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Events on the 17th of March in history

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17 Mar 2045 In his last victory, Julius Caesar defeats the Pompeian forces of Titus Labienus and Pompey the Younger in the Battle of Munda.
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17 Mar 0180 Marcus Aurelius dies leaving Commodus the sole emperor of the Roman Empire.
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17 Mar 0432 St Patrick, a bishop, is carried off to Ireland as a slave
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17 Mar 0455 Petronius Maximus becomes, with support of the Roman Senate, emperor of the Western Roman Empire.
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17 Mar 0455 Roman senator Petronius Maximus becomes Emperor
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17 Mar 0624 Led by Muhammad, the Muslims of Medina defeat the Quraysh of Mecca in the Battle of Badr.
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17 Mar 1001 The King of Butuan in the Philippines sends a tributary mission to the Song dynasty of China.
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17 Mar 1190 Crusades complete massacre of Jews of York England
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17 Mar 1337 Edward, the Black Prince is made Duke of Cornwall, the first Duchy in England.
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17 Mar 1452 The Battle of Los Alporchones is fought in the context of the Spanish Reconquista between the Emirate of Granada and the combined forces of the Kingdom of Castile and Murcia resulting in a Christian victory.
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17 Mar 1521 Ferdinand Magellan discovers the Philippines
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17 Mar 1521 Magelhaes lands on Homohon
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17 Mar 1526 French King Francois I freed from Spain
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17 Mar 1526 French king Fran
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17 Mar 1537 French troops invade Flanders
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17 Mar 1560 Fort Coligny on Villegagnon Island in Rio de Janeiro is attacked and destroyed during the Portuguese campaign against France Antarctique.
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17 Mar 1580 Prince Willem of Orange welcomed in Amsterdam
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17 Mar 1658 Pro-Charles II plot in England discovered
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17 Mar 1672 England declares war on Netherlands
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17 Mar 1677 The Siege of Valenciennes, during the Franco-Dutch War, ends with France's taking of the city.
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17 Mar 1722 Willem KH Friso appointed mayor of Drente
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17 Mar 1753 1st official St Patrick's Day
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17 Mar 1755 Transylvania Land Co buys Kentucky for $50,000 from a Cherokee chief
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17 Mar 1756 St Patrick's Day 1st celebrated in NYC at Crown & Thistle Tavern
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17 Mar 1757 Prince Mas Sa
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17 Mar 1762 1st St Patrick's Day parade in NYC
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17 Mar 1766 Britain repeals Stamp Act
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17 Mar 1776 American Revolution: British forces evacuate Boston, ending the Siege of Boston, after George Washington and Henry Knox place artillery in positions overlooking the city.
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17 Mar 1776 British forces evacuate Boston to Nova Scotia during Revolutionary War
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17 Mar 1780 American Revolution: George Washington grants the Continental Army a holiday "as an act of solidarity with the Irish in their fight for independence".
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17 Mar 1800 English warship Queen Charlotte catches fire; 700 die
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17 Mar 1804 Johann von Schiller's "Wilhelm Tell" premieres
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17 Mar 1805 The Italian Republic, with Napoleon as president, becomes the Kingdom of Italy, with Napoleon as King.
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17 Mar 1824 England & Netherlands sign a trade agreement
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17 Mar 1833 Phoenix Society forms (New York)
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17 Mar 1836 Texas abolishes slavery
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17 Mar 1842 The Relief Society of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is formed;
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17 Mar 1842 Indians land in Ohio, a 12
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17 Mar 1845 Bristol man, Henry Jones, patents self-raising flour
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17 Mar 1845 Rubber band patented by Stephen Perry of London
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17 Mar 1847 "Macbeth" opera premieres in Florence
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17 Mar 1847 Dmitri Shostakovich's opera "Macbeth" is produced (Florence)
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17 Mar 1854 1st park land purchased by a US city, Worcester, Massachusetts
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17 Mar 1860 The First Taranaki War begins in Taranaki, New Zealand, a major phase of the New Zealand land wars.
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17 Mar 1860 Japanese embassy arrives aboard Candinmarruh [sic]
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17 Mar 1861 The Kingdom of Italy is proclaimed.
