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* 1917 – Halifax Explosion: In Canada, a munitions explosion kills more than 1, 900 people and destroys part of the City of Halifax, Nova Scotia.
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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 Halifax
The sound and light of the exploding meteor were initially mistaken for an explosion in the powder magazine at West Winfield, and was compared by investigators FW Preston, EP Henderson and James R Randolph as comparable to with the Halifax explosion of 1917 in destructive power.
" After the Halifax Explosion in 1917, Adams designed the Hydrostone section using Garden City principles.
The Halifax Explosion occurred on Thursday, December 6, 1917, when the city of Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, was devastated by the detonation of the SS Mont-Blanc, a French cargo ship that was fully loaded with wartime explosives.
View of Halifax before the 1917 explosion, looking toward the industrial north end from downtown, from grain elevator towards Acadia Sugar Refinery, c. 1900
The 1917 Halifax explosion also produced one.
The original Royal Naval College of Canada facilities were destroyed in December 1917 in the Halifax explosion.
She was heavily damaged in the December 1917 Halifax Explosion.
CC-1 and CC-2 spent the first three years of the war patrolling the Pacific ; however, the lack of German threat saw them reposted to Halifax in 1917.
Arriving in Halifax on October 17, 1917, they were declared unfit for service and never patrolled again, being scrapped in 1920.
Halifax: Royal Print & Litho., 1917 ( also Mika, Belleville: 1973 ).
* Since 1971 the Province of Nova Scotia has donated the annual Christmas Tree to the City of Boston as an enduring thank-you for the relief efforts of the Boston Red Cross and the Massachusetts Public Safety Committee following the Halifax Explosion of 1917.
The tragedy of the Halifax Explosion on December 6, 1917, played havoc with much of the ICR's infrastructure in the Richmond neighbourhood of north-end Halifax.
A notable role was the relief and reconstruction in Halifax after the 1917 Halifax Explosion and one CGR employee, Vince Coleman became a celebrated hero in the explosion.
The unit departed from Halifax, Nova Scotia on board the SS Southland on March 28, 1917 and arrived at Liverpool, England ten days later.
It faced hard times once again when the Halifax Explosion of 1917 killed Conrad Oland and destroyed the brewery.
* Halifax Explosion — explosion of a ship loaded with ammunition after a collision in Halifax Harbour 1917
P. Vincent Coleman ( 1872 – December 6, 1917 ) was a train dispatcher for the Canadian Government Railways ( formerly the ICR, Intercolonial Railway of Canada ) who was killed in the Halifax Explosion.
* Laura M. Mac Donald, Curse of the Narrows: the Halifax Explosion of 1917
In the Halifax Explosion of 1917, elevated land to the south protected Africville from the direct blast and complete destruction which leveled the neighbouring community of Richmond.
1917 and Explosion
A DAR relief train was one of the first trains to rush with help after the Halifax Explosion in 1917.
The School Newspaper, the Explosion, was first published in 1917, and has continued to be published semi-quarterly.
* January 11, 1917: ( Prelude to World War I ): German saboteurs set off the Kingsland Explosion at Kingsland, NJ ( now Lyndhurst, NJ ), one of the events leading to U. S. involvement in WWI.
Born in Halifax on July 11, 1910, Mr. Oland moved to Saint John with his family in 1917 in the aftermath of the Halifax Explosion.
Vessels wishing to transit The Narrows between the outer harbour and Bedford Basin must travel one at a time ; this rule was established after the disastrous Halifax Explosion of December 6, 1917 when a collision between the French munitions ship Mont-Blanc and the Norwegian Imo destroyed part of Halifax and Dartmouth.
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