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

Carnegie was honored for his philanthropy and support of the arts by initiation as an honorary member of Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia Fraternity on October 14, 1917, at the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston, Massachusetts.

In 1899, the memorial, by the Berlin sculptor Ernst Gustav Herter ( 1846 – 1917 ), finally came to rest, although subject to repeated vandalism, in the Bronx, at 164th Street and the Grand Concourse, or Joyce Kilmer Park near today's Yankee Stadium.

Montgomery served at the Battle of Passchendaele in Autumn 1917 before finishing the war as General Staff Officer 1 and effectively chief of staff of the 47th ( 2nd London ) Division, with the temporary rank of lieutenant-colonel.

* 1 Kings at Mechon-Mamre ( Jewish Publication Society 1917 translation )

* 2 Kings at Mechon-Mamre ( Jewish Publication Society 1917 translation )

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.

This force captured the Sinai and garrisoned the extended lines of communication, but in early 1917 their advance was stopped at Gaza until towards the end of the year when a greatly enlarged force of infantry and mounted troops captured Beersheba, most of southern Palestine and Jerusalem.

* Engineering mathematics ; a series of lectures delivered at Union College, 1917.

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.

Thereafter, censuses were conducted at ten-year intervals in 1907, 1917, 1927 and so on.

Doud Dwight " Icky " Eisenhower was born September 24, 1917, and died of scarlet fever on January 2, 1921, at the age of three ; Eisenhower was mostly reticent to discuss his death.

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

Zurich Dada, with Tzara at the helm, published the art and literature review Dada beginning in July 1917, with five editions from Zurich and the final two from Paris.

* 1917 – An armistice is signed between Russia and the Central Powers at Brest-Litovsk and peace talks leading to the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk began.

** 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

Turkish trenches at the shores of the Dead Sea, World War I, 1917.

Jones thus arrived at a set of eight " primary Cardinal Vowels ", and recorded these on gramophone disc for HMV in 1917.

After the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917, at the age of 22, Vertov began editing for Kino-Nedelya (, the Moscow Cinema Committee's weekly film series, and the first newsreel series in Russia ), which first came out in June 1918.

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 King's Ships Were at Sea ( 1900 – 1917 )

A meeting called by Count Plunkett on 19 April 1917 led to the formation of a broad political movement under the banner of Sinn Féin which was formalised at the Sinn Féin Ard Fheis of 25 October 1917.

After a year of high-school teaching, he entered graduate school with the help of his former professor from the University of Chicago to study astronomy at the Yerkes Observatory of the University, where he received his PhD in 1917.

The Bolshevik revolution in October 1917 did not eliminate the privately owned film companies at first, though production was reduced through 1918.

In 1917 Columbia established the Lincoln School of Teachers College “ as a laboratory for the working out of an elementary and secondary curriculum which shall eliminate obsolete material and endeavor to work up in usable form material adapted to the needs of modern living .” ( Cremin, 282 ) Based on Flexner ’ s demand that the modern curriculum “ include nothing for which an affirmative case can not be made out ” ( Cremin, 281 ) the new school organized its activities around four fundamental fields: science, industry, aesthetics and civics.

Following the political defeats in July and October 1917, on 1 November the Social Democrats put forward an uncompromising program called " We demand " in order to push for political concessions.

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

He received his doctorate in engineering from MIT and Harvard University jointly in 1917, after a dispute with his adviser Arthur Edwin Kennelly, who tried to demand more work from him.

In 1917, open pit mining was successfully introduced to meet the heavy copper demand due to World War I.

On August 11, 1917, he introduced a War Aims resolution that called on the US to " declare definitely its strategic goals, to condemn the continuation of the war for the purposes of territorial annexation, and to demand that the Allies restate their peace terms immediately.

The league next made a demand that Livingstone sell the Toronto franchise between April and June 1917.

Tener also noted that the fourth demand, that injured players be paid their full salaries, had already been met in the 1917 contract.

Robertson later came out to Beauvais in March 1917 to demand that Wilson keep him fully informed of all developments.

From 1838 to 1917, over half a million Indians from the former British Raj or British India, were taken to thirteen mainland and island nations in the Caribbean as Indentured workers to address the demand for sugar cane plantation labour following the abolition of slavery.

In 1917, the first women's delegation met the Secretary of State to demand women's political rights, supported by the Indian National Congress.

