What Happened on Mar 17
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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"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
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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
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WrestleMania X8
WrestleMania X8 was the eighteenth annual WrestleMania professional wrestling pay-per-view produced by the World Wrestling Federation (WWF). It... Read more