Page 9: Historical Events In March - 17

1973  St Patrick's Day marchers carry 14 coffins commemorating Bloody Sunday on March - 17.   

1973  On March - 17 geertruida M W "Truus" Bakker, Dutch actress (2 Orphans), dies at 81   

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 March - 17.   

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

1976  On this day in history uS performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site   

1976  On March - 17 luchino Visconti di Modrone, It director (Terra Diaeresis), dies at 69   

1977  Australia wins cricket Centenary Test by 45 runs, same result as 1877 on March - 17.   

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 this day in history.   

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

1978  George Dickinson, cricketer (8 wickets in 3 Tests for NZ), dies on March - 17.   

1979  On March - 17 world Ice Dance Championship at Vienna won by N Linichuk and G Karponosov USSR   

1979  Merv Inverarity, cricketer (father of John WA player 1925-40), dies on this day in history.   

1980  Rudolf G Escher, Dutch composer (Vrai Visage de la Paix), dies at 68 on this day in history.   

1981  On March - 17 fC Lisse, Dutch soccer team forms   

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

1982  On this day in history 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   

1982  On March - 17 hans ter Laag, Dutch sound technician, murdered in El Salvador   

1983  On March - 17 9th People's Choice Awards   

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  On this day in history near Coast of Central Chile a 6.6 earthquake caused one person died from a heart attack at Santiago   

1985  On March - 17 dattu Phadkar, cricketer (Indian all-rounder, 31 Tests 1947-58), dies   

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

1986  Hal Buckley, actor (John Quincy-OK Crackerby), dies at 49 on March - 17.   

1987  IBM releases PC-DOS version 3.3 (but Windows is on the way) on March - 17.   

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

1987  Torrential rains and mudslides in Tajikistan, Soviet Union, destroy dam, killing 19 people and leaving nine others missing on March - 17.   

1988  On March - 17 iran says Iraq uses poison gas   

1988  On this day in history reg Sinfield, cricketer (one Test for England v Australia 1938), dies   

1989  Dorothy Cudahy is first female grand marshal of St Patrick Day Parade on this day in history.   

1989  On this day in history merritt Butrick, actor (Shy People, Wired to Kill), dies of AIDS at 29   

1990  On this day in history 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 March - 17.   

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1231  Emperor Shijō of Japan (d. 1242) was born on March - 17.   

1473  James IV, king of Scotland (1488-1513) was born on March - 17.   

1578  On this day in history birth of francesco Albana, Ital painter (Mary's Ascension)   

1628  Daniel van Papenbroeck, [Papebrochius], Flemish historian was born on March - 17.   

1664  On March - 17 birth of georg Osterreich, composer   

1675  On this day in history birth of petrus Laurentius Wockenfuss, composer   

1676  On this day in history birth of thomas Boston, Scottish church leader (d. 1732)   

1685  On this day in history 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  On this day in history st Patrick, patron St of Ireland, dies in Saul (according to legend)   

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

1040  On March - 17 harold Harefoot (Harold I), King of England (1035-40), dies   

1058  Death of King Lulach I of Scotland on this day in history.   

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

1272  On this day in history death of emperor Go-Saga of Japan (b. 1220)   

1425  Death of Ashikaga Yoshikazu, Japanese shogun (b. 1407) on this day in history.