17th Day of March

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History and Headlines from around the World on this day


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
1762 1st St Patrick's Day parade in NYC
1776 British forces evacuate Boston to Nova Scotia during Revolutionary War
1800 English warship Queen Charlotte catches fire; 700 die
1833 Phoenix Society forms (New York)
1836 Texas abolishes slavery
1842 Indians land in Ohio, a 12²-mile area in Upper Sandusky
1861 Italy declares independence; Kingdom of Italy proclaimed
1863 Battle of Kelly's Ford, Virginia (211 casualities)
1871 National Association of Professional Base-Ball players organized
1876 General Crook destroy Cheyennes & Oglala-Sioux Indian camps
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, New York NY (for 1 hour 40 minutes)
1905: Anna Eleanor Roosevelt marries Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
1917 Tsar Nicolas II of Russia abdicates the throne
1921 Sailors revolt in Kronstadt (thousands die)
1926 Spain & Brazil prevent Germany joining League of Nations
1927 US government doesn't sign league of Nations disarmament treaty
1931 Stalin throws Krupskaya Lenin out of Central Committee
1932 German police raid Hitler's Nazi-headquarter
1942 Belzec Concentration Camp opens-30,000 Lublin Polish Jews transported
1945: American forces defeat the Japanese at the battle of Iwo Jima
1953 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1958 Navy launches Vanguard 1 into orbit (2nd US), measures Earth shape
1959 Dalai Lama flees Tibet for India
1966 US sub locates missing H-bomb in Mediterranean
1973 St Patrick's Day marchers carry 14 coffins commemorating Bloody Sunday
1976 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1986 Haemers gang robs gold transport in Belgium of 35 million BF
1988 Iran says Iraq uses poison gas
1989 Dorothy Cudahy is 1st female grand marshal of St Patrick Day Parade
1992 Islamic Jihad truck bombs Israeli Embassy in Buenos Aires Argentina killing 29
1992 Russian manned space craft TM-14, launches into orbit
1995 Sinn-Fein leader Gerry Adams visits White House
1996 Mike Tyson beat Frank Bruno in 3rd round to gain Heavyweight title
2000 Smith & Wesson, the nation's oldest and largest maker of handguns, agreed to a wide array of restrictions in exchange for ending some lawsuits that threatened to bankrupt the company.

Do a search on any of the above... it makes very interesting reading


The recovered hydrogen bomb was displayed by U.S. Navy officials on the fantail of the submarine rescue ship U.S.S. Petrel after it was located in the Mediterranean sea off the coast of Spain in April 1966.