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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
 
  
Race riots against migrant southern blacks in East St Louis, Missouri, leave forty-eight dead     
1917
 
    
Foreign Secretary A.J. Balfour declares Britain's conditional support for a homeland in Palestine for the Jews       
1917
 
   
Chequers, in the Chilterns, is privately donated to the nation to become the British prime minister's country residence      
1917
 
   
Otto Klemperer starts a seven-year spell as music director of Cologne opera, and begins to acquire an international reputation      
1917
 
    
Paul Valéry wins praise for his long symbolic poem La Jeune Parque       
1917
 
   
A massive explosion devastates Halifax, in Canada, after a collision involving a French munitions ship