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 is fought 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 American entry into 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.
• 10 Jan 1917 Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition: Seven survivors of the Ross Sea party were rescued after being stranded for several months.

Famous Birthday

• Maikol Yordan

• Louis Zamperini

• Mizraim Leviant

• Elanore Maccoby

• Ilya Prigogine

• Jane Wyman

• Matéo Maximoff

• Batu Tatar

• Iliya Prigogine

• Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

• Ernest Borgnine

• Jânio Quadros

• Henri Perruchot
• Vera Zorina

• John Raitt

• Nadine Vogel
• Janine Darcey

• Ilya Prigogine

• Carl Karcher

• Jules Charney

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Famous Deaths

• Matteson

• Auda Abu Tayi

• Ladislaus Hengelmüller von Hengervár

• Christabella Eliot

• Samuel Draper

• Arden Tewksbury

• Adella Gautier

• Isobel Lilian Gloag

• Luther D. Bradley

• Hendrick Peter Godfried Quack

• Evelyn Baring

• George Dewey

• Léon Flameng

• Buffalo Bill

• Feliks Leparsky

• Buffalo Bill Cody army scout and Indian fighter

• Hendrik P G Quack

• Edward B Tylor English anthropologist

• Hendrik Goeman Borgesius Dutch politician

• Evelyn Baring Earl Cromer English consul-General in Egypt

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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