March 17th Events |
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| March 17th, 2045 (March 17 2045) | Event | In his last victory, Julius Caesar defeats the Pompeian forces of Titus Labienus and Pompey the Younger in the Battle of Munda. | Julius Caesar Quotes |
| March 17th, 2008 (March 17 2008) | Event | New York State Governor Eliot Spitzer resigns after a scandal involving a high-end prostitute. David Paterson becomes acting New York State governor. | |
| March 17th, 2004 (March 17 2004) | Event | Unrest in Kosovo results in more than 22 killed, 200 wounded, and the destruction of 35 Serb Orthodox shrines in Kosovo and two mosques in Belgrade and Nis. | |
| March 17th, 2003 (March 17 2003) | Event | British Cabinet Minister Robin Cook, resigns over government plans for the war with Iraq. | |
| March 17th, 2000 (March 17 2000) | Event | The 800+ deaths of members of the Ugandan cult Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments of God is considered to be a mass murder and suicide orchestrated by leaders of the cult. | |
| March 17th, 1992 (March 17 1992) | Event | A suicide car-bomb kills 29 and injures 242 at the Israeli Embassy attack in Buenos Aires, Argentina. | |
| March 17th, 1988 (March 17 1988) | Event | A Colombian Boeing 727 jetliner, Avianca Flight 410, crashes into a mountainside near the Venezuelan border killing 143. | |
| March 17th, 1988 (March 17 1988) | Event | 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 (EPLF) in the opening action of the Battle of Afabet. | |
| March 17th, 1985 (March 17 1985) | Event | Serial killer Richard Ramirez, the "Night Stalker", commits his first two murders in Los Angeles, California murder spree. | |
| March 17th, 1979 (March 17 1979) | Event | The Penmanshiel Tunnel collapses during engineering works, killing two workers. | |
| March 17th, 1975 (March 17 1975) | Event | The Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific railroad enter third and final bankruptcy, and William M. Gibbons selected as receiver and trustee for the railroad. | |
| March 17th, 1973 (March 17 1973) | Event | The Pulitzer Prize-winning photograph Burst of Joy is taken, depicting a former prisoner of war being reunited with his family. | |
| March 17th, 1970 (March 17 1970) | Event | My Lai massacre: The United States Army charges 14 officers with suppressing information related to the incident. | |
| March 17th, 1969 (March 17 1969) | Event | Golda Meir becomes the first female Prime Minister of Israel. | Golda Meir Quotes |
| March 17th, 1966 (March 17 1966) | Event | Off the coast of Spain in the Mediterranean, the Alvin submarine finds a missing American hydrogen bomb. | |
| March 17th, 1960 (March 17 1960) | Event | 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. | Dwight D. Eisenhower Quotes |
| March 17th, 1959 (March 17 1959) | Event | Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama, flees Tibet for India. | Tenzin Gyatso Quotes |
| March 17th, 1958 (March 17 1958) | Event | The United States launches the Vanguard 1 satellite. | |
| March 17th, 1957 (March 17 1957) | Event | A plane crash in Cebu, Philippines kills Philippine President Ramon Magsaysay and 24 others. | |
| March 17th, 1950 (March 17 1950) | Event | University of California, Berkeley researchers announce the creation of element 98, which they name "Californium". | |
| March 17th, 1948 (March 17 1948) | Event | Benelux, France, and the United Kingdom sign the Treaty of Brussels, a precursor to the NATO Agreement. | |
| March 17th, 1945 (March 17 1945) | Event | The Ludendorff Bridge in Remagen, Germany collapses, ten days after its capture. | |
| March 17th, 1942 (March 17 1942) | Event | Holocaust: The first Jews from the Lviv Ghetto (western Ukraine) are gassed at the Belzec death camp (eastern Poland). | |
| March 17th, 1941 (March 17 1941) | Event | In Washington, D.C., the National Gallery of Art is officially opened by President Franklin D. Roosevelt. | |
| March 17th, 1939 (March 17 1939) | Event | Sino-Japanese War (1937-1945): The Battle of Nanchang between the Kuomintang and the Japanese breaks out. | |
| March 17th, 1921 (March 17 1921) | Event | The Second Republic of Poland adopts the March Constitution. | |
| March 17th, 1917 (March 17 1917) | Event | Delta Phi Epsilon is founded at New York University Law School. | |
| March 17th, 1913 (March 17 1913) | Event | The Uruguayan Air Force is founded. | |
| March 17th, 1910 (March 17 1910) | Event | Luther Gulick and his wife Charlotte found Camp Fire Girls (now Camp Fire USA) (formally announced in 1912). | |
| March 17th, 1906 (March 17 1906) | Event | The Phi Kappa Tau Fraternity is founded at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. | |
| March 17th, 1901 (March 17 1901) | Event | A showing of seventy-one Vincent van Gogh paintings in Paris, 11 years after his death, creates a sensation. | Vincent Van Gogh Quotes |
| March 17th, 1861 (March 17 1861) | Event | The Kingdom of Italy (1861-1946) is proclaimed. | |
| March 17th, 1845 (March 17 1845) | Event | The rubber band is patented. | |
| March 17th, 1805 (March 17 1805) | Event | The Italian Republic, with Napoleon as president, becomes the Kingdom of Italy, with Napoleon as King. | |
| March 17th, 1776 (March 17 1776) | Event | American Revolution: British forces evacuate Boston, Massachusetts after George Washington and Henry Knox place artillery overlooking the city. | George Washington Quotes |
| March 17th, 1756 (March 17 1756) | Event | St. Patrick s Day is celebrated in New York City for the first time (at the Crown and Thistle Tavern). | |
| March 17th, 1337 (March 17 1337) | Event | Edward, the Black Prince is made Duke of Cornwall, the first Duchy made in England. | |
| March 17th, 0180 (March 17 0180) | Event | Marcus Aurelius dies. Commodus is now the only emperor of the Roman Empire. | Marcus Aurelius Quotes |
