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In 1917, during an incident known as the Tulsa Outrage, a group of black-robed Knights of Liberty, a short-lived faction of the Ku Klux Klan, tarred and feathered seventeen members of the IWW in Oklahoma.
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From 1915 to 1918, Berg served in the Austro-Hungarian Army and during a period of leave in 1917 he accelerated work on his first opera, Wozzeck.
Alexander Fyodorovich Kerensky (, ; – 11 June 1970 ) was a major political leader before and during the Russian Revolutions of 1917.
* Brazil during World War I: Brazil entered into World War I in 1917 alongside the Triple Entente.
This was followed by a second series, Blackadder II ( 1986 ) set during the reign of Elizabeth I, a third series Blackadder the Third ( 1987 ) set during the late 18th and early 19th centuries in the reign of George III, and finally Blackadder Goes Forth ( 1989 ) in 1917, set in the trenches of the Great War.
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.
The White Sox were a strong team during their first two decades, winning the 1906 World Series with a defense-oriented team dubbed " the Hitless Wonders ", and the 1917 World Series led by Eddie Cicotte, Eddie Collins, and Shoeless Joe Jackson.
For example, the Central Committee voted for or against signing a peace treaty with the Germans between 1917 and 1918 during World War I ; the majority voted in favour of peace when Trotsky backed down in 1918.
Andropov's health declined rapidly during the tense summer and fall of 1983, and he became the first Soviet leader to miss the anniversary celebrations of the 1917 revolution that November.
* 1917: Zamenhof dies during World War I.
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.
In World War I, the Foreign Legion fought in many critical battles on the Western Front, including Artois, Champagne, Somme, Aisne, and Verdun ( in 1917 ), and also suffered heavy casualties during 1918.
The fate of the Finns during 1917 – 1918 was much like that of the peoples of minor nations separating from ( disintegrating ) large ones.
The Tsar regained his authority after the crisis of 1905, reclaimed his role as the Grand Duke of Finland and, during the second period of Russification between 1908 and 1917, neutralized the functions and powers of the new parliament.
The Finns faced a detrimental interaction of power struggle and breakdown of society during 1917.
Revolutionary Russian servicemen of various political groups added to the feeling of the instability during 1917.
The passing of the Tokoi Senate bill, called the " Power Act ," in July 1917 became the first one of the three culminations of the power struggle between the Social Democrats and the conservatives during the political crisis from March 1917 to the end of January 1918.
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.
The shooting of an agricultural worker during a local strike on 9 August at Ypäjä created widespread anger ; November 1917 seemed to offer momentum for a revolt.
He lost his faith in them finally in December 1917, during the process of independence of the Finns, and shifted his energies toward encouraging the Finnish Bolsheviks in Petrograd.
The economic collapse of Russia and the political power struggle of the Finnish state during 1917 were among the key factors that brought sovereignty to the fore in Finland.
They sent two delegations during December 1917 to Petrograd to ask Lenin to approve Finnish independence.
The first victim of non-war violence between the Finns, an agricultural worker, died at the beginning of August 1917 at Ypäjä, during a local strike.
Venizelos reviews a section of the Greek army on the Macedonian front ( World War I ) | Macedonian front during the First World War, 1917.
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The last Russian Emperor, Nicholas II ( 1894 – 1917 ), was unable to prevent the events of the Russian Revolution of 1905, triggered by the unsuccessful Russo-Japanese War and the demonstration incident known as Bloody Sunday.
The German Communist newspaper Rote Fahne had published an article about the Emden incident and at the same time praised the High Seas mutinies of 1917 and 1918, and stated that it would be wonderful if something along those lines happened again.
In 1917, during an incident known as the Tulsa Outrage, a group of black-robed Knights of Liberty tarred and feathered seventeen members of the IWW in Oklahoma.
Harvey was awarded the Victoria Cross following an incident on March 27, 1917 at the village of Guyencourt.
They were permitted to board a train without incident in the first week of June 1917.
He traced the earliest manifestation of these antisemitic tendencies to an incident in 1917 in which Pacelli refused to help facilitate the exportation of palm fronds from Italy to be used by German Jews in Munich to celebrate the festival of Tabernacles.
One memorable incident occurred in September 1917 when Count Felix von Luckner arrived at Wakaya Island, off the eastern coast of Viti Levu, after his raider, the Seeadler, had run aground in the Cook Islands following the shelling of Papeete in the French territory of Tahiti.
