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1917 Calendar Trivia

The next time you can reuse this calendar will be on year 2029. Both calendars will be exactly the same! This is assuming you are not interested in the dates for Easter and other irregular holidays that are based on a solar cycle.

April 4 (4/4), June 6 (6/6), August 8 (8/8), October 10 (10/10), December 12 (12/12), and the last day of February always fall on the same day of the week in any given year. This is called the ‘Doomsday rule’. Check these dates using the full 12-month calendar below to verify.

1917 Calendar

Historical Events Of 1917

• January 23, 1917 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Fire Snake in Chinese astrology.
• March 1, 1917 – The U.S. government releases the unencrypted text of the Zimmermann Telegram to the public.
• April 9, 1917 – World War I: The Battle of Arras: The battle begins with Canadian Corps executing a massive assault on Vimy Ridge.
• June 11, 1917 – King Alexander assumes the throne of Greece after his father Constantine I abdicates under pressure by allied armies occupying Athens.
• October 4, 1917 – World War I: The Battle of Broodseinde fought between the British and German armies in Flanders.
• October 12, 1917 – World War I: The First Battle of Passchendaele takes place resulting in the largest single day loss of life in New Zealand history.
• October 13, 1917 – The “Miracle of the Sun” is witnessed by an estimated 70,000 people in the Cova da Iria in Fátima, Portugal.
• October 17, 1917 – First British bombing of Germany in World War I.
• November 7, 1917 – The Gregorian calendar date of the October Revolution, which gets its name from the Julian calendar date of 25 October. On this date in 1917, the Bolsheviks storm the Winter Palace.
• December 20, 1917 – Cheka, the first Soviet secret police force, is founded.

Who Were Born On 1917?

• February 12, 1917 – Dom DiMaggio, American baseball player and soldier (d. 2009)
• May 18, 1917 – Bill Everett, American author and illustrator (d. 1973)
• July 15, 1917 – Joan Roberts, American actress and singer (d. 2012)
• July 31, 1917 – Jini Dellaccio, American photographer (d. 2014)
• September 7, 1917 – Jacob Lawrence, American painter and educator (d. 2000)
• September 12, 1917 – Pierre Sévigny, Canadian colonel, academic, and politician (d. 2004)
• October 1, 1917 – Cahal Daly, Irish cardinal and theologian (d. 2009)
• October 21, 1917 – Dizzy Gillespie, American trumpet player, composer, and bandleader (d. 1993)
• December 9, 1917 – James Rainwater, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1986)
• December 10, 1917 – Yahya Petra of Kelantan (d. 1979)