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17 Mar 1190
Crusades complete massacre of Jews of York England
17 Mar 1337
Edward the Black Prince is made Duke of Cornwall the first Duchy made in England
17 Mar 1755
Transylvania Land Company buys Kentucky for 50000 from a Cherokee chief
17 Mar 1756
St. Patricks Day is first celebrated in NYC at the Crown & Thistle Tavern
17 Mar 1757
Prince Mas Sad of Mataram surrenders to Mangkubumi in Java
17 Mar 1776
British forces evacuate Boston to Nova Scotia during Revolutionary War
17 Mar 1800
British warship Queen Charlotte catches fire 700 die
17 Mar 1804
Friedrich Schillers play Wilhelm Tell premieres
17 Mar 1842
Indians land in Ohio a 12 square mile area in Upper Sandusky
17 Mar 1845
Bristol man Henry Jones patents self-raising flour
17 Mar 1845
Rubber band patented by Stephen Perry of London
17 Mar 1854
1st park land purchased by a US city Worcester Massachusetts
17 Mar 1860
Japanese embassy arrives aboard Candinmarruh [sic]
17 Mar 1863
Battle of Kellys Ford Virginia with 211 casualities
17 Mar 1870
Mass legislature authorizes incorporation of Wellesley Female Seminary
17 Mar 1871
National Association of Professional Base-Ball players organized
17 Mar 1876
1st record high jump over 6 (Marshall Jones Brooks)
17 Mar 1876
General Crook destroy Cheyennes & Oglala-Sioux Indian camps
17 Mar 1877
Bill Midwinter completes Test Crickets 1st 5-wkt haul 5-78 v England
17 Mar 1884
John Joseph Montgomery makes 1st glider flight at Otay California
17 Mar 1886
Carrollton Massacre (Mississippi) 20 African Americans killed
17 Mar 1891
British Steamer Utopia sinks off Gibraltar killing 574
17 Mar 1893
Dominion Hockey Challenge Cup (Stanley Cup) Montreal Hockey Club claim inaugural trophy after finishing top of final Amateur Hockey Association of Canada standings with a 710 record
17 Mar 1894
US & China sign treaty preventing Chinese laborers from entering US
17 Mar 1897
British boxer Bob Fitzsimmons KOs American champion Jim Corbett in the 14th round to win world heavyweight title in Carson City Nevada
17 Mar 1897
Bob Fitzsimmons KOs James J Corbett in 14 for heavyweight boxing title
17 Mar 1899
Windsor luxury hotel in NYC catches fire 92 die
17 Mar 1900
In South Africa British troops relieve Mafeking besieged by the Boers since 13 October 1899.
17 Mar 1901
Free thinking-Democratic Union forms in Netherlands
17 Mar 1906
Stanley Cup Deys Arena Ottawa ON ECAHA playoff Montreal Wanderers lose 9-3 to Ottawa HC but win challenge series 12-10 on aggregate
17 Mar 1906
The Phi Kappa Tau Fraternity is founded at Miami University in Oxford Ohio
17 Mar 1912
Camp Fire Girls organization announced by Mrs Luther Halsey Gulick
17 Mar 1917
1st exclusively womens bowling tournament begins in St Louis
17 Mar 1917
Delta Phi Epsilon is founded at New York University Law School
17 Mar 1918
US Ladies Figure Skating championship won by Rosemary Beresford
17 Mar 1919
Dutch steel workers strike for 8 hr day & minimum wages
17 Mar 1921
Dr Marie Stopes opens Britains 1st birth control clinic in London
17 Mar 1921
The Second Republic of Poland adopts the March Constitution.
