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Movie history events from 1917
Christine Daae dies. (Paris) (The Phantom of the Opera)
Friday 12th January: Monsieur Audel killed in battle. (Chocolat)
Monday 26th February: President Woodrow Wilson learns of the so-called Zimmermann Telegram, a message from German Foreign Secretary Arthur Zimmermann to the German ambassador to Mexico proposing a Mexican-German alliance in the event of a war between the U.S. and Germany. (Wilson)
Thursday 15th March: Czar Nicholas II abdicates the throne of Russia. (Nicholas and Alexandra)
Monday 2nd April: President Woodrow Wilson asks Congress to send U.S. troops into battle against Germany in World War I. (Wilson)
Wednesday 11th April: Scott Joplin dies. (Scott Joplin)
Tuesday 15th May: Dwight D Eisenhower and George S Patton promoted to the rank of Captain. (Patton)
Tuesday 29th May: John F. Kennedy is born. (Brookline, Massachusetts) (J.F.K.: Reckless Youth)
Thursday 7th June: Dean Martin is born. (Steubenville, Ohio) (Martin and Lewis)
Thursday 14th June: US President Woodrow Wilson gives Flag Day address. (Wilson)
Wednesday 25th July: Mata Hari sentenced to die. (France) (Mata Hari)
Tuesday 28th August: U.S. President Woodrow Wilson is picketed by woman suffragists in front of the White House, who demand that he support an amendment to the Constitution that would guarantee women the right to vote. (Washington, DC) (Wilson)
Thursday 13th September: George stops his time machine and learns that his friend David Filby was killed in "the war". (The Time Machine (1960))
Monday 15th October: Mata Hari is executed for spying. (Vincennes, France) (Mata Hari)