* 1986 – Desi Arnaz, Cuban-born actor and band leader ( b. 1917 )

It has also been adapted to films, The Sacrifice ( 1909 ), Love's Surprises Are Futile ( 1916 ), The Gift of the Magi ( 1917 ), Dary magów ( Poland, 1972 ), part of O. Henry's Full House ( 1952 ), The Gift of Love ( 1978 ), The Gift of the Magi ( 1958 ), Christmas Eve on Sesame Street ( 1978 ), Mickey's Once Upon A Christmas gift ( 1999 ), The Gift of the Magi ( 2004 ) and the short film for the Irish band The Script in 2010 called For the First Time.

* Ahchuchhwahauhhatohapit ( Ahchacoosacootacoopits-‘ Starblanket ’, Chief of a band of Calling River Cree ( Kātēpwēwi-sīpīwiyiniwak ), born about 1845 in the lower Qu ’ Appelle Valley, son of Wāpiy-mōsētōsis (" White Calf "), his tribal group was closely associated with the Ka Kichi Wi Winiwak under the leadership of chief Kakeesheway (‘ Loud Voice ’), and a close ally of Payipwāt (" Piapot "), the chief of the Cree-Assiniboine or " Young Dogs ", 1879 after the disappearance of the bison Ahchuchhwahauhhatohapit settled on a reserve in the File Hills of the lower Qu ' Appelle Valley, died 1917 in the Star Blanket reserve, Saskatchewan )

The Original Dixieland Jass Band ( ODJB ) were a New Orleans, Dixieland jazz band that made the first jazz recordings in early 1917.

At the start of 1917 the band began an engagement playing for dancing at Reisenweber's Cafe in Manhattan.

Shortly after arriving in New York, a letter dated January 29, 1917, offered the band an audition for the Columbia Graphophone Company.

The band then recorded two sides for the Victor Talking Machine Company, " Livery Stable Blues " and " Dixie Jass Band One Step ", on February 26, 1917, for the Victor label.

Geoff Love ( 1917 – 1991 ), the big band leader, was born in Todmorden.

He was part of what is generally regarded as the first recorded jazz band, a band which recorded and released the first jazz recording, " Livery Stable Blues " in 1917.

This band became the famous Original Dixieland Jass Band, making the first commercially issued jazz recordings in New York City in 1917.

A balanced assessment would have to acknowledge that Nick LaRocca was an important figure in taking jazz from a regional style to international popularity, the leader of the most influential jazz band of the period from 1917 to 1921, and a good player in a very early jazz style on records such as " Clarinet Marmalade ".

In 1917 the Dixieland Jass band achieved great success with their recording of the instrumental " Livery Stable Blues " under the direction of Nick LaRocca.

About 1917 Keppard settled in Chicago, which would remain his home ( except for briefly going to the East Coast to work with Tim Brymn's band about 1920 ).

With a few changes of personnel this band became the famous Original Dixieland Jazz Band which made the first records of jazz music in 1917.

Vincent Lopez was born of Portuguese immigrant parents in Brooklyn, New York and was leading his own dance band in New York City by 1917.

In 1917, Columbia made a recording of a dixieland band, the Original Dixieland Jass Band in this studio.

He worked with brass bands including the Tuxedo and the Onward, with Papa Celestin, and with Richard M. Jones band in Storyville and other local groups before moving to Chicago, Illinois in 1917.

The Native Brass Band, reportedly the first official band of local musicians, was formed under the direction of Lionel Roberts in 1907, while the Adams Juvenile Band appeared in 1910 and would be inducted into the U. S. Navy when the service took over the administration of the islands from Denmark in 1917.

* Billie Rogers ( born 1917 ), big band jazz trumpeter

Murry Gage Wilson ( July 2, 1917 – June 4, 1973 ) was an American musician and record producer, best remembered as the father of The Beach Boys members Brian Wilson, Dennis Wilson, and Carl Wilson, uncle of bandmate Mike Love and as a manager and music publisher for their band.

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.

He made only four more films for Mutual over the next ten months of 1917 — Easy Street, The Cure, The Immigrant and The Adventurer.

* From 1917 to 1918, silent film actor Billy West made more than 20 films as a comedian precisely imitating Chaplin's tramp character, makeup and costume.

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.

Definitions of the niche date back to 1917, but G. Evelyn Hutchinson made conceptual advances in 1957 by introducing a widely adopted definition: " the set of biotic and abiotic conditions in which a species is able to persist and maintain stable population sizes.

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.

Between 1917 and 1918, they made contracts with Mary Pickford and Charlie Chaplin, the first million-dollar deals in the history of film.

In hindsight the events of 1917, starting with the February Revolution, have often been seen simply as precursors of inevitable civil war, but in fact the opposing political factions had made many attempts of their own to create a new order and prevent disintegration among the Finns.

In 1914 – 1917 many Methodist ministers made strong pleas for world peace.

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 indirect reason was that the government, in order to finance the war, had been printing off millions of rouble notes, and by 1917 inflation had made prices increase up to four times what they had been in 1914.

In September 1917, U. S. Department of Justice agents made simultaneous raids on forty-eight IWW meeting halls across the country.

His first abstract works were made in 1917.

The Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia continued missionary work outside Russia after the 1917 Russian Revolution, resulting in the establishment of many new dioceses in the diaspora, from which numerous converts have been made in Eastern Europe, North America and Oceania.

A Neo-Babylonian royal inscription of Nebuchadnezzar II on a stele from Babylon, claimed to have been found in the 1917 excavation by Robert Koldewey, and of uncertain authenticity, reads: " Etemenanki Zikkurat Babibli of Babylon I made it, the wonder of the people of the world, I raised its top to heaven, made doors for the gates, and I covered it with bitumen and bricks.

A young German Sommekämpfer in 1916On 24 February 1917, the German army made the strategic scorched earth withdrawal ( Operation Alberich ) from the Somme battlefield to the Siegfriedstellung ( Hindenburg Line ), thereby shortening the front line they had to occupy.

The 1917 Code of Canon Law, which abolished all ecclesiastical penalties not mentioned in the Code itself ( canon 6 ), made " anathema " synonymous with " excommunication " ( canon 2257 ).

In the year 1914 there were only 2 trucks made, type T 14 / 40 HP, however by the 1915 end the production jumped to the total of 105 TL-2 units and the following year 1916 the numbers rose to total of 196 TL-2 and 30 TL-4 truthe time peaked in 1917 with 19 TL-2 and 303 TL-4 models, after that production declined and the similar amount of vehicles of one type manufactured in a year was not achieved or surpassed until 1936 with the T 27 model.

Coupled with the observations and suggestions made by Currie in the report he submitted in January 1917 following the Verdun lectures, the Canadian Corps instilled the tactical change with vigour.

The reference to drugs seen in the prison sequence is somewhat daring for the time ( since the production code, established in 1930, forbade the depiction of illegal drug use in films ); Chaplin had made drug references before in one of his most famous short films, Easy Street, released in 1917.