Today in History
17th March
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| 1190 Crusades complete massacre of Jews of York England | ||
| 1473 James IV, king of Scotland (1488-1513) was born | ||
| 1521 Ferdinand Magellan discovers the Philippines | ||
| 1521 Magelhaes lands on Homohon | ||
| 1526 French king Francois I freed from Spain | ||
| 1537 French troops invade Flanders | ||
| 1578 Francesco Albana, Italian painter (Mary's Ascension) was born | ||
| 1580 Prince Willem of Orange welcomed in Amsterdam | ||
| 1658 Pro-Charles II plot in England discovered | ||
| 1672 England declares war on Netherlands | ||
| 1685 Jean-Marc Nattier, French portrait painter was born | ||
| 1722 Willem KH Friso appointed mayor of Drente | ||
| 1753 1st official St Patrick's Day | ||
| 1755 Transylvania Land Co buys Kentucky for $50,000 from a Cherokee chief | ||
| 1781 Dominique J de Eerens, governor-general of Neth Indies was born | ||
| 1800 English warship Queen Charlotte catches fire; 700 die | ||
| 1824 England & Netherlands sign a trade agreement | ||
| 1825 Rodolphe Bresdin, French cartoonist/lithographer (Le Bon Samaritain) was born | ||
| 1826 Oskar Peschel, German journalist/geography (V”lkerkunder) was born | ||
| 1833 Phoenix Society forms (NY) | ||
| 1834 Gottlieb Daimler, Germany, engineer/inventor/designed 1st motorcycle was born | ||
| 1836 Texas abolishes slavery | ||
| 1845 Bristol man, Henry Jones, patents self-raising flour | ||
| 1845 Rubber band patented by Stephen Perry of London | ||
| 1846 Kate Greenaway, England, artist/book illustrator (Under the Window) was born | ||
| 1847 "Macbeth" opera premieres in Florence | ||
| 1861 Italy declares independence; Kingdom of Italy proclaimed | ||
| 1863 Battle of Kelly's Ford, VA (211 casualities) | ||
| 1868 Postage stamp canceling machine patent issued | ||
| 1870 Mass legislature authorizes incorporation of Wellesley Female Seminary | ||
| 1874 Stephen Samuel Wise, US, pres of Zionist Org of America was born | ||
| 1876 Gen Crook destroy Cheyennes & Oglala-Sioux indian camps | ||
| 1881 Kristian Elster, Norwegian author (Less bror Harris) was born | ||
| 1894 US & China sign treaty preventing Chinese laborers from entering US | ||
| 1898 1st practical submarine 1st submerges, NYC (for 1 hour 40 minutes) | ||
| 1899 Windsor luxury hotel in NYC catches fire, 92 die | ||
| 1899 Gloria Swanson, Chicago IL, actress was born | ||
| 1901 Free thinking-Democratic Union forms in Netherlands | ||
| 1901 Eisaku Sato, premier of Japan (Nobel 1974) was born | ||
| 1919 Dutch steel workers strike for 8 hr day & minimum wages | ||
| 1921 Lenin proclaims New Economic Politics | ||
| 1921 Sailors revolt in Kronstadt (thousands die) | ||
| 1924 Netherlands & USSR begin talks over USSR recognition | ||
| 1924 Sweden & USSR exchange diplomats | ||
| 1926 Spain & Brazil prevent Germany joining League of Nations | ||
| 1927 US govt doesn't sign league of Nations disarmament treaty | ||
| 1929 Spanish dictator Primo de Rivera closes university of Madrid | ||
| 1931 Stalin throws Krupskaya Lenin out of Central Committee | ||
| 1932 German police raid Hitler's nazi-headquarter | ||
| 1941 National Gallery of Art, Wash DC opens | ||
| 1942 Belzec Concentration Camp opens-30,000 Lublin Polish Jews transported | ||
| 1942 Gen Doug MacArthur arrives in Australia to become supreme commander | ||
| 1943 Aldemarin (Ned) & Fort Cedar Lake (US) torpedoed & sinks | ||
| 1945 Allied ships bomb North-Sumatra | ||
| 1950 Belgian governament of Eyskens resigns | ||
| 1950 Element 98 (Californium) announced | ||
| 1951 Governament of Drees takes power | ||
| 1957 Dutch ban on Sunday driving lifted | ||
| 1957 Ramon Magsaysay, president of Philipines dