In spite of powerful opposition the Draft Act finally passed Congress on May 17, 1917.

and August 15, November 15, February 17, and May 15, ( Cranston ).

Abby May wrote in her journal on January 17, 1843, " A day of some excitement, as Mr. Alcott refused to pay his town tax ... After waiting some time to be committed jail, he was told it was paid by a friend.

Albert of Prussia (; ) ( 17 May 1490 – 20 March 1568 ) was the 37th and last sovereign Grand Master of the Teutonic Knights and, after converting to Lutheranism, the first duke of the Duchy of Prussia, which was the first state to adopt the Lutheran faith and Protestantism as the official state religion.

* Alfonso XIII ( 17 May 1886 – 28 February 1941 ).

Alfonso XIII ( Alfonso León Fernando María Jaime Isidro Pascual Antonio de Borbón y Austria-Lorena ; 17 May 1886 – 28 February 1941 ) was King of Spain from 1886 until 1931.

Anne Brontë (; 17 January 1820 – 28 May 1849 ) was a British novelist and poet, the youngest member of the Brontë literary family.

* AIX 4. 2, May 17, 1996

On May 8, after going 12 – 17 in 29 games, the Diamondbacks released manager Bob Melvin and hired A. J. Hinch.

Koeman became the manager for AZ on 17 May 2009.

His episcopate lasted 45 years ( c. 8 June 328 – 2 May 373 ), of which over 17 were spent in five exiles ordered by four different Roman emperors.

St Athanasius ' long episcopate lasted 45 years ( c. 8 June 328 – 2 May 373 ) of which over 17 years were spent in five exiles ordered by four different Roman Emperors, not counting approximately six more incidents in which he had to flee Alexandria for his own safety to escape people seeking to take his life.

On 17 / 30 May a peace treaty was signed between Turkey and the Balkan Alliance.

* Jeffreys, Elizabeth and Michael, and Moffatt, Ann, Byzantine Papers: Proceedings of the First Australian Byzantine Studies Conference, Canberra, 17 – 19 May 1978 ( Australian National University, Canberra, 1979 ).

On 17 May the Duke concentrated his Dutch and English troops at Tongeren, near Maastricht.

The Ottomans were superior in number, but on October 10, 1394 ( or 17 May 1395 ), in the Battle of Rovine, on forested and swampy terrain, the Wallachians won the fierce battle and prevented Bayezid from conquering the country.

The poor British performance in the early months of the war forced Asquith to invite the Conservatives into a coalition ( on 17 May 1915 ).

The war ended with the Treaty of London on 30 ( 17 ) May 1913.

#** Prince Louis Napoléon Murat ( Paris, December 22, 1851-Paris, September 22, 1912 ), married in Odessa, 23 November, 1873 Eudoxia Mikhailovna Somova ( Kharkov, February 17, 1850-Nice, May 6, 1924 ), related to Orest Somov, and had issue now extinct in male line ( great-grandfather of actor René Auberjonois )

The following is the show routine used on 17 May 2008:

A letter from Queen Elizabeth ( later the Queen Mother ), dated 17 May 1947, showed " her decided lack of enthusiasm for the socialist government " and describes the British electorate as " poor people, so many half-educated and bemused " for electing Attlee over Winston Churchill, whom she saw as a war hero.

During one stretch in May, the team went 2 – 17.

Clarence Brown ( May 10, 1890 – August 17, 1987 ) was an American film director.

Hall died in a shootout ( May 17, 1974 ) with police in which five other SLA members were killed.

Metropolis, May 17, 2006.