Emperor Karl I, using his brother-in-law Prince Sixte of Bourbon-Parma as his intermediary, had secretly assured French President Poincaré by a letter dated 24 March 1917 that he would support France's " just demand " for the return of Alsace-Lorraine.

In 1912, the Islington Commission was appointed to propose reforms, but its report could be published only in 1917, by which time its recommendations had become outdated on account of the First World War and Edwin Montagu's August Declaration ( presented to the House of Commons on August 20, 1917 ) that in response to local demand the government wished to extend the representation of the native Indian population in the ICS.

The war greatly expanded the demand for police services and in 1917, the men performed 20, 000 tours of duty exclusively related to the war effort.

This demand was explicitly mentioned in resolutions adopted by the INC between 1917 and 1919.

In 1917, the United States purchased St. John, St. Thomas, and St. Croix from Denmark for US $ 25 million, renaming them the United States Virgin Islands.

Almost immediately after Álvarez's death, four women and seven children ( the last survivors ) were picked up by the US Navy gunship on July 18, 1917.

* 1893 – Grover Cleveland undergoes secret, successful surgery to remove a large, cancerous portion of his jaw ; operation not revealed to US public until 1917, nine years after the president's death.

Like their US counterparts, motels were initially constructed in Canada alongside the growth of the original two-lane provincial highways, of which the first to be paved was the concrete Toronto-Hamilton Highway in 1917.

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.

For example, during the Aceh War the Acehnese Klewangs, a sword similar to the machete, proved very effective in close quarters combat with Dutch troops, leading the Royal Netherlands East Indies Army to adopt a heavy cutlass, also called klewang ( very similar in appearance to the US Navy Model 1917 Cutlass ) to counter it.

The Thompson submachine guns had been in development at approximately the same time as the Bergman and Beretta, but development was put on hold in 1917, when the US and the weapon's designer ( Thompson ) entered the war.

A report of the 1917 decision of the US District Court for Rhode Island, fining Clark Stanley $ 20 for " misbranding " its " Clark Stanley Snake Oil Liniment ".

On June 1, 1917, the council convened a meeting of scientific representatives of the UK and France with interested parties from the US on the subject of submarine detection.

Thereafter, they would remain under Danish control until 1917 when they were sold to the U. S. A. for US $ 25 million, and were later renamed the " U. S. Virgin Islands ".

Emil Nolde's work has become the focus of renewed attention after a painting entitled Blumengarten ( Utenwarf ) from 1917, which now hangs in the art museum Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden and has been valued at US $ 4, 000, 000, was discovered to have been looted from Otto Nathan Deutsch, a German-Jewish refugee whose heirs, including a Holocaust survivor, are asking for its return.

* 1917: The Bureau of Construction & Repair introduces the MK V helmet and dress, which then becomes the standard for US Navy diving until the introduction of the MK 12 in the late seventies

* William Scranton ( born 1917 ), former Pennsylvania Governor and 1964 US Presidential candidate

The US Navy Radio Service radio station in New Brunswick, Canada, transmitted the Fourteen Points by wireless to Nauen in 1917.

* Finly H. Gray was a US Congressman elected to represent Indiana's 6th and 10th Districts in the United States House of Representatives, serving from 1911 to 1917 and 1933 to 1939.

It was plotted in 1917 by the US Coal and Coke Company ( a subsidiary of U. S. Steel ) as a company town to house workers at the company's nearby coal mines.

Fort Dix, established in 1917, was consolidated with two adjoining US Air Force and Navy facilities to became part of Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst ( JB MDL ) on 1 October 2009.

* George Ross Smith ( 1864 – 1952 ), Republican US representative from Minnesota, 1913 – 1917

When the US joined the war, in 1917, Addams started to be strongly criticized.

An even earlier patent for a magnetic mixer is US 1, 242, 493, issued 9 October 1917 to Richard H. Stringham of Bountiful, Utah, U. S. A. Mr. Stringman's mixer used stationary electromagnets in the base, rather than a rotating permanent magnet, to rotate the stirrer.

In 1917, a US court ruled that Webster's entered the public domain in 1834 when Noah Webster's 1806 dictionary's copyright lapsed.

Roy served in the US Navy from 1917 – 19 ; a year later his brother Walt tried joining the US Army, only being refused due to being under age.