In his 1917 draft registration, Jefferson gave his birth date as October 26, 1894, further stating that he then lived in Dallas, Texas, and that he had been blind from birth.

From 1907 on, English language articles sometimes used the term " Maximalist " for " Bolshevik " and " Minimalist " for " Menshevik ", which proved confusing since there was also a " Maximalist " faction within the Russian Socialist-Revolutionary Party in 1904 – 1906 ( which after 1906 formed a separate Union of Socialists-Revolutionaries Maximalists ) and then again after 1917.

No official celebrations were therefore held until 1917 — the golden anniversary of Confederation — and then none again for a further decade.

Before Hawks was called for active duty, he took the opportunity to go back to Hollywood and by the end of April 1917 was working on Cecil B. DeMille's The Little American, where he met and befriended the then eighteen-year-old slate boy James Wong Howe.

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.

Indira Nehru was born on 19 November 1917 at the Anand Bhavan in the historically important town of Allahabad, in what was then the United Provinces of Agra and Oudh, into the politically influential Nehru family.

This state lasted just over two years ( 13 December 1917 to 26 August 1920 ) before surrendering to the Bolshevik authorities, who then sought to preserve Russian control under a new political system.

From then until 1917 he described himself as a " non-factional social democrat ".

After the October Revolution of 1917, Leninism was the dominant version of Marxism in Russia, and then the official state ideology of Soviet democracy ( by workers ’ council ) in the Russian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic ( RSFSR ), before its unitary amalgamation into the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics ( USSR ), in 1922.

A more stable isotope (< sup > 231 </ sup > Pa ) of protactinium was discovered in 1917 / 18 by Otto Hahn and Lise Meitner, and they choose the name proto-actinium, but then the IUPAC named it finally protactinium in 1949 and confirmed Hahn and Meitner as discoverers.

Lenin, however, then executed the protests of Petrograd which set off the 1917 Russian Revolution.

After the successful Russian Revolution ( 1917 ), the quality of spy fiction declined, because the Bolshevik enemy had won the Russian Civil War ( 1917 – 23 ); thus, the inter-war spy story usually concerns combating the Red Menace, which was then perceived as another " clash of civilizations ".

But it was mostly his international critical renown which enabled Eisenstein to direct October ( aka Ten Days That Shook The World ) as part of a grand tenth anniversary celebration of the October Revolution of 1917, and then The General Line ( aka Old and New ).

After losing the 1917 Series to the Chicago White Sox ( the White Sox's last World Series win until 2005 ), the Giants played in four straight World Series in the early 1920s, winning the first two over their tenants, the Yankees, then losing to the Yankees in 1923 when Yankee Stadium opened.

In 1917, the Chinese Acting President Feng Kuo-Chang declared war on Germany in the hope of recovering its lost province Shandong, then under Japanese control.

Yahya Khan was born in 1917 in Chakwal, British Punjab, then part of the British Indian Empire, into a family descended from the elite soldier class of Nāder Shah, the Persian ruler who conquered, pillaged and looted Delhi ( took all the Mughal regalia to Tehran ) in the 18th century.

** WWI: Action of 17 November 1917: United States Navy destroyers USS Fanning and USS Nicholson capture Imperial German Navy U-boat SM U-58 off the south-west coast of Ireland, the first combat action in which U. S. ships take a submarine ( which is then scuttled ).

A narrow majority of Australians voted against conscription in a very bitter hard-fought referendum in October 1916, and then again in December 1917, Australia being the only belligerent in World War One without conscription.

It was then at the Manhattan Opera House in 1909 with Luisa Tetrazzini, John McCormack, and Charles Gilibert, and again with Frieda Hempel and Antonio Scotti in the same roles at the Met on December 17, 1917.

As naturalization laws were created to deal with the rare case of people separated from their nation state because they lived abroad ( expatriates ), western democracies were not ready to naturalize the massive influx of stateless people which followed massive denationalizations and the expulsion of ethnic minorities from newly created nation states in the first part of the 20th century, but they also counted the ( mostly aristocratic ) Russians who had escaped the 1917 October Revolution and the war communism period, and then the Spanish refugees.

After the brief success of the Kerensky Offensive 1 – 19 July and its disastrous sequel, when Ludendorff's general reserve of six divisions captured Riga, 1 – 5 September 1917 and then in Operation Albion September – October 1917 took the islands at the mouth of the Gulf of Riga, British and French commanders on the Western Front had to reckon on the German western army being strengthened by reinforcements from the Eastern Front in late 1917.

In calling the 1917 – 18 Irish Convention he attempted to settle the outstanding Home Rule for Ireland issue, but then his attempt to extend conscription to Ireland in April 1918 was disastrous, leading to the wipeout of the old Irish Home Rule Party at the December 1918 election.

This led to the establishment of industries such as the Mysore Sandalwood Oil Factory in 1917 and the Sri Krishnarajendra Mills in 1920.

UVCE was established in the year 1917, under the name, Government Engineering college by BharatRatna Sir M. Visvesvaraya, and was affiliated to University of Mysore. It is the 5th Engineering College to be established in the country.

After the Madras Presidency expressed its inability to admit Mysore State students, the Government of Mysore sanctioned another scheme in April 1917 as a part of which a " Mysore Medical School " was started at Bangalore to train the then called " Sub Assistant Surgeons ".

# Maharani College Mysore, established in 1917

He became a general staff officer with IX Corps, part of General Sir Herbert Plumer's Second Army, in July 1917.

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.

* 1917 – Sir Arthur C. Clarke, English writer ( d. 2008 )

* 1823 – Sir Mackenzie Bowell, fifth Prime Minister of Canada ( d. 1917 )

* 1917 – Sir Mackenzie Bowell, Canadian politician ( b. 1823 )

* 1917 – Sir Robert Borden introduces the first income tax in Canada as a " temporary " measure ( lowest bracket is 4 % and highest is 25 %).

On Christmas Eve 1917, Admiral Jellicoe was rather abruptly dismissed as First Sea Lord by the new First Lord of the Admiralty, Sir Eric Campbell Geddes, and was succeeded by Admiral Rosslyn Wemyss.

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In 1917 Canada was in crisis ; King supported Liberal leader Sir Wilfrid Laurier in his opposition to conscription, which was violently opposed in the province of Quebec.

The photograph shows him before the procedure ( left ) and after ( right ) receiving a skin flap ( surgery ) | flap performed by Sir Harold Gillies in 1917.

Gough planned an offensive based on the GHQ 1917 plan and the instructions he had received from Sir Douglas Haig.

* July 1917 – Sir Edward Carson enters the War Cabinet as a Minister without Portfolio

* Sir Edward Carson, and then ( from 1917 ) Sir Eric Geddes – First Lord of the Admiralty

* Neville Chamberlain, and then ( from 1917 ) Sir Auckland Geddes – Director of National Service

David's mother Henrietta then married Sir Thomas Comyn-Platt in London in 1917.

Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree ( 17 December 1852 – 2 July 1917 ) was an English actor and theatre manager.

* Sir Joseph Wesley Flavelle, 1st Baronet, of Toronto, in the Dominion of Canada ( 1917 ), extinct 1985

* Sir Leander Starr Jameson, 1st Baronet, of Down Street, in London ( 1911 ), extinct 1917

* Sir Sothern Holland, 1st Baronet, of Westwell Manor, in the County of Oxford ( 1917 ), extinct 1997

In 1917, in the Dictionary of National Biography, Sir Sidney Lee wrote that Marlowe was killed in a drunken fight.

Eventually, Sir Wilfrid Laurier was able to lead the Liberals back to a competitive position in English Canada, but by the time of the First World War, and the Conscription Crisis of 1917, Laurier again found himself in charge of a Liberal Party limited to Quebec and a few other pockets.

* Michael Redgrave as Sir Henry Wilson ( incorrectly shown as a full General, a rank he did not achieve until late 1917 )

On 27 February 1917 Sir Alfred Mond, an MP and First Commissioner of Works, wrote to the Prime Minister David Lloyd George to propose the establishment of a National War Museum.

** 1 July 1920 – 1925 Sir Herbert Louis Samuel ( 1879 – 1963 ), until the 1922 establishment of the mandate actually the first civilian who took over, already as High Commissioner, from the three consecutive military administrators since the 1917 conquest by British forces