1917

• U.S. enters World War I

  U.S. enters World War I

• V.I. Lenin returns to Russia after 11 year exile
• French execute Mata Hari for espionage
• Bolshevik Revolution in Russia
• Finnish Republic proclaimed
• Mexican Revolution ends
• 1st Sunday baseball game - Polo Grounds, New York
• Selective Draft Act passed by US Congress
• George M. Cohan's Over There
• John F. Kennedy, Lena Horne, Andrew Wyeth, Robert Mitchum, Arthur Schlessinger, "Dizzy" Gillespie, and Indira Gandhi born
• Adm. George Dewey, Scott Joplin, William F. ("Buffalo Bill") Cody, Degas, Rodin and Ferdinand, Count Zeppelin die

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