February 23 » Second Boer War: During the Battle of the Tugela Heights, the first British attempt to take Hart's Hill fails.
March 7 » The German liner SSKaiser Wilhelm der Grosse becomes the first ship to send wireless signals to shore.
March 16 » Sir Arthur Evans purchased the land around the ruins of Knossos, the largest Bronze Age archaeological site on Crete.
April 14 » The Exposition Universelle begins.
July 2 » Jean Sibelius' Finlandia receives its première performance in Helsinki with the Helsinki Philharmonic Society conducted by Robert Kajanus.
October 25 » The United Kingdom annexes the Transvaal.
Day of death October 7, 1917
The temperature on October 7, 1917 was between 5.0 °C and 10.8 °C and averaged 8.0 °C. There was 14.9 mm of rain. There was 3.5 hours of sunshine (31%). The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the southwest. 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 17 » The United States pays Denmark $25 million for the Virgin Islands.
March 31 » According to the terms of the Treaty of the Danish West Indies, the islands become American possessions.
June 5 » World War I: Conscription begins in the United States as "Army registration day".
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.
November 28 » The Estonian Provincial Assembly declares itself the sovereign power of Estonia.
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