Today in History for May 1917

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Historical Events

Events 1 - 22 of 22

2nd - Cin Fred Tooney & Chic's Hippo Vaughn pitch duel no-hitter, Vaughn gives up 2 hits & a run in 10th, so Cin wins 1-0
3rd - 1st performance of Ernest Bloch's symphony "Israel"
4th - Arabs sack Tel Aviv
5th - St Louis Brown Ernie Koob no-hits Chic White Sox, 1-0
6th - St Louis Brown Bob Groom no-hits Chic White Sox, 3-0
7th - Red Sox Babe Ruth beats Wash Senator Walter Johnson, 1-0
10th - Atlantic ships get destroyer escorts to stop German attacks
11th - Britain grants Royal Letters Patent to New Zealand
12th - 42nd Preakness: E Haynes aboard Kalitan wins in 1:54.4
12th - 43rd Kentucky Derby: Charles Borel on Omar Khayyam wins in 2:04.6
13th - 1st appearance of Mary to 3 shepherd children in Fatima, Portugal
13th - Ernest Bloch's "Schelomo," premieres
18th - Satie/Massine/Picasso's ballet "Parade," premieres in Paris
18th - US passes Selective Service act
20th - Turkish government authorizes Jews to return to Tel Aviv & Jaffa
21st - Leo Pinckney, 1st American drafted during WW I
21st - The Great Atlanta fire of 1917 takes place.
23rd - Dutch 2nd Chamber okays 1908 conscription draft
26th - Walt Cruise hit 1st HR out of Braves Field
27th - Race riot in East St Louis Illinois, 1 black killed
30th - Alexander I becomes king of Greece.
31st - 1st jazz record released (Dark Town Strutters Ball)

Famous Birthdays

Birthdays 1 - 54 of 54

1st - Danielle Darrieux, France, actress (Alexander the Great, Mayerling)
1st - John Beradino, LA California, actor (Steve Hardy-General Hospital)
1st - Louis G "Lo" van Hensbergen, actor/author (Amsterdam Affair)
1st - Ahron Soloveichik, Orthodox Jewish rabbi
2nd - Albert Castelyns, Belgian water polo player and bobsledder
3rd - James Penberthy, composer
3rd - Betty Comden, American lyricist, (d. 2006)
3rd - Kiro Gligorov, Macedonia, President of the Republic of Macedonia 1991-1999 (d. 2012)
4th - Edward Toner Cone, composer
5th - Ron Saggers, cricket wicket-keeper (effective NSW & Aussie late 40's)
6th - Kal Mann, American lyricist (d. 2001)
7th - David Tomlinson, Scotland, actor (Mary Poppins, Helter Skelter)
7th - William Geoffrey Biddle, bomb disposal expert
9th - George Fleming, cyclist
9th - John Arnatt, actor (Circumstantial Evidence)
11th - Hon Montague Woodhouse, Greek resistance organiser
12th - Andre A Rieu, Dutch conductor
13th - Paul Osmond, British senior civil servant
13th - Wilhelmus C Wijen, [Broeder Pius], social worker (Curacao)
14th - Herta Ryder, literary agent
14th - Lou Harrison, Portland Oregon, composer (Rapunzel)
14th - Lou Harrison, American composer (d. 2003)
15th - Hugh Edward Lance Falkus, filmmaker/naturalist
16th - George Gaynes, Helsinki Finland, actor (Henry-Punky Brewster)
16th - Geraint Jones, conductor/organist
18th - Charles Wintour, journalist
18th - James Donald, Aberdeen Scotland, actor (Bridge on River Kwai, Vikings)
20th - Enyss Djemil, composer
20th - Richard Charles Cobb, historian
20th - Guy Favreau, French Canadian lawyer (d. 1967)
20th - Bergur Sigurbjörnsson, Icelandic politician (d. 2005)
21st - Dennis Day, Irish tenor/comedian (Jack Benny Show, Danny Boy)
21st - Heather Swift, local councillor
21st - Jean-Louis Curtis, French writer (Just Causes)
21st - Raymond Burr, BC Canada, actor (Perry Mason, Ironsides, Godzilla)
21st - Ronald John Bilsland Colville, businessman
22nd - Jean-Louis Laffitte Curtis, novelist
22nd - Georg Tintner, Austrian-born conductor (d. 1999)
22nd - Nathan Davis, American actor
22nd - Daniel Nagrin, American modern dancer and choreographer
23rd - Edward Norton Lorenz, American mathematician and meteorologist (d. 2008)
24th - Derek Hodgson, British high court judge
24th - Lord Campbell of Alloway, QC
24th - Theodore Hesburgh, Syracuse NY, president (Notre Dame)
25th - Dorothy Sarnoff, US, actress(?)
25th - Jimmy Hamilton, saxophonist
25th - Steve Cochran, Eureka CA, actor (Mozambique, Gay Senotiys, Dallas)
26th - Eva Szorenyi, Hungarian actress, freedom activist for Hungary
28th - "Papa" John Creach, violinist
28th - Barry Commoner, Brooklyn NY, biologist (Science & Survival)
28th - Gerald Cash, Gov-Gen (Bahamas)
28th - Marshall Reed, Englewood California, actor (Fred Asher-Lineup)
28th - Pape John Creech, rocker (Hot Tuna, Jefferson Airplane)
US President John F. Kennedy (29th) 29th - John Fitzgerald Kennedy, Mass, (Sen-D-Mass), 35th Pres (1961-1963)

Famous Deaths

Deaths 1 - 8 of 8

1st - Jose E Rodo, Uruguayan writer (Motivos de proteo), dies
3rd - Norman Callaway, NSW bat, cricketer (207 in only FC innings), dies
11th - Otto Adolf Klauwell, composer, dies at 66
17th - Charles Anthoni Johnson Brooke, ruler of Sarawak (b. 1829)
20th - Philipp von Ferrary, Italian philatelist (b. 1850)
20th - Valentine Fleming, Scottish politician (b. 1887)
25th - Leon Felix Augustin Joseph Vasseur, composer, dies at 72
25th - Maksim Bahdanovič, Belarusian poet (b. 1891)