17 Mar 1924
Netherlands & USSR begin talks over USSR recognition
17 Mar 1926
Dutch Calvinists oust Rev J G Geelkerken over Genesis 3
17 Mar 1926
Richard Rodgers & L Harts musical Girl Friend premieres in NYC
17 Mar 1926
Spain & Brazil prevent Germany joining League of Nations
17 Mar 1927
US government doesnt sign League of Nations disarmament treaty
17 Mar 1929
General Motors acquires German auto manufacturer Adam Opel
17 Mar 1929
Spanish dictator Primo de Rivera closes university of Madrid
17 Mar 1935
KSO-AM in Des Moines Iowa call sign is given to KWCR
17 Mar 1939
Battle of Nanchang between the Kuomintang and the Japanese breaks out (Sino-Japanese War 1937-1945)
17 Mar 1942
Beec Concentration Camp opens with the transport of 30000 Lublin Polish Jews
17 Mar 1951
Test Cricket debut of Brian Statham England v NZ at Christchurch
17 Mar 1953
Bill Veeck says he will sell his 80% of St Louis Browns for 2475M
17 Mar 1953
WBAY TV channel 2 in Green Bay WI (CBS) begins broadcasting
17 Mar 1953
WWLP TV channel 22 in Springfield MA (NBC) begins broadcasting
17 Mar 1958
US Navy launches Vanguard 1 into orbit (2nd US) measures Earth shape
17 Mar 1960
WSLA (now WAKA) TV channel 8 in Selma AL (CBS) begins broadcasting
17 Mar 1960
One of the first French New Wave films Breathless directed by Jean-Luc Godard starring Jean-Paul Belmondo and Jean Seberg is released in France
17 Mar 1961
NY DA arrests professional gamblers who implicate Seton Hall players
17 Mar 1963
Elizabeth Ann Seton of NY beatified (canonized in 1975)
17 Mar 1943
Aldemarin (Ned) & Fort Cedar Lake (US) torpedoed & sinks
17 Mar 1943
F Hugh Herberts Kiss & Tell premieres in NYC
17 Mar 1943
Physician Willem J Kolff performs the worlds first hemodialysis using his artificial kidney machine however the treatment is unsuccessful and the patient dies in the Netherlands
17 Mar 1950
Belgian government of Gaston Eyskens resigns due to constitutional crisis
17 Mar 1963
Eruptions of Mount Agung on Bali kills 1900 Balinese
17 Mar 1965
Beatles announce their film is named 8 Arms to Hold on to You (Help)
17 Mar 1966
South Africas government bans Defense & Aid Fund
17 Mar 1966
US submarine locates missing H-bomb in Mediterranean
17 Mar 1968
2-tiered gold price negotiated in Washington D.C. by US & 6 European nations
17 Mar 1970
US casts their 1st UN Security Council veto (Support England)
17 Mar 1971
Government of Trygve Bratteli takes office in Norway
17 Mar 1973
St. Patricks Day marchers carry 14 coffins commemorating Bloody Sunday
17 Mar 1975
Valeri Muratov skates world record 1000m (116.92)
17 Mar 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
17 Mar 1977
Australia wins cricket Centenary Test by 45 runs same result as 1877
17 Mar 1978
Amoco Cadiz tanker spills 1.6 mil gallons of oil off French coast
17 Mar 1979
Ice Dance Championship at Vienna won by N Linichuk & G Karponosov USSR
17 Mar 1979
Ice Pairs Championship at Vienna won by Tai Babilonia & R Gardner USA
17 Mar 1979
Mens Figure Skating Champ in Vienna won by Vladimir Kovalev (USSR)
17 Mar 1979
Worlds Ladies Figure Skating Champ in Vienna won by Linda Fratianne
17 Mar 1979
The Penmanshiel Tunnel in Berwickshire Scotland collapses during engineering works killing two workers
17 Mar 1982
4 Dutch TV crew members shot dead in El Salvador
17 Mar 1985
Matti Nykanen of Finland set a world ski jump record of 623
17 Mar 1986
Haemers gang robs gold transport in Belgium of 35 million BF
17 Mar 1987
Sunil Gavaskar ends his Test career with an innings of 96 v Pak
17 Mar 1988
Les Miserables opens at Det Norske Teatret Oslo
17 Mar 1988
Highest scoring NCAA basketball game Loyola-Marymont 119 Wyoming 115
17 Mar 1989
Chu Chem opens at Ritz Theater NYC for 44 performances
17 Mar 1989
Dorothy Cudahy is 1st female grand marshal of St. Patrick Day Parade
17 Mar 1991
9 of 15 Soviet reps officially approve new union treaty
17 Mar 1991
