1917

     

Year 1917 (MCMXVII) was a common year starting on Monay (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Sunday of the 13-day-slower Julian calendar).

Trivia about 1917

  • Year the first Pulitzer Prizes were awarded and the United States entered World War I
  • Lenin returned to Russia from Europe following the overthrow of the czar in this year
  • Once capital of a Russian duchy, Helsinki became capital of ind. Finland in this year of the Russian Revolution
  • The U.S. officially entered World War I in April of this year
  • The Russian Revolution began in this year, comrade
  • The title month "October" is the one in this revolutionary year