In spite of powerful opposition the Draft Act finally passed Congress on May 17, 1917.

and August 15, November 15, February 17, and May 15, ( Cranston ).

Abby May wrote in her journal on January 17, 1843, " A day of some excitement, as Mr. Alcott refused to pay his town tax ... After waiting some time to be committed jail, he was told it was paid by a friend.

Albert of Prussia (; ) ( 17 May 1490 – 20 March 1568 ) was the 37th and last sovereign Grand Master of the Teutonic Knights and, after converting to Lutheranism, the first duke of the Duchy of Prussia, which was the first state to adopt the Lutheran faith and Protestantism as the official state religion.

* Alfonso XIII ( 17 May 1886 – 28 February 1941 ).

Alfonso XIII ( Alfonso León Fernando María Jaime Isidro Pascual Antonio de Borbón y Austria-Lorena ; 17 May 1886 – 28 February 1941 ) was King of Spain from 1886 until 1931.

Anne Brontë (; 17 January 1820 – 28 May 1849 ) was a British novelist and poet, the youngest member of the Brontë literary family.

* AIX 4. 2, May 17, 1996

On May 8, after going 12 – 17 in 29 games, the Diamondbacks released manager Bob Melvin and hired A. J. Hinch.

Koeman became the manager for AZ on 17 May 2009.

His episcopate lasted 45 years ( c. 8 June 328 – 2 May 373 ), of which over 17 were spent in five exiles ordered by four different Roman emperors.

St Athanasius ' long episcopate lasted 45 years ( c. 8 June 328 – 2 May 373 ) of which over 17 years were spent in five exiles ordered by four different Roman Emperors, not counting approximately six more incidents in which he had to flee Alexandria for his own safety to escape people seeking to take his life.

On 17 / 30 May a peace treaty was signed between Turkey and the Balkan Alliance.

* Jeffreys, Elizabeth and Michael, and Moffatt, Ann, Byzantine Papers: Proceedings of the First Australian Byzantine Studies Conference, Canberra, 17 – 19 May 1978 ( Australian National University, Canberra, 1979 ).

On 17 May the Duke concentrated his Dutch and English troops at Tongeren, near Maastricht.

The Ottomans were superior in number, but on October 10, 1394 ( or 17 May 1395 ), in the Battle of Rovine, on forested and swampy terrain, the Wallachians won the fierce battle and prevented Bayezid from conquering the country.

The poor British performance in the early months of the war forced Asquith to invite the Conservatives into a coalition ( on 17 May 1915 ).

The war ended with the Treaty of London on 30 ( 17 ) May 1913.

#** Prince Louis Napoléon Murat ( Paris, December 22, 1851-Paris, September 22, 1912 ), married in Odessa, 23 November, 1873 Eudoxia Mikhailovna Somova ( Kharkov, February 17, 1850-Nice, May 6, 1924 ), related to Orest Somov, and had issue now extinct in male line ( great-grandfather of actor René Auberjonois )

The following is the show routine used on 17 May 2008:

A letter from Queen Elizabeth ( later the Queen Mother ), dated 17 May 1947, showed " her decided lack of enthusiasm for the socialist government " and describes the British electorate as " poor people, so many half-educated and bemused " for electing Attlee over Winston Churchill, whom she saw as a war hero.

During one stretch in May, the team went 2 – 17.

Clarence Brown ( May 10, 1890 – August 17, 1987 ) was an American film director.

Hall died in a shootout ( May 17, 1974 ) with police in which five other SLA members were killed.

Metropolis, May 17, 2006.

* Antonio Bacci ( 18 May 1970 – 20 January 1971 )

Suggested starting points for the Bronze Age of comics include Roy Thomas and Barry Windsor-Smith's Conan No. 1 ( October 1970 ), Denny O ' Neil and Neal Adams ' Green Lantern / Green Arrow No. 76 ( April 1970 ), or Stan Lee and Gil Kane's The Amazing Spider-Man No. 96 ( May 1971 ; the non-Comics Code issue ).

In May 1971, Hall moved into an apartment complex on Channing Way where she met Patricia Soltysik.

The 1974 edition lists Jack Boyle, age 52, of Barrow-in-Furness as having consumed a 3 pint yard of ale in 10. 15 seconds on May 14, 1971.

The song was recorded on 26 May 1971 and a month later received its first radio airplay on New York ’ s WNEW-FM and WPLJ-FM to mark the closing of The Fillmore East, a famous New York concert hall.

In July 1970, Macias created a single-party state and by May 1971, key portions of the constitution were abrogated.

* May: ( May 1, 1971, Enontekiö, Lapland )

Sometimes a head of state assumes office as a state becomes legal and political reality, before a formal title for the highest office is determined ; thus in the since 1 January 1960 independent republic Cameroon ( Cameroun, a former French colony ), the first President, Ahmadou Babatoura Ahidjo, was at first not styled président but ' merely ' known as Chef d ' état ( literal French for ' Head of State ') until 5 May 1960 ; in Uganda, military coup leader since 25 January 1971 Idi Amin was formally styled military head of State till 21 February 1971, only from then on regular ( but unconstitutional, not elected ) President.

He lost his seat in May 1971.

Until May 23, 1971, Labour Day was primarily a trade unions celebration with public rallies and marches.

On May 1, 2004, Malta became a full member of the European Union, with which it had an associationship agreement since 1971.

Maximilian Raoul " Max " Steiner ( May 10, 1888 – December 28, 1971 ) was an Austrian composer of music for theatre productions and films.

Its identical sister craft, Mariner 9, was launched in May 1971 and became the first artificial satellite of Mars.

Frederic Ogden Nash ( August 19, 1902 – May 19, 1971 ) was an American poet well known for his light verse.

Nash died at Baltimore's Johns Hopkins Hospital on May 19, 1971, from Crohn's disease aggravated by a lactobacillus infection transmitted by improperly prepared cole slaw.

Dave Marsh was the first music critic to employ the term punk rock: In the May 1971 issue of Creem, he described?

After several line-up reformations, Rush's official incarnation was formed in May 1971 consisting of Lee, Lifeson, and Rutsey.

The 20th century saw a gradual movement to fiat currency, with most of the world monetary system losing its link to precious metals after Richard Nixon took the United States dollar off the gold standard in 1971 ; the last currency backed by gold was the Swiss franc, which became a pure fiat currency on 1 May 2000.

In May 1971, weeks after completing Straw Dogs, he returned to the United States to begin work on Junior Bonner.

*" Time-Sharing Supervisor Programs " by Michael T. Alexander in Advanced Topics in Systems Programming, University of Michigan Engineering Summer Conference 1970 ( revised May 1971 ), compares the scheduling and resource allocation approaches, including virtual memory and paging, used in four mainframe operating systems: CP-67, TSS / 360, MTS, and Multics.

Virginia died on May 13, 1971, in a nursing home in Valatie, New York.

* May 8 – Fernandel, French actor ( d. 1971 )

* May 12 – Helene Weigel, Austrian actress ( d. 1971 )