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

1974  On March - 17 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  Rubin "Hurricane" Carter is retried on March - 17.   

1976  US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site on March - 17.   

1976  On this day in history 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 this day in history.   

1978  On March - 17 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 this day in history 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 this day in history world Ice Dance Championship at Vienna won by N Linichuk and G Karponosov USSR   

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

1980  On March - 17 rudolf G Escher, Dutch composer (Vrai Visage de la Paix), dies at 68   

1981  On this day in history fC Lisse, Dutch soccer team forms   

1982  On this day in history 4 Dutch TV crew members shot dead in El Salvador   

1982  On March - 17 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  Hans ter Laag, Dutch sound technician, murdered in El Salvador on this day in history.   

1983  9th People's Choice Awards on this day in history.   

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 this day in history.   

1985  On March - 17 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  On this day in history haemers gang robs gold transport in Belgium of 35 million BF   

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

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

1987  On this day in history sunil Gavaskar ends his Test career with an inning of 96 vs Pakistan   

1987  On March - 17 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 this day in history.   

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 this day in history.   

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

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

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

1473  On this day in history birth of james IV, king of Scotland (1488-1513)   

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

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

1685  Jean-Marc Nattier, French portrait painter was born on this day in history.   

0180  On March - 17 antonius Marcus Aurelius, [Marcus Verus], Emperor of Rome, dies at 58   

0461  On March - 17 st Patrick, patron St of Ireland, dies in Saul (according to legend)   

0659  Gertrudis van Nijvel, saint/patron of travellers, dies at about 32 on March - 17.   

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

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

1199  On March - 17 death of jocelin, bishop of Glasgow   

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

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