March 17

Learn the most interesting events and historical facts that happened throughout history on March 17. From 1900 until now. March 17 is under the sign of Pisces. Famous birthdays on this day include Rob Kardashian (1987), John Wayne Gacy (1942) and Billy Corgan (1967). Several movies were released around March 17 over the years, such as Singin' in the Rain in 1952 directed by Stanley Donen, Gene Kelly and Withnail & I in 1987 directed by Bruce Robinson.
But much more happened on March 17 over the years: find out below

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Holidays

Ancient Rome - the second day of the Bacchanalia in honor of Bacchus
Ancient Rome - the Liberalia in honor of Liber
St. Agricola
St. Joseph of Arimathea
Feast day of St Patrick: a public holiday in Ireland (National feast) and Montserrat, widely celebrated in North America and worldwide (see St. Patrick's Day)
Ancient Latvia - Kustonu Diena (return of the larks) observed
Boston, Massachusetts - Evacuation Day
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Events

2019 2019 Jayapura flood and landslide: At least 73 people have been killed in flash floods in the province of Papua, Indonesia. (BBC)
2018 2018 Philippine Piper PA-23 Apache crash: A Piper PA-23 passenger aircraft bound for Laoag International Airport in Ilocos Norte, Philippines, crashes upon take off from Plaridel Airport in Bulacan, killing all five people onboard as well as five on the ground. (Reuters) (Rappler)
2017 Yemeni Civil War (2015-present): An unknown perpetrator using an Apache helicopter fires upon a boat carrying Somali refugees off the coast of Yemen, killing at least 40 of them, injuring 35 more. (Reuters), (AFP via MSN)
2016 Iraqi Civil War, Syrian Civil War: The United States Secretary of State John Kerry says ISIL has committed genocide against Christians, Yazidis and Shias in areas it controls in Syria and Iraq. (BBC)The Islamic State reports commander Hassan Aboud has died of wounds sustained about two weeks ago in a battle near Aleppo, Syria. He was injured when a vehicle he was in struck a roadside bomb near Khanaser. (The New York Times)
2015 In Peshawar, an unknown assailant shoots and kills Pakistani lawyer Samiullah Afridi, who had defended Dr. Shakil Afridi (in regards to assisting CIA agents hunt al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden), with two Pakistan militant groups, Jundullah and Jamaatul Ahrar, both claiming responsibility. (Huffington Post)
2014 United States Navy SEALs take over a disavowed oil tanker in international waters previously seized by Libyan rebels. (AP via New Zealand Herald)
2013 Iraqi insurgency (post-U.S. withdrawal):: A car bombing near a bus station in Garmat Ali near the Iraqi city of Basra kills at least 10 people. (BBC)
2012 Syria:
2011 Arab Spring and the Libyan civil war: The United Nations Security Council votes 10-0 to create a no-fly zone over Libya in response to allegations of government aggression against civilians.
2010 Protests in Thailand by the National United Front of Democracy Against Dictatorship continue, with supporters throwing their own blood outside the house of Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva. (Thai News Agency) (Al Jazeera)
2009 The New Jersey Devils' Martin Brodeur passes Patrick Roy to becomes the National Hockey League's winningest goaltender. (ESPN)
2008 The US dollar hits an all-time low of US$1.59 to the euro.
2007 Thousands of activists march to The Pentagon in Washington to mark the fourth anniversary of the start of the war in Iraq. (New York Times)
2006 The United States strikes its two remaining Iowa-class battleships from the Naval Vessel Register, ending the age of the battleship.
2005 At the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider particle accelerator in Upton, New York, physicist Horatiu Nastase may have created a black hole. (BBC)
2004 Unrest in Kosovo: More than 22 are killed and 200 wounded. 35 Serbian Orthodox shrines in Kosovo and two mosques in Belgrade and Nis are destroyed.
2003 U.S. President George W. Bush gives an ultimatum: Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein and his sons must either leave Iraq, or face military action at a time of the U.S.'s choosing.
2000 More than 800 members of the Ugandan cult Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments of God die in what is considered to be a mass murder and suicide orchestrated by leaders of the cult.
1999 The Roth 401(k) is introduced by U.S. Senator William Roth.
1997 The Dow Jones Industrial Average removes Westinghouse Electric, Texaco Incorporated, Bethlehem Steel, and Woolworth from its index, replacing them with Travelers Group, Hewlett-Packard Company, Johnson & Johnson, and Wal-Mart Stores Incorporated.
1996 Bus Stop closes at Circle in the Square Theater NYC after 29 performances
1995 USt approves 1st chicken pox vaccine, Varivax by Merck and Company
