September 1917 calendar

Events

• 01 Sep 1917 The US government prohibits gold exports.
• 02 Sep 1917 Deutsche Vaterlands Party forms
• 03 Sep 1917 1st night bombing of London by German fighter planes
• 06 Sep 1917 French pilot Georges Guynemer shoots down 54th German aircraft
• 14 Sep 1917 Kerenski regime declares Russian Republic
• 15 Sep 1917 Russia proclaimed a republic by Alexander Kerensky.
• 20 Sep 1917 British assault on Polygon-forest, France
• 26 Sep 1917 British assault on Menin-street, France
• 27 Sep 1917 Broadhurst Theater opens at 235 W 44th St, New York City

Famous Birthday

• Ferdinand Marcos

  Filipino politician who was elected President in 1965.

• Henry Ford II

  president of Ford Motor Company, dies in Detroit, Michigan at age 70 (born 1917).

• Göran Gentele

  Swedish former actor and stage director, named as Director and General Manager of the Metropolitan Opera in July 1972.

• Enid Hoffman

  American writer of metaphysical books which include, "Develop Your Psychic Skills" and "Huna, A Beginners Guide.

• Fernando Rey

  Spanish film, theatre, and TV actor, who worked in both Europe and the United States.

• June Foray

  American voice actress.

• Herbert Lom

  Czech-born English actor (d. 2012).

• Buddy Rich

  American jazz drummer/orchestra leader (Away We Go), dies at age 69 (born 1917).

• Kenneth C Dempster
• Great Fire of London
• Laurindo Almeida

  Brazilian guitarist, a great and individual virtuoso in the bossa nova and a great jazz guitarist.

• Jessica Mitford

  British writer, sometimes referred to as "Queen of the Muckrakers," and best known for skewering in print businesses ranging from funeral...

• Red Auerbach

  American basketball coach and executive (Born 1917).

• John Berry

  American-French actor director producer and screenwriter (d. 1999).

• Cleveland Amory

  American writer, author of "Who Killed Society," and "Proper Bostonians.

• Daniel Wildenstein

  French art tycoon, third in a family dynasty of art dealers who had a great taste for French 18th century works and Impressionist painters;...

• El Santo
• Hilde Gueden

  Austrian soprano (d. 1988).

• Ettore Sottsass

  Italian architect and designer (Born 1917).

• Colin Cowe

  Senior bursar (Magdalen College Oxford).

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Famous Deaths

• Fanya Kaplan

  Russian who shot at Lenin on August 30th, executed.

• Charles Edouard Lefebvre

  Composer, dies at 74.

• Herbert Morris

  Jamaican deserter in France, executed at 17.

• Edgar H G Degas

  French Painter (ballerina).

• Edgar Degas

  French artist, a painter and pastelist, sculptor and photographer.

• Georges Guynemer

  French military pilot, a Major of the famous "Storks" squadron.

• Werner Voss

  German World War I pilot (Born 1897).

• Marian Smoluchowski

  Polish physicist and mountaineer (d. 1917).

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Top #5 songs in the USA

1. John McCormack - There's a Long, Long Trail A-Winding
2. George Wilson & Lewis James - When the Sun Goes Down in Dixie (And the Moon Begins to Rise)
3. Peerless Quartet - For Your Country and My Country
4. Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra - Waltz of the Hours
5. Henry Burr - Joan of Arc