1917 |
| 1917 01 01 |
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3rd Rose Bowl: University of Oregon 14, University of Pennsylvania 0 |
| 1917 01 02 |
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The Royal Bank of Canada takes over Quebec Bank. |
| 1917 01 03 |
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Ratho rail crash |
| 1917 01 06 |
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“Babes in the Wood” Harry Macdonough & Lucy Isabelle Marsh |
| 1917 01 08 |
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Great Expectations (film) starring Jack Pickford |
| 1917 01 09 |
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WAR WORLD WAR I Battle of Rafa: Egypt captures an Ottoman garrison. |
| 1917 01 11 |
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Kingsland Explosion |
| 1917 01 13 |
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“I Ain’t Got Nobody Much” Marion Harris |
| 1917 01 13 |
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“Sometimes You Get a Good One and Sometimes You Don’t” Anna Chandler |
| 1917 01 13 |
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“The Baseball Game” Weber & Fields |
| 1917 01 16 |
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“My Own Iona” Horace Wright |
| 1917 01 16 |
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Danish West Indies sold to the United States. |
| 1917 01 19 |
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Silvertown explosion |
| 1917 01 20 |
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“Someone Else May be There While I’m Gone” Al Jolson |
| 1917 01 20 |
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“Way Down in Iowa, I’m Going to Hide Away” Irving Kaufman |
| 1917 01 22 |
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Easy Street (film) starring Charlie Chaplin, Edna Purviance |
| 1917 01 22 |
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Her Right to Live starring Peggy Hyland |
| 1917 01 22 |
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WAR WORLD WAR I: Wilson calls for "peace without victory". |
| 1917 01 25 |
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WAR WORLD WAR I: SS Laurentic sunk by mines. |
| 1917 01 25 |
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Anti-prostitution drive in San Francisco. |
| 1917 01 26 |
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Hallsands’ sea defences are breached. |
| 1917 01 27 |
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“O’Brien is Tryin’ to Learn to Talk Hawaiian” Horace Wright |
| 1917 01 28 |
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The United States ends its search for Pancho Villa. |
| 1917 01 29 |
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Terje Vigen film directed by Victor Sjöström |
| 1917 01 30 |
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Pershing’s troops withdraw back to U.S. |
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| 1917 02 02 |
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Die Ehe der Luise Rohrbach starring Henny Porten, Emil Jannings |
| 1917 02 03 |
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“Love, Here is My Heart!” John McCormack |
| 1917 02 10 |
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“Paradise Blues” Marion Harris |
| 1917 02 10 |
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“They’re Wearing ’Em Higher in Hawaii” Arthur Collins & Byron Harlan |
| 1917 02 12 |
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The Bad Boy starring Robert Harron, Mildred Harris, Colleen Moore |
| 1917 02 17 |
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“Mammy’s Little Coal Black Rose” The Orpheus Quartet |
| 1917 02 17 |
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“Poor Butterfly” The Victor Military Band |
| 1917 02 24 |
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“It’s a Long, Long Time Since I’ve Been Home” Irving Kaufman |
| 1917 02 24 |
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“My Hawaiian Sunshine” Henry Burr & Albert Campbell |
| 1917 02 26 |
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“Livery Stable Blues” recorded by the Original Dixieland Jass Band. |
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| 1917 03 01 |
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Zimmermann Telegram to the public. |
| 1917 03 03 |
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The Tornado starring John Ford |
| 1917 03 03 |
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“Katinka (Medley)” The Victor Military Band |
| 1917 03 03 |
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“Keep Your Eye on the Girlie You Love” The Peerless Quartet |
| 1917 03 05 |
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The Poor Little Rich Girl starring Mary Pickford |
| 1917 03 07 |
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Mater dolorosa directed by Abel Gance |
| 1917 03 07 |
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WAR RUSSIAN REVOLUTION: February Revolution begins in Russia. |
| 1917 03 10 |
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“Hush-a-Bye Ma Baby (The Missouri Waltz)” Elsie Baker |
| 1917 03 10 |
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“Pack Up Your Troubles in Your Old Kit Bag and Smile, Smile, Smile” The Victor Military Band |
| 1917 03 17 |
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“What Do You Want to Make Those Eyes at Me For?” Ada Jones & Billy Murray |
