* Louis Laffitte, pseudonym of French novelist Jean-Louis Curtis ( 1917 – 1995 )

* John C. Curtis ( 1845 – 1917 ), American Civil War soldier and Medal of Honor recipient

Archibald Query of Somerville, Massachusetts, invented a product he called Marshmallow Creme in 1917, and Emma and Amory Curtis of Melrose, Massachusetts, invented Snowflake Marshmallow Creme in 1913.

Archibald Query invented a creation he called Marshmallow Creme in Somerville, Massachusetts, in 1917, while Amory and Emma Curtis of Melrose, Massachusetts, invented Snowflake Marshmallow Creme in 1913.

* Jean-Louis Curtis ( 1917 – 1995 ): novelist

Elwes had been closely identified with English wartime morale, having given six benefit performances of The Dream of Gerontius on consecutive nights in 1916, and many concerts in France in 1917 for British soldiers.

The Russian Revolution of February 1917 had a great effect in Bulgaria, spreading antiwar and anti-monarchist sentiment among the troops and in the cities.

In his 1917 draft registration, Jefferson gave his birth date as October 26, 1894, further stating that he then lived in Dallas, Texas, and that he had been blind from birth.

By the spring of 1917, many Black Hand leaders, including Apis, had been arrested.

By 1917, all but one of the males on Clipperton had died.

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.

In their first major use at the Battle of Cambrai ( 1917 ), the plan was for a cavalry division to follow behind the tanks, however they were not able to cross a canal because a tank had broken the only bridge.

In late 1917 while in charge of training at Ft. Oglethorpe in Georgia, Mamie had their first son.

First performed by the Ballets Russes in 1917, it succeeded in creating a scandal but in a different way than Stravinsky's Le Sacre du Printemps had done almost five years earlier.

** Nazarov was Dictator of the Don Republic ( which before, since its founding on 2 December 1917 at Novocherkassk, had been governed by a Triumvirate including the last pre-Soviet Ataman, Aleksei Maksimovich Kaledin ) from 11 February 1918 till 25 February 1918 when Bolshevik troops ended their existence

Following a large donation from the Jewish German American banker James Loeb who had at one time been a patient, and promises of support from ' patrons of science ', the German Institute for Psychiatric Research was founded in 1917 in Munich.

In Poor Little Rich Girl ( 1917 ) a camera shot tilting sideways is intended to convey delirium, and by 1918 the idea had got to Russia, in Baryshnya i khuligan ( The Lady and the Hooligan ), where the Hooligan's infatuation with the Lady is conveyed by his Point of View of her splitting into a multiply superimposed image.

His Democratic opponent was Robert L. Moran, an alderman from the Bronx who had succeeded to the Board presidency in 1918 when Alfred E. Smith, who had been elected Board President in 1917, became Governor.

Finland's foreign politics before this deal had been varied: independence from Imperial Russia with support of Imperial Germany in 1917 ; participation in the Russian Civil War ( without official declaration of war ) alongside the Triple Entente 1918 – 1920 ; a non-ratified alliance with Poland in 1922 ; association with the neutralist and democratic Scandinavian countries in the 1930s ended by the Winter War ( 1939 ); and finally in 1940, a rapprochement with Nazi Germany, the only power able to protect Finland against the expansionist Soviet Union, leading to the Continuation War in 1941.

The Civil War concerned control and leadership of the Grand Duchy of Finland after it had become sovereign in 1917.

By 1917 Finland had experienced rapid population growth, industrialization, improvements in the economy and standard of living, and the rise of a comprehensive labor movement ; economic, social, and political divisions were deepening while the Finnish political system was in an unstable phase of democratization and modernization.

Although the Finns had accepted the liberating manifesto ( from the period of 1908-1916 ) of March 1917 issued by the Russian Provisional Government, they planned at least an expansion of the former autonomy.

Conservatives were alarmed by the continuous increase of the socialists ’ support during 1899-1916, which had climaxed in 1917 with their dominance in the Parliament and Senate, without the offsetting control of the emperor and Russian administration.