Irish Lesbians & Gays march in St. Patricks Day parade
17 Mar 1991
John Robin Baitz Substance of Fire premieres in NYC
17 Mar 1991
Penny Hammel wins Desert Inn LPGA Golf International
17 Mar 1992
Death & the Maiden opens at Brooks Atkinson NYC for 159 performances
17 Mar 1992
28 killed in truck bombing of Israeli embassy in Buenos Aires Arg
17 Mar 1992
Islamic Jihad truck bombs Israeli Embassy in Buenos Aires killing 29
17 Mar 1992
Russian manned space craft TM-14 launches into orbit
17 Mar 1994
Little More Magic opens at Belasco Theater NYC for 30 performances
17 Mar 1994
Iran transport aircraft crashes in Azerbaijan (32 killed)
17 Mar 1994
It is announced there is no smoking in Cleveland Indians new ballpark
17 Mar 1995
British pound hits 2.4545 to Dutch guilder (record)
17 Mar 1995
Sinn-Fein leader Gerry Adams visits White House
17 Mar 1995
US approves 1st chicken pox vaccine Varivax by Merck & Co
17 Mar 1996
Bus Stop closes at Circle in Sq Theater NYC after 29 performances
17 Mar 1996
Getting Away With Murder opens at Broadhurst NYC for 17 performances
17 Mar 1996
Aravinda De Silva gets 107 & 3-42 in cricket World Cup victory
17 Mar 1996
Liselotte Neumann wins LPGA PingWelchs Golf Championship
17 Mar 1996
Sri Lanka beat Australia by 7 wickets to win the World Cup
17 Mar 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
17 Mar 2001
OPEC decides to cut output by 4% or 1 million barrels per day effective April 1
17 Mar 2003
British Cabinet Minister Robin Cook resigns over government plans for the war with Iraq.
17 Mar 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.
17 Mar 2008
New York State Governor Eliot Spitzer resigns after a scandal involving a high-end prostitute. David Paterson becomes acting New York State governor.
17 Mar 2012
Bolton Wanderer footballer Fabrice Muamba collapses and is rushed to hospital during a live football match against Tottenham Hotspur
17 Mar 2012
MESSENGER spacecraft begins its extended mission
17 Mar 2012
Wales beats France 16-9 at Millennium Stadium Cardiff to wrap up the Grand Slam and win the Six Nations Rugby Championship Welsh fullback Leigh Halfpenny kicks 3 penalties and a conversion
17 Mar 2013
10 people are killed by a car bombing in Basra Iraq
17 Mar 2013
Toyo Ito wins the Pritzker Architecture Prize
17 Mar 2013
60th ACC Mens Basketball Tournament Miami beats North Carolina 87-77
17 Mar 2013
54th SEC Mens Basketball Tournament Ole Miss beats Florida 66-63
17 Mar 2016
Brazilian federal judge blocks swearing-in of Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva as Chief of Staff to President Dilma Rousseff as part of Car Wash controversy
17 Mar 2016
Archaeologists announce discovery of iron age warrior king buriel ground with 75 graves 2500 years old in Pocklington Northern England
17 Mar 2018
Ireland beats England 24-15 at Twickenham to wrap up Six Nations Rugby Championship 3rd Grand Slam & 11th Triple Crown
17 Mar 2018
Chinas National Peoples Congress appoints Wang Qishan as vice-president
17 Mar 2018
Africas only female head of state Mauritian President Ameenah Gurib-Fakim confirms she is resigning amid an expenses scandal
17 Mar 1934
England beats Scotland 6-3 at Twickenham London to win the Home Nations Rugby Championship and Triple Crown
17 Mar 1979
Wales beats England 27-3 at the National Stadium Cardiff for its 2nd consecutive Five Nations Rugby Championship and record 21st outright title record 4th straight Triple Crown
17 Mar 1984
Scotland beats France 21-12 at Murrayfield to win the Five Nations Rugby Championship outright and Triple Crown for first time since 1938 Grand Slam first time since 1925
17 Mar 1990
Scotland beats England 13-7 at Murrayfield Edinburgh for its 14th outright Five Nations Rugby Championship 3rd Grand Slam title and 10th Triple Crown
17 Mar 2002
WrestleMania XVIII Skydome Toronto ON (68237) Triple H beats Chris Jericho for the undisputed WWF Heavyweight title