| 1917 03 17 |
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“Yaddie Kaddie Kiddie Kaddie Koo” Van & Schenck |
| 1917 03 24 |
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“Poor Butterfly” Prince’s Orchestra |
| 1917 03 31 |
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“How’s Every Little Thing in Dixie?” The American Quartet |
| 1917 03 31 |
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“Poor Butterfly” Grace Kerns |
| 1917 03 XX |
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The Son of Tarzan by Edgar Rice Burroughs published in one volume. |
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| 1917 04 01 |
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Scott Joplin dies. |
| 1917 04 02 |
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WAR WORLD WAR I: U.S. President Woodrow Wilson asks the Congress for a declaration of war on Germany. |
| 1917 04 06 |
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WAR WORLD WAR I: The United States declares war on Germany. |
| 1917 04 07 |
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“Pack Up Your Troubles in Your Old Kit Bag and Smile, Smile, Smile” Reinald Werrenrath |
| 1917 04 09 |
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WAR WORLD WAR I: Battle of Vimy Ridge begins. |
| 1917 04 10 |
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Eddystone explosion |
| 1917 04 11 |
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WAR WORLD WAR I: Brazil severs diplomatic relations with Germany. |
| 1917 04 12 |
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WAR WORLD WAR I: Battle of Vimy Ridge ends. |
| 1917 04 12 |
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Autonomous Governorate of Estonia established. |
| 1917 04 14 |
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Valerie Hobson born. |
| 1917 04 14 |
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L. L. Zamenhof dies. |
| 1917 04 14 |
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“Pack Up Your Troubles in Your Old Kit Bag and Smile, Smile, Smile” The Knickerbocker Quartet |
| 1917 04 14 |
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“Pray for Sunshine” Al Jolson |
| 1917 04 15 |
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Hans Conried born. |
| 1917 04 15 |
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Teddy at the Throttle released. |
| 1917 04 16 |
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The Cure released. |
| 1917 04 21 |
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“The Nightingale Song” Lucy Gates |
| 1917 04 21 |
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“Where the Black-Eyed Susans Grow” Henry Burr & Albert Campbell |
| 1917 04 23 |
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The Butcher Boy released. |
| 1917 04 25 |
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Ella Fitzgerald born. |
| 1917 04 28 |
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千秋 実 (Minoru Chiaki) born. |
| 1917 04 28 |
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“Marche Slave, Parts 1 & 2” Prince’s Orchestra |
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| 1917 05 01 |
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Riots break out around Milan, Italy. |
| 1917 05 09 |
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WAR WORLD WAR I: Nivelle Offensive is abandoned. |
| 1917 05 13 |
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Marian apparitions near Fátima, Portugal. |
| 1917 05 14 |
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A Romance of the Redwoods (film) released. |
| 1917 05 15 |
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WAR WORLD WAR I: Philippe Pétain becomes Commander-in-Chief of the French Army. |
| 1917 05 18 |
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WAR WORLD WAR I: Selective Service Act passes the United States Congress. |
| 1917 05 19 |
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One Law for Both (film) released. |
| 1917 05 20 |
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Souls Triumphant (film) released. |
| 1917 05 21 |
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A Reckless Romeo (film) released. |
| 1917 05 21 |
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Great Atlanta fire |
| 1917 05 22 |
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Ell Persons is lynched. |
| 1917 05 23 |
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Riots around Milan, Italy end. |
| 1917 05 23 |
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WAR WORLD WAR I: Raid on the Beersheba to Hafir el Auja railway. |
| 1917 05 25 |
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A tornado outbreak sequence begins in the United States. |
| 1917 05 30 |
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“Darktown Strutters’ Ball” recorded by the Original Dixieland Jass Band. |
| 1917 05 XX |
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Frank Hansens Glück (film) released. |
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| 1917 06 01 |
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The tornado outbreak sequence in the United States ends. |
| 1917 06 08 |
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Speculator Mine disaster |
| 1917 06 11 |
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Alexander becomes King of Greece. |
| 1917 06 17 |
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The Immigrant (film) released. |
