January 1917 calendar

Events

• 01 Jan 1917 The University of Oregon defeats The University of Pennsylvania 14–0 in college football's 3rd Annual Rose Bowl.
• 08 Jan 1917 Austria-Hungarian troops conquer Forlani Italy.
• 09 Jan 1917 World War I: the Battle of Rafa occurs near the Egyptian border with Palestine.
• 11 Jan 1917 The Kingsland munitions factory explosion occurs as a result of sabotage.
• 17 Jan 1917 The United States pays Denmark $25 million for the Virgin Islands.
• 19 Jan 1917 Silvertown explosion: 73 are killed and 400 injured in an explosion in a munitions plant in London.
• 22 Jan 1917 World War I: President Woodrow Wilson of the still-neutral United States calls for ''peace without victory'' in Europe.
• 26 Jan 1917 The sea defences at the English village of Hallsands are breached, leading to all but one of the houses becoming uninhabitable.
• 27 Jan 1917 Coen de Koning wins second official 11 cities race (9 53) (record).
• 28 Jan 1917 Municipally owned streetcars take to the streets of San Francisco, California.
• 29 Jan 1917 English submarine K13 leaves Gaire Loch.
• 30 Jan 1917 Pershing's troops in Mexico begin withdrawing back to the United States. They reach Columbus, New Mexico February 5.
• 31 Jan 1917 Germany notifies US that U-boats will attack neutral merchant ship.

Famous Birthday

• Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

  Indian guru, founder of Transcendental Meditation (Born c. 1917).

• Ernest Borgnine

  American film and television actor whose career spanned more than six decades.

• Jânio Quadros

  Brazilian politician who served as President of Brazil for only 7 months in 1961.

• Louis Zamperini

  War Hero.

• Henri Perruchot
• Vera Zorina

  German-Norwegian actress and dancer (d. 2003).

• John Raitt

  American musician, an actor, singer and recording artist, a top leading man of Broadway musicals in the '40s and '50s.

• Nadine Vogel
• Janine Darcey

  French actress (Priez pour nous), dies at 75.

• Ilya Prigogine

  Russian-Belgian chemist and physicist Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2003).

• Carl Karcher

  founded the Carl's Jr.

• Aruba (Kingdom of the Netherlands)
• Jules Charney

  American scientist, a meteorologist and oceanographer cited as a leading pioneer in weather prediction.

• Pierre Dervaux

  French operatic conductor, composer, and pedagogue.

• Bruce Shand

  father of Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall (Born 1917).

• Ulysses Kay

  American composer and educator (d. 1995).

• Brainerd Duffield

  American character actor and writer who worked at Warner Bros script department for over 25 years.

• Billy Butterfield

  American musician, trumpet and flugelhorn player, and bandleader for the "Greatest Jazz Band" in 1968.

• Jean-Louis Crémieux-Brilhac

  French Resistance fighter, senior official, and historian.

• Guillermo Rosario Dutch Antilles

  writer (E rais ku no ke muri).

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Famous Deaths

• Hendrik P G Quack

  Lawyer / economist (Bank of the Netherlands), dies at 82.

• Edward Burnett Tylor

  English anthropologist (Born 1832).

• William F ''Buffalo Bill'' Cody

  American frontiersman (Born 1846).

• Edward B Tylor English anthropologist

  dies at age 84.

• Buffalo Bill Cody army scout and Indian fighter

  dies.

• Hendrik Goeman Borgesius Dutch politician

  dies at age 70.

• Evelyn Baring Earl Cromer English consul-General in Egypt

  dies at age 75.

• Feliks Leparsky

  Russian fencer (Born 1875).

• George Dewey

  American admiral (Born 1837).

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Top #5 songs in the USA

1. Marguerite Farrell & M.J. O'Connell - You Were Just Made to Order for Me
2. Harry Macdonough & Lucy Isabelle Marsh - Babes in the Wood
3. Anna Chandler - Sometimes You Get a Good One and Sometimes You Don't
4. Marion Harris - I Ain't Got Nobody Much
5. Weber & Fields - The Baseball Game