What Happened In April 1917 In History

Historical Events for April, 1917

• 2nd » World War I: United States President Woodrow Wilson asks the Congress of the United States known as U.S. Congress for a declaration of war on German Empire known as Germany.
• 9th » World War I: The Battle of Arras (1917) e.g Battle of Arras the battle begins with Canadian Corps executing a massive assault on Vimy Ridge.
• 12th » World War I: Canada or Canadian forces successfully complete the taking of Battle of Vimy Ridge or Vimy Ridge from the Germans.
• 16th » Vladimir Lenin returns to Saint Petersburg or Petrograd, Russian Provisional Government known as Russia from exile in Switzerland.

Famous Birthdays on April in 1917

• 1st » Leon Janney, American actor (d. 1980)
• 1st » Dinu Lipatti, Romanian pianist and composer (d. 1950)
• 1st » Sheldon Mayer, American writer and illustrator (d. 1991)
• 1st » Sydney Newman, Canadian screenwriter and producer, co-created 'Doctor Who' (d. 1997)
• 1st » Melville Shavelson, American director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2007)
• 2nd » Dabbs Greer, American actor (d. 2007)
• 2nd » Lou Monte, American singer (d. 1989)
• 5th » Robert Bloch, American author (d. 1994)
• 6th » Leonora Carrington, English-Mexican painter and author (d. 2011)
• 7th » R. G. Armstrong, American actor and playwright (d. 2012)
• 8th » Hubertus Ernst, Dutch bishop
• 8th » Grigori Kuzmin, Russian-Estonian astronomer (d. 1988)
• 9th » Johannes Bobrowski, German songwriter and poet (d. 1965)
• 9th » Ron Burgess (footballer) called Ronnie Burgess, Welsh footballer (d. 2005)
• 9th » Brad Dexter, American actor (d. 2002)
• 10th » Jagjit Singh Lyallpuri, Indian politician (d. 2013)
• 10th » Robert Burns Woodward, American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize in Chemistry known as Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1979)
• 11th » Danny Gallivan, Canadian sportscaster (d. 1993)
• 11th » David Westheimer, American author (d. 2005)
• 12th » Helen Forrest, American singer (d. 1999)
• 13th » Robert Orville Anderson, American businessman, founded ARCO e.g Atlantic Richfield Oil Co. (d. 2007)
• 14th » Valerie Hobson, Irish-English actress (d. 1998)
• 14th » Marvin Miller, American businessman (d. 2012)
• 15th » Hans Conried, American actor (d. 1982)
• 15th » James Kee, American politician (d. 1989)
• 16th » Victoria Eugenia Fernández de Córdoba, 18th Duchess of Medinaceli (d. 2013)
• 16th » Barry Nelson, American actor (d. 2007)
• 17th » Bill Clements, American politician, 42nd Governor of Texas (d. 2011)
• 18th » Ty LaForest, Canadian-American baseball player (d. 1947)
• 18th » Frederica of Hanover (d. 1981)
• 19th » Sven Hassel, Danish-German soldier and author (d. 2012)
• 22nd » Yvette Chauviré, French ballerina
• 23rd » Dorian Leigh, American model (d. 2008)
• 25th » Ella Fitzgerald, American singer-songwriter and actress (d. 1996)
• 26th » Sal Maglie, American baseball player (d. 1992)
• 26th » I. M. Pei, Chinese-American architect, designed the National Gallery of Art and Bank of China Tower (Hong Kong) named Bank of China Tower
• 26th » Virgil Trucks, American baseball player and coach (d. 2013)
• 27th » Roman Matsov, Estonian conductor (d. 2001)
• 29th » Maya Deren, Ukrainian-American director, poet, and photographer (d. 1961)
• 29th » Celeste Holm, American actress (d. 2012)
• 29th » Marcel Trudel, Canadian historian and author (d. 2011)

Famous Deaths for April 1917

• 1st » Scott Joplin, American pianist and composer (b. 1868)
• 7th » Spyridon Samaras, Greek composer (b. 1861)
• 9th » James Hope Moulton, English philogist and scholar (b. 1863)
• 14th » L. L. Zamenhof, Polish linguist, created Esperanto (b. 1859)
• 15th » János Murkovics, Slovene author, poet, and educator (b. 1839)
• 18th » Vladimir Serbsky, Russian psychiatrist (b. 1858)

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