Page 9: Historical Events In March - 17

1973  On this day in history st Patrick's Day marchers carry 14 coffins commemorating Bloody Sunday   

1973  Geertruida M W "Truus" Bakker, Dutch actress (2 Orphans), dies at 81 on March - 17.   

1974  A CP Rail freight train hits a rock slide and derails at Spences Bridge, BC killing two crew members. This lead to the eventual installation of ditch lights on Canadian trains on March - 17.   

1974  Carroll Nye, actress (Lawless Woman), dies at 72 on this day in history.   

1976  On March - 17 rubin "Hurricane" Carter is retried   

1976  US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site on this day in history.   

1976  Luchino Visconti di Modrone, It director (Terra Diaeresis), dies at 69 on this day in history.   

1977  Australia wins cricket Centenary Test by 45 runs, same result as 1877 on this day in history.   

1978  RCMP charge Toronto Sun editor Peter Worthington and publisher Donald Creighton with violating Official Secrets Act; published information from secret report on Soviet espionage activities in Canada on March - 17.   

1978  Reds don green uniforms for St Patricks Day on March - 17.   

1978  On this day in history george Dickinson, cricketer (8 wickets in 3 Tests for NZ), dies   

1979  World Ice Dance Championship at Vienna won by N Linichuk and G Karponosov USSR on March - 17.   

1979  On March - 17 merv Inverarity, cricketer (father of John WA player 1925-40), dies   

1980  Rudolf G Escher, Dutch composer (Vrai Visage de la Paix), dies at 68 on March - 17.   

1981  FC Lisse, Dutch soccer team forms on this day in history.   

1982  4 Dutch TV crew members shot dead in El Salvador on March - 17.   

1982  Following the failure of Argentinean diplomatic efforts to reclaim the Falkland Islands from the British, an Argentine warship lands a party of "scrap dealers" on South Georgia Island, a dependency of the Falkland Islands British crown colony on this day in history.   

1982  Hans ter Laag, Dutch sound technician, murdered in El Salvador on this day in history.   

1983  9th People's Choice Awards on March - 17.   

1985  Brian Mulroney 1939- welcomes President Ronald Reagan to a Canada-US Summit meeting in the Chateau Frontenac; called the Shamrock Summit because of their common Irish ancestry and the date - St. Patrick's Day on this day in history.   

1985  On March - 17 iBM surprised the computer industry by announcing the termination of its PC Jr., a watered-down version of its popular IBM PC   

1985  Near Coast of Central Chile a 6.6 earthquake caused one person died from a heart attack at Santiago on this day in history.   

1985  Dattu Phadkar, cricketer (Indian all-rounder, 31 Tests 1947-58), dies on this day in history.   

1986  Haemers gang robs gold transport in Belgium of 35 million BF on March - 17.   

1986  On March - 17 hal Buckley, actor (John Quincy-OK Crackerby), dies at 49   

1987  On this day in history iBM releases PC-DOS version 3.3 (but Windows is on the way)   

1987  Sunil Gavaskar ends his Test career with an inning of 96 vs Pakistan on March - 17.   

1987  On this day in history torrential rains and mudslides in Tajikistan, Soviet Union, destroy dam, killing 19 people and leaving nine others missing.   

1988  Iran says Iraq uses poison gas on March - 17.   

1988  Reg Sinfield, cricketer (one Test for England v Australia 1938), dies on this day in history.   

1989  Dorothy Cudahy is first female grand marshal of St Patrick Day Parade on March - 17.   

1989  On March - 17 merritt Butrick, actor (Shy People, Wired to Kill), dies of AIDS at 29   

1990  On March - 17 germaine Capucine, French actress and fashion model (Rendez-Vous de Juillet), dies at 59   

1991  Former Australian governor-general Sir John Kerr, who dismissed the Whitlam Labor government in 1975, dies in Sydney aged 76 on this day in history.   

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1231  On March - 17 birth of emperor Shijō of Japan (d. 1242)   

1473  James IV, king of Scotland (1488-1513) was born on this day in history.   

1578  Francesco Albana, Ital painter (Mary's Ascension) was born on this day in history.   

1628  On March - 17 birth of daniel van Papenbroeck, [Papebrochius], Flemish historian   

1664  Georg Osterreich, composer was born on this day in history.   

1675  Petrus Laurentius Wockenfuss, composer was born on March - 17.   

1676  Thomas Boston, Scottish church leader (d. 1732) was born on this day in history.   

1685  On March - 17 birth of jean-Marc Nattier, French portrait painter   

0180  Antonius Marcus Aurelius, [Marcus Verus], Emperor of Rome, dies at 58 on this day in history.   

0461  St Patrick, patron St of Ireland, dies in Saul (according to legend) on this day in history.   

0659  On March - 17 gertrudis van Nijvel, saint/patron of travellers, dies at about 32   

1040  On this day in history harold Harefoot (Harold I), King of England (1035-40), dies   

1058  On this day in history death of king Lulach I of Scotland   

1199  Death of Jocelin, bishop of Glasgow on March - 17.   

1272  Death of Emperor Go-Saga of Japan (b. 1220) on this day in history.   

1425  On March - 17 death of ashikaga Yoshikazu, Japanese shogun (b. 1407)