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.

* 1917 – Cheka, the first Soviet secret police, is founded.

Following a large donation from the Jewish German American banker James Loeb who had at one time been a patient, and promises of support from ' patrons of science ', the German Institute for Psychiatric Research was founded in 1917 in Munich.

The First National Exhibitors ' Circuit was founded in 1917 by the merger of 26 of the biggest first run cinema chains in the United States of America, eventually controlling over 600 cinemas, more than 200 of them so-called " first run " houses ( as opposed to the " second run " neighborhood theaters to which films moved when their first run boxoffice receipts dwindled ).

In 1917 Theophilus A. Marryshow founded the Representative Government Association ( RGA ) to agitate for a new and participative constitutional dispensation for the Grenadian people.

The Royal Geographical Society was founded in England in 1830, although the United Kingdom did not get its first full Chair of geography until 1917.

* 1917 – Carl Karcher, founded the Carl's Jr. hamburger chain ( d. 2008 )

* Lincoln ( automobile ), a company founded in 1917 to build aero engines and now a luxury car brand of Ford Motor Company

Lions Clubs International ( LCI ) is a secular service organization with over 45, 500 clubs and more than 1, 368, 683 members in 205 countries around the world founded by Melvin Jones in 1917.

* 1917 – Batangas with the other provinces in the Philippines is formally founded as the Philippines's early encomiendas.

* Russian Musical Society, an organisation founded in 1859 and disbanded in 1917.

* Netherlands-The Studievereniging voor Psychical Research ( Dutch for Society for Psychical Research ) was founded in 1917.

* The first African American owned studio, the Lincoln Motion Picture Company, was founded in 1917.

From 1917 to his death in 1926, Dzerzhinsky was first and foremost a Russian Communist, and Dzerzhinsky's involvement in the affairs of the Polish Communist Party ( which was founded in 1918 ) was minimal.

* Grey EMEA, an advertising agency founded in 1917

And in 1917 the Woolfs founded their Hogarth Press, which would publish T. S. Eliot, Katherine Mansfield, and many others including Virginia herself along with the standard English translations of Freud.

Nunn founded Deep Springs College in 1917.

In the Southeastern part of the United States, Mrs. Eugenia Duke of Greenville, South Carolina, founded the Duke Sandwich Company in 1917 to sell sandwiches to soldiers training at nearby Fort Sevier.

The original Boys Town was founded as a boys ' orphanage in December 1917 by Edward J. Flanagan, a Roman Catholic priest working in Omaha.

* Prince Stanisław Albrecht Radziwiłł ( 1917 – 1976 ) is buried at St Anne's church, Fawley Court just outside Henley, where he founded the Divine Mercy College.

After the 1917 Russian Revolution, Gimbutas ' parents had founded the first Lithuanian hospital in the capital.

In December 1917, the Cheka was founded as the Bolshevik's first internal security force following the failed assassination attempt on Lenin's life.

The club was founded as Odd in 1917, but were not allowed to play amateur league matches until 1928, when they took the present name.

On 19 May 1917, twelve young men from Rosenborg in Trondheim founded Sportsklubben Odd.

It was founded in 1917, after the merger of two local football clubs.

Bjerknes returned to Norway in where in 1917, his father founded the Geophysical Institute, University of Bergen in Bergen.

Smolny Institute | Smolny, the seat of the Soviet government, 1917

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.

Frances Gardiner Davenport, Carnegie Institute of Washington, 1917.

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In 1917, Elias acquired shares in the O-Zell jelly factory in Chicago and moved his family back to the city, where in the fall Disney began his freshman year at McKinley High School and took night courses at the Chicago Art Institute.

Similarly, in 1917, the Diccionari Ortogràfic de l ' Institut was published ; it soon became a dictionary of spelling norms irredeemably tied to the reputation of former Institute Director Pompeu Fabra.

His works won recognition and numerous awards from such institutions as the following: the Paris Salon, the Art Institute of Chicago, the National Academy of Design ( Altman prize, 1916 ); and the Salmagundi Club ( Isidor prize, 1917 ).

The Institute published the Normes ortogràfiques in 1913, the Diccionari ortogràfic in 1917, and its official Gramàtica catalana in 1918.

The name was changed to the American Institute of Accountants in 1917 and remained so until 1957, when it changed to its current name of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants.

Working in association with his partners, first Henry Dangler who died in 1917, and then Robert Work, Adler wasn't registered as an architect in Illinois until 1929, which was after he had already been elected to the American Institute of Architects.

The Gregorian University is one of three member institutes that make up the Gregorian Consortium, the other two institutions being the Pontifical Biblical Institute ( founded 1909 ) and the Pontifical Oriental Institute, which was founded in 1917.

According to Xiang Lanxin, politics professor at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, the Chinese politburo system is itself inherited from the Bolsheviks in 1917 under Vladimir Lenin when he established it to command and control the October Revolution.

The Stout Institute ( now the University of Wisconsin-Stout ) joined in 1914, followed by Eau Claire State Normal School ( now the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire ) in 1917.

He went to St Petersburg where he worked as a lecturer and then a Professor in the Electrotechnical Institute and the St Petersburg Institute of the Railways ( 1911 – 1917 ).

Bose also recorded his attitude towards patents in his inaugural lecture at the foundation of the Bose Institute on 30 November 1917.

The Institute ’ s board of directors included Heinrich Konen and Walther Nernst around 1930, Albert Einstein ( 1917 – 1933 ), Ludwig Prandtl, and Max Planck, as well as representatives from Siemens AG, Krupp, and Zeiss.

In 1917 he took over the Faculty of Physical Chemistry at Munich University, and in 1932 became the Head of the Institute of Physical Chemistry established by the Rockefeller Foundation.

The Dick Institute was used as an Auxiliary Hospital in 1917 during World War One.

The first Women's Rural Institute started in Scotland on 26 June 1917, and Madge Watt travelled up from London to speak to a meeting at Longniddry.

Kennelly received awards from many nations, including the IEE Institution Premium ( 1887 ), the Edward Longstreth Medal ( 1917 ) and the Howard N. Potts Medal ( 1918 ) of the Franklin Institute, the Cross of a Chevalier of the Légion d ' honneur of France and the AIEE Edison Medal ( 1933 ), now IEEE Edison Medal, " For meritorious achievements in electrical science, electrical engineering and the electrical arts as exemplified by his contributions to the theory of electrical transmission and to the development of international electrical standards.

Walter began training as a machinist in 1917 in Hamburg and in 1921 commenced studies in mechanical engineering at the Hamburg Technical Institute.