What Happened on Mar 17

St. Patrick dies

Today is St. Patrick's Day, an Irish and Irish-American holiday commemorating the death, as legend has it, of Patrick, the patron saint of Ireland,... Read more

Frederick Enters Jerusalem

Frederick entered Jerusalem on 17 March 1229, and attended a crown-wearing ceremony the following day. It is unknown whether he intended this to be... Read more

Marquis De La Jonquière Dies

On March 17, 1752, the Governor-General of New France, Marquis de la Jonquière died, and was temporarily replaced by Charles le Moyne de Longueuil.... Read more

Charles Victor Emmanuel Leclerc Is Born

Napoleon was faced with an uprising in Saint-Domingue (present-day Republic of Haiti) where an expeditionary force under his brother-in-law Charles... Read more

Evacuation Day

The 11-month siege of Boston ended when the Continental Army, under the command of George Washington, fortified Dorchester Heights in early March... Read more

Gottlieb Daimler is Born

Automotive pioneer Gottlieb Daimler attended technical school and apprenticed as a gunsmith, before deciding in about 1861 that there would be a... Read more

Battle at Kelly's Ford

Description: Kelly’s Ford was one of the early larger scale cavalry fights in Virginia that set the stage for Brandy Station and cavalry actions of... Read more

John Younger Is Shot

The Adams Express Company turned to the Pinkerton National Detective Agency in 1874 to stop the James-Younger Gang. The Chicago-based agency worked... Read more

Montreal Hockey Club wins First Stanley Cup

The Montreal AAA were awarded the first Stanley Cup even thought the Montreal Hockey Club, which had recently become affiliated with the AAA,... Read more

Montreal AAA win Stanley Cup

After the Montreal HC won the 1902 CAHL title in March, they promptly sent a challenge to the Winnipeg Victorias. In game one of the best-of-three... Read more

Houdini Performs The Mirror Handcuff Challenge

In 1904, the London Daily Mirror newspaper challenged Houdini to escape from a special handcuff that it claimed had taken Nathaniel Hart, a... Read more

Franklin D Roosevelt marries Anna Eleanor Roosevelt

On March 17, 1905, Roosevelt married Eleanor despite the fierce resistance of his mother. Eleanor's uncle, Theodore Roosevelt, stood in at the... Read more

Montreal Wanderers win Stanley Cup

ECAHA Playoff As the season produced a tie for the season championship, the defending champion Ottawas and Wanderers played a two-game playoff,... Read more

Franklin D. Roosevelt Sworn in as Assistant Secretary of Navy

Franklin D. Roosevelt was appointed Assistant Secretary of the Navy by Woodrow Wilson in 1913. He served under Secretary of the Navy Josephus... Read more

Meir Amit Is Born

Born in Tiberias as Meir Slutzki during the British mandate. At a young age, he joined Kibbutz Alonim in the lower Galilee and enlisted in the... Read more

Amelia Earhart's first attempt to fly around the world

On St. Patrick's Day, March 17, 1937, they flew the first leg from Oakland, California to Honolulu, Hawaii. In addition to Earhart and Noonan,... Read more

Battle of Nanchang

The Battle of Nanchang (Traditional Chinese: 南昌會戰, Simplified Chinese: 南昌会战) was a major battle between the Chinese National Revolutionary Army and... Read more

Collapse of the Ludendorff Bridge

Later on March 17, ten days after its capture, the bridge suddenly collapsed into the Rhine. Twenty-eight U.S. Army engineers were killed while... Read more

Jackie Robinson makes debut in professional organized baseball with Montreal Royals

Jackie Robinson made his professional debut in organized professional baseball at Daytona's City Island Ballpark, in an exhibition game between the... Read more

Northwest Orient Airlines Flight 710 Crashes, Killing 63

The Chicago, IL to Miami, FL Lockheed Electra carrying 57 passengers and a crew of six plunged into the earth killing all on board. The plane fell... Read more

Eruption of Mount Agung

On February 18, 1963, local residents heard loud explosions and saw clouds rising from the crater of Mount Agung. On February 24, lava began... Read more

The Grateful Dead Release Self-Titled Debut

The Grateful Dead is the debut album of the Grateful Dead. It was recorded by Warner Bros. Records, and was released in March 1967. According to... Read more

"The Wife" - Season 5 Episode 17 of Seinfeld Premiers

"The Wife" is the eighty-first episode of the NBC sitcom Seinfeld. The 17th episode of the 5th season, it was originally broadcast on March 17,... Read more

FBI agent Daniel Coleman reports to Alec Station

FBI agent Dan Coleman was assigned to Alec Station and given over thirty-five volumes of documents on bin Laden. At the time, Coleman was the only... Read more

WrestleMania X8

WrestleMania X8 was the eighteenth annual WrestleMania professional wrestling pay-per-view produced by the World Wrestling Federation (WWF). It... Read more