June 1917 calendar

Events

• 01 Jun 1917 Hank Gowdy is 1st baseball player to enlist during WWI
• 04 Jun 1917 American men begin registering for the draft
• 05 Jun 1917 World War I: Conscription begins in the United States as ''Army registration day''.
• 07 Jun 1917 World War I: Battle of Messines : Allied ammonal mines underneath German trenches at Messines Ridge are detonated, killing 10,000 German troops.
• 08 Jun 1917 Walt Disney graduates from Benton High School.
• 10 Jun 1917 60,000 people of Petrograd welcome Prince Kropotkin
• 11 Jun 1917 King Alexander assumes the throne of Greece after his father Constantine I abdicates under pressure by allied armies occupying Athens.
• 12 Jun 1917 Secret Service extends protection of president to his family.
• 13 Jun 1917 Germany bombs London
• 14 Jun 1917 1e German air attack on England, 100+ killed in East-London
• 15 Jun 1917 The United States enacts the Espionage Act.
• 16 Jun 1917 49th Belmont: James Butwell aboard Hourless wins in 2:17.8
• 17 Jun 1917 British King George V takes the name Windsor
• 19 Jun 1917 After WWI King George V ordered members of British royal family to dispense with German titles and surnames, they take the name Windsor
• 21 Jun 1917 Hawaiian Red Cross founded.
• 23 Jun 1917 31st US Womens Tennis: Molla Mallory beat Marion Vanderhoef
• 24 Jun 1917 Russian Black Sea fleet mutiny at Sebastopol
• 26 Jun 1917 The first U.S. troops arrive in France to fight alongside Britain, France, Italy, and Russia against Germany, and Austria-Hungary in World War I.
• 28 Jun 1917 Potato entrepreneurs begins in Amsterdam

Famous Birthday

• Dean Martin

  American actor and singer who teamed up with Jerry Lewis from 1950-1954 before going out on his own.

• Kirk Kerkorian

  American entrepreneur and former aviator, billionaire owner of the world's largest hotel, MGM Grand in Las Vegas, Nevada and part owner of...

• Lena Horne

  American singer and actress with depth and character, as well as classic beauty and talent.

• Susan Hayward

  American actress who has done more than 50 films in 35 years.

• Pierre-Louis (actor)
• Jacques Esterel

  French fashion designer, established his couture house, Jacques Esterel, in 1953.

• Gwendolyn Brooks

  US poet (Bean Eaters, Annie Allen, Pulitzer 1950).

• Augusto Roa Bastos

  Paraguayan author (Born 1917).

• Richard Boone

  American actor best known as Paladin, the cultured gun-fighter in his TV series, "Have Gun, Will Travel," 1958-1960.

• Walter Hof

  German astrologer, scientifically oriented, author of books.

• Claude Seignolle

  France Writer.

• Maurice Duverger

  Angouléme Writer.

• Eric Hobsbawm

  Egyptian-English historian and author (d. 2012).

• Wim Sonneveld

  Dutch cabaret entertainer and actor.

• Neville Heath

  British murderer and sadist who is noted for the gruesome killings of two women, crimes, "too horrible to describe.

• Steve Cochran

  American actor; from his start with summer stock in 1939 he played "heavy" roles in B films of the '40s and '50s.

• Katharine Graham

  American publisher (d. 2001).

• Annette Poivre
• Byron White (Supreme Court justice)
• Lester Steers

  American athlete, a track and field champion who held world records for high jumps in 1941.

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Famous Deaths

• Iacob Moresianu

  Composer, dies at 59.

• Maria Teresa Carreno

  Composer, dies at 63.

• James Mason Crafts

  US chemist, dies at 78.

• Gustav von Schmolle

  German economist (Historical School), dies at 79.

• Teresa Carreno

  Venezuelan pianist (Born 1853).

• Karl Allmenroder

  German World War I Ace (Born 1896).

• Antonio de La Gandara

  French painter (Born 1861).

• Titu Maiorescu

  Romanian philosopher academic and politician 23rd Prime Minister of Romania (d. 1917).

• Matthias Zurbriggen

  Swiss mountaineer (Born 1856).

• Kristian Birkeland

  Norwegian physicist and author (d. 1917).

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Top #5 songs in the USA

1. Charles Harrison - Poor Butterfly
2. Prince's Orchestra - For Me and My Gal
3. Original Dixieland Jazz Band - Livery Stable Blues
4. Fritz Kreisler - Poor Butterfly
5. Sterling Trio - Hawaiian Butterfly