World War I is killing people at a great rate, but the Russian Revolution begins and will do the same; JFK is born; race riots; Germany wants Mexico to attack the United States-- what else happened that year?

1. What Happened In
1917?
Mata Hari is arrested for spying on 13 February.

2. It Is 1917
The World’s Population is roughly 1,860,000,000.
World War One kills an estimated 20,000,000.

3. It Is 1917
In the United States, imprisoned
Suffragettes from the Silent Sentinels
are beaten in what becomes known as
the Night of Terror on 14 to 15
November.

4. It Is 1917
One of the first Pulitzer Prizes is awarded on 4
June to French Ambassador Jean Jules
Jusserand, who had written the best book about
American history. He won $2,000.

5. It Is 1917
John Fitzgerald Kennedy is born on 29 May.

6. It Is 1917
A race riot in St. Louis kills at least 250.

7. It Is 1917
The U.S. Ambassador is shown intercepted
messages in which Germany promises to
return the American Southwest to Mexico, if
Mexico declares war on the United States.

8. It Is 1917
The Russian Civil War begins and would end
up holding the Guinness World Record for
highest death toll at a million and a half
combatants and almost nine million civilians.

9. It Is 1917
Mata Hari refuses a blindfold and is
executed by firing squad.

10. It Is 1917
Nine members of the Milwaukee police department
are killed by a bomb, the largest loss of police in one
event in the United States until Nine-Eleven

11. It Is 1917
J.R.R Tolkien begins writing the Book of Lost Tales.

12. It Is 15 March 1917. The
Ides
The Last Tsar, Nicholas II, formally abdicates,
ending the Monarchy, ushering in Civil War &
eventually the Soviet Union, Lenin and then
Stalin.

13. It Is 15 March 1917. The
Ides
But What If the Tsar Didn’t Abdicate?

14. Doc’s Mission: Ides of March
For his 24-hour bubble in time, 15 March 1917,
Doc finds himself at the Imperial Palace in
Petrograd with the Tsarina and her children.
Apparently his mission is to protect her and keep
her from convincing the Tsar not to abdicate. But
some have other plans.

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