Old Kit Bag and Smile, Smile, Smile
5. Al Jolson - Pray for Sunshine