* MacKenzie, David, The " Black hand " on Trial: Salonika, 1917 ( East East European Monographs, No. 423 ; Boulder, Colo .: East European Monographs ; New York: distributed by Columbia University Press, 1995 )

Hammerstein attended Columbia University ( 1912 – 16 ) and studied at Columbia Law School until 1917.

He was a professor of education at Teachers College, Columbia, from 1917 to 1940.

* Columbia Motors of Detroit, Michigan ( 1917 – 1924 )

Shortly after arriving in New York, a letter dated January 29, 1917, offered the band an audition for the Columbia Graphophone Company.

W. C. Handy recorded one of the earliest cover versions of a ODJB song when he released a recording of " Livery Stable Blues " by Handy's Orchestra of Memphis on Columbia Records in 1917, as Columbia A2419 and Columbia 2912, recorded on September 25, 1917.

#" Darktown Strutters ' Ball "/"( Back Home Again in ) Indiana ", 1917, Columbia A2297, the ODJB recording of " Darktown Strutters ' Ball " was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame on February 8, 2006

After their initial recording for Victor, they recorded for Columbia ( after the first Victor session, not before as has sometimes been said ) and Aeolian-Vocalion in 1917, and returned to make more sides for Victor the following year, while enjoying continued popularity in New York.

In 2006, the Original Dixieland Jazz Band's recording of " Darktown Strutter's Ball ", released in 1917 as Columbia single A2297, was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame.

Kane went up to Columbia University at age 18 in 1917.

Built in 1917 by E. M. Heltzer, it has four statues at the bottom for the branches of the military and the peace loving Columbia with a flag facing east.

From the early 20th century until November 2001, Lorton was the site of a District of Columbia correctional facility called the Lorton Reformatory which, among other things, detained approximately 168 women from the women's suffrage movement from the Washington D. C. area from June to December 1917.

Constituted 23 December 1917 in the Regular Army as the 60th Artillery, Coast Artillery Corps and organized at Fort Monroe, Virginia, comprising Regular Army companies and National Guard companies from Virginia and the District of Columbia.

In 1917, Columbia organized the awards of the first Pulitzer Prizes in journalism.

The ODJB 1917 recording of " Darktown Strutter's Ball " on Columbia was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 2006.

When the USA joined World War I in 1917, Pupin was working at Columbia University, organizing a research group for submarine detection techniques.

Ontario was first in 1915, Manitoba in 1916, British Columbia in 1917.

Columbia Motors was a Detroit, Michigan, United States based automobile manufacturer which produced automobiles from 1917 to 1924.

In 1917 it was established that all cardinals, even cardinal deacons, had to be priests, and in 1962, John XXIII set the norm that all cardinals be bishops.

The party led the 1917 October Revolution that overthrew the Russian Provisional Government and claimed to have established the world's first socialist state.

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After the Finnish non-socialists won the October 1917 Parliamentary elections, they established an informal truce with the Russian Provisional Government, a situation which was completely disrupted by the Bolshevist revolution in October.

In 1917, Albert Einstein established the theoretical foundations for the laser and the maser in the paper Zur Quantentheorie der Strahlung ( On the Quantum Theory of Radiation ); via a re-derivation of Max Planck ’ s law of radiation, conceptually based upon probability coefficients ( Einstein coefficients ) for the absorption, spontaneous emission, and stimulated emission of electromagnetic radiation ; in 1928, Rudolf W. Ladenburg confirmed the existences of the phenomena of stimulated emission and negative absorption ; in 1939, Valentin A. Fabrikant predicted the use of stimulated emission to amplify “ short ” waves ; in 1947, Willis E. Lamb and R. C. Retherford found apparent stimulated emission in hydrogen spectra and effected the first demonstration of stimulated emission ; in 1950, Alfred Kastler ( Nobel Prize for Physics 1966 ) proposed the method of optical pumping, experimentally confirmed, two years later, by Brossel, Kastler, and Winter.

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The federal government represents the United Mexican States and is divided into three branches: executive, legislative and judicial, as established by the Political Constitution of the United Mexican States, published in 1917.

* 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.

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After the abdication of Tsar Nicholas II of Russia, the Russian Provisional Government was established during the February Revolution of 1917.

Finland was the first republic that declared its independence from Russia in December 1917, and established itself in the ensuing Finnish Civil War from January to May 1918.

In 1917, the astronomer Harlow Shapley was able to estimate the Sun's distance from the galactic centre based on the distribution of globular clusters ; previously the Sun's location within the Milky Way was by no means well established.

When the tsar was overthrown in 1917, Jadidists established a short-lived autonomous state at Quqon.

On the home front in 1917, he began the United States ' first draft since the American Civil War, borrowed billions of dollars in war funding through the newly established Federal Reserve Bank and Liberty Bonds, set up the War Industries Board, promoted labor union cooperation, supervised agriculture and food production through the Lever Act, took over control of the railroads, and suppressed anti-war movements.

Yerevan was the centre of the newly established governorate until 1917, when Erivan governorate was dissolved.

On 20 December 1917, the Council of People's Commissars officially established the All-Russia Extraordinary Commission to Combat Counter-revolution and Sabotage — usually known as the Cheka ( based on the Russian acronym ВЧК ).

In the chaos brought by the Russian revolution of October 1917, a National Council ( Sfatul Ţării ) was established in Bessarabia, with 120 members elected from Bessarabia by some political and professional organizations and 10 elected from Transnistria ( the left bank of the Dniester River where Moldovans and Romanians accounted for less than a third and the majority of the population was Ukrainian.

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The Harbor Development Commission, a joint advisory board set-up in 1917, recommended that a bi-state authority be established to oversee efficient economic development of the port district.

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