Export partners: Russia 17. 5 %, Netherlands 14. 9 %, Germany 14. 7 %, Ireland 11. 1 %, Belgium 8. 7 %, Georgia 7. 6 %, US 6. 6 %, Switzerland 4. 3 %, Bulgaria 4. 1 %, Ukraine 4 % ( 2007 )

Import partners: Russia 17. 5 %, Netherlands 14. 9 %, Germany 14. 7 %, Ireland 11. 1 %, Belgium 8. 7 %, Georgia 7. 6 %, US 6. 6 %, Switzerland 4. 3 %, Bulgaria 4. 1 %, Ukraine 4 % ( 2007 )

Studies published in 2004 and 2007 show the combined frequency of M7a and N9b to be at least 28 % in Okinawans ( 7 / 50 M7a1, 6 / 50 M7a ( xM7a1 ), 1 / 50 N9b ), 17. 6 % in Ainus ( 8 / 51 M7a ( xM7a1 ), 1 / 51 N9b ), and 10 % ( 97 / 1312 M7a ( xM7a1 ), 1 / 1312 M7a1, 28 / 1312 N9b ) to 17 % ( 15 / 100 M7a1, 2 / 100 M7a ( xM7a1 )) in mainstream Japanese.

Digicel was finally granted a licence on 17 December 2007 and plans to start operations in the BVI sometime in 2008.

On 17 November 2007 Australia beat Nigeria 1 – 0 in an international friendly at Craven Cottage.

On October 17, 2007, a week before the first game of the 2007 World Series against the Boston Red Sox, the Colorado Rockies announced that tickets would be made available to the general public via online sales only, despite prior arrangements to sell the tickets at local retail outlets.

On 17 March 2007 the band played a live show at their rehearsal studio in front of around fifty fans, friends and family.

__NOTOC__The current Political Constitution of the Republic of Chile, approved by Chilean voters in a controversial and tightly controlled plebiscite on September 11, 1980, under the military dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet, partially effective March 11, 1981, fully effective 11 March 1990 and amended considerably on August 17, 1989 ( via referendum ) and on September 22, 2005 ( legislatively ), and also in 1991, 1994, 1997, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2003, 2007, 2008, 2009 and 2010, replaced the earlier constitution of 1925.

Converting CFGs to CNF ( Chomsky Normal Form ), October 17, 2007.

On August 17, 2007, Hurricane Dean, a Category 1 at the time, hit the island.

In 2007, the College hosted eight academic groups, 17 cultural groups, two honor societies, 30 " issue-oriented " groups, 25 performing groups, 12 pre-professional groups, 20 publications, and 11 recreational groups.

Dartmouth is home to 32 recognized Greek houses: 17 fraternities, 12 sororities, and three coeducational organizations, In 2007, roughly 70 % of eligible students belong to a Greek organization ; since 1987, students have not been permitted to join Greek organizations until their sophomore year.

The show continued with 8 performances per week at the New World Stages until closing February 17, 2007.

On October 17, 2007, the final stretch of the motorway, between Uppsala and Mehedeby was opened.

Compton's by Britannica, first published in 2007, incorporating the former Compton's Encyclopedia, is aimed at 10 – 17 year olds and consists of 26 volumes and 11, 000 pages.

* K. Malhotra, S. Gardner, and R. Patz, Implementation of Elliptic-Curve Cryptography on Mobile Healthcare Devices, Networking, Sensing and Control, 2007 IEEE International Conference on, London, 15 – 17 April 2007 Page ( s ): 239 – 244

Sophia, 17, No. 2, Winter 2007.

It was launched on 17 December 2007 and was set to leave the northern German port of Bremerhaven to Guanta, Venezuela on January 22, 2008.

* Food Trade's Juicy Secrets by John Triggs in the Daily Express July 17, 2007

Between 17 May 2006 and 21 February 2007 Romano Prodi served as Prime Minister of Italy following the narrow victory of his l ' Unione coalition over the Casa delle Libertà led by Silvio Berlusconi in the April 2006 Italian elections.

On 31 October 2007 the Foreign Relations Committee of the United States Senate, by a vote of 17 to 4, recommended ratification, and President George W. Bush publicly supported U. S. accession to the Convention ; no date has yet been set for action by the full Senate.

In the subsequent leadership election, John Gormley became the new leader on 17 July 2007, defeating Patricia McKenna by 478 votes to 263.