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* 1917 – German forces defeat Portuguese army of about 1200 at Negomano on the border of modern-day Mozambique and Tanzania.
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E. B. Tylor ( 2 October 1832 – 2 January 1917 ) and James George Frazer ( 1 January 1854 – 7 May 1941 ) are generally considered the antecedents to modern social anthropology in Britain.
* Robert E. Cox ( 1917 – 1989 ) who conducted the " Gleanings for ATMs " column in Sky and Telescope magazine for 21 years.
* 1917 – World War I: The United States declares war on Germany ( see President Woodrow Wilson's address to Congress ).
* 1849 – John William Waterhouse, British painter ( d. 1917 )
* 1917 – Leonora Carrington, British surrealist painter ( d. 2011 )
* 1917 – World War I: Canadian forces successfully complete the taking of Vimy Ridge from the Germans.
* 1917 – Helen Forrest, American singer ( d. 1999 )
* 1877 – Léon Flameng, French cyclist ( d. 1917 )
* 1917 – Peanuts Lowrey, American baseball player ( d. 1986 )
* 1917 – World War I: Battle of Mărăşeşti between the Romanian and German armies begins.
* 1917 – Robert Mitchum, American actor ( d. 1997 )
Category: Corresponding Members of the Russian Academy of Sciences ( 1917 – 1925 )
* 1917 – Sid Gordon, American baseball player ( d. 1975 )
* 1917 – Scott Joplin, American musician and composer ( b. 1868 )
Eastern European theorists include Pyotr Stolypin ( 1862 – 1911 ) and Alexander Chayanov ( 1888 – 1939 ) in Russia ; Adolph Wagner ( 1835 – 1917 ), and Karl Oldenberg in Germany, and Bolesław Limanowski ( 1835 – 1935 ) in Poland.
* 1917 – Les Elgart, American trumpet player and bandleader ( d. 1995 )
* 1917 – Ferdinand Georg Frobenius, German mathematician ( b. 1849 )
Bloch was highly interdisciplinary, influenced by the geography of Paul Vidal de la Blache ( 1845 – 1918 ) and the sociology of Émile Durkheim ( 1858 – 1917 ).
* 1860 – Alan Leo, English astrologer ( d. 1917 )
* 1876 – Mata Hari, Dutch spy ( d. 1917 )
1917 and German
In April 1917, when German U-boats were sinking many British ships with torpedoes, the marine artist Norman Wilkinson devised dazzle camouflage, which paradoxically made ships more visible but harder to target.
Founded in 1917 as the ( DNA, " German Standardisation Committee ") in 1926 to reflect that the organization now dealt with standardization issues in many fields ; viz., not just for industrial products.
* 1917 – World War I: is the first American destroyer to be sunk by enemy action when it is torpedoed by German submarine.
** The Diet of the Empire ( In German: Reichstag ), legislative assembly of the German Empire 1871 – 1917
While almost an anachronism after the early stages of that war, German dragoons did see continuing service on the Eastern Front until 1917.
Following a large donation from the Jewish German American banker James Loeb who had at one time been a patient, and promises of support from ' patrons of science ', the German Institute for Psychiatric Research was founded in 1917 in Munich.
Princess Victoria of Hesse and by Rhine, Prince Louis of Battenberg and their four children Princess Alice of Battenberg, Louise, George and Louis. Lord Mountbatten was born as His Serene Highness Prince Louis of Battenberg, although his German styles and titles were dropped in 1917.
In June 1917, when the Royal Family stopped using their German names and titles and adopted the more British-sounding " Windsor ": Prince Louis of Battenberg became Louis Mountbatten, and was created Marquess of Milford Haven.
The Nordisk distribution and cinema chain in Germany was effectively expropriated by the German government in 1917.
Most of the futuristic-themed films of this period have been lost, but critics cite Thais by Anton Giulio Bragaglia ( 1917 ) as one of the most influential, serving as the main inspiration for the upcoming German Expressionist cinema.
In April 1917, during a brief period of German aerial supremacy, a grandstanding Member of Parliament ( upset at the lack of orders for his own aircraft manufacturing firm ) claimed that, on the Western Front, a British pilot's average life expectancy was 93 flying hours, or about three weeks of active service.
In the aftermath of the 1917 – 18 crisis and civil war, Finland passed from Russian rule to the German Empire's sphere of power.
The German policy was a success ; an armistice between Germany and the Bolsheviks came into force on 6 December and peace negotiations began on 22 December 1917 at Brest-Litovsk.
