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

When the United States entered the First World War Baker made certain that the Draft Act of 1917 prohibited the sale of liquor to men in uniform and that it provided for broad zones around the camps in which prostitution was outlawed.

There are only two men remaining in Congress who, with Rayburn, voted for the declaration of war against Germany in 1917.

At least one state vehicle was in existence in 1917.

The Registry of Motor Vehicles indicates that at least one state automobile was registered as far back as 1917.

The present Federal program of vocational education began in 1917 with the passage of the Smith-Hughes Act, which provided a continuing annual appropriation of $7 million to support, on a matching basis, state-administered programs of vocational education in agriculture, trades, industrial skills and home economics.

Since 1917 some thirteen supplementary and related acts have extended this Federal program.

He started practice in 1917, and served on the State Board of Medical Examiners.

While still in New York, in 1917 he was the founding president of the East Coast chapter of the Motion Picture Directors Association.

After the Revolution of 1917, views expressed by anthropologists in the USSR, and later the Soviet Bloc countries, were highly shaped by the requirement to conform to Marxist theories of social evolution.

E. B. Tylor ( 2 October 1832 – 2 January 1917 ) and James George Frazer ( 1 January 1854 – 7 May 1941 ) are generally considered the antecedents to modern social anthropology in Britain.

* Robert E. Cox ( 1917 – 1989 ) who conducted the " Gleanings for ATMs " column in Sky and Telescope magazine for 21 years.

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

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

* 1917 – World War I: Canadian forces successfully complete the taking of Vimy Ridge from the Germans.

* 1917 – Helen Forrest, American singer ( d. 1999 )

* 1877 – Léon Flameng, French cyclist ( d. 1917 )

* 1917 – Peanuts Lowrey, American baseball player ( d. 1986 )

* 1917 – World War I: Battle of Mărăşeşti between the Romanian and German armies begins.

* 1917 – Robert Mitchum, American actor ( d. 1997 )

* 1917 – Sid Gordon, American baseball player ( d. 1975 )

* 1917 – Scott Joplin, American musician and composer ( b. 1868 )

The Bolsheviks came to power in Russia during the October Revolution phase of the Russian Revolution of 1917, and founded the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic which would later in 1922 become the chief constituent of the Soviet Union.

* 1917 – Cheka, the first Soviet secret police, is founded.

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.

The First National Exhibitors ' Circuit was founded in 1917 by the merger of 26 of the biggest first run cinema chains in the United States of America, eventually controlling over 600 cinemas, more than 200 of them so-called " first run " houses ( as opposed to the " second run " neighborhood theaters to which films moved when their first run boxoffice receipts dwindled ).

The Royal Geographical Society was founded in England in 1830, although the United Kingdom did not get its first full Chair of geography until 1917.

* 1917 – Carl Karcher, founded the Carl's Jr. hamburger chain ( d. 2008 )

* Lincoln ( automobile ), a company founded in 1917 to build aero engines and now a luxury car brand of Ford Motor Company

Lions Clubs International ( LCI ) is a secular service organization with over 45, 500 clubs and more than 1, 368, 683 members in 205 countries around the world founded by Melvin Jones in 1917.

* 1917 – Batangas with the other provinces in the Philippines is formally founded as the Philippines's early encomiendas.

* Russian Musical Society, an organisation founded in 1859 and disbanded in 1917.

* Netherlands-The Studievereniging voor Psychical Research ( Dutch for Society for Psychical Research ) was founded in 1917.

* The first African American owned studio, the Lincoln Motion Picture Company, was founded in 1917.

From 1917 to his death in 1926, Dzerzhinsky was first and foremost a Russian Communist, and Dzerzhinsky's involvement in the affairs of the Polish Communist Party ( which was founded in 1918 ) was minimal.

* Grey EMEA, an advertising agency founded in 1917

And in 1917 the Woolfs founded their Hogarth Press, which would publish T. S. Eliot, Katherine Mansfield, and many others including Virginia herself along with the standard English translations of Freud.

Nunn founded Deep Springs College in 1917.

In the Southeastern part of the United States, Mrs. Eugenia Duke of Greenville, South Carolina, founded the Duke Sandwich Company in 1917 to sell sandwiches to soldiers training at nearby Fort Sevier.

The original Boys Town was founded as a boys ' orphanage in December 1917 by Edward J. Flanagan, a Roman Catholic priest working in Omaha.

* Prince Stanisław Albrecht Radziwiłł ( 1917 – 1976 ) is buried at St Anne's church, Fawley Court just outside Henley, where he founded the Divine Mercy College.

After the 1917 Russian Revolution, Gimbutas ' parents had founded the first Lithuanian hospital in the capital.

In December 1917, the Cheka was founded as the Bolshevik's first internal security force following the failed assassination attempt on Lenin's life.

The club was founded as Odd in 1917, but were not allowed to play amateur league matches until 1928, when they took the present name.

On 19 May 1917, twelve young men from Rosenborg in Trondheim founded Sportsklubben Odd.

It was founded in 1917, after the merger of two local football clubs.