July 1917 calendar

Events

• 01 Jul 1917 257cm-mirror for Mount Wilson Observatory mounted
• 02 Jul 1917 Riots in East St. Louis, Missouri
• 03 Jul 1917 Spontaneous demonstration at Tauride-palace Petrograd
• 06 Jul 1917 World War I: Arabian troops led by T. E. Lawrence (''Lawrence of Arabia'') and Auda ibu Tayi capture Aqaba from the Ottoman Empire during the Arab Revolt.
• 09 Jul 1917 British warship "Vanguard" explodes at Scapa Flow killing 800.
• 10 Jul 1917 Emma Goldman imprisoned for obstructing the draft.
• 12 Jul 1917 The Bisbee Deportation occurs as vigilantes kidnap and deport nearly 1,300 striking miners and others from Bisbee, Arizona.
• 16 Jul 1917 July 17 ampndash Russian troops mutiny, abandon the Austrian front, and retreat to the Ukraine hundreds are shot by their commanding officers during the retreat.
• 17 Jul 1917 British Royal family changes its name from Hanover to Windsor.
• 20 Jul 1917 Pact of Corfu signed: Serbs, Croats and Slovenes form Yugoslavia
• 22 Jul 1917 British bomb German lines at Ypres, 4,250,000 grenades
• 23 Jul 1917 Cleveland Metropolitan Park District establishes
• 25 Jul 1917 Sir William Thomas White introduces the first income tax in Canada as a quottemporaryquot measure (lowest bracket is 4% and highest is 25%).
• 26 Jul 1917 J Edgar Hoover gets job on ministry of Justice
• 27 Jul 1917 The Allies reach the Yser Canal at the Battle of Passchendaele.
• 28 Jul 1917 Silent Parade in NYC to protest murders of blacks in race riots
• 30 Jul 1917 Board of Commissioners of Cleveland Metroparks has its 1st meeting
• 31 Jul 1917 3rd battle of Ypres begins

Famous Birthday

• Bourvil

  French actor and singer best known for his roles in comedy films, most notably in his collaboration with Louis de Funès in the films Le...

• Henri Salvador

  French Caribbean singer.

• Phyllis Diller

  American comedienne who exploded on stage in San Francisco in 1954, wearing a sequined mini-dress and an orange fright-wig, gold ankle-high...

• Christiane Rochefort

  French feminist writer.

• Manolete

  Spanish bull fighter who was gored to death during a bull fight on 28 August 1947.

• Fulbert Youlou
• Andrew Wyeth

  American watercolor and tempera artist, from a noted family, the son of illustrator N.C.

• Georgette Plana

  French singer known especially for having interpreted "Riquita" in 1968.

• Faye Emerson

  American actress seen in early TV.

• William W Scranton
• Susan Cabot
• Philippe de Lacy
• Pierre Bettencourt
• Paul Hubschmid

  Swiss actor, who was most notable for his role as Henry Higgins in a production of "My Fair Lady.

• Albert Umgelter

  German professional research astrologer and author, a certified member of ‘Deutscher Astrologenverband/DAV in 1962.

• Pierre Pellizza

  French tennis player who won the French National Championship in 1939, 1946 and 1947.

• Harry E Claiborne

  American judge (suicide) (Born 1917).

• Ed Sadowski
• Henri Betti
• Simon Slattvik

  Norway -- Cross country ski jumper (1952 Olympics - Gold Medalist).

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Famous Deaths

• Johan H C Kern

  Dutch linguist (Sanskreet), dies at 84.

• Fournier

  Swiss / French postage stamp Merchant / forger.

• Ludwig Philipp Scharwenka

  German Composer (Album Polonaise), dies at 70.

• Christopher J Forster

  British RAF-pilot / Captain, dies in battle.

• Francis Ledwidge

  Irish poet (Born 1881).

• Hedd Wyn

  Welsh poet (Born 1887).

• Octave Lapize

  French road cyclist racer, nicknamed "Le Frisé" or "Tatave", he won the "Tour de France" 1910.

• Tom Thomson

  Canadian painter (Born 1877).

• Herbert Beerbohm Tree

  English actor / director (Hamlet).

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4. Charles King & Elizabeth Brice - Hawaiian Butterfly
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