Notable Historical Events on March 17th
March 17th Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
45 |
In his last victory, Julius Caesar defeats the Pompeian forces of Titus Labienus and Pompey the Younger in the Battle of Munda. |
BC AD | |
432 |
St Patrick aged 16 is carried off to Ireland as a slave (traditional date) |
455 |
Roman senator Petronius Maximus becomes Emperor |
1190 |
Crusades complete massacre of Jews of York England |
1337 |
Edward, the Black Prince is made Duke of Cornwall, the first Duchy made in England. |
1521 |
Portuguese navigator Ferdinand Magellan reaches the Philippines |
1526 |
French King Francois I freed from Spain |
1537 |
French troops invade Flanders |
1580 |
Prince Willem of Orange welcomed in Amsterdam |
1658 |
Pro-Charles II plot in England discovered |
1672 |
England declares war on Netherlands |
1722 |
Willem KH Friso appointed mayor of Drente |
1753 |
1st official St Patrick's Day |
1755 |
Transylvania Land Company buys Kentucky for $50,000 from a Cherokee chief |
1756 |
St Patrick's Day 1st celebrated in NYC at Crown & Thistle Tavern |
1757 |
Prince Mas Saïd of Mataram surrenders to Mangkubumi in Java |
1762 |
1st St Patrick's Day parade in NYC |
1766 |
Britain repeals the Stamp Act |
1776 |
British forces evacuate Boston to Nova Scotia during Revolutionary War |
1800 |
British warship Queen Charlotte catches fire; 700 die |
1804 |
Friedrich Schiller's play "Wilhelm Tell" premieres |
1824 |
Britain & Netherlands sign a trade agreement |
1833 |
Phoenix Society forms (NY) |
1836 |
Texas abolishes slavery |
1842 |
Indians land in Ohio, a 12 square mile area in Upper Sandusky |
1845 |
Bristol man, Henry Jones, patents self-raising flour |
1845 |
Rubber band patented by Stephen Perry of London |
1847 |
"Macbeth" opera premieres in Florence |
1854 |
1st park land purchased by a US city, Worcester, Mass |
1860 |
Japanese embassy arrives aboard Candinmarruh [sic] |
1861 |
Italy declares independence; Kingdom of Italy proclaimed |
1863 |
Battle of Kelly's Ford, VA (211 casualities) |
1868 |
Postage stamp canceling machine patent issued |
1870 |
Mass legislature authorizes incorporation of Wellesley Female Seminary |
1871 |
National Association of Professional Base-Ball players organized |
1876 |
1st record high jump over 6' (Marshall Jones Brooks) |
1876 |
Gen Crook destroy Cheyennes & Oglala-Sioux indian camps |
1877 |
Bill Midwinter completes Test Crickets' 1st 5-wkt haul, 5-78 v Eng |
1884 |
John Joseph Montgomery makes 1st glider flight, Otay, Calif |
1886 |
Carrollton Massacre, (Mississippi) 20 African Americans killed |
1891 |
British Steamer "Utopia" sinks off Gibraltar killing 574 |
1894 |
US & China sign treaty preventing Chinese laborers from entering US |
1897 |
Bob Fitzsimmons KOs James J Corbett in 14 for heavyweight boxing title |
1898 |
1st practical submarine 1st submerges, NYC (for 1 hour 40 minutes) |
1898 |
John Philip Holland achieves successful test runs of the first modern submarine off Staten Island |
1899 |
Windsor luxury hotel in NYC catches fire, 92 die |
1900 |
Stanley Cup: Montreal Shamrocks sweep Halifax Crescents in 2 |
1900 |
In South Africa, British troops relieve Mafeking, besieged by the Boers since 13 October, 1899. |
1901 |
Free thinking-Democratic Union forms in Netherlands |
1901 |
A showing of seventy-one Vincent van Gogh paintings in Paris, 11 years after his death, creates a sensation. |
