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September[edit] Main article: September 1917

September 25 – The Mossovet (Moscow Soviet of People's Deputies) votes to side with the Bolsheviks.

September 26–October 3 – WWI – Battle of Polygon Wood (part of the Battle of Passchendaele) near Ypres in Belgium: British and Australian troops capture positions from the Germans.

October[edit] Main article: October 1917 October 4 – WWI – Battle of Broodseinde near Ypres: British Imperial forces overpower the German 4th Army's defences.

October 12 – WWI – First Battle of Passchendaele: Allies fail to take a German defensive position, with the biggest loss of life in a single day for New Zealand, over 800 of whose men and 45 officers are killed, roughly 1 in 1,000 of the nation's population at this time.

October 13 – The Miracle of the Sun is reported at Fátima, Portugal.

October 15 – WWI: At Vincennes outside Paris, Dutch dancer Mata Hari is executed by firing squad for spying for Germany.

October 19 Dallas Love Field Airport is opened in Texas.

Carl Swartz leaves office as Prime Minister of Sweden, after dismal election results for the right-wing in the Riksdag elections in September. He is replaced by liberal leader and history professor Nils Edén.

October 23 – A Brazilian ship is destroyed by a German U-Boat, encouraging Brazil to enter World War I.

October 26 – WWI: Brazil declares war against the Central Powers. Brazilian President Venceslau Brás signs a declaration of war against the Central Powers

October 27 – WWI – Battle of Buqqar Ridge: Ottoman forces attack British Desert Mounted Corps units garrisoning El-Buqqar Ridge, during the last days of the Stalemate in Southern Palestine.

November[edit] Main article: November 1917 November 1 – WWI:

November 2 – Zionism: The British Foreign Secretary Arthur Balfour makes the Balfour Declaration, proclaiming British support for the "establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people..., it being clearly understood that nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities".

November 6 WWI – Second Battle of Passchendaele: After 3 months of fierce fighting, Canadian forces take Passchendaele in Belgium (the battle concludes on November 10).

WWI: The Battle of Hareira and Sheria is launched by the British XX Corps and Desert Mounted Corps, against the central Ottoman defences protecting the Gaza to Beersheba Road. Militants from Trotsky's committee join with trusty Bolshevik soldiers, to seize government buildings and pounce on members of the provisional government.

November 7

Women's Suffrage in the United States: Women win the right to vote in New York State.[12]

The ANZAC Mounted Division (Desert Mounted Corps) successfully fights the Battle of Ayun Kara, in the aftermath of the Battle of Mughar Ridge against strong German rearguards. November 15 "Night of Terror" in the United States: Influential suffragettes from the Silent Sentinels are deliberately subjected to physical assaults by guards while imprisoned.

November 17

The People's Dispensary for Sick Animals is founded in the United Kingdom. November 20

WWI – Battle of Cambrai: British forces, using tanks, make early progress in an attack on German positions, but are soon beaten back.

November 22 – In Montreal, Quebec, Canada, the National Hockey Association suspends operations.

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November 24 – A bomb kills 9 members of the Milwaukee Police Department, the most deaths in a single event in U.S. police history (until the September 11 attacks in 2001).

November 25 – WWI – Battle of Ngomano: German forces defeat a Portuguese army of about 1,200 at Negomano, on the border of modern-day Mozambique and Tanzania.

November 26 – The National Hockey League is formed in Montreal, as a replacement for the recently disbanded National Hockey Association.

December[edit] Main article: December 1917 December – Annie Besant becomes president of the Indian National Congress.

December 3 – After nearly 20 years of planning and construction, the Quebec Bridge opens to traffic (the bridge partially collapsed on August 29, 1907 and September 11, 1916).

December 6

Halifax Explosion: Two freighters collide in Halifax Harbour at Halifax, Nova Scotia, and cause a huge explosion that kills at least 1,963 people, injures 9,000 and destroys part of the city (the biggest man-made explosion in recorded history until the Trinity nuclear test in 1945).

December 11 – WWI: General Edmund Allenby leads units of the British Egyptian Expeditionary Force into Jerusalem on foot through, the Jaffa Gate.

December 17 – The Raad van Vlaanderen proclaims the independence of Flanders.

December 20 (N.S.) (December 7, O.S.) – The Cheka, a predecessor to the KGB, is established in Russia.

December 25 – Jesse Lynch Williams's Why Marry?, the first dramatic play to win a Pulitzer Prize, opens at the Astor Theatre, New York City.

December 26 – United States President Woodrow Wilson uses the Federal Possession and Control Act to place most U.S. railroads under the United States Railroad Administration, hoping to transport troops and materials for the war effort more efficiently.