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Royal Navy pilot Edwin Harris Dunning being congratulated after landing on HMS Furious in his Sopwith Pup airplane on 2 August 1917.
The Sopwith Pup aircraft piloted by Edwin Harris Dunning veers off the flight deck of HMS Furious during his second attempt to land on the carrier, killing him August 7, 1917.

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August 1917

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1917 January February March April May June July August September October November December The following events occurred in August 1917: Battle of Mărăști...

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1917

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1917 January February March April May June July August September October November December Wikimedia Commons has media related to 1917. 1917 (MCMXVII)...

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Action of 22 August 1917

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The action of 22 August 1917, took place during the First World War, in the Ypres Salient on the Western Front as part of the Third Battle of Ypres. The...

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Balfour Declaration

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Balfour Declaration was a public statement issued by the British Government in 1917 during the First World War announcing its support for the establishment of...

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List of shipwrecks in August 1917

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The list of shipwrecks in August 1917 includes ships sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during August 1917. "Alcyon". Uboat.net. Retrieved 2...

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Mensheviks

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Socialist Revolutionary Party and the liberal Constitutional Democrats. In the 1917 election to the Constituent Assembly, the Mensheviks received about 3 percent...

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Allies of World War I

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1916, while Romania commenced hostilities against Austria on 27 August. On 6 April 1917, the United States entered the war as a co-belligerent, along with...

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Battle of Passchendaele

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the Flanders campaign August days were more often dry than wet. — Griffiths There were 127 mm (5.0 in) of rain in August 1917 and 84 mm (3.3 in) of the...

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Russian Provisional Government

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Bolshevik party and lifted the Bolsheviks into power in October 1917. In August 1917 Russian socialists assembled for a conference on defense, which resulted...

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Nikolai Vissarionovich Nekrasov

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February Revolution of 1917 made them moot. Nekrasov became a member of the Provisional Committee of the State Duma on February 27, 1917. On March 2 he was...

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Houston riot of 1917

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24th Infantry Regiment of the United States Army, taking place on August 23, 1917, in Houston, Texas. The incident occurred within a climate of overt...

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Selective Service Act of 1917

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Selective Service Act of 1917 or Selective Draft Act (Pub. L.Tooltip Public Law (United States) 65–12, 40 Stat. 76, enacted May 18, 1917) authorized the United...

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October Revolution

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the larger Russian Revolution of 1917–1923. It was the second revolutionary change of government in Russia in 1917. It took place through an armed insurrection...

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Grand Duke Vladimir Kirillovich of Russia

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Kirillovich of Russia (Russian: Владимир Кириллович Романов; 30 August [O.S. 17 August1917 – 21 April 1992) was the Head of the Imperial Family of Russia...

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Sinai and Palestine campaign

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arrived in August 1917 after visiting the Western Front. Henry Gullett, the first Official War Correspondent, arrived in November 1917. The long-lasting...

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January 1917

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1917 January February March April May June July August September October November December The following events occurred in January 1917: British troopship...

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1917 in film

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1917 in film was a particularly fruitful year for the art form, and is often cited as one of the years in the decade which contributed to the medium the...

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Russian Revolution

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period of political and social change in the Russian Empire, starting in 1917. This period saw Russia abolish its monarchy and adopt a socialist form of...

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Action of 15 August 1917

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The action of 15 August 1917 was a naval engagement which occurred during the First World War. The action was fought between a German U-boat (believed...

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February Revolution

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Revolution, was the first of two revolutions which took place in Russia in 1917. The main events of the revolution took place in and near Petrograd (now...

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