May 1917 calendar

Events

• 04 May 1917 Arabs sack Tel Aviv.
• 09 May 1917 WWI: The Nivelle Offensive is abandoned.
• 10 May 1917 Atlantic ships get destroyer escorts to stop German attacks.
• 11 May 1917 Britain grants Royal Letters Patent to New Zealand.
• 12 May 1917 42nd Preakness: E Haynes aboard Kalitan wins in 1:54.4
• 13 May 1917 Three children report the first apparition of Our Lady of Fatima in Fatima, Portugal.
• 18 May 1917 US passes Selective Service act.
• 20 May 1917 Turkish Government authorizes Jews to return to Tel Aviv and Jaffa.
• 21 May 1917 Leo Pinckney, first American drafted during WWI.
• 22 May 1917 Commissioned Officer Corps of the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey.
• 23 May 1917 A month of civil violence in Milan, Italy ends after the Italian army forcefully takes over the city from anarchists and anti-war revolutionaries. Fifty people are killed and 800 people are arrested.Seton-Watson, Christopher. 1967. Italy from Liberalism to Fascism: 1870 to 1925. London: Methuen amp Co. Ltd. Pp. 468–9
• 26 May 1917 Walt Cruise hit first homerun out of Braves Field.
• 27 May 1917 Race riot in East Saint Louis Illinois, one black killed.
• 30 May 1917 Alexander I becomes king of Greece.

Famous Birthday

• John Fitzgerald Kennedy
• Danielle Darrieux

  French actress, on-screen since 1930, one of the most famous actresses when Germany occupied France in 1940.

• Raymond Burr

  Actor (Perry Mason), dies of liver cancer at 76.

• David Tomlinson

  Scotland, United Kingdom -- Actor (Mary Poppins, Helter Skelter).

• Aimé Barelli

  French conductor, composer, singer and jazz trumpeter.

• Georges Baladié
• John Russell 13th Duke of Bedford
• Marcelle Arnold

  French actress, also known as Mireille Arnold, who had a talent for playing spinsters such as the sister of Bourvil in "Le Passe-Muraille"...

• Ramesh Balsekar
• Jean-Louis Curtis

  French educator and writer.

• Jean Rouch

  French filmmaker and anthropologist, considered to be one of the founders of cinéma-vérité in France, which shared the aesthetics of the...

• George Gaynes

  Helsinki, Finland -- Actor (Henry-Punky Brewster).

• Channel Tunnel
• Kal Mann

  American songwriter (d. 2001).

• Juan Rulfo

  Mexican writer, screenwriter and photographer.

• Lou Harrison

  Portland, Oregon -- Composer (Rapunzel).

• Blaise Patrix
• James Donald

  Aberdeen, Scotland -- Actor (Bridge on River Kwai, Vikings).

• Fred Ascani

  American military, a major-general and test pilot in the US Air Force, he was a record setting air racer.

• June Lang
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Famous Deaths

• Jose E Rodo

  Uruguayan writer (Motivos de proteo).

• Charles Anthoni Johnson Brooke

  ruler of Sarawak (Born 1829).

• Maksim Bahdanovic

  Belarusian poet (Born 1891).

• Otto Adolf Klauwell composer

  dies at age 66.

• Leon Felix Augustin Joseph Vasseur composer

  dies at age 72.

• Valentine Fleming

  Scottish politician (Born 1887).

• Kate Harrington

  American teacher, writer and poet (Born 1831).

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Top #5 songs in the USA

1. Enrico Caruso - Chanson De Juin (Song of June)
2. Helen Clark - Pack Up Your Troubles in Your Old Kit Bag and Smile, Smile, Smile
3. Al Jolson - Ev'ry Little While
4. M.J. O'Connell - Keep Your Eye on the Girlie You Love
5. John McCormack - When Irish Eyes Are Smiling