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Events from History on March 17

1190 : Crusades complete massacre of Jews of York England
1521 : Ferdinand Magellan discovers the Philippines
1521 : Magelhaes lands on Homohon
1526 : French king Fran‡ois 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 Co 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 Sa‹d of Mataram surrenders to Mangkubumi in Java
1762 : 1st St Patrick's Day parade in NYC
1766 : Britain repeals Stamp Act
1776 : British forces evacuate Boston to Nova Scotia during Revolutionary War
1800 : English warship Queen Charlotte catches fire; 700 die
1804 : Johann von Schiller's "Wilhelm Tell," premieres
1824 : England & Netherlands sign a trade agreement
1833 : Phoenix Society forms (NY)
1836 : Texas abolishes slavery
1842 : Indians land in Ohio, a 12ý-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 blacks killed
1891 : British Steamer "Utopia" sinks off Gibraltar killing 574
1894 : US & China sign treaty preventing Chinese laborers from entering US
1898 : 1st practical submarine 1st submerges, NYC (for 1 hour 40 minutes)
1899 : Windsor luxury hotel in NYC catches fire, 92 die
1900 : Stanley Cup: Montreal Shamrocks sweep Halifax Crescents in 2
1901 : Free thinking-Democratic Union forms in Netherlands
1902 : Stanley Cup: Montreal AAA beat Winnipeg Victorias, 2 games to 1
1905 : Eleanor Roosevelt marries FDR in NY
1906 : Pres Theodore Roosevelt uses term "muckrake"
1906 : Stanley Cup: Montreal Wanderers beat Ottawa Silver 7, although both
1906 : winning a game, Montreal outscores Ottawa 12-10
1908 : Quickest world heavyweight title fight (Burns KOs Roche in 88 seconds)
1910 : DHC soccer team forms in Delft Neth
1912 : Camp Fire Girls organization announced by Mrs Luther Halsey Gulick
1917 : 1st exclusively women's bowling tournament begins in St Louis
1917 : Tsar Nicolas II of Russia abdicates the throne [NS]
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)
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 govt 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 : Stalin throws Krupskaya Lenin out of Central Committee
1932 : German police raid Hitler's nazi-headquarter
1934 : Dollfuss, Mussolini & G”mb”s sign Donau Pact (protocols of Rome)
1935 : KSO-AM in Des Moines Iowa call sign is given to KWCR
1941 : National Gallery of Art, Wash DC opens
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
1944 : Actor Charlton Heston weds Lydia Clarke
1945 : Allied ships bomb North-Sumatra
1950 : Belgian govt of Eyskens resigns
1950 : Element 98 (Californium) announced
1951 : Govt 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 : Maurice "Rocket" Richard suspended, sparks 7 hour riot in Montr‚al
1956 : 8th Emmy Awards: Ed Sullivan Show, Phil Silvers Show & Lucy Ball
1957 : Dutch ban on Sunday driving lifted
1957 : Ramon Magsaysay, president of Philipines dies in a plane crash
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 : 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 govt 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
1969 : Golda Meir becomes Israel's 4th PM
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 Day marchers carry 14 coffins commemorating Bloody Sunday
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
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
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
1983 : 9th People's Choice Awards
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 : 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%
1992 : "Death & the Maiden" opens at Brooks Atkinson NYC for 159 perfs
1992 : 18th People's Choice Awards: Garth Brooks & Reba McEntire
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 : 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 œ 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 : Mike Tyson beat Frank Bruno in 3rd round to gain Heavyweight title
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
1998 : USA Women's Hockey Team beats Canada for 1st Olympic Gold medal

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