Historical Events In March - 17

1973  St Patrick's Day marchers carry 14 coffins commemorating Bloody Sunday on this day in history.  

1973  On this day in history 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 this day in history.  

1974  On March - 17 carroll Nye, actress (Lawless Woman), dies at 72  

1976  Rubin "Hurricane" Carter is retried on March - 17.  

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

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

1978  George Dickinson, cricketer (8 wickets in 3 Tests for NZ), dies on this day in history.  

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  On this day in history rudolf G Escher, Dutch composer (Vrai Visage de la Paix), dies at 68  

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

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

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

1983  On this day in history 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 March - 17 near Coast of Central Chile a 6.6 earthquake caused one person died from a heart attack at Santiago  

1985  On this day in history dattu Phadkar, cricketer (Indian all-rounder, 31 Tests 1947-58), dies  

1986  Haemers gang robs gold transport in Belgium of 35 million BF on this day in history.  

1986  Hal Buckley, actor (John Quincy-OK Crackerby), dies at 49 on this day in history.  

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

1988  On this day in history iran says Iraq uses poison gas  

1988  Reg Sinfield, cricketer (one Test for England v Australia 1938), dies on March - 17.  

1989  On March - 17 dorothy Cudahy is first female grand marshal of St Patrick Day Parade  

1989  Merritt Butrick, actor (Shy People, Wired to Kill), dies of AIDS at 29 on March - 17.  

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

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  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 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  Georg Osterreich, composer was born on March - 17.  

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

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

0461  On this day in history 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 this day in history.  

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

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 this day in history death of ashikaga Yoshikazu, Japanese shogun (b. 1407)