November 1917 calendar

Events

• 01 Nov 1917 In WWI, the 1st US soldiers are killed in combat
• 02 Nov 1917 The Balfour Declaration proclaims British support for the ''establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people'' with the clear understanding ''that nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities''.
• 03 Nov 1917 1st class mail now costs 3 cents per ounce
• 05 Nov 1917 October Revolution: In Tallinn, Estonia, Communist leader Jaan Anvelt leads revolutionaries in overthrowing the Provisional Government (As Estonia and Russia are still using the Julian Calendar, subsequent period references show an October 23 date).
• 06 Nov 1917 New York allows women to vote
• 07 Nov 1917 British capture Gaza Palestine from the Turks.
• 08 Nov 1917 Telephone Co runs 1st ad for Army operators, gets 7,000 applicants
• 09 Nov 1917 Joseph Stalin enters the provisional government of Bolshevik Russia.
• 10 Nov 1917 New soviet government suspends freedom of press
• 16 Nov 1917 British occupy Tel Aviv and Jaffa
• 17 Nov 1917 Lenin defended temporary removal of freedom of the press
• 20 Nov 1917 1st tank battle
• 21 Nov 1917 M Gorki calls Lenin a blind fanatic / unthinking adventurer
• 23 Nov 1917 The Bolsheviks release the full text of the previously secret Sykes-Picot Agreement in ''Izvestia'' and ''Pravda'' it is subsequently printed in the ''Manchester Guardian'' on November 26.
• 24 Nov 1917 In Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 9 members of the Milwaukee Police Department are killed by a bomb, the most deaths in a single event in U.S. police history until the September 11 attacks in 2001.
• 25 Nov 1917 German forces defeat Portuguese army of about 1200 at Negomano on the border of modern-day Mozambique and Tanzania.
• 26 Nov 1917 The National Hockey League is formed, with the Montreal Canadiens, Montreal Wanderers, Ottawa Senators, Quebec Bulldogs, and Toronto Arenas as its first teams.
• 28 Nov 1917 Sigmund Rombergs revue Over the Top, premieres in New York City
• 29 Nov 1917 Don Cossacks declare the Don Republic, which lasts two weeks.

Famous Birthday

• Indira Gandhi

  Indian politician: the P.M.

• Madeleine Robinson

  French actress, she made her screen debut in 1934 in "Soldats sans Uniforms.

• Richard Lewis (writer)
• Jacqueline Auriol

  French record-setting aviator, she set her fifth world speed record on June 22, 1962 at Istres, France.

• Ann Rutherford

  Toronto, Ontario -- TV panelist (Leave It To the Girls).

• Philippe Ragueneau

  French journalist and writer, a hero of World War II and friend of General Charles de Gaulle.

• Edith Bouvier Beale
• Francis Lemarque
• Patricia Crossley

  American pro astrologer who originated SWAC (SouthWest Astrology Conference) with Virginia Fabre and her daughter, astrologer Roxana Muise...

• Robert Byrd

  American politician, the longest-serving Senator in United States history as of June 12, 2006.

• Ilse Steppat

  Actress (Invisible Terror), dies at 52.

• Armand Mestral

  French actor and singer.

• Zenna Henderson

  American science-fiction writer, one of the first women in the genre to write under her own name without disguising her gender.

• Richard E Fleming
• Bridget Tichenor
• Abram Hoffer

  Canadian Orthomolecular psychiatrist (Born 1917).

• Bobby Locke

  South African golfer (d. 1987).

• Jean Berger (actor)
• Joseph Coors

  CEO (Adolph Coors Co Brewery).

• Julien-Francois Zbinden

  Composer.

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Famous Deaths

• F-Auguste-R Rodin

  French Sculptor (Baiser, Thinker), dies at 77.

• Henry Spiekman

  Social-democratic politician, dies at 43.

• Liliuokalani

  Last Queen of Hawaii (1891-93), dies from a stroke at 79.

• Teoberto Maler

  German-born explorer (Born 1842).

• Queen Liliuokalani

  of Hawaii (Born 1838).

• Emile Durkheim

  French sociologist (Born 1858).

• Leon Bloy

  French railroad official who was self-educated to become a writer.

• Emile Durkheim

  French sociologist (Le suicide).

• Colin Blythe

  English cricketer and soldier (d. 1917).

• Harry Trott

  Australian cricketer (Born 1866).

• Emile Durkheim

  French sociologist (Born 1858).

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Top #5 songs in the USA

1. Earl Fuller's Novelty Orchestra - 12th Street Rag
2. Nora Bayes - Over There
3. Peerless Quartet - Good-Bye Broadway, hello France
4. Peerless Quartet - Somewhere in France is Daddy
5. Joseph C. Smith's Orchestra - Gems from Ziegfeld Follies of 1917