Historical Events In March - 17

1973  On March - 17 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 this day in history.  

1974  On this day in history 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.  

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

1976  On this day in history 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  On March - 17 australia wins cricket Centenary Test by 45 runs, same result as 1877  

1978  On this day in history 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  

1978  On March - 17 reds don green uniforms for St Patricks Day  

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  On this day in history 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 March - 17.  

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 March - 17.  

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

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 March - 17.  

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

1985  Near Coast of Central Chile a 6.6 earthquake caused one person died from a heart attack at Santiago on March - 17.  

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 this day in history.  

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

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

1987  On March - 17 sunil Gavaskar ends his Test career with an inning of 96 vs Pakistan  

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

1988  Iran says Iraq uses poison gas on this day in history.  

1988  On March - 17 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 March - 17.  

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

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

1991  On March - 17 former Australian governor-general Sir John Kerr, who dismissed the Whitlam Labor government in 1975, dies in Sydney aged 76.  

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

1473  On March - 17 birth of james IV, king of Scotland (1488-1513)  

1578  On March - 17 birth of francesco Albana, Ital painter (Mary's Ascension)  

1628  Daniel van Papenbroeck, [Papebrochius], Flemish historian was born on this day in history.  

1664  On this day in history birth of georg Osterreich, composer  

1675  Petrus Laurentius Wockenfuss, composer was born on this day in history.  

1676  On March - 17 birth of thomas Boston, Scottish church leader (d. 1732)  

1685  Jean-Marc Nattier, French portrait painter was born on March - 17.  

0180  On this day in history antonius Marcus Aurelius, [Marcus Verus], Emperor of Rome, dies at 58  

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

0659  On this day in history gertrudis van Nijvel, saint/patron of travellers, dies at about 32  

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

1058  On March - 17 death of king Lulach I of Scotland  

1199  On this day in history death of jocelin, bishop of Glasgow  

1272  On March - 17 death of emperor Go-Saga of Japan (b. 1220)  

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