His colourful reports of the incident greatly promoted widespread knowledge of the event, and also advanced his career from a backbencher to a popular leader of the Duma, as well as head of the Provisional Government of 1917.
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Atle Selberg ( 14 June 1917 – 6 August 2007 ) was a Norwegian mathematician known for his work in analytic number theory, and in the theory of automorphic forms, in particular bringing them into relation with spectral theory.
François-Auguste-René Rodin ( 12 November 1840 – 17 November 1917 ), known as Auguste Rodin ( ; ), was a French sculptor.
Jefferson likely moved to Deep Ellum in a more permanent fashion by 1917, where he met Aaron Thibeaux Walker, also known as T-Bone Walker.
In 1917, a Committee on Statistics from what is now known as the American Psychiatric Association ( APA ), together with the National Commission on Mental Hygiene, developed a new guide for mental hospitals called the " Statistical Manual for the Use of Institutions for the Insane ", which included 22 diagnoses.
Kodak released Cine Negative Film Type E in 1916 and Type F ( later known as Negative Film Par Speed Type 1201 ) in 1917.
From 1917 to the 1930s, she performed most frequently as a victim and was known as " the most assassinated woman in the world ".
In 1917, Heber Curtis had observed a nova S Andromedae within the " Great Andromeda Nebula " ( as the Andromeda Galaxy, Messier object M31, was known ).
The winter of 1916 – 1917 was known as the " turnip winter ," because that vegetable, usually fed to livestock, was used by people as a substitute for potatoes and meat, which were increasingly scarce.
The letter subsequently became known as the Balfour Declaration of 1917.
Ieoh Ming Pei ( born April 26, 1917 ), commonly known as I. M. Pei, is a Chinese American architect, often called a master of modern architecture.
Beria was educated at a technical school in Sukhumi and joined the Bolsheviks in March 1917 while a student in the Baku Polytechnicum ( now known as the Azerbaijan State Oil Academy ).
The October Revolution (), also known as the Great October Socialist Revolution (), Red October, the October Uprising or the Bolshevik Revolution, was a seizure of state power leading to a political revolution, It was a part of the Russian Revolution of 1917.
Two other hotels which shared the same architect, in this case Ludwig Heim ( 1844 – 1917 ), were the 68-room Hotel Bellevue ( sometimes known as the " Grand Hotel Bellevue "), built 1887-8, and the 110-room Palast Hotel, built 1892-3 on the site of an earlier hotel.
These shoes, first sold in 1917, are double-layer canvas shoes with rubber soles and toe caps, and a high heel ( known as a " high top ") for added support.
The city was known as Reval from the 13th century until 1917.
In Russian, the city has been known as Юрьев ( Yuryev ) after Yaroslav I the Wise and Дерпт ( Derpt ), a variant of Dorpat ( however, since 1917 the Estonian name Tartu has been used ).
Like the Mexican Revolution, the Russian Revolution of 1917, known as the October Revolution, immediately turned to Russian Civil War that dragged until approximately late 1920.
In the United States, a similar need for national rules for jumping and other equestrian activities led to the formation of the American Horse Shows Association in 1917, which now is known as the United States Equestrian Federation.
On 20 December 1917, the Council of People's Commissars officially established the All-Russia Extraordinary Commission to Combat Counter-revolution and Sabotage — usually known as the Cheka ( based on the Russian acronym ВЧК ).
Margaretha Geertruida " Margreet " Zelle ( 7 August 1876 – 15 October 1917 ), better known by the stage name Mata Hari, was a Dutch exotic dancer, courtesan, and accused spy who was executed by firing squad in France under charges of espionage for Germany during World War I.
After the United States entered World War I in 1917, Spencer was posted to San Diego as the first commanding officer of a training base in Coronado, known as Naval Air Station North Island ; they remained there until 1921.
Probably the best known examples of sesquiplanes are the Nieuport single and two-seat military aircraft of World War I, from the Nieuport 10 of 1915 through to the Nieuport 27 of 1917.
The largest unpolished Black Opal in the Smithsonian Institution, known as the " Roebling Opal ," came out of the tunneled portion of the Rainbow Ridge Mine in 1917, and weighs 2, 585 carats.
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