17 Mar 2008
The popular online game for children Fantage is launched
17 Mar 2019
Wales beats Ireland 25-7 at Millennium Stadium Cardiff to clinch the Six-Nations Rugby Championship and Grand Slam Welsh fly-half Gareth Anscombe kicks 6 penalties and a conversion
17 Mar 2019
Zimbabwe declares a state of emergency after Cyclone Idai tears through eastern Zimbabwe killing at least 259
17 Mar 2019
Flash flooding and a landslides kills at least 73 and injures about 60 in Sentani and Jayapura Papua eastern Indonesia
17 Mar 2019
US Senator Kirsten Gillibrand announces her presidential bid
17 Mar 1775
Transylvania Land Company headed by Richard Henderson buys most of Kentucky through treaty signed with Cherokee chiefs at Sycamore Shoals on the Watauga River (later declared illegal)
17 Mar 1863
Battle of Kellys Ford Virginia with 211 causalities
17 Mar 1944
Mount Vesuvius in Italy erupts after months of volcanic unrest destroying several towns near the volcano
17 Mar 1966
US submarine locates missing hydrogen bomb on the Mediterranean sea floor
17 Mar 1988
Then highest scoring NCAA basketball game to date Loyola-Marymont 119 Wyoming 115
17 Mar 2016
Archaeologists announce the discovery of an 2500 year old iron age warrior king burial ground with 75 graves in Pocklington Northern England
17 Mar 1452
Battle of Los Alporchones forces of Kingdoms of Castile and Murcia defeat Emirate of Granada near Lorca part of the Spanish Reconquista
17 Mar 1800
British warship HMS Queen Charlotte catches fire off the Tuscan Archipelago 700 die
17 Mar 1842
Treaty of Wyandotte (Huron) Indian nation cedes 114000 acres of land in Ohio and Michigan to US in exchange for 148000 acres west of the Mississippi [1] [2]
17 Mar 1876
British high jump champion Marshall Jones Brooks clears 1.83m at Oxford England for unofficial world record thought to be first leap over 6
17 Mar 1877
Australias English born all-rounder Billy Midwinter completes Test crickets first 5-wicket haul 5-78 in the first ever Test match v England in Melbourne
17 Mar 1897
British boxer Bob Fitzsimmons KOs American champion Gentleman Jim Corbett in the 14th round to win World Heavyweight title in Carson City Nevada
17 Mar 1930
Construction begins of the Empire State Building the worlds 1st skyscraper of 100 stories on 5th Avenue in New York City
17 Mar 1943
F. Hugh Herberts Kiss & Tell premieres in NYC
17 Mar 1943
Physician Willem J. Kolff performs the worlds first hemodialysis using his artificial kidney machine however the treatment is unsuccessful and the patient dies in the Netherlands
17 Mar 1951
Test cricket debut of great English fast bowler Brian Statham England v NZ at Christchurch goes on to play 70 Tests 252 wickets 24.84
17 Mar 1965
Beatles announce their second film is titled 8 Arms to Hold You later changed to Help
17 Mar 1967
British harpist Shiela Bromberg plays with string section for the Sgt. Pepper track Shes Leaving Home becomes the first female to perform on a Beatles recording
17 Mar 1976
Boxer Rubin Hurricane Carter is retried in the US after being convicted of murder in 1967 (sentence is upheld but overturned 1985)
17 Mar 1992
Islamic Jihad car bombing of Israeli Embassy in Buenos Aires Argentina kills 29 [1]
17 Mar 1992
South African referendum of white voters on an end to apartheid over two-thirds vote for an end to the system
17 Mar 1995
Sinn-Fein leader Gerry Adams visits US White House
17 Mar 1580
Prince William I of Orange welcomed in Amsterdam
17 Mar 1722
William IV Prince of Orange appointed mayor of Drente
17 Mar 1778
Britain declares war on France due to French alliance with US
17 Mar 1996
ICC Mens Cricket ODI World Cup Gaddafi Stadium Lahore Pakistan Sri Lanka upset Australia by 7 wickets for their first title Player of the Match Aravinda de Silva (SL) 107 no (124) 342 & 2 catches
17 Mar 2008
Governor Eliot Spitzer of New York resigns after scandal involving a high-end prostitute David Paterson becomes acting governor