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17 Mar 1861 Italy declares independence; Kingdom of Italy proclaimed
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17 Mar 1863 Battle of Kelly's Ford, Virginia (211 casualities)
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17 Mar 1868 Postage stamp canceling machine patent issued
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17 Mar 1870 Massachusetts legislature authorizes incorporation of Wellesley Female Seminary
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17 Mar 1871 National Association of Professional Base-Ball players organized
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17 Mar 1876 1st record high jump over 6' (Marshall Jones Brooks)
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17 Mar 1876 General Crook destroy Cheyennes & Oglala-Sioux Indian camps
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17 Mar 1877 Bill Midwinter completes Test Crickets' 1st 5-wkt haul, 5-78 vs England
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17 Mar 1884 John Joseph Montgomery makes 1st glider flight, Otay, California
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17 Mar 1886 Carrollton Massacre, (Mississippi) 20 blacks killed
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17 Mar 1891 British Steamer "Utopia" sinks off Gibraltar killing 574
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17 Mar 1891 SS Utopia collides with HMS Anson in the Bay of Gibraltar and sinks, killing 562 of the 880 passengers on board.
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17 Mar 1894 US & China sign treaty preventing Chinese laborers from entering US
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17 Mar 1897 Robert Fitzsimmons KOs James J Corbett in 14 for heavyweight boxing title
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17 Mar 1898 1st practical submarine 1st submerges, New York NY (for 1 hour 40 minutes)
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17 Mar 1899 Windsor luxury hotel in NYC catches fire, 92 die
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17 Mar 1900 Stanley Cup: Montreal Shamrocks sweep Halifax Crescents in 2
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17 Mar 1901 Free thinking-Democratic Union forms in the Netherlands
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17 Mar 1902 Stanley Cup: Montreal AAA beat Winnipeg Victorias, 2 games to 1
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17 Mar 1905 Eleanor Roosevelt marries FDR in New York
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17 Mar 1906 President Theodore Roosevelt uses term "muckrake"
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17 Mar 1906 Stanley Cup: Montreal Wanderers beat Ottawa Silver 7, although both winning a game, Montreal outscores Ottawa 12-10
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17 Mar 1906 Stanley Cup: Montr
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17 Mar 1908 Tommy Burns KOs Jem Roche in 1 for heavyweight boxing title
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17 Mar 1908 Quickest world heavyweight title fight (Tommy Burns KOs Jem Roche in 88 seconds)
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17 Mar 1910 DHC soccer team forms in Delft Netherlands
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17 Mar 1912 Camp Fire Girls organization announced by Mrs Luther Halsey Gulick
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17 Mar 1917 1st exclusively women's bowling tournament begins in St Louis
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17 Mar 1917 Tsar Nicolas II of Russia abdicates the throne
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17 Mar 1918 US Ladies Figure Skating Championship won by Rosemary Beresford
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17 Mar 1918 US Men's Figure Skating Championship won by Nathaniel Niles
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17 Mar 1919 Dutch steel workers strike for 8 hour day & minimum wages
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17 Mar 1921 The Second Polish Republic adopts the March Constitution.
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17 Mar 1921 Dr Marie Stopes opens Britain's 1st birth control clinic (London)
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17 Mar 1921 Lenin proclaims New Economic Politics
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17 Mar 1921 Sailors revolt in Kronstadt (thousands die)
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17 Mar 1924 Netherlands and the USSR begin talks over USSR recognition
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17 Mar 1924 Sweden and the USSR exchange diplomats
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17 Mar 1924 Eugene O'Neill's "Welded" premieres in New York NY
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17 Mar 1926 Dutch Calvinists oust Reverend J G Geelkerken over Genesis 3
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17 Mar 1926 Richard Rodgers & L Hart's musical "Girl Friend" premieres in New York NY
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17 Mar 1926 Spain & Brazil prevent Germany joining League of Nations
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17 Mar 1927 US government doesn't sign league of Nations disarmament treaty
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17 Mar 1929 General Motors acquires German auto manufacturer Adam Opel
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17 Mar 1929 Spanish dictator Primo de Rivera closes university of Madrid
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17 Mar 1931 Stalin throws Krupskaya Lenin out of Central Committee
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17 Mar 1932 German police raid Hitler's Nazi-headquarter
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17 Mar 1934 Dollfuss, Mussolini & G
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17 Mar 1935 KSO-AM in Des Moines IA call sign is given to KWCR
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17 Mar 1939 Second Sino-Japanese War: Battle of Nanchang between the Kuomintang and Japan begins,
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17 Mar 1941 In Washington, D.C., the National Gallery of Art is officially opened by President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
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17 Mar 1941 National Gallery of Art, Washington DC opens
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17 Mar 1942 Holocaust: The first Jews from the Lvov Ghetto are gassed at the Belzec death camp in what is today eastern Poland.
