1917 in the United States

Events from the year 1917 in the United States

1917
in
the United States

Decades:
  • 1890s
  • 1900s
  • 1910s
  • 1920s
  • 1930s
See also:

Incumbents

Federal government

Events

January–March

President Wilson before Congress, announcing the break in the official relations with Germany
February 24: The Zimmermann Telegram is shown to the U.S. government.

April–June

July–September

October–December

Undated

  • George Drumm writes the concert march "Hail, America" in New York City.
  • The calendar year is the coolest averaged over the contiguous United States in mean temperature (average of 50.06 °F or 10.03 °C against a long-term average of 51.86 °F or 11.03 °C)[10] and minimum temperature (37.62 °F or 3.12 °C against a long-term average of 39.84 °F or 4.36 °C).[11] it is also the second-driest with a coast-to-coast average precipitation of 25.35 inches or 643.9 millimetres against a long-term mean of 29.57 inches or 751.1 millimetres.[12]

Ongoing

Births

JanuaryFebruary

March–April

May

June

July

  • July 3
    • Donald Wills Douglas Jr., industrialist and Olympic sportsman (died 2004)
    • Albert N. Whiting, academic and administrator (died 2020)
  • July 5 Kathleen Gemberling Adkison, abstract painter (died 2010)
  • July 7 Larry O'Brien, politician and basketball commissioner (died 1990)
  • July 9 Frank Wayne, television game show producer (died 1988)
  • July 10 Don Herbert, television personality (Mr. Wizard) (died 2007)
  • July 12 Andrew Wyeth, painter (died 2009)
  • July 16
    • Alex Urban, American football player (died 2007)
    • William Woodson, voice actor (died 2017)
  • July 17
  • July 19 William Scranton, politician (died 2013)
  • July 22 Larry Hooper, singer and musician (died 1983)
  • July 24 Clarence F. Stephens, mathematician and educator (died 2018)

August–September

October–November

  • October 3 Les Schwab, businessman (died 2007)
  • October 5 Allen Ludden, game show host (died 1981)
  • October 6 Fannie Lou Hamer, African American civil rights activist (died 1977)
  • October 7 June Allyson, actress (died 2006)
  • October 8 Danny Murtaugh, baseball player and manager (died 1976)
  • October 9 Don Marion Davis, child actor (died 2020)
  • October 10 Thelonious Monk, African American jazz pianist and composer considered "one of the giants of American music" (died 1982)
  • October 11 J. Edward McKinley, character actor (died 2004)
  • October 13 George Osmond, Osmond family patriarch (died 2007)
  • October 15
    • Adele Stimmel Chase, artist (died 2000)
    • Jan Miner, actress (died 2004)
    • Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., historian and political commentator (died 2007)
    • Ralph Solecki, archaeologist (died 2019)
  • October 16 Alice Pearce, actress (died 1966)
  • October 17 Marsha Hunt, actress (died 2022)
  • October 21 Dizzy Gillespie, African American jazz trumpet player, bandleader, singer and composer (died 1993)
  • November 1 Clarence E. Miller, politician (died 2011)
  • November 4 Leonardo Cimino, actor (died 2012)
  • November 6 Harlan Warde, character actor (died 1980)
  • November 11 Tony F. Schneider, naval officer (died 2010)
  • November 12 Jo Stafford, pop singer (died 2008)
  • November 13 Robert Sterling, actor (died 2006)
  • November 20 Robert Byrd, U.S. Senator from West Virginia from 1959 to 2010 (died 2010)
  • November 25 Stanley Wilson, incidental music composer (died 1970)
  • November 27 Buffalo Bob Smith, children's television host (died 1998)
  • November 28 Orville Rogers, pilot and marathons runner (died 2019)

December

  • December 1 Marty Marion, baseball player and manager (died 2011)
  • December 4 Arthur B. Singer, American wildlife artist (died 1990)
  • December 9 James Rainwater, physicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1975 (died 1986)
  • December 13 John Hart, American actor (died 2009)
  • December 20
    • David Bohm, theoretical physicist, philosopher and neuropsychologist (died 1992 in the United Kingdom)
    • Audrey Totter, film actress (died 2013)
  • December 22 Gene Rayburn, television personality (Match Game) (died 1999)
  • December 30 Seymour Melman, industrial engineer (died 2004)

Deaths

  • January 10 Buffalo Bill (William F. Cody), frontiersman, bison hunter and showman (born 1846)
  • January 16 George Dewey, U.S. Admiral of the Navy (born 1837)
  • January 21 Francesca Alexander, illustrator (born 1837)
  • February 21 Fred Mace, silent film actor (born 1878)
  • March 13 Samuel Pasco, U.S. Senator from Florida from 1887 to 1899 (born 1834 in the United Kingdom)
  • March 28 Albert Pinkham Ryder, painter (born 1847)
  • April 1 Scott Joplin, African American ragtime composer and pianist (born 1867–68)
  • April 8 Richard Olney, politician (born 1835)
  • April 13 Diamond Jim Brady, businessman (born 1856)
  • April 23 Robert Koehler, painter (born 1850 in Germany)
  • May 19 Alexander Caldwell, U.S. Senator from Kansas from 1871 to 1873 (born 1830)
  • May 29 Kate Harrington, teacher, writer and poet (born 1831)
  • June 14 Thomas W. Benoist, aviation pioneer (born 1874)
  • July 28 Stephen Luce, admiral (born 1827)
  • August 15 Martha Capps Oliver, poet and hymnwriter (born 1845)[24]
  • August 17 John W. Kern, U.S. Senator from Indiana from 1911 to 1917 (born 1849)
  • October 13 Florence La Badie, silent film actress (automobile accident; born 1888)
  • November 3 Frederick Rodgers, admiral (born 1842)
  • November 15 John W. Foster, journalist and politician (born 1836)
  • November 23 William Ralph Emerson, architect (born 1833)
  • December 9 Nat M. Wills, vaudeville performer (accidental CO poisoning; born 1873)
  • December 12 Andrew Taylor Still, "father of osteopathy" (born 1828)
  • December 22 Frances Xavier Cabrini, religious sister, first American canonized as a saint (born 1850 in Italy)
  • December 28 John Thornton, U.S. Senator from Louisiana from 1910 to 1915 (born 1846)

See also

References

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  2. Powell, John (2009). Encyclopedia of North American Immigration. New York: Infobase Publishing. p. 137. ISBN 978-1-4381-1012-7.
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  4. "Mongolia". Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships. Navy Department, Naval History and Heritage Command. Retrieved 2017-04-25.
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  6. Hampton Roads Naval Historical Foundation (February 2014). Images of America: Naval Station Norfolk. Charleston, SC: Arcadia Publishing. p. 7.
  7. "Suffrage Wins by 100,000 in State; Kings by 32,640". Brooklyn Daily Eagle. 1917-11-07. p. 1.
  8. Day, Preston C.; ‘Extreme Cold in the Yukon Region’; in ‘The Cold Winter of 1917-18’; Monthly Weather Review; 46(12), pp. 571-572
  9. Naval History & Heritage Command. "Jacob Jones". DANFS. Retrieved 2009-04-24.
  10. Contiguous U.S. Average Temperature, January to December
  11. Contiguous U.S. Minimum Temperature, January to December
  12. Contiguous US Precipitation, January to December
  13. "The long legacy of the U.S. occupation of Haiti". Washington Post. Retrieved 19 August 2022.
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  19. Esther Cooper Jackson, civil rights writer, leader for decades, dies at 105
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