Based in western Mexico, the rebellion was set off by the enforcement of the Mexican Constitution of 1917 by former Mexican President and atheist Plutarco Elias Calles, in order to persecute the Roman Catholic Church and its sub-organizations-a move inspired by Calles ' atheism and freemasonry.

* Princess Alicia of Bourbon-Parma ( born 1917 ), daughter of Elias, Duke of Parma and Archduchess Maria Anna of Austria

When the Blaw Steel Co. acquired the Knox Welded and Pressed Steel Co. in 1917, the company became known as the Blaw-Knox Steel Construction Co., and the size of Hoboken was expanded to the whole area spanned by the Blaw-Knox mill.

By 1917 the town had planted trees on both sides of its Main Street and had acquired a Carnegie Library and a Rotary Club.

BASF also acquired and began mining anhydrite for gypsum at the Kohnstein in 1917.

Under Hertzka, UE signed contracts with a number of important contemporary composers, including Béla Bartók and Frederick Delius in 1908 ; Gustav Mahler and Arnold Schoenberg in 1909 ( Mahler's Symphony No. 8 was the first work UE acquired an original copyright to ); Anton Webern and Alexander von Zemlinsky in 1910 ; Karol Szymanowski in 1912, and Leoš Janáček in 1917.

*, was a motor boat acquired by the US Navy in June 1917 and returned to her owner 30 November 1918

When modern Romania was formed in 1859 through the union of Wallachia and rump Moldavia, and then extended in 1918 through the union of Transylvania, as well as Bukovina and Bessarabia ( parts of Moldavia temporarily acquired by the Habsburgs, 1775 – 1918, respectively the Russian Tsars, 1812 – 1917 ), the administrative division was modernized using the French departments system as model.

The Pale, with its largely Catholic and Jewish populations, was acquired by the Russian Empire ( which was majority Russian Orthodox ) in a series of military conquests and diplomatic manoeuvres between 1791 and 1835, and lasted until the fall of the aforementioned Empire in 1917.

In 1917 Dick, Kerr & Co., a partnership of Glaswegian merchants W. B. Dick and John Kerr, acquired the United Electric Car Company, a tram manufacturer of Preston, Lancashire.

* The, was a wooden-hulled steam yacht, acquired by the Navy in 1917 and returned to her original owner in 1918.

The family seat is Carlock House, Glenapp, Ballantrae, Ayrshire. The former family seat was Glenapp Castle, which is currently a luxury hotel, and which was sold by the Inchcape family in 1982, having been acquired by the 1st Earl of Inchcape in 1917.

Walter C. Teter ( 1863 – 1929 ) acquired the property in 1917.

* The was built as the private yacht Corsair II in 1899, and was acquired and commissioned by the Navy on 15 May 1917.

In 1917 a ferroalloy plant was acquired and Elkem starts production of the Søderberg electrode.

The State of Illinois acquired the ruins in 1913 as a historic site and restored the powder magazine in 1917.

*, a wooden motor boat acquired in 1917 and returned to its owner in 1918.

*, was a motor boat built in 1913 and acquired by the US Navy for World War I in 1917, and served until 1919

*, was a yacht built in 1915 and acquired by the US Navy in 1917 serving until 1922.

*, was a yacht, built in 1898 and acquired by the US Navy in 1917 and converted into an armed patrol yacht.

The land, condemned by the city in 1917 for engineering purposes, was acquired by the Parks Department in 1971, and the park was dedicated eight years later.

In 1917, Valaam became a part of newly independent Finland, but it was acquired by the USSR after the Winter War and Continuation War.

In 1917, the State acquired the vacated West Side Park located at Polk and Wolcott for the University.

Two branches in Kearny were acquired, the Meadows Branch being built 1917-1918 by the UNJ and the Meadows Branch No. 2 being bought October 15, 1917 from Newark Factory Sites, Inc.

* The tug USS Powhatan, acquired by the Navy in 1898, was renamed USS Cayuga in 1917 and served under that name until sold in 1928.

Competitor Smith, Elder & Co. was acquired in 1917.

