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Tuesday, 17 March 2026
1983 India launched its inaugural satellite 
1983 Nolan Ryan strikes out his 3500th batter.
1983 Wayne Gretsky scores 7 points in a playoff game
1983 Felix Pappalardi, rocker (Cream, Mountain), dies
1985 Ilona Bodden, writer, dies.
1986 Bessie Head, writer, dies
1987 Julius Erving is recorded as becoming the 3rd NBA player to score 30000 points.
1987 Carlton Barrett, Jamaican reggae drummer (No woman no cry), dies at 36
1988 Eva Novak, actress (Medicine Man), dies of pneumonia at 90
1989 Maximum NY State unemployment benefits raised to $245 per week
1989 Soviet-US agreement allows Soviets to fight US pros.
1989 Charles Lampkin, dies.
1990 Ralph David Abernathy, US civil rights leader, dies.
1991 Dow Jones closes for inaugural time over 3000.
1991 Railroad workers go on strike in the US
1991 Jack Yellen, US poet (Sons o' Fun), dies at 97.
1992 Hank Penny, country music singer, dies at 73 of heart failure.
1993 Turgut Ã-zal, president of Turkey (1989-93), dies at 65.
1994 Peter Hacker, US journalist/actor (NBC, Broadcast News), dies at 69
1995 A R A (Anton) Murray, cricketer (289 runs and 11 wkts in 10 Tests), dies
1996 Eva Jones, poet/novelist, dies at 82
1997 Chaim Herzog, President of Israel (1983-93), dies at 78.
2005 Twelve holidaymakers are killed in southern Switzerland when a bus carrying twenty seven people plunges 656 feet into a ravine
2006 A suicide bombing by Islamic Jihad in Tel Aviv results in the deaths of nine people and injures dozens.
2007 The Pound Sterling hits a 15-year high against the US dollar, breaking through the US$2 level for the inaugural time since 1992.
2012 The St Cuthbert Gospel, Europe's oldest intact book, purchased by the British Library for 9 million pounds
2013 5 people are killed in Wana, Pakistan, by a United States drone attack.
2014 In this year, Abdelaziz Bouteflika claims a fourth term as President of Algeria.
2017 1st living giant shipworm at 3 ft are discovered in the Philippines, really a type of clam.
2018 In this year, Former F.B.I. director James Comey publishes his political autobiography “A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies, and Leadershipâ€
2018 Protests across India at the rape and murder of an 8-year old Muslim girl in Kathua, Bengalu.
2019 In this year, Beyoncé releases a live album of her 2018 Coachella performance on the same day as her Netflix documentary "Homecoming"
2019 The 2019 Indonesian general election takes place; for the President, 575 seats in the People's Representative Council, and 136 seats in the Regional Representative Council.
2019 At least 29 people are killed in a bus crash on the Portuguese island of Madeira.
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