In Russia the Social Democrats ' plan had the backing of Vladimir Lenin and the Russian Bolsheviks, who in July 1917 were plotting a revolt against the Russian Provisional Government, which was opposed the Power Act, as it would reduce the power of the Russian administration in the country.

To that end, they had arranged for the safe conduct of Lenin and his comrades from exile in Switzerland to Petrograd in April 1917, and financed the Bolshevik party, believing Lenin to be the most powerful weapon they could use against Russia.

After the " We demand " program had failed, the socialists initiated a general strike on 14 – 19 November 1917.

Revolution had been the goal of the radical left since the loss of the political power in July and October 1917.

The Social Democrats had aimed to increase independence of the Finns since the spring of 1917, but now they could not use it for the direct political benefit of their party, and had either to adjust to the right's dominance or try to change everything via a revolution.

Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. observed in 1917 that " judges do and must legislate.

Memorial Day is observed on 1 July to recall the losses of Dominion of Newfoundland at Beaumont-Hamel during the Battle of the Somme of the First World War and has been observed annually since 1917.

During the First World War, his family fled to Russia where he observed the Russian revolution of 1917.

* 1917 – World War I: President Woodrow Wilson asks the U. S. Congress for a declaration of war on Germany.

The first " cocktail party " ever thrown was allegedly by Mrs. Julius S. Walsh Jr. of St. Louis, Missouri, in May 1917.

* 1837 – George Dewey, U. S. admiral ( d. 1917 )

In late 1917, Armstrong was invited to join the U. S. Army Signal Corps with the rank of captain and was sent to Paris to help set up a wireless communication system for the Army.

* 1917 – World War I: The U. S. ambassador to the United Kingdom is given the Zimmermann Telegram, in which Germany pledges to ensure the return of New Mexico, Texas, and Arizona to Mexico if Mexico declares war on the United States.

After the United States entered the war in April 1917, President Woodrow Wilson appointed Hoover to head the U. S. Food Administration.

* 1917 – The first U. S. troops arrive in France to fight alongside Britain and France against Germany in World War I.

* 1850 – Francesca S. Cabrini, Italian-American nun and saint ( d. 1917 )

* 1917 – The U. S. government releases the unencrypted text of the Zimmermann Telegram to the public.

* 2010 – Samuel J. Eldersveld, U. S. academic, political scientist, and Democratic politician ( b. 1917 )

During her years at Washington Seminary, Mitchell's brother, Stephens, was away studying at Harvard College ( 1915 – 1917 ), and he left in May 1917 to enlist in the army, about a month after the U. S. declared war on Germany.

It took place with an armed insurrection in Petrograd traditionally dated to 25 October 1917 Old Style Julian Calendar ( O. S.

), which corresponds with 7 November 1917 New Style ( N. S.

Bolshevik Red Guards forces under the Military Revolutionary Committee began the takeover of government buildings on 24 October 1917 ( O. S .).

Puerto Ricans " were collectively made U. S. citizens " in 1917 as a result of the Jones-Shafroth Act.

In 1917 " Puerto Ricans were collectively made U. S. citizens " via the Jones Act via the Jones-Shafroth Act.

The Purple Heart is a United States military decoration awarded in the name of the President to those who have been wounded or killed while serving on or after April 5, 1917 with the U. S. military.

The Purple Heart is awarded in the name of the President of the United States to any member of the Armed Forces of the United States who, while serving under competent authority in any capacity with one of the U. S. Armed Services after April 5, 1917, has been wounded or killed.

In 1917 the U. S. Government took charge of the patents owned by the major companies involved in radio manufacture in the US to devote radio technology to the war effort.

From about 1872 until the U. S. entry into World War I ( 1917 ), target shooting with single-shot rifles was nearly as popular in America as golf is today.

When the U. S. entered the war in 1917, Roosevelt sought to raise a volunteer infantry division, but Wilson refused.

On 17 March, German submarines sank three American merchant vessels, and the U. S. declared war on Germany in April 1917.

He based his re-election campaign around the slogan, " He kept us out of war ", but U. S. neutrality was challenged in early 1917 when the German Empire began unrestricted submarine warfare despite repeated strong warnings and tried to enlist Mexico as an ally.