February 1917 calendar

Events

• 01 Feb 1917 Admiral Tirpitz announces unlimited submarine war.
• 03 Feb 1917 US liner Housatonic sunk by German sub and diplomatic relations severed
• 04 Feb 1917 Belgium Council of Flanders established.
• 05 Feb 1917 Morosco Theater opens at 217 W 45th Steet New York City (demolished 1982).
• 10 Feb 1917 End of Punitive Expedition of General Pershing into Mexico.
• 13 Feb 1917 Mata Hari is arrested for spying.
• 15 Feb 1917 San Francisco Public Library (Main Branch at Civic center) dedicated.
• 20 Feb 1917 Ammunitions ship explodes in Archangelsk harbor, about 1,500 die.
• 21 Feb 1917 Train near Chirurcha Romania catches fire and explodes; 100s die.
• 22 Feb 1917 German Navy torpedoes 7 Dutch ships.
• 23 Feb 1917 February revolution begins in Russia.
• 24 Feb 1917 Russian revolution breaks out
• 26 Feb 1917 The Original Dixieland Jass Band records the first ever jazz record for the Victor Talking Machine Company in New York.
• 28 Feb 1917 Russian Duma sets up Provisional Committee; workers set up Soviets.

Famous Birthday

• Zsa Zsa Gabor

  Hungarian-born actress.

• Anthony Burgess

  British novelist noted for his comic imagination and skillful use of language.

• Carson McCullers

  American novelist short story writer playwright essayist and poet (d. 1967).

• Sybil Leek

  British author, poet, journalist, proprietor and astrologer, called the "Billy Graham of Witchcraft.

• John Connally

  American politician, lawyer, and businessman.

• Joseph Wresinski
• Alain Poiré

  French film producer and screenwriter.

• Wim Smits

  Dutch astrologer, a true Aquarian.

• Sidney Sheldon

  American writer, regarded with distain by literary critics but adored by millions; one of the handful of popular novelists who regularly...

• Luz del Fuego
• Leroy Alldredge

  American scientist, a geophysicist and Acting Director of the Institute of Earth Sciences in Boulder, Colorado in 1966.

• George Mitchell
• Odette Laure

  French actress and cabaret singer.

• Pierre Deniker

  French psychiatrist, who was involved, jointly with Jean Delay and J. M. Harl, in the introduction of chlorpromazine (Thorazine), the first...

• Otto Edelmann
• Giuseppe De Santis

  Italian film director.

• Raymond L Bisplinghoff
• Stephen Crane (restaurateur)
• Brenda Joyce

  American actress (Born 1917).

• Robert Haack

  American financier, the former Chairman of Lockheed Corporation in 1976 for 20 months, revamping it and building it up, restoring its...

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Famous Deaths

• Jaber II Al-Sabah

  Emir of Kuwait (Born 1860).

• John William Waterhouse

  Italian-born artist (Born 1849).

• Paul Rubens composer

  dies at age 41.

• Edouard A Drumont French anti-semite journalist

  dies at age 72.

• Emile Pessard composer

  dies at age 73.

• Joel Angel Russian musicologist/composer

  dies at age 48.

• Charles A van Ophuysen Dutch orientalist

  dies at age 60.

• Edmund Bishop English Secretary of Thomas Carlyle

  dies at age 70.

• Charles E Barber US chief engraver (1879-1917)

  dies.

• Leone Sextus Tollemache

  British Army captain (Born 1884).

• Octave Mirbeau

  French novelist, playwright and drama critic who had a stormy journalistic career.

• Oswaldo Cruz

  Brazilian physician bacteriologist and epidemiologist founded the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (d. 1917).

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Top #5 songs in the USA

1. Charles Harrison & Nanette Flack - Give Me All of You
2. John McCormack - Love, Here is My Heart!
3. Victor Light Opera Co. - Gems from Miss Springtime
4. Marion Harris - Paradise Blues
5. Arthur Collins & Byron Harlan - They're Wearing 'Em Higher in Hawaii