Equity was followed by a German U-boat ( UC-57 ), with more Jägers and weapons, on 17 November 1917 ; there were around 50 Jägers in Finland by the end of 1917.
Finnish nationalists leaning on Germanism had been seeking German aid in freeing Finland from Russian hegemony since Autumn 1917, but the Germans did not want to prejudice their armistice and peace negotiations with Russia because of the pressure they were facing at the Western front.
German declaration of unrestricted submarine warfare in early 1917 was designed to strangle the British ; it failed because of the use of a trans-Atlantic convoy system.
* 1882 – Herbert von Petersdorff, German swimmer ( d. 1917 )
* 1917 – Vera Zorina, German dancer ( d. 2003 )
* 1942 – Rolf Wenkhaus, German actor ( b. 1917 )
* 1917 – World War I: Battle of Messines – Allied ammonal mines underneath German trenches at Messines Ridge are detonated, killing 10, 000 German troops.
1917 and forces
With the dissolution of regular police and military forces, both left and right began forming armed groups in the spring of 1917.
By autumn 1917, in the power vacuum following the dissolution of parliament and in the absence of a stable government or a Finnish army, such forces began assuming a more military character.
The breakdown of Russian forces – exacerbated by internal turmoil caused by the 1917 Russian Revolution – led to an imposed peace and the favorable Treaty of Brest-Litovsk on 3 March 1918 as Russia withdrew from the war.
In July, after commanding the only successful front in the disastrous Russian offensive of June, 1917, he became Supreme Commander-in-Chief of the Provisional Government's armed forces.
* 1917 – World War I: Baghdad falls to Anglo-Indian forces commanded by General Stanley Maude.
* 1917 – The Commonwealth War Graves Commission is established through Royal Charter to mark, record and maintain the graves and places of commemoration of Commonwealth of Nations military forces.
Bolshevik forces marching in Moscow in 1917, shortly after the October Revolution
* 1917 – World War I: Battle of Cambrai begins – British forces make early progress in an attack on German positions but are later pushed back.
* 1917 – World War I: Third Battle of Gaza ends: British forces capture Gaza from the Ottoman Empire.
* 1917 – World War I: Third Battle of Ypres ends: After three months of fierce fighting, Canadian forces take Passchendaele in Belgium.
* 1917 – Battle of Caporetto ; Italy suffers a catastrophic defeat by the forces of Austria-Hungary and Germany on the Austro-Italian front of World War I ( lasts until 19 November-also called Twelfth Battle of the Isonzo ).
* 1917 – World War I: Battle of Caporetto ; Italy suffers a catastrophic defeat at the forces of Austria-Hungary and Germany.
Bolshevik Red Guards forces under the Military Revolutionary Committee began the takeover of government buildings on 24 October 1917 ( O. S .).
Nevertheless, Moldova remained in Romanian hands after the invading forces were stopped in 1917.
The Russian Civil War ( 25 October 1917 – October 1922 ) was a multi-party war in the former Russian Empire fought between the Bolshevik Red Army and the White Army, the loosely allied anti-Bolshevik forces.
The Espionage Act of 1917 imposed a maximum sentence of twenty years for anyone who caused or attempted to cause " insubordination, disloyalty, mutiny, or refusal of duty in the military or naval forces of the United States.
In 1917, UIU male students joined the armed forces during World War I, while women students organized American Red Cross classes on campus ; the UIU gym became a barracks, and the athletic field was the scene of military drills.
He contributed to the tactics used during the Battle of Mărăşeşti ( July – August 1917 ), when Romanians under General Alexandru Averescu managed to stop the advance of German forces under the command of Field Marshal August von Mackensen.
After the Italians suffered an enormous defeat at Caporetto in November 1917, the combined Austro-Hungarian and German forces advanced almost unhindered through Veneto towards Venice until reaching the Piave River.
In February 1917, Mandume Ya Ndemufayo, the last king of the Kwanyama of Ovamboland, was killed in a joint attack by South African forces for resisting South African sovereignty over his people.
There was a short-lived effort in 1917 to revive the Qing dynasty led by the loyalist general Zhang Xun, but his forces were defeated by rival warlords later that year.
Russian forces began to leave the area after the October Revolution in Russia in 1917, and by April 1918, it was recaptured by the Ottoman army.
In 1917, the British defeated Ottoman Turkish forces and took control of Palestine, while France took control of Syria.
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