Month April 1917 Calendar

About Month of April Calendar

• April is the fourth month of the year in the Gregorian calendar, the fifth in the early Julian and one of four months with a length of 30 days. April is commonly associated with the season of spring in parts of the Northern hemisphere and autumn in parts of the Southern hemisphere, where it is the seasonal equivalent to October in the Northern hemisphere and vice versa.
  
  April symbols: The birthstone for April is the diamond. The birth flower is typically listed as either the Daisy (Bellis perennis) or the Sweet Pea. The zodiac signs for the month of April are Aries (until April 20) and Taurus (April 21 onwards).

Historical Events for April, 1917

• Day of Week 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.
• Day of Week 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.
• Day of Week 12th » World War I: Canada or Canadian forces successfully complete the taking of Battle of Vimy Ridge or Vimy Ridge from the Germans.
• Day of Week 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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