August 1917 calendar

Events

• 02 Aug 1917 Squadron Commander E.H. Dunning lands his aircraft on the ship in Scapa Flow, Orkney. He is killed 5 days later during another landing on the ship.
• 03 Aug 1917 The New York Guard is founded.
• 04 Aug 1917 Pravda calls for killing all capitalists, priests and officers
• 05 Aug 1917 British troops attack canal of Ypres in Boesinghe Belgium
• 06 Aug 1917 World War I: Battle of Marasesti between the Romanian and German armies begins.
• 10 Aug 1917 A general strike begins in Spain it is smashed after 3 days with 70 left dead, hundreds of wounded and 2,000 arrests.
• 14 Aug 1917 Leeuwen soccer team forms
• 17 Aug 1917 Italy declares war on Germany and Turkey
• 18 Aug 1917 Dutch Naval Air Force forms
• 22 Aug 1917 Pittsburgh Pirates play fourth straight extra inning game, Carson Bigbee sets record of 11 at-bats, they lose in 22 innings to Brooklyn Dodgers.
• 23 Aug 1917 Race riot in Houston Texas (two blacks and 11 whites killed).
• 25 Aug 1917 37th US Mens Tennis: R Lindley Murray beats N W Niles
• 27 Aug 1917 Indians set club record by stealing eight bases in a game
• 28 Aug 1917 10 suffragists arrested as they picket White House
• 29 Aug 1917 WWI: The Military Service Act is passed in the Canadian House of Commons, giving the Government of Canada the right to conscript men into the army.

Famous Birthday

• Robert Mitchum

  American film actor, author, composer and singer.

• Oscar Romero

  El Salvadorian ecclesiastic, an activist Roman Catholic Archbishop of San Salvador and martyr.

• John Lee Hooker

  Clarksdale, Mississippi -- Blues guitarist (Canned Heat).

• Mel Ferrer

  Elberon, New Jersey -- Actor (Longest Day, Eaten Alive, 5th Floor).

• André Chouraqui

  French lawyer, writer, scholar and politician.

• Maurizio Corgnati

  Italian impresario, ex-husband of Milva.

• François Simon
• Edith Wangemann

  German astrologer, teacher and lecturer who founded "Astro-Magazine" and "Sein Und Werden" magazine with her husband, astrologer Helmuth...

• Georges Haldas
• Violette Naville-Morin
• Caspar Weinberger

  American political aide who was key to President Nixon's program to trim federal spending.

• Isabel Sanford

  NYC, New York -- Actress (Louise-Jeffersons / All in the Family).

• Denis Healey

  English soldier and politician Chancellor of the Exchequer (d. 2015).

• Gianni Agus

  Italian actor with a career in film, television, and theatre since 1938.

• Charlie Shavers
• Philippe Viannay

  French journalist; During World War II, he led a resistance movement named Défense de la France.

• James Boyd

  Scottish artist and painter.

• Felipe Benavides Barreda

  Peruvian conservationist, perhaps best known internationally, completed his higher education at the London School of Economics, under the...

• Chuck Boyajian in Ohio

  USA; Disneyland worker 1955-81 as Manager of Custodial Operations.

• Antonio Basurto

  Italian singer, who died in Rome on 20 December 2007.

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Famous Deaths

• JFW Adolf Ritter von Baeyer

  German chemist (Nobel 1905).

• Uritsky

  Leader of Petrogradse Czech.

• Frank Little

  American labor organizer (lynched) (Born 1879).

• Ferdinand Georg Frobenius

  German mathematician (Born 1849).

• Thomas J Higgins

  American Union Army soldier (Born 1831).

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Top #5 songs in the USA

1. Peerless Quartet - Hong Kong
2. Henry Burr - Your Eyes, Your Lips, Your Heart
3. Elizabeth Brice - Oh, Johnny! Oh, Johnny! Oh!
4. Charles Harrison - All the World Will be Jealous of Me
5. Vernon Dalhart - Till the Clouds Roll By