Today in History for October 1917

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Historical Events

Events 1 - 21 of 21

4th - British assault on Broodseinde, France
8th - Trotski named chairman of Petrograd Soviet
10th - Giants Rube Benton is 1st lefty to pitch a World Series no hitter
10th - Plymouth Theater opens at 236 W 45th St NYC
12th - The First Battle of Passchendaele, now Passendale
13th - Soviet accept establishment of Petrograd Military
15th - Chicago White Sox beat NY Giants, 4 games to 2 in 14th World Series
15th - World War I: At Vincennes outside of Paris, Dutch dancer Mata Hari is executed by firing squad for spying for Germany.
17th - 1st British bombing of Germany
19th - Love Field in Dallas, Texas is opened.
21st - 1st Americans to see action on front lines of WW I
21st - Petrograds garrison accepts Revolutionary Military Committee
23rd - 1st Infantry division "Big Red One" shoots 1st US shot in WW I
23rd - Lenin speaks against Kamenev, Kollontai, Stalin & Trotsky
24th - Battle at Caporetto: German & Austria smash Italian army
25th - Pan-Russian Congress opens in Petrograd
26th - Petrograd Soviet accepts establishment of Military
26th - World War I:Brazil declared in state of war with Central Powers.
30th - British government gives final approval to Balfour Declaration
Marxist Revolutionary Vladimir Lenin 31st - Eugene O'Neill's "In the Zone," premieres in NYC
31st - World War I: Battle of Beersheba - "last successful cavalry charge in history"

Famous Birthdays

Birthdays 1 - 48 of 48

1st - René A de Rooy, Suriname/Antillian poet (Juancho Picaflor)
2nd - Francis Jackson, organist & master of Music/York minister
2nd - William Marshall, Chicago IL, band leader (Pennsylvanians)
2nd - Charles Drake, American actor (d. 1994)
4th - Albert de Klerk, Dutch composer/conductor
4th - Jan Murray, Bronx NY, comedian (Treasure Hunt, Who Killed Teddy Bear)
5th - Robert Adams, English sculptor
7th - Helmut Dantine, Vienna Austria, actor (Shadow of the Cloak)
7th - June Allyson, Bronx, actress (Till the Clouds Roll By, Vegas)
8th - Danny Murtaugh, baseball manager (Pittsburgh Pirates)
8th - Hans Poser, composer
8th - Billy Conn, American boxer (d. 1993)
8th - Walter Lord, American author (d. 2002)
9th - Kusuo Kitamura, Japan, 1500m freestyle swimmer (Olympic-gold-1932)
10th - Ilona Ference, actress (Quatermass II, Star of My Night)
10th - Thelonious Monk, Rocky Mount North Carolina, American jazz pianist and composer
11th - Franz Alphons Wolpert, composer
12th - Hans Bentz van den Berg, Dutch actor (Last Train)
13th - Burr Tillstrom, Chic Ill, puppeteer (Kukla, Fran & Ollie)
13th - Laraine Day, Roosevelt Utah, actress (Dr Kildaire, I've Got a Secret)
15th - Arthur Schlesinger Jr, Ohio, historian (1946 Pulitzer-Age of Jackson)
15th - Jan Miner, Boston Mass, actress (Crime Photographer)
16th - Alice Pearce, American actress (d. 1966)
17th - Marsha Hunt, Chicago Ill, actress (Jennifer-Peck's Bad Girl, Jigsaw)
17th - Martin Donnelly, cricketer (brilliant lefty bat for NZ post-war)
17th - Sumner Locke Elliott, Australian-born American novelist (d. 1991)
20th - Efrain Jonckheer, premier Dutch Antilles
20th - Jean-Pierre Melville, Paris France, director (A Cop)
20th - Ken Cranston, cricketer (England all-rounder captained once in 1948)
21st - Dizzy Gillespie, [John B], jazz trumpeter, a creator of modern jazz
Actress Joan Fontaine (22nd) 22nd - Joan Fontaine, Tokyo Japan, actress (Gunga Din, Ivanhoe, Rebecca)
23rd - Robert Bray, Kalispell Mont, actor (Corey-Lassie, Stagecoach West)
24th - Marshall Goldberg, NFL halfback (Chicago Cardinals)
25th - Lee MacPhail, American baseball manager and league executive
26th - Felix the Cat, cartoon character
26th - Mario Biaggi, (Rep-D-NY, 1969-90)
27th - Jack Plimsoll, cricketer (S Afr lefty quick, 3-143 in only Test 1947)
27th - Oliver Tambo, co-founder (African National Congress)
27th - Augustine Harris, British Bishop of Middlesbrough (d. 2007)
28th - Jack Soo, American actor (d. 1979)
29th - Eddie Constantine, US/French actor (Lucky Jo, It Lives Again)
29th - Henry Carlsson, Sweden, soccer (Olympic-gold-1948)
30th - Ruth Hussey, Providence RI, actress (Another Thin Man, Phila Story)
30th - Bobby Bragan, American baseball player
30th - Nikolai Vasilievich Ogarkov, Soviet field marshal (d. 1994)
31st - Erik Routley, composer
31st - William Hardy McNeill, historian (Rise of the West)
31st - Thomas Hill, Canadian actor

Famous Weddings

Weddings 1 - 1 of 1

21st - Irish poet and playwright William Butler Yeats (52) weds Georgie Hyde-Lees (25)

Famous Deaths

Deaths 1 - 9 of 9

9th - Hussain Kamil, sultan of Egypt (1914-17), dies at 63
11th - Harry Trott, cricketer (Aust capt played 24 Tests 1888-1898), dies
13th - Florence La Badie, American actress
15th - Mata Hari, Dutch dancer/German spy, executed by firing squad in Paris
17th - Maria J "Marie" Bakker, actress/wife of Maarten Stranger, dies at 59
22nd - Bob Fitzsimmons, English boxer (b. 1863)
27th - Arthur Rhys Davids, English pilot (b. 1897)
28th - Prince Christian of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg (b. 1831)
31st - Tibby Cotter, cricketer (at Beersheba 49 wickets for Australia), dies