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Tuesday, 17 March 2026
1980 Ronald Reagan formally accepts Republican nomination for president 
1980 Donald Barry, actor (Mr Gallo-Mr Novak), dies at 68
1981 Fulton County (Atlanta) grand jury indicts Wayne B William 23 year old photographers, for murder of 2 of 28 blacks killed in Atlanta
1981 Humbar Estuary Bridge, UK, world's longest span (1.4 km), opens
1981 Lobby Walkways at KC's Hyatt Regency collapse 114 die, 200 injured.
1984 Soyuz T-12 carries 3 cosmonauts to space station Salyut 7.
1984 J Delos Jewkes, singer/actor (Stars and Stripes Forever), dies at 89.
1985 Czeslaw Josef Marek, composer, dies at 93
1987 10 teens die in Guadalupe River flood (Comfort, Tx).
1988 Florence Griffith Joyner of USA sets the 100m woman's record (10.49).
1988 Bruiser Brody, wrestler, stabbed to death
1989 In this year, Paul McCartney releases "This One"
1990 In this year, Hussein's Revolutionary Day speech claims Kuwait stole oil from Iraq.
1998 In Papua New Guinea a 7.1 earthquake killed at least 2183 people, thousands injured, about 9500 homeless and about 500 missing as a result of a tsunami generated in the Sissano area. Maximum wave heights estimated at 10 meters.
2005 The Disneyland Resort celebrates its 50th birthday.
2007 Atlanta Falcons quarterback Michael Vick and three other men on charges related to their alleged operation of a dogfighting ring based at one of Vick's properties in southeastern Virginia. Vick was later suspended indefinitely in aug by NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell and is now serving his sentence of 23 months in federal prison.
2009 Jakarta double bombings at e JW Marriott and Ritz-Carlton Hotels killed 9 people including 4 foreigners.
2012 17 people are wounded in a bar shooting in Jasper, Alabama.
2013 7 people are killed by a car bomb in Damascus, Syria.
2014 Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 crashes (presumed shot down by either pro-Russian separatists or the Ukrainian militia), killing all 283 passengers and 15 crew on board
2014 After a five-hour humanitarian ceasefire, Israel confirms the beginning of a ground offensive in Gaza
2014 Malaysia Airlines Flight 17, a Boeing 777, crashes in eastern Ukraine after being shot down by a missile. All 298 people on board are killed.
2016 After a five-hour humanitarian ceasefire, Israel confirms the beginning of a ground offensive in Gaza.
2016 Malaysia Airlines Flight 17, a Boeing 777, crashes in eastern Ukraine after being shot down by a missile. All 298 people on board are killed
2017 The Muppets Studio in firing the voice of Kermit the Frog, Steve Whitmire, blame his “unacceptable business conductâ€.
2018 Bloomberg estimates NFL made $14 billion in revenue in 2017, distributing a record $8.1 billion to the league's 32 teams, $255m each
2018 Australian basketball center Liz Cambage scores 53 points as the Dallas Wings beat the NY Liberty 104-87 to set new WNBA single game scoring record
2018 89th MLB All Star Game, Nationals Park, Washington, D.C.: AL beats NL 8-6, the teams combining for a record 10 home runs accounting for 13 of the 14 total runs.
2018 Barack Obama gives speech honoring Nelson Mandela and warning of "strongman politics" in Johannesburg, South Africa.
2018 Oldest evidence of bread, made from wild grains, discovered by archaeologists in 14000 year-old dig in the Black Desert, Jordon.
2018 The EU–Japan Economic Partnership Agreement is signed, the world's largest bilateral free trade deal, creating an open trade zone covering nearly one-third of global GDP.
2019 Mexican drug cartel head JoaquÃn " El Chapo " Guzmán sentenced to life in prison plus 30 years in New York Learn More >>
2019 JoaquÃn "El Chapo" Guzmán, former head of the Sinaloa Cartel, which became the biggest supplier of drugs to the U.S., is sentenced to life in prison plus 30 years
2019 The World Health Organization (WHO) declares the Kivu Ebola epidemic to be a public health emergency of international concern
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