1994 Little More Magic opens at Belasco Theater NYC for 30 performances
1993 86 killed by bomb attack in Calcutta, India.
1992 Death & the Maiden opens at Brooks Atkinson NYC for 159 performances
1991 9 of 15 Soviet reps officially approve new union treaty
1990 PBA National Championship Won by Jim Pencak.
1989 Chu Chem opens at Ritz Theater NYC for 44 performances
1988 Les Miserables, opens at Det Norske Teatret, Oslo
1987 IBM releases PC-DOS version 3.3.
1986 Haemers gang robs gold transport in Belgium of 35 million Belgian francs.
1985 Serial killer Richard Ramirez, aka the ''Night Stalker'', commits the first two murders in his Los Angeles, California murder spree.
1983 70th hat trick in New York Islanders' history-Mike Bossy.
1982 4 Dutch TV crew members shot dead in El Salvador
1981 FC Lisse, Dutch soccer team, forms.
1979 Ice Dance Championship at Vienna won by N Linichuk and G Karponosov USSR
1978 Amoco Cadiz tanker spills 1.6 mil gallons of oil off French coast
1976 Rubin Hurricane Carter is retried
1975 Valeri Muratov skates world record 1000 metre (1:16.92).
1974 Jane Blalock wins LPGA Bing Crosby Golf Classic International.
1973 St. Patrick Day marchers carry 14 coffins commemorating Bloody Sunday
1972 Ringo releases Back off Bugaloo in the UK
1971 Edward Henry of Morristown, New Jersey, is first person to win US$1 million in a State lottery.
1970 US casts their first United Nations Security Council veto (Support England).
1969 Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Orange Blossom Golf Open.
1968 Two-tiered gold price negotiated in Washington DC by US and six European nations.
1966 South Africa government bans Defense and Aid Fund.
1965 Beatles announce their film is named 8 Arms to Hold on to You (Help)
1963 Eruptions of Mount Agung Bali kills 1,500 Balinese.
1961 South Africa leaves British Commonwealth
1960 Eisenhower forms anti-Castro-exile army under the CIA
1959 Australia and the USSR restore diplomatic relations
1958 Navy launches Vanguard 1 into orbit (second US satellite), measures Earth shape.
1957 Dutch ban on Sunday driving lifted
1956 8th Emmy Awards: Ed Sullivan Show, Phil Silvers Show and Lucy Ball
1955 The Richard Riot occurs in Montreal.
1953 WBAY TV channel 2 in Green Bay, WI (CBS) begins broadcasting
1951 Government of Drees takes power
1950 Belgian government of Eyskens resigns.
1949 The Shamrock Hotel in Houston, Texas, owned by oil tycoon Glenn McCarthy, has its grand opening.
1948 Benelux, France, and the United Kingdom sign the Treaty of Brussels, a precursor to the North Atlantic Treaty establishing NATO.
1947 First flight of the B-45 Tornado strategic bomber.
1945 Allied ships bomb North-Sumatra.
1944 Actor Charlton Heston weds Lydia Clarke.
1943 Aldemarin (Ned) and Fort Cedar Lake (US) torpedoed and sinks
1942 Belzec Concentration Camp opens-30,000 Lublin Polish Jews transported.
1941 In Washington, D.C., the National Gallery of Art is officially opened by President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
1939 Second Sino-Japanese War: Battle of Nanchang between the Kuomintang and Japan begins,
1938 Poland presents an ultimatum to Lithuania, to establish normal diplomatic relations that were severed over the Vilnius Region.
1937 The Atherton Report (private investigator Edwin Atherton's report detailing vice and police corruption in San Francisco) is released.
1936 March 18 ampndash St. Patrick's Day Flood: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, suffers the worst flooding in its history.
1935 KSO-AM in Des Moines Iowa call sign is given to KWCR
1931 Nevada legalizes gambling.
1929 General Motors acquires German auto manufacturer Adam Opel.
1927 US government doesn't sign League of Nations disarmament treaty.
1926 Dutch Calvinists oust Reverend J G Geelkerken over Genesis 3.
1924 Netherlands and the USSR begin talks over USSR recognition
1921 Sailors revolt in Kronstadt (thousands die).
1919 Dutch steel workers strike for 8 hour day and minimum wages.
1918 US Ladies Figure Skating Championship won by Rosemary Beresford.
1917 N.S.) (March 4, O.S.) ampndash Grand Duke Michael Alexandrovich of Russia refuses the throne, and power passes to the newly formed Provisional Government under Prince Georgy Lvov.
1913 The Uruguayan Air Force is founded.
1912 Camp Fire Girls organization announced by Mrs Luther Halsey Gulick.
1910 DHC soccer team forms in Delft Netherlands.
1908 Quickest world heavyweight title fight (Tommy Burns knocks out Jem Roche in 88 seconds).
1906 President Theodore Roosevelt uses term "muckraker".
1905 Eleanor Roosevelt marries Franklin Roosevelt in New York.
1902 Stanley Cup: MontrTal AAA beat Winnipeg Victorias, two games to 1.
1901 Free thinking-Democratic Union forms in the Netherlands
1900 Stanley Cup: MontrTal Shamrocks sweep Halifax Crescents in 2.
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