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* 1917 – In a game against the Washington Senators, Boston Red Sox pitcher Ernie Shore retires 26 batters in a row after replacing Babe Ruth, who had been ejected for punching the umpire.
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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 )
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* 1917 – Lou van Burg, Dutch singer and game show host ( d. 1986 )
* 1917 – Gene Rayburn, American game show host ( d. 1999 )
In 1917, the game was changed from 21 to 15 points.
* Blue Max-( GDW, 1983 ) is a multi-player game of World War I aerial combat over the Western Front during 1917 and 1918 with an extremely easy to play mechanism but allow the development of complex strategies.
* June 9 – Allen Ludden, American television game show host ( b. 1917 )
In a 1917 game, Ruth was ejected after walking the first batter.
On September 1, 1917, in a game against the Tigers in Cleveland, Speaker was hit with the ball as he tried to steal home in the bottom of the first inning.
On March 24, 1917, Baker played his last hockey game at the Winter Garden at Exposition Hall in Pittsburgh.
On March 1, 2007, Washington State was awarded a banner for its 1917 NCAA National Basketball Championship prior to its home game against UCLA.
During and after the 1917 Los Angeles campaign, the Sundays visited with Hollywood stars, and members of Sunday's organization played a charity baseball game against a team of show business personalities that included Douglas Fairbanks, Sr.
The Nenana Ice Classic, begun in 1917, is an annual guessing game about the date of the ice break-up.
His final game was a 1 – 0 11-inning complete game loss to Walter Johnson and the Washington Senators on August 6, 1917.
In the Baltics, the game disappeared after the October Revolution, due to the expropriation, expulsion, and execution of the German noble families in 1917.
It was the first Yankee no-hitter since Don Larsen's perfect game in the 1956 World Series, and the first by a Yankee left-hander since 1917.
First game in Warsaw, Legia played on April 29, 1917 against the local rivalry-Polonia Warsaw.
Allen Ludden ( October 5, 1917 – June 9, 1981 ) was an American television personality, emcee and game show host, perhaps most well known for hosting various incarnations of the game show Password between 1961 and 1980.
The game is set in an alternate timeline, centered around events in Russia in 1917.
No shortstop had made three errors in one playoff game since Buck Weaver in the 1917 World Series.
In 1917, Georgia Tech would outscore opponents 491-17 in the midst of a 33 game undefeated streak spanning over five seasons.
Before this, the most recent pitcher to start back-to-back-to-back games was Red Faber in the 1917, who started both games of a September 3 doubleheader, throwing just six innings in total, followed by a complete game win the following day.
Leeds reverted to rugby union during World War I to play a one-off challenge game against the Royal Navy Depot from Plymouth in 1917.
When Phillips defeated Texas 10-0 in Austin, Texas in October 1919, the Longhorns had not lost a game since 1917.
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