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Tuesday, 17 March 2026
1988 Jailed black nationalist Nelson Mandela struck with tuberculosis 
1988 Milton Adolphus, composer, dies at 75
1989 Amanda Blake, actress (Gunsmoke), dies at 58
1990 Iraq orders 4000 Britons and 2500 Americans in Kuwait to Iraq.
1991 Pres Bush declares the recession is near an end
1991 Robert DiMatte Jr, stage director/actor, dies at 43.
1992 Mark Heard, Christian musician, dies at 41 of a heart attack
1993 Irene Sharaff, US costume designer (Cleopatra, Can-can), dies at 83
1994 Earnest Pawel, Polish/US author (Nightmare of Reason), dies at 74.
1995 John Cameron Swayze, news anchor (NBC), dies at 89
1996 Eric Cullen, actor (Huntington Tower), dies at 31
2000 Heather breaks up with Wayne for good after 5 years and she says, " I'M FINALLY FREE!! "
2005 The XX World Youth Day begins in Cologne, Germany.
2005 West Caribbean Airways Flight 708 crashes into a mountain in Venezuela, killing 152 passengers
2007 The Crandall Canyon Mine in Emery County, Utah, collapses a second time, killing three rescue workers and injuring six more
2011 Beginning of World Youth Day 2011 in Madrid
2012 Julian Assange, Wikileaks founder, is granted political asylum by Ecuador.
2013 61 people are killed after the ferry MV Thomas Aquinas sinks in the Philippines.
2017 Over 100 Maasai houses destroyed in Tanzania by game park authorities as part of a border dispute near Serengeti National Park
2017 Lebanon parliament abolishes article 522, which exempted rapists from prosecution if they married their victim.
2017 Baltimore city council removes confederate statues under cover of darkness in response to Charlottesville violence.
2017 Philippine police kill 32 in raids near Manilia, most deadly night in President Rodrigo Duterte’s war on drugs.
2017 Three suicide bombers kill 27 people outside a refugee camp near Maiduguri in Borno state, Nigeria, Boko Haram suspected.
2017 Last batch of Farc rebel weapons removed by the UN in Colombia.
2017 Emma Stone is the year's highest-paid actress with $26 million, according to Forbes
2018 Brandt Snedeker shoots 10th sub-60 round in PGA history with an 11-under par 59 in the opening round of the Wyndham Championship in Greensboro, North Carolina.
2018 Unprecedented flooding and landslides in Kerala, India, reported to have killed 106 people with 150000 homeless
2018 World's inaugural floating dairy farm opens in Merwehaven harbour, Rotterdam, the Netherlands, with 40 cows milked by robots
2018 Pope Francis and the Vatican issues statement in support of the 300 victims of "predator priests" in Pennsylvania.
2018 Scarlett Johansson is the world's best-paid actress of the year earning $40.5 million according to Forbes
2018 British Columbia, Canada, declares State of Emergency with 566 wildfires burning, prompting evacuation of 3000 people
2018 International Tennis Federation votes to change format of the Davis Cup to a big prize money, season-ending, 18-team tournament at a neutral site; 24 team qualifying tournament to start in February 2019.
2020 In this year, World Snooker Championship, Crucible Theatre, Sheffield: Englishman Ronnie O'Sullivan claims his 6th world title with an 18-8 win over countryman Kyren Wilson
