Online Encyclopedia
March 17
(Redirected from 17 March)
March 17 is the 76th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (77th in Leap years). There are 289 days remaining.
March | ||||||
Su | Mo | Tu | We | Th | Fr | Sa |
1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | ||
6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 |
13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 |
20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 |
27 | 28 | 29 | 30 | 31 | ||
2005 calendar |
Contents |
Events
up to 19th century
- 45 BC - In his last victory, Julius Caesar defeats the Pompeian forces of Titus Labienus and Pompey the Younger in the Battle of Munda.
- 1673 - Jacques Marquette and Louis Jolliet begin their exploration of the Great Lakes and the Mississippi river.
- 1756 - St. Patrick's Day is celebrated in New York City for the first time (at the Crown and Thistle Tavern).
- 1776 - American Revolution: British forces evacuate Boston, Massachusetts after George Washington places artillery overlooking the city.
- 1845 - The rubber band is invented
- 1861 - The Kingdom of Italy is proclaimed.
- 1886 - Carrollton Massacre : 20 African Americans are killed in Mississippi.
- 1891 - The British steamship SS Utopia sinks off the coast of Gibraltar, killing 574.
20th century
1900s-1970s
- 1901 - A showing of 71 Vincent van Gogh paintings in Paris, 11 years after his death, creates a sensation.
- 1910 - Luther Gulick and his wife Charlotte found Camp Fire Girls (formally announced in 1912).
- 1931 - Nevada legalizes gambling.
- 1939 - Sino-Japanese War (1937-1945): The Battle of Nanchang between the Kuomintang and the Japanese break out.
- 1941 - In Washington, DC, the National Gallery of Art is officially opened by President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
- 1948 - Benelux, France, and the United Kingdom sign the Treaty of Brussels which is a precursor to the NATO Agreement.
- 1950 - University of California, Berkeley researchers announce the creation of element 98 which they have named "californium".
- 1958 - The United States launches the Vanguard 1 satellite.
- 1959 - Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama, flees Tibet and travels to India.
- 1966 - Off the coast of Spain in the Mediterranean, the Alvin submarine finds a missing American hydrogen bomb.
- 1969 - Golda Meir of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA, becomes Prime Minister of Israel.
- 1970 - My Lai massacre: The United States Army charges 14 officers with suppressing information related to the incident.
1980s-1990s
- 1985 - Serial killer Richard Ramirez, the "Night Stalker", commits his first two murders in Los Angeles, California murder spree.
- 1988 - A Colombian Boeing 727 jetliner, Avianca Flight 410, crashes into the side of the mountains near the Venezuelan border killing 143.
- 1992 - 29 are killed and 242 injured when a suicide car-bomb goes off in the Israeli embassy in Buenos Aires.
21st century
- 2003 - British Cabinet Minister, Robin Cook, resigns over government plans for war with Iraq.
- 2004 - Massive Unrest in Kosovo. Over 22 killed, 200 wounded, 15 destroyed Serb Orthodox shrines and mosques in Belgrade.
Births
up to 19th century
- 1473 - King James IV of Scotland (d. 1513)
- 1777 - Roger Taney, Chief Justice of the United States (d. 1864)
- 1804 - Jim Bridger, pioneer (d. 1881)
- 1820 - Jean Ingelow, English poet (d. 1897)
- 1834 - Gottlieb Daimler, engineer and inventor (d. 1900)
- 1862 - Silvio Gesell, economist (d. 1930)
- 1866 - Pierce Butler, U.S. Supreme Court justice (d. 1939)
- 1870 - Horace St. John Kelly Donisthorpe, British entomologist, myrmecologist and coleopterist (d. 1951)
- 1880 - Sir Patrick Hastings, barrister (d. 1952)
- 1884 - Alcide Nunez, jazz musician (d. 1934)
- 1888 - Frank Buck , "big game" hunter (d. 1950)
- 1894 - Paul Green , novelist, Pulitzer Prize winning playwright (d. 1981)
- 1895 - Shemp Howard, actor ("The Three Stooges") (d. 1955)
20th century
1900s-1950s
- 1902 - Bobby Jones, golfer (d. 1971)
- 1908 - Brigitte Helm, actress (d. 1996)
- 1912 - Bayard Rustin, civil rights activist (d. 1987)
- 1914 - Sammy Baugh, American football star
- 1918 - Mercedes McCambridge, actress
- 1919 - Nat King Cole, singer (d. 1965)
- 1920 - Mujibur Rahman, Prime Minister of Bangladesh (d. 1975)
- 1926 - Siegfried Lenz , writer
- 1936 - Ladislav Kupkovic, composer
- 1938 - Rudolf Nureyev, dancer and choreographer (d. 1993)
- 1940 - Mark White, former governor of Texas
- 1942 - John Wayne Gacy, serial killer (d. 1994)
- 1944 - John Sebastian, singer-songwriter, also a member of the Lovin' Spoonful
- 1945 - Elis Regina, Brazilian singer (d. 1982)
- 1948 - William Gibson, writer
- 1949 - Patrick Duffy, actor
- 1951 - Kurt Russell, actor
- 1954 - Lesley-Anne Down, actress
- 1955 - Gary Sinise, actor
- 1955 - Paul Overstreet , country singer
- 1956 - Patrick McDonnell, creator of syndicated cartoon strip "Mutts"
- 1959 - Danny Ainge, basketball player, coach, baseball player
1960s-1970s
- 1964 - Rob Lowe, actor
- 1967 - William Patrick Corgan, Jr., musician (The Marked, The Smashing Pumpkins, Zwan)
- 1967 - Barry Minkow, fraudulant businessman
- 1972 - Mia Hamm, soccer player
- 1973 - Caroline Corr, singer, musician ("The Corrs")
Deaths
- 45 BC - Titus Labienus (b. c. 100 BC), Roman statesman, and Gnaeus Pompeius (died in and executed after the battle of Munda)
- 180 - Marcus Aurelius, Roman Emperor (b. 121)
- 461 - Saint Patrick, patron saint of Ireland died in Saul, County Down (b. c. 373)
- 1058 - King Lulach I of Scotland (b. c. 1029)
- 1425 - Ashikaga Yoshikazu, Ashikaga shogun (b. 1407)
- 1782 - Daniel Bernoulli, mathematician (b. 1700)
- 1853 - Christian Doppler, Austrian physician and mathematician
- 1917 - Franz Brentano, German philosopher and psychologist (b. 1838)
- 1956 - Irene Joliot-Curie, scientist (b. 1897)
- 1957 - Ramon Magsaysay, President of the Philippines
- 1965 - Amos Alonzo Stagg, baseball, basketball and American football coach and player (b. 1862)
- 1976 - Luchino Visconti, director, (b. 1906)
- 1990 - Capucine, actress (b. 1931)
- 1993 - Helen Hayes, actress (b. 1900)
- 2003 - Klaus Oldendorff , ship owner
- 2004 - J.J. Jackson, original MTV VJ (b. 1941 or 1942)
Holidays and observances
- Ancient Latvia - Kustonu Diena observed
- Boston, Massachusetts - Evacuation Day
- Feast day of St Patrick: a public holiday in Ireland and Montserrat
- Roman Empire - the second day of the Bacchanalia in honor of Bacchus
- Roman Empire - the Liberia in honor of Liber
March 16 - March 18 - February 17 - April 17 -- listing of all days
January | February | March | April | May | June | July | August | September | October | November | December |
Last updated: 02-08-2005 13:59:53
Last updated: 02-23-2005 10:18:13