Timeline July 1917

Events in July 1917 9

• 1917 East St. Louis race riots Mob violence kills dozens of Black residents White mobs attacked Black residents and neighborhoods in East St. Louis, Illinois, amid tensions over labor competition and wartime migration, killing dozens and burning much of the Black community. It was among the deadliest race riots in American history and spurred national outrage.
• 1917 Kerensky Offensive Russia's last major offensive of the war collapses The Russian Provisional Government launched an offensive against Austro-German forces in Galicia, hoping to rally war-weary troops. Initial gains quickly reversed into a chaotic retreat, accelerating the collapse of army discipline that helped set the stage for the Bolshevik seizure of power.
• 1917 The capture of Aqaba Aqaba, Ottoman Empire Rather than attack the fortified port from the sea, Lawrence and Auda abu Tayi took a force 600 miles inland through the Nefud desert and came at it from behind, where the guns could not turn. It made his reputation and opened a supply line to the north.
• 1917 – 2009 Andrew Wyeth (1917-2009) Died 16 January 2009, aged 91 Wyeth was one of the best-known American painters of the twentieth century, celebrated for realist works such as Christina's World. He worked primarily in tempera and watercolor, depicting rural scenes near his homes in Pennsylvania and Maine. His work remained widely popular despite critical debate over his realist style.
• 1917 – 2012 Phyllis Diller (1917-2012) Died 20 August 2012, aged 95 American comedienne and actress known for her self-deprecating stand-up style, one of the first successful female stand-up comics in the United States. She died of natural causes at her home in Los Angeles.
• 1917 NAACP Silent Parade Thousands march down Fifth Avenue against lynching Organized by the NAACP in response to the East St. Louis riots and ongoing lynchings, roughly 10,000 African Americans marched silently down New York's Fifth Avenue. It is regarded as one of the first major civil rights demonstrations in the United States.
• 1917 – 2008 J. D. Salinger American novelist Salinger wrote The Catcher in the Rye, capturing teenage alienation and postwar disillusionment.
• 1917 Passchendaele The mud of Flanders Fields The Third Battle of Ypres becomes a byword for the futility of trench warfare; the poppies of Flanders Fields become the enduring symbol of remembrance.
• 1917 Passchendaele Ypres, Belgium The Third Battle of Ypres was fought through the wettest autumn in decades, on ground whose drainage the shelling had destroyed. Men and horses drowned in the mud. Around half a million casualties for five miles.