37 ° C ) for October, reached in 1963,, and shares with Moorhead both the July record and the all-time state high temperature of 114 °, reached in Beardsley on July 29, 1917.

On 18 October 1922, the British Broadcasting Company, Ltd. was incorporated under the 1908 to 1917 Companies Acts with a share capital of £ 100, 000., with 99, 993 cumulative ordinary shares valued at £ 1 each:

* 1917 – The Kingsland munitions factory explosion occurs as a result of sabotage.

* Prince Olav Harbour ( from 1911 – 1916 factory ship and small land-based station 1917 – 1931 )

It built The British Cordite Ltd factory at Nobel, Ontario, in 1916 / 1917, to produce cordite.

HM Factory, Gretna, the largest propellant factory in the United Kingdom, which opened in 1916, was by 1917 producing 800 tons ( 812 tonne ) of Cordite RDB per week ( approximately 41, 600 tons per year ).

After the Russian Revolution of 1917, during the periods of centralized planning ( Five Year Plans ) numerous large plants and factories were constructed in Krasnoyarsk: Sibtyazhmash, the dock yard, the paper factory, the hydroelectric power station ( now the fifth largest in the world and the second in Russia ), and the river port.

In 1917 one factory in Auburn was producing 75 percent of the world's supply of white canvas shoes.

The requisitioning of farm produce was replaced by a tax system ( a fixed proportion of the crop ), and the peasants were free to sell their surplus ( at a state-regulated price )-although they were encouraged to join state farms ( Sovkhozes, set up on land expropriated from nobles after the 1917 revolution ), in which they worked for a fixed wage like workers in a factory.

In 1917 a fire broke out at the factory where Rohwedder was manufacturing his machine.

Delmiro Gouveia was killed in October 1917 in circumstances still unclarified, after being pressured, according to rumor, to sell his factory to competing foreign firms.

Yale University | Yale Mobile Hospital Unit No. 39 stationed at the Limoges factory, Christmas, 1917

File: Ammunition Factory NGM-v31-p326. jpg | French women working in an ammunition factory ( National Geographic Magazine April 1917 )

Between August 1917 and the November 11, 1918 Armistice with Germany, the Gladiator factory delivered to the A. E. F.

On 19 January 1917 parts of Silvertown were devastated by a massive TNT explosion at the Brunner-Mond munitions factory, in what is known as the Silvertown explosion.

He led negotiations of a wage agreement between Petrograd metalworkers and factory owners in 1917.

As this and the No. 2 and No. 3 shops became available, the workforce moved from the Eastchurch factory, No. 3 shop being completed in 1917.

In 1917, the province of Ontario established the Ontario Motion Picture Bureau, " to carry out educational work for farmers, school children, factory workers, and other classes.

Next to the monastery is located famous Kiev Arsenal factory, known for the Bolshevik Uprising in 1917.

In 1917, the War Department of the United States Government invited Dr. Dreyfus to establish a similar factory in the US after their entry into war.

Aircraft production was primarily at the factory in North Hyde Road, Hayes ( Middlesex ), with flight testing carried out at Northolt Aerodrome ( 1917 – 1929 ), Great West Aerodrome ( 1930 – 1944 ), Heston Airport ( 1944 – 1947 ), and finally at White Waltham ( 1947 – 1964 ).

It was not until 1917 that the factory converted to electric power from the local distribution network.

By 1917 the factory site trebled in size, and possessed its own flying ground at Cofton Hackett, south of the main works, which was operated by the newly formed Austin Aero Company.

After the Gasper dam burst upriver in the summer of 1917, much of the machinery was washed from the factory and it took a number of years for industry to re-start on the site.

Ford was the only automotive firm to sell cars, trucks, and tractors simultaneously from 1917 to 1928, during which time 552, 799 Fordson tractors were built at the Dearborn, Michigan factory.

Ford was the only automotive firm to sell cars, trucks and tractors simultaneously from 1917 to 1928, during which time 552, 799 Fordson tractors were built at the Dearborn, Michigan factory.