| 1917 06 24 |
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Wild and Woolly (film) released. |
| 1917 06 25 |
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A Kentucky Cinderella (film) released. |
| 1917 06 25 |
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The Rough House (film) released. |
| 1917 06 XX |
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The Labour Leader (film) released. |
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| 1917 09 11 |
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Ferdinand Marcos born. |
| 1917 09 13 |
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The Gulf Between (film) released. |
| 1917 09 14 |
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Russian Republic proclaimed. |
| 1917 09 18 |
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June Foray born. |
| 1917 09 22 |
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Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (film) released. |
| 1917 09 23 |
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Leon Trotsky is elected Chairman of the Petrograd Soviet. |
| 1917 09 25 |
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The Mossovet votes to side with the Bolsheviks. |
| 1917 09 26 |
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WAR WORLD WAR I: Battle of Polygon Wood begins. |
| 1917 09 28 |
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WAR WORLD WAR I: Second Battle of Ramadi begins. |
| 1917 09 29 |
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WAR WORLD WAR I: Second Battle of Ramadi ends. |
| 1917 09 30 |
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Camille (film) released. |
| 1917 09 30 |
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Oh Doctor! (film) released. |
| 1917 09 30 |
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The Sultan’s Wife (film) released. |
| 1917 09 XX |
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Fear (film) released. |
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| 1917 10 06 |
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World Series begins. |
| 1917 10 03 |
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WAR WORLD WAR I: Battle of Polygon Wood ends. |
| 1917 10 15 |
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World Series concludes. |
| 1917 10 22 |
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His Last Bow by Arthur Conan Doyle published. |
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| 1917 11 01 |
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WAR WORLD WAR I: Third Battle of Gaza begins. |
| 1917 11 01 |
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WAR WORLD WAR I: Battle of Tel el Khuweilfe begins. |
| 1917 11 02 |
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WAR WORLD WAR I: Third Battle of Gaza ends. |
| 1917 11 02 |
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Balfour Declaration |
| 1917 11 04 |
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Earthquake in Sumatra, Indonesia |
| 1917 11 04 |
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Leonardo Cimino born. |
| 1917 11 05 |
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WAR RUSSIAN CIVIL WAR: Coup d’état in Tallinn, Estonia |
| 1917 11 06 |
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WAR WORLD WAR I: Battle of Tel el Khuweilfe ends. |
| 1917 11 06 |
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WAR WORLD WAR I: Battle of Passchendaele begins. |
| 1917 11 06 |
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WAR WORLD WAR I: Battle of Hareira and Sheria begins. |
| 1917 11 06 |
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Harlan Warde born. |
| 1917 11 07 |
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WAR RUSSIAN CIVIL WAR begins: October Revolution |
| 1917 11 07 |
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WAR WORLD WAR I: Battle of Hareira and Sheria ends. |
| 1917 11 07 |
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Women won the right to vote in New York State. |
| 1917 11 09 |
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El Apóstol (film) released. |
| 1917 11 10 |
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WAR WORLD WAR I: Battle of Passchendaele ends. |
| 1917 11 11 |
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The Little Princess (film) released. |
| 1917 11 11 |
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Queen Liliʻuokalani dies. |
| 1917 11 12 |
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Harrison és Barrison (film) released. |
| 1917 11 12 |
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Hedley Jones born. |
| 1917 11 12 |
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Jo Stafford born. |
| 1917 11 13 |
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WAR WORLD WAR I: Battle of Mughar Ridge |
| 1917 11 14 |
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WAR WORLD WAR I: Battle of Ayun Kara |
| 1917 11 14 |
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박정희(Park Chung-hee) born. |
| 1917 11 15 |
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Night of Terror |
| 1917 11 15 |
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FINNISH INDEPENDENCE: Declaration issued. |
| 1917 11 15 |
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ESTONIAN INDEPENDENCE: Declaration issued. |
| 1917 11 16 |
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Earthquake in Kermadec Islands, New Zealand |
