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| 1917 |
| | | Marcel Duchamp submits a ceramic urinal to the Society of Independent Artists in New York, giving it the title Fountain | |
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| 1917 |
| | | The French poet Guillaume Apollinaire is the first to use the term Surrealism | |
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| 1917 |
| | | New York responds with enthusiasm when the Original Dixieland Jazz Band performs a new kind of music in Reisenweber's restaurant | |
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| 1917 |
| | | The Jones Act gives Puerto Ricans US citizenship and a popularly elected Senate and House of Representatives | |
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| 1917 |
| | | Returning to the front after being wounded in the leg, Hitler is promoted to the rank of lance-corporal | |
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| 1917 |
| | | Jeeves and Bertie Wooster make their first appearance in P.G. Wodehouse's The Man with Two Left Feet | |
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| 1917 |
| | | John Ireland's Second Violin Concerto meets with immediate approval | |
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| 1917 March |
| | | Leonard and Virginia Woolf buy a small hand-press and some old typeface, launching their adventure as printers and publishers of the Hogarth Press | |
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| 1917 |
| | | Silent film comedian Harold Lloyd adopts the glasses and the straw hat that become his familiar props | |
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| 1917 |
| | | Wounded at the front on the Somme, the poet Wilfred Owen is invalided home to Britain | |
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