17 Mar 2013
Stacy Lewis wins the RR Donnelley LPGA Founders Cup and becomes the number one ranked woman golfer in the world
17 Mar 2019
Facebook removes 1.5 million videos of the Christchurch mosque shootings in first 24 hrs after the attack although only 1.2 million blocked at upload
17 Mar 2020
Chad begins repaying a 100 million debt to Angola with cattle as more than 1000 cows arrive in Luanda
17 Mar 2020
European Union announces a 30-day ban on entering its 26 countries for almost all travelers as it struggles to contain COVID-19
17 Mar 2020
Golden Raspberry Film Awards (Razzies) Musical Cats wins six awards including worst film
17 Mar 2020
UEFA announces the postponement of its flagship national team football competition UEFA EURO due to be played in June July due to the COVID-19 emergency
17 Mar 2022
Claude Giroux NHL Philadelphia Flyers longest-serving captain becomes only 2nd player in franchise history to play 1000th game for the team joining Bobby Clarke
17 Mar 1854
1st park land purchased by a US city in Worcester Massachusetts
17 Mar 1901
Free-thinking Democratic League forms in Netherlands
17 Mar 1917
1st exclusively womens bowling tournament begins in St Louis Missouri
17 Mar 1951
New Dutch government of Willem Drees takes power
17 Mar 1996
ICC Mens Cricket ODI World Cup Gaddafi Stadium Lahore Pakistan Sri Lanka upsets Australia by 7 wickets for their first title Player of the Match Aravinda de Silva (SL) 107 no (124) 342 & 2 catches
17 Mar 2024
Quiet on Set The Dark Side of Kids TV documentary detailing the toxic nature of some Nickelodeon shows especially under Dan Schneider during the 1990s early 2000s premieres
17 Mar 2024
Rio de Janeiro posts record heat index of 62.3 C (144.1 F) - i.e. taking into account humidity highest in Brazil in a decade (actual temperature 42 C) [1]
17 Mar 1190
Crusades complete the massacre of Jews in York England
17 Mar 1600
The first recorded Saint Patricks Day celebration in America is held in St. Augustine in Spanish Florida with the first parade taking place in the same location in 1601 both organized by Catholic Irish vicar Ricardo Artur
17 Mar 1737
Charitable Irish Society of Boston organizes the first observance of Saint Patricks Day in the Thirteen Colonies
17 Mar 1762
First Saint Patricks Day parade is held in NYC
17 Mar 1845
The rubber band is patented by Stephen Perry of London
17 Mar 1924
Diplomats are exchanged between Sweden and the USSR after Sweden recognizes the USSR (March 15)
17 Mar 1930
Construction begins on the Empire State Building the worlds first skyscraper with over 100 stories on 5th Avenue in New York City
17 Mar 1939
Battle of Nanchang between the Kuomintang and the Japanese breaks out during the Second Sino-Japanese War (1937-1945)
17 Mar 1942
Beec Concentration Camp opens with the transport of 30000 Polish Jews from Lublin
17 Mar 1959
US nuclear submarine USS Skate becomes the first submarine to surface at the North Pole
17 Mar 1961
New York City District Attorney arrests professional gamblers who implicate Seton Hall players
17 Mar 1965
Beatles announce their second film is titled 8 Arms to Hold You later changed to Help
17 Mar 1967
British harpist Sheila Bromberg plays with the string section for the Sgt. Pepper track Shes Leaving Home and becomes the first female to perform on a Beatles recording
17 Mar 1968
2-tiered gold price negotiated in Washington D.C. by US and 6 European nations
17 Mar 1983
70th hat trick in NHL New York Islander franchise history scored by Mike Bossy
17 Mar 2015
Kraft recalls 6.5 million boxes of its iconic macaroni & cheese in US Puerto Rico and some Caribbean and South American countries due to potential metal contamination
17 Mar 2024
WPL Cricket Final Arun Jaitley Stadium New Delhi Royal Challengers Bengaluru beat Delhi Capitals by 8 wickets Player of the match Sophie Molineux (RCB) 320