1902 |
Stanley Cup: Montreal AAA beat Winnipeg Victorias, 2 games to 1 |
1906 |
Stanley Cup: Montreal Wanderers beat Ottawa Silver 7, although both winning a game, Montreal outscores Ottawa 12-10 |
1906 |
The Phi Kappa Tau Fraternity is founded at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. |
1908 |
Quickest world heavyweight title fight (Burns KOs Roche in 88 seconds) |
1908 |
Tommy Burns KOs Jem Roche in 1 for heavyweight boxing title |
1910 |
DHC soccer team forms in Delft Neth |
1912 |
Camp Fire Girls organization announced by Mrs Luther Halsey Gulick |
1913 |
The Uruguayan Air Force is founded. |
1917 |
1st exclusively women's bowling tournament begins in St Louis |
1917 |
Delta Phi Epsilon is founded at New York University Law School. |
1917 |
Albert Anastasia is convicted of murdering longshoreman George Turino |
1918 |
US Ladies Figure Skating championship won by Rosemary Beresford |
1918 |
US Mens Figure Skating championship won by Nathaniel Niles |
1919 |
Dutch steel workers strike for 8 hr day & minimum wages |
1921 |
Dr Marie Stopes opens Britain's 1st birth control clinic (London) |
1921 |
Lenin proclaims New Economic Politics |
1921 |
Sailors revolt in Kronstadt (thousands die) |
1921 |
The Second Republic of Poland adopts the March Constitution. |
1924 |
Eugene O'Neill's "Welded" premieres in NYC |
1924 |
Netherlands & USSR begin talks over USSR recognition |
1924 |
Sweden & USSR exchange diplomats |
1926 |
Dutch Calvinists oust Rev J G Geelkerken over Genesis 3 |
1926 |
Richard Rodgers & L Hart's musical "Girl Friend" premieres in NYC |
1926 |
Spain & Brazil prevent Germany joining League of Nations |
1927 |
US government doesn't sign league of Nations disarmament treaty |
1929 |
General Motors acquires German auto manufacturer Adam Opel |
1929 |
Spanish dictator Primo de Rivera closes university of Madrid |
1931 |
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1932 |
German police raid Hitler's Nazi headquarter |
1934 |
Dollfuss, Mussolini & Gombos sign Donau Pact (protocols of Rome) |
1935 |
KSO-AM in Des Moines Iowa call sign is given to KWCR |
1939 |
Sino-Japanese War (1937-1945): The Battle of Nanchang between the Kuomintang and the Japanese breaks out. |
1942 |
Belzec Concentration Camp opens-30,000 Lublin Polish Jews transported |
1942 |
Gen Doug MacArthur arrives in Australia to become supreme commander |
1943 |
Aldemarin (Ned) & Fort Cedar Lake (US) torpedoed & sinks |
1943 |
F Hugh Herbert's "Kiss & Tell" premieres in NYC |
1943 |
Physician Willem J Kolff performs the world's first 'hemodialysis' using his artificial kidney machine, however the treatment is unsuccessful and the patient dies, the Netherlands |
1945 |
Allied ships bomb North-Sumatra |
1950 |
Belgian government of Eyskens resigns |
1950 |
Element 98 (Californium) announced |
1951 |
Government of Drees takes power |
1951 |
Test Cricket debut of Brian Statham, England v NZ Christchurch |
1953 |
Bill Veeck says he will sell his 80% of St Louis Browns for $2,475M |
1953 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
1953 |
WBAY TV channel 2 in Green Bay, WI (CBS) begins broadcasting |
1953 |
WWLP TV channel 22 in Springfield, MA (NBC) begins broadcasting |
1955 |
After Maurice Richard is suspended for the remainder of the season, riots break out in Montreal. 37 people are injured and over 100 are arrested. The following morning, Richard goes on the radio to ask citizens to stop vandalizing the city. |
1956 |
8th Emmy Awards: Ed Sullivan Show, Phil Silvers Show & Lucy Ball win |
1957 |
Dutch ban on Sunday driving lifted |
1957 |
Presidential plane crashes on Mt. Manunggal in Cebu, Philippines killing 25 including Filipino President Ramon Magsaysay |
1958 |
Navy launches Vanguard 1 into orbit (2nd US), measures Earth shape |
1959 |
Australia & USSR restore diplomatic relations |
1959 |
Dalai Lama flees Tibet for India |
1960 |
Eisenhower forms anti-Castro-exile army under the CIA |
1960 |
WSLA (now WAKA) TV channel 8 in Selma, AL (CBS) begins broadcasting |
1961 |
NY DA arrests professional gamblers who implicate Seton Hall players |
1961 |
South Africa leaves British Commonwealth |
1963 |
Bob Cousy plays his last NBA game |
1963 |
Elizabeth Ann Seton of NY beatified (canonized in 1975) |
1963 |
Eruptions of Mount Agung Bali, kills 1,900 Balinese |
1965 |
Beatles announce their film is named "8 Arms to Hold on to You" (Help) |
1966 |
South Africa government bans Defense & Aid Fund |
1966 |
US sub locates missing H-bomb in Mediterranean |
1968 |
2-tiered gold price negotiated in Wash DC by US & 6 European nations |
1968 |
Kathie Whitworth wins LPGA St Petersburg Orange Blossom Golf Open |
1969 |
Golda Meir becomes Israel's 4th PM |
1969 |
Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Orange Blossom Golf Open |
1970 |
Peter O'Malley becomes CEO of LA Dodgers |
1970 |
US casts their 1st UN Security Council veto (Support England) |
1972 |
Ringo releases "Back off Bugaloo" in UK |
1973 |
Queen Elizabeth II opens new London Bridge |
1973 |
St Patrick's Day marchers carry 14 coffins commemorating Bloody Sunday |
1974 |
Jane Blalock wins LPGA Bing Crosby Golf Classic International |
1975 |
Valeri Muratov skates world record 1000m (1:16.92) |
1976 |
Malikov skates world record 1000m (1:15.76) |
1976 |
Rubin "Hurricane" Carter is retried |
1976 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
1976 |
4 Catholic civilians (including 2 children) are killed and twelve wounded when the Ulster Volunteer Force explode a car bomb at Hillcrest Bar, Dungannon |
1977 |
Australia wins cricket Centenary Test by 45 runs, same result as 1877 |
1978 |
Amoco Cadiz tanker spills 1.6 mil gallons of oil off French coast |
1978 |
Ligeti's opera "Le Grand Macabre," premieres in Stockholm |
1978 |
Reds don green uniforms for St Patricks Day |
1979 |
Ice Dance Championship at Vienna won by N Linichuk & G Karponosov USSR |
1979 |
Ice Pairs Championship at Vienna won by Tai Babilonia & R Gardner USA |
1979 |
Men's Figure Skating Champ in Vienna won by Vladimir Kovalev (USSR) |
1979 |
Worlds Ladies Figure Skating Champ in Vienna won by Linda Fratianne |
1979 |
The Penmanshiel Tunnel collapses during engineering works, killing two workers |
1981 |
FC Lisse, Dutch soccer team forms |
1982 |
4 Dutch TV crew members shot dead in El Salvador |
1983 |
70th hat trick in Islander history-Mike Bossy |
1985 |
Jane Blalock wins LPGA Women's Kemper Golf Open |
1985 |
Matti Nykanen of Finland set a world ski jump record of 623' |
1986 |
Haemers gang robs gold transport in Belgium of 35 million BF |
1987 |
IBM releases PC-DOS version 3.3 |
1987 |
Sunil Gavaskar ends his Test career with an innings of 96 v Pak |
1988 |
"Les Miserables," opens at Det Norske Teatret, Oslo |
1988 |
Highest scoring NCAA basketball game; Loyola-Marymont 119, Wyoming 115 |
1988 |
Iran says Iraq uses poison gas |
1989 |
"Chu Chem" opens at Ritz Theater NYC for 44 performances |
1989 |
Dorothy Cudahy is 1st female grand marshal of St Patrick Day Parade |
1990 |
PBA National Championship Won by Jim Pencak |
1991 |
9 of 15 Soviet reps officially approve new union treaty |
1991 |
Irish Lesbians & Gays march in St Patrick Day parade |
1991 |
John Robin Baitz' "Substance of Fire" premieres in NYC |
1991 |
NJ raises turnpike tolls 70% |
1991 |
Penny Hammel wins Desert Inn LPGA Golf International |
1992 |
"Death & the Maiden" opens at Brooks Atkinson NYC for 159 perfs |
1992 |
18th People's Choice Awards: Kevin Costner & Julia Roberts win (Dramatic Motion Picture) and Bill Cosby & Candice Bergen win (TV) |
1992 |
28 killed in truck bombing of Israeli embassy in Buenos Aires, Arg |
1992 |
De Klerk wins a white only referendum |
1992 |
Islamic Jihad truck bombs Israeli Embassy in Buenos Aires killing 29 |
1992 |
Russian manned space craft TM-14, launches into orbit |
1993 |
19th People's Choice Awards: Kevin Costner & Demi Moore win (Dramatic Motion Picture) and Tim Allen & Candice Bergen win (TV) |
1993 |
86 killed by bomb attack in Calcutta |
1994 |
"Little More Magic" opens at Belasco Theater NYC for 30 performances |
1994 |
Iran transport aircraft crashes in Azerbaijan (32 killed) |
1994 |
It is announced there is no smoking in Cleve Indians new ballpark |
1995 |
British pound hits 2.4545 to Dutch guilder (record) |
1995 |
Sinn-Fein leader Gerry Adams visits White House |
1995 |
USt approves 1st chicken pox vaccine, Varivax by Merck & Co |
1996 |
"Bus Stop" closes at Circle in Sq Theater NYC after 29 performances |
1996 |
"Getting Away With Murder" opens at Broadhurst NYC for 17 perfs |
1996 |
Aravinda De Silva gets 107* & 3-42 in cricket World Cup victory |
1996 |
Liselotte Neumann wins LPGA Ping/Welch's Golf Championship |
1996 |
Montreal Canadian's 1st game in their new arena |
1996 |
Sri Lanka beat Australia by 7 wickets to win the World Cup |
1997 |
CNN begins spanish broadcasts |
2000 |
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. |
2003 |
British Cabinet Minister Robin Cook, resigns over government plans for the war with Iraq. |
2004 |
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. |
2008 |
New York State Governor Eliot Spitzer resigns after a scandal involving a high-end prostitute. David Paterson becomes acting New York State governor. |
2012 |
Bolton Wanderer footballer Fabrice Muamba collapses and is rushed to hospital during a live football match against Tottenham Hotspur |
2012 |
Wales defeat France to record their eleventh Grand Slam in the Six Nations Championship |
2012 |
John Demjanjuk, convicted Nazi war criminal, dies from natural causes at 91 |
2013 |
10 people are killed by a car bombing in Basra, Iraq |
2013 |
Toyo Ito wins the 2013 Pritzker Architecture Prize |
2013 |
Pope Francis delivers his first Angelus prayer and blessing |
2014 |
The Republic of Crimea is declared |
2016 |
Trump predicts 'riots' if Republicans deny him the nomination |
2016 |
Obama to Lay Out Vision for Cuba in Historic Havana Speech |
2017 |
New York City EMT Is Killed in Ambulance Theft in the Bronx |
2017 |
Britain's GCHQ agency denies wiretapping Donald Trump |
2017 |
Senate intelligence panel rejects Trump wiretap claim |
2018 |
No. 16 UMBC stuns No. 1 Virginia 74-54 to make NCAA history |
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