February 23 » Cuba leases Guantánamo Bay to the United States "in perpetuity".
April 29 » A landslide kills 70 people in Frank, in the District of Alberta, Canada.
May 29 » In the May Coup, Alexander I, King of Serbia, and Queen Draga, are assassinated in Belgrade by the Black Hand (Crna Ruka) organization.
June 16 » The Ford Motor Company is incorporated.
July 20 » The Ford Motor Company ships its first automobile.
October 1 » Baseball: The Boston Americans play the Pittsburgh Pirates in the first game of the modern World Series.
Day of death April 17, 1917
The temperature on April 17, 1917 was between -0.7 °C and 6.6 °C and averaged 3.1 °C. There was 2.6 mm of rain. There was 3.4 hours of sunshine (24%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northwest. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from August 29, 1913 to September 9, 1918 the cabinet Cort van der Linden, with Mr. P.W.A. Cort van der Linden (liberaal) as prime minister.
January 19 » Silvertown explosion: A blast at a munitions factory in London kills 73 and injures over 400. The resulting fire causes over £2,000,000 worth of damage.
April 16 » Vladimir Lenin returns to Petrograd, Russia, from exile in Switzerland.
October 24 » First World War: Italy suffers a disastrous defeat on the Austro-Italian front.
October 25 » Old Style date of the October Revolution in Russia.
November 24 » In Milwaukee, nine members of the Milwaukee Police Department are killed by a bomb, the most deaths in a single event in U.S. police history until the September 11 attacks in 2001.
December 15 » World War I: An armistice between Russia and the Central Powers is signed.
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