Nine days after the clinic opened, Sanger was arrested for breaking a New York state law that prohibited distribution of contraceptives, and went to trial in January 1917.

In the Northerners most illustrious period ever, the club went undefeated from 1914 to 1919, collecting premierships in 1914, 1915 and 1918 – the league was in recess in 1916 and 1917 due to World War I.

In 1917, following the United States ' entry into World War I, Bush went to work with the National Research Council.

In 1917, one hundred and sixty-five IWW leaders were arrested for conspiring to hinder the draft, encourage desertion, and intimidate others in connection with labor disputes, under the new Espionage Act ; one hundred and one went on trial before Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis in 1918.

Following many of his classmates, Zhou went to Japan in July 1917 for further studies.

By 1917 most of the work went into the construction of the UB III.

One of the most popular of the French air aces, Georges Guynemer, went missing on 11 September 1917, probably while attacking a two-seater without realizing several Fokkers were escorting it.

The most notable clash occurred in July 1917, when the whole Dublin Battalion went on a route march through the South City and County.

Long went to Hawaii in 1917 to work as an elementary school teacher, and became interested in the religious beliefs and practices of the kahunas, but none talked to him so he was unable to penetrate to the inner workings of this religion.

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

In 1905 a large part of downtown burned and in 1917 the original railroad station went up in flames.

Chester Brewer was a four sport star at the University of Wisconsin, and football coach at Michigan Agricultural College / Michigan State University for 1903 to 1910, 1917 and 1919 where he posted shutouts in 49 of 88 games and went undefeated in 43 straight home games.

Life cover displays Brigadier General Claire Lee Chennault ; born in Texas, 1890 ; enlisted in Army Air Force, 1917 ; barnstormed around country in Army's flying circus, 1922 ; retired because of deafness, went to China to plan aerial defense, 1937 ; commanded A. V. G., 1941 ; made chief of U. S. Air Force in China, 1941.

He went into exile with his daughter Olga in December 1914, first to Rome, then to Geneva, and from there to London via Paris in 1915, Russia in May 1917 and the United States via Vladivostok and Tokyo in April 1918.

Costello continued to commit petty crimes, and went to jail for assault and robbery in 1908, 1912 and 1917.

Klemperer went on to hold a number of positions, in Hamburg ( 1910 – 1912 ); in Barmen ( 1912 – 1913 ); the Strasbourg Opera ( 1914 – 1917 ); the Cologne Opera ( 1917 – 1924 ); and the Wiesbaden Opera House ( 1924 – 1927 ).

The country went through successive crises after the war: the 1922 – 1926 General Strike ; the Great Depression of 1929 – 32 ; the rise of communist Bolshevism after 1917 and Fascism after 1922 ; the Spanish Civil War 1936 onwards ; the invasion of Abyssinia 1936 ; the League of Nations Crisis which followed ; and the re-armament and resurgence of Germany from 1933, leading into another World War.

Svinhufvud went on to serve as a member of Parliament on four occasions ( 1907 – 1908, 1908 – 1914, 1917, and 1930 – 1931 ).

In 1917, he went to university at the University of Madrid, first studying agronomy then industrial engineering and finally switching to philosophy.

When the District was closed down in 1917 he went on tour with Billy & Mary Mack's Merrymakers Review.

In 1914, the Norwegian immigrant Leonhard Seppala first appeared, and went on to win the race in 1915, 1916, and 1917, before the race was discontinued in 1918 during World War I.

A third battery, the 309th ( HAC ) Siege Battery, went to France in April 1917 and saw action at the Battle of Messines and the Battle of Amiens.

Shortly after the Bolshevik revolution of October 1917, Kornilov managed to escape from Bykhov and went to establish the Volunteer Army, which fought the Bolsheviks during the Russian Civil War.

* 1849 – John William Waterhouse, British painter ( d. 1917 )

* 1917 – Leonora Carrington, British surrealist painter ( d. 2011 )

* 1917 – Valerie Hobson, British actress ( d. 1998 )

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 official name of the Territory is still simply the " Virgin Islands ", but the prefix " British " is often used to distinguish it from the neighbouring American territory which changed its name from the " Danish West Indies " to " Virgin Islands of the United States " in 1917.

Each series was set in a different period of British history, beginning in 1485 and ending in 1917, and comprised six half-hour episodes.

The Balfour Declaration ( dated 2 November 1917 ) was a letter from the United Kingdom's Foreign Secretary Arthur James Balfour to Baron Rothschild ( Walter Rothschild, 2nd Baron Rothschild ), a leader of the British Jewish community, for transmission to the Zionist Federation of Great Britain and Ireland.

Hussein learned of the agreement when it was leaked by the new Russian government in December 1917, but was satisfied by two disingenuous telegrams from Sir Reginald Wingate, High Commissioner of Egypt, assuring him that the British government's commitments to the Arabs were still valid and that the Sykes-Picot Agreement was not a formal treaty.

More recently, William D. Rubinstein, Professor of Modern History at Aberystwyth University, Wales, wrote that Conservative politician and pro-Zionist Leo Amery, as Assistant Secretary to the British war cabinet in 1917, was the main author of the Balfour Declaration.

In April 1917, when German U-boats were sinking many British ships with torpedoes, the marine artist Norman Wilkinson devised dazzle camouflage, which paradoxically made ships more visible but harder to target.

* 1917 – British General Edmund Allenby enters Jerusalem on foot and declares martial law.

Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, LSA, MD ( 9 June 1836 – 17 December 1917 ), was an English physician and feminist, the first Englishwoman to qualify as a physician and surgeon in Britain, the co-founder of the first hospital staffed by women, the first dean of a British medical school, the first woman M. D.

Locations in Southern and Central Appalachia visited by the British folklorist Cecil Sharp in 1916 ( blue ), 1917 ( green ), and 1918 ( red ).

In April 1917, during a brief period of German aerial supremacy, a grandstanding Member of Parliament ( upset at the lack of orders for his own aircraft manufacturing firm ) claimed that, on the Western Front, a British pilot's average life expectancy was 93 flying hours, or about three weeks of active service.

German declaration of unrestricted submarine warfare in early 1917 was designed to strangle the British ; it failed because of the use of a trans-Atlantic convoy system.

The area became a focal point of conflict between Christianity and Islam between 1096 and 1291 and from the end of the Crusades until the British conquest in 1917 was part of the Syrian province of first the Mamluk Sultanate of Egypt and then ( from 1517 ) the Ottoman Empire.

In late 1917, as the British Army including the Jewish Legion drove the Turks out of Southern Syria.

The British Foreign Secretary stated in the Balfour Declaration of 1917:

* 1917 – King George V issues a Proclamation stating that the male line descendants of the British Royal Family will bear the surname Windsor.

In June 1917 Besant was arrested and interned by the British government.

In 1244, the Khwarezmi Turks recaptured Jerusalem, and the city did not return to Western control until 1917 when the British captured it from the Ottoman Turks.

She was also granted a knighthood in 1917, when the Order of the British Empire was created ( it was the first order explicitly open to women ).

* 1917 – John Kendrew, British molecular biologist, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1997 )

* 2006 – Ruari McLean, British typographer ( b. 1917 )

* 1917 – The Balfour Declaration proclaims British support for the " establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people " with the clear understanding " that nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities ".