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1917
 
   
Amedeo Modigliani's first Paris exhibition is immediately closed by the police because it contains paintings of nudes      
1917
 
     
Parade brings together Massine (choreography), Satie (music), Cocteau (libretto) and Picasso (sets and costumes)        
1917
 
    
Piet Mondrian and other Dutch artists establish the movement known as De Stijl, together with a magazine of the same name       
1917
 
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Eamon de Valera, newly released from prison, is elected to lead Sinn Fein       
1917
 
     
Manuel de Falla's ballet The Three-Cornered Hat is produced by Diaghilev with choreography by Massine and designs by Picasso        
1917
 
    
Comedian Buster Keaton makes his first appearance in a film, The Butcher Boy       
1917
 
    
The first annual prizes are awarded, under the terms of Joseph Pulitzer's will, for the best new US novel, play, history and biography       
1917
 
    
Australia Felix is the first in Henry Handel Richardson's trilogy of novels about her father       
1917   July
 
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The Hogarth Press publishes its first book, Two Stories, containing a new short story by Leonard Woolf and another by Virginia Woolf See in Google maps   
Two Stories, Hogarth Press, 1917


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1917
 
  
Race riots against migrant southern blacks in East St Louis, Missouri, leave forty-eight dead