The Day
It was Wednesday, under the sign of Virgo. The Argentina president was Hipólito Yrigoyen. Famous people born on this day include Jack Buetel Dallas Texas(actress) and Soren Nordin(Swedish harness racing driver and trainer).
The Fruit trees
Edvard Munch painted "Fruit Trees in Blossom in the Wind"
Source: https://www.pubhist.com/w29652
Edvard Munch was a Norwegian painter and printmaker whose intensely evocative treatment of psychological themes built upon some of the main tenets of late 19th-century Symbolism and greatly influenced German Expressionism in the early 20th century.
The War
The Russian Twelfth Army succeeds in escaping annihilation, retreating to Wenden. Riga falls to General von Hutier's Eighth Army, which has suffered only forty-two hundred casualties in the offensive. Russian losses are twenty-five thousand.
Men of the East Yorkshire Regiment crossing newly won ground at Frezenburg during the Third Battle of Ypres
Source: http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205193431
The Plot
An alleged plot to blow up the Canadian Parliament building and assassinate Prime Minister Borden is thwarted. The plotters oppose conscription. The police claim German gold was behind it all.
The Arrives
W. Somerset Maugham arrives in Petrograd.
William Somerset Maugham CH, better known as W. Somerset Maugham, was a British playwright, novelist and short story writer. He was among the most popular writers of his era and reputedly the highest-paid author during the 1930s.
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