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.

Conan Doyle's article in the December 1920 issue of The Strand contained two higher resolution prints of the 1917 photographs, and sold out within days of publication.

It was created on December 20, 1917, after a decree issued by Vladimir Lenin, and was subsequently led by aristocrat-turned-communist Felix Dzerzhinsky.

On December 1, 1917, the All-Russian Central Executive Committee ( VTsIK or TsIK ) reviewed a proposed reorganization of the VRK, and possible replacement of it.

On December 7, 1917, all invited except Zhydelev and Vasilevsky gathered in the Smolny Institute to discuss the competence and structure of the commission to combat counterrevolution and sabotage.

On December 8, 1917, some of the original members of the VCheka were replaced.

** 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

Desi Arnaz ( March 2, 1917 – December 2, 1986 ) was a Cuban-born American musician, actor and television producer.

Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, LSA, MD ( 9 June 1836 – 17 December 1917 ), was an English physician and feminist, the first Englishwoman to qualify as a physician and surgeon in Britain, the co-founder of the first hospital staffed by women, the first dean of a British medical school, the first woman M. D.

The title was briefly revived from 12 December 1915 to 22 March 1916 by President Yuan Shikai and again in early July 1917 when General Zhang Xun attempted to restore last Qing emperor Puyi to the throne.

LaGuardia took office on March 4, 1917 but soon was commissioned in the United States Army Air Service ; he rose to the rank of major in command of a unit of Ca. 44 bombers on the Italian-Austrian front in World War I. LaGuardia resigned his seat in Congress on December 31, 1919.

The German policy was a success ; an armistice between Germany and the Bolsheviks came into force on 6 December and peace negotiations began on 22 December 1917 at Brest-Litovsk.

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.

Svinhufvud's Senate proposed Finland's declaration of independence, which the Parliament adopted on 6 December 1917.

They sent two delegations during December 1917 to Petrograd to ask Lenin to approve Finnish independence.

As a result, Svinhufvud and his senate delegation won Lenin's concession of sovereignty on 31 December 1917.

In these conditions the independence of Finland, gained in December 1917, gave more freedom of action to the competing groups and deepened the power struggle.

The Guards were under the command of Ali Aaltonen, a former officer in the Imperial Russian Army, who had been appointed in December 1917.

His father used his connections with the royal family to get Heinrich accepted as an officer candidate, and he enlisted with the reserve battalion of the 11th Bavarian Regiment in December 1917.

* G. Jean-Aubry, “ Isaac Albéniz 1860 – 1909 ,” The Musical Times, Vol 58 No. 898, Musical Times Publications Ltd., December 1917 pgs 535 – 538.

He was taken a prisoner of war on the Western Front in Flanders in August 1917 and was held at Holzminden prisoner-of-war camp, where he remained until December 1918.

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.

Trotsky led the Soviet delegation during the peace negotiations in Brest-Litovsk from 22 December 1917 to 10 February 1918.

The consequences for the Bolsheviks were worse than what they had feared the previous December.

* December 5 – The British light cruiser HMS Cassandra strikes a mine and sinks in the Gulf of Finland while aiding Estonia against the Bolsheviks, with eleven sailors killed.

In December 1935, the plenum of the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party ( Bolsheviks ) specifically discussed the aspects of developing industry and transport system in light of the Stakhanovite movement.

The Bolsheviks convened a separate congress and declared the first Soviet Republic of Ukraine on 24 December 1917 claiming the Central Rada and its supporters outlaws that need to be eradicated.

It was seized by Bolsheviks in November 1917and by December was renamed as the Central Information Agency of the Soviet Russian Council of People's Commissars '.

And after much discussion throughout the year 1920, a great Socialist conference held at Tours in December voted by a large majority in favour of adhesion to the so-called Third International, the international organization of Socialists which was under the control of the Bolsheviks of Moscow.

The final formation of this new international, then known as the International Workingmen's Association, took place at an illegal conference in Berlin in December 1922, marking an irrevocable break between the international syndicalist movement and the Bolsheviks.

The Bolsheviks convened an All-Ukrainian Congress of Soviets of Workers ', Soldiers ' and Peasants ' Deputies in Kiev, on December 17, 1917, and in Kharkiv on December 25, 1917 ( see Ukraine after the Russian Revolution ).

It saw combat in the Action of Saint-Éloi and throughout the Second Battle of Ypres in 1915, before the division was withdrawn and moved to Salonika in November, where it spent the rest of the war It was sent to Georgia in December 1918 for operations against the Bolsheviks, and returned to Edinburgh in May 1919.

Present in the internationalist faction of the Mensheviks, he joined the Bolsheviks in December 1917 or early 1918, after the October Revolution ( although he was occasionally listed among the Old Bolsheviks ).

She endured much hardship avoiding the Bolsheviks, and was only able to escape to Finland in December 1920.

In December 1919, after Denikin's defeat and as it became clear that the Bolsheviks would overrun the Kuban, some of the pro-Ukrainian groups attempted to restore the Rada and to break away from the Volunteer Army and fight the Bolsheviks in alliance with Ukraine ; however, by early 1920 the Red Army took most of Kuban, and both the Rada and Denikin were evicted.

In August 1918, Gaidar became a member of the Bolsheviks, volunteering for the Red Army in December of that year, still aged only 14.

In December 1918, Sinclair sallied into Estonian and Latvian ports, sending in troops and supplies, and promising to attack the Bolsheviks " as far as my guns can reach ".

After the Bolsheviks ' seizure of power in Petrograd, the " All-Siberian Extraordinary Congress of Delegates from Public Organizations ", was convened in Tomsk on December 7, 1917.

With White Russian general Denikin unwilling to guarantee Polish independence, Polish negotiators initiated another round of negotiations with the Bolsheviks, from October until December 1919 in Moscow and Mikaszewicze ( on Polesie ).

* Saint Alexander of Svir — the incorrupt relics of the saint were removed from the Svir Monastery by the Bolsheviks on December 20, 1918 after several unsuccessful attempts to confiscate them.

He was removed from his position in the Sovnarkom ( Council of People's Commissars ) and demoted from the Politburo after calling for Joseph Stalin's removal as General Secretary of the Communist Party at the Fourteenth Congress of the Bolsheviks in December 1925.