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17 Mar 1942 Belzec Concentration Camp opens-30,000 Lublin Polish Jews transported
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17 Mar 1942 General Doug MacArthur arrives in Australia to become supreme commander
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17 Mar 1943 Aldemarin (Ned) and Fort Cedar Lake (US) torpedoed and sinks
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17 Mar 1943 F Hugh Herbert's "Kiss & Tell" premieres in New York NY
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17 Mar 1944 Actor Charlton Heston weds Lydia Clarke
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17 Mar 1945 The Ludendorff Bridge in Remagen, Germany, collapses, ten days after its capture.
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17 Mar 1945 Allied ships bomb North-Sumatra
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17 Mar 1947 First flight of the B-45 Tornado strategic bomber.
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17 Mar 1948 The Benelux, France, and the United Kingdom sign the Treaty of Brussels, a precursor to the North Atlantic Treaty establishing NATO.
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17 Mar 1950 Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley announce the creation of element 98, which they name "californium".
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17 Mar 1950 Belgian government of Eyskens resigns
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17 Mar 1950 Element 98 (Californium) announced
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17 Mar 1951 Government of Drees takes power
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17 Mar 1951 Test Cricket debut of Brian Statham, England vs New Zealand Christchurch
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17 Mar 1953 Bill Veeck says he will sell his 80% of St Louis Browns for $2,475M
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17 Mar 1953 WBAY TV channel 2 in Green Bay WI (CBS) begins broadcasting
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17 Mar 1953 WWLP TV channel 22 in Springfield MA (NBC) begins broadcasting
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17 Mar 1955 Maurice "Rocket" Richard suspended, sparks 7 hour riot in Montr
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17 Mar 1956 8th Emmy Awards: Ed Sullivan Show, Phil Silvers Show & Lucy Ball
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17 Mar 1957 A plane crash in Cebu, Philippines kills Philippine President Ramon Magsaysay and 24 others.
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17 Mar 1957 Dutch ban on Sunday driving lifted
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17 Mar 1957 Ramon Magsaysay, President of Philippines dies in a plane crash
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17 Mar 1958 The United States launches the Vanguard 1 satellite.
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17 Mar 1958 Navy launches Vanguard 1 into orbit (2nd US), measures Earth shape
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17 Mar 1959 Australia and the USSR restore diplomatic relations
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17 Mar 1959 Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama, flees Tibet for India.
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17 Mar 1959 Dalai Lama flees Tibet for India
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17 Mar 1960 U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs the National Security Council directive on the anti-Cuban covert action program that will ultimately lead to the Bay of Pigs Invasion.
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17 Mar 1960 Eisenhower forms anti-Castro-exile army under the CIA
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17 Mar 1960 WSLA (now WAKA) TV channel 8 in Selma AL (CBS) begins broadcasting
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17 Mar 1961 New York DA arrests professional gamblers who implicate Seton Hall players
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17 Mar 1961 South Africa leaves British Commonwealth
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17 Mar 1963 Mount Agung erupted on Bali killing more than 1,100 people.
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17 Mar 1963 Bob Cousy plays his last NBA game
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17 Mar 1963 Elizabeth Ann Seton of New York beatified (canonized in 1975)
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17 Mar 1963 Eruptions of Mount Agung Bali, kills 1,500 Balinese
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17 Mar 1965 Beatles announce their film is named "8 Arms to Hold on to You" (Help)
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17 Mar 1966 Off the coast of Spain in the Mediterranean, the DSV Alvin submarine finds a missing American hydrogen bomb.
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17 Mar 1966 South Africa government bans Defense & Aid Fund
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17 Mar 1966 US sub locates missing H-bomb in Mediterranean
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17 Mar 1968 As a result of nerve gas testing in Skull Valley, Utah, over 6,000 sheep are found dead.
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17 Mar 1968 2-tiered gold price negotiated in Washington DC by US & 6 European nations
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17 Mar 1968 Kathie Whitworth wins LPGA St Petersburg Orange Blossom Golf Open
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17 Mar 1969 Golda Meir becomes the first female Prime Minister of Israel.
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17 Mar 1969 Golda Meir becomes Israel's 4th Prime Minister
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17 Mar 1970 My Lai Massacre: The United States Army charges 14 officers with suppressing information related to the incident.
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17 Mar 1970 Peter O'Malley becomes CEO of Los Angeles Dodgers
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17 Mar 1970 US casts their 1st UN Security Council veto (Support England)
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17 Mar 1972 Ringo releases "Back off Bugaloo" in the UK
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17 Mar 1972 Ringo releases "Back off Bugaloo" in UK
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17 Mar 1973 The Pulitzer Prize-winning photograph Burst of Joy is taken, depicting a former prisoner of war being reunited with his family, which came to symbolize the end of United States involvement in the Vietnam War.
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17 Mar 1973 Queen Elizabeth II opens new London Bridge
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17 Mar 1973 St Patrick's Day marchers carry 14 coffins commemorating Bloody Sunday
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17 Mar 1974 Jane Blalock wins LPGA Bing Crosby Golf Classic International
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17 Mar 1975 Valeri Muratov skates world record 1000 meter (1:16.92)
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17 Mar 1976 Rubin "Hurricane" Carter is retried
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17 Mar 1976 Malikov skates world record 1000 meter (1:15.76)
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17 Mar 1976 Rubin "Hurricane" Carter is retried
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17 Mar 1976 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
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17 Mar 1977 Australia wins cricket Centenary Test by 45 runs, same result as 1877
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17 Mar 1978 Amoco Cadiz tanker spills 1.6 mil gallons of oil off French coast
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17 Mar 1978 Ligeti's opera "Le Grand Macabre" premieres in Stockholm
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17 Mar 1978 Reds don green uniforms for St Patricks Day
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17 Mar 1979 Ice Pairs Championship at Vienna won by Tai Babilonia and R Gardner USA
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17 Mar 1979 The Penmanshiel Tunnel collapses during engineering works, killing two workers.
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17 Mar 1979 World Ice Dance Championship at Vienna won by N Linichuk & G Karponosov USSR
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17 Mar 1979 World Ice Pairs Figure Skating Championship at Vienna won by Tai Babilonia & R Gardner (USA)
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17 Mar 1979 World Ladies Figure Skating Championship in Vienna won by Linda Fratianne (USA)
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17 Mar 1979 World Men's Figure Skating Championship in Vienna won by Vladimir Kovalev (USSR)
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17 Mar 1981 FC Lisse, Dutch soccer team forms
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17 Mar 1982 4 Dutch TV crew members shot dead in El Salvador
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17 Mar 1983 70th hat trick in Islander history-Mike Bossy
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17 Mar 1983 9th People's Choice Awards
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17 Mar 1985 Serial killer Richard Ramirez, aka the "Night Stalker", commits the first two murders in his Los Angeles murder spree.
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17 Mar 1985 Jane Blalock wins LPGA Women's Kemper Golf Open
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17 Mar 1985 Matti Nykanen of Finland set a world ski jump record of 623'
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17 Mar 1986 Haemers gang robs gold transport in Belgium of 35 million BF
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17 Mar 1987 IBM releases PC-DOS version 3.3
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17 Mar 1987 Sunil Gavaskar ends his Test career with an inning of 96 vs Pakistan
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17 Mar 1988 "Les Miserables, " opens at Det Norske Teatret, Oslo
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17 Mar 1988 Eritrean War of Independence: The Nadew Command, an Ethiopian army corps in Eritrea, is attacked on three sides by military units of the Eritrean People's Liberation Front in the opening action of the Battle of Afabet.
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17 Mar 1988 A Colombian Boeing 727 jetliner, Avianca Flight 410, crashes into a mountainside near the Venezuelan border killing 143.
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17 Mar 1988 "Les Miserables" opens at Det Norske Teatret, Oslo Norway
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17 Mar 1988 Highest scoring NCAA basketball game: Loyola-Marymnt 119, Wyoming 115
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17 Mar 1988 Iran says Iraq uses poison gas
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17 Mar 1989 "Chu Chem" opens at Ritz Theater NYC for 44 performances
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17 Mar 1989 Dorothy Cudahy is 1st female grand marshal of St Patrick Day Parade
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17 Mar 1990 PBA National Championship Won by Jim Pencak
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17 Mar 1991 9 of 15 Soviet reps officially approve new union treaty
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17 Mar 1991 Irish Lesbians and Gays march in St. Patrick Day parade
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17 Mar 1991 John Robin Baitz' "Substance of Fire" premieres in New York NY
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17 Mar 1991 New Jersey raises turnpike tolls 70%
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17 Mar 1991 Penny Hammel wins Desert Inn LPGA Golf International
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17 Mar 1991 USSR holds a referendum to determine if they should stay together; 9 of 15 Soviet representatives officially approve new union treaty
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17 Mar 1992 "Death & the Maiden" opens at Brooks Atkinson NYC for 159 performances
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17 Mar 1992 28 killed in truck bombing of Israeli embassy in Buenos Aires, Arg
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17 Mar 1992 A referendum to end apartheid in South Africa is passed 68.7% to 31.2%.
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17 Mar 1992 Israeli Embassy attack in Buenos Aires: Suicide car bomb attack kills 29 and injures 242.
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17 Mar 1992 18th People's Choice Awards: Garth Brooks & Reba McEntire
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17 Mar 1992 De Klerk wins a white only referendum
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17 Mar 1992 Islamic Jihad truck bombs Israeli Embassy in Buenos Aires Argentina killing 29
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17 Mar 1992 Russian manned space craft TM-14, launches into orbit
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17 Mar 1993 86 killed by bomb attack in Calcutta
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17 Mar 1994 "Little More Magic" opens at Belasco Theater NYC for 30 performances
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17 Mar 1994 Iran transport aircraft crashes in Azerbaijan (32 killed)
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17 Mar 1994 It is announced there is no smoking in Cleveland Indians new ballpark
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17 Mar 1995 USt approves 1st chicken pox vaccine, Varivax by Merck and Company
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17 Mar 1995 British
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17 Mar 1995 Sinn-Fein leader Gerry Adams visits White House
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17 Mar 1996 "Bus Stop" closes at Circle in the Square Theater NYC after 29 performances
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17 Mar 1996 "Getting Away With Murder" opens at Broadhurst NYC for 17 performances
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17 Mar 1996 Aravinda De Silva gets 107 & 3-42 in cricket World Cup victory
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17 Mar 1996 Liselotte Neumann wins LPGA Ping/Welch's Golf Championship
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17 Mar 1996 Mike Tyson beat Frank Bruno in 3rd round to gain Heavyweight title
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17 Mar 1996 Montr
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17 Mar 1996 Sri Lanka beat Australia by 7 wickets to win the World Cup
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17 Mar 1997 CNN begins Spanish broadcasts
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17 Mar 1998 USA Women's Hockey Team beats Canada for 1st Olympics Gold medal
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17 Mar 2000 Five hundred thirty members of the Ugandan cult Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments of God die in a fire, considered to be a mass murder or suicide orchestrated by leaders of the cult. Elsewhere another 248 members are later found dead.
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17 Mar 2003 Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs Robin Cook, resigns from the British Cabinet in disagreement with government plans for the 2003 invasion of Iraq.
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17 Mar 2004 Unrest in Kosovo: More than 22 are killed and 200 wounded. Thirty-five Serbian Orthodox shrines in Kosovo and two mosques in Belgrade and Niš are destroyed.
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17 Mar 2013 The largest meteorite (since NASA started observing the Moon in 2005) hit the Moon.
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