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every day I will try to provide the most important events of the day a hundred years ago.
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17/5/1921
- The largest American battleship, the "Tennessee", makes its first test drive.The electrically powered ship with twelve guns on board reaches a speed of 21 knots (39 km / h).
- Since X-rays are increasingly dying due to too high radiation exposure, a radiologist congress takes place in London.He decides more precisely researches for building the rays and their exposure to human cells and blood.
- In the Théâtre de la Gaité-Lyrique in Paris, Sergei S. Prokofiev's ballet "the fool" is premiered with the Ballets Russes under the direction of Sergei Diaghilev.