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The Imperial Japanese Navy battleship Kawachi blows up at Shunan, western Honshu, Japan, killing at least 621.
World War I: The Second Battle of the Marne begins near the River Marne with a German attack.
Emmy Noether's paper, which became known as Noether's theorem was presented at Göttingen, Germany, from which…
The first general strike in Canadian history takes place in Vancouver.
World War I: The Battle of Amiens begins a string of almost continuous Allied victories with a push through the German…
Bayerische Motoren Werke AG (BMW) is established as a public company in Germany.
The Battle of Lake Baikal was fought between the Czechoslovak Legion and the Red Army.
Bolshevik revolutionary leader Moisei Uritsky is assassinated.
World War I: The Second Battle of the Somme begins.
Mexican Revolution: Battle of Ambos Nogales: U.S. Army forces skirmish against Mexican Carrancistas as part of the…
Russian Revolution: Vladimir Lenin returns to Petrograd, Russia, from exile in Switzerland
World War I: The Selective Service Act of 1917 is passed, giving the President of the United States the power of conscri
World War I: The Selective Service Act of 1917 is passed, giving the President of the United States the power of conscri
The Imperial War Graves Commission is established through royal charter to mark, record, and maintain the graves and pla
Pope Benedict XV promulgates the 1917 Code of Canon Law, the first comprehensive codification of Catholic canon law in t
World War I: Conscription begins in the United States as "Army registration day"
World War I: Battle of Messines: Allied soldiers detonate a series of mines underneath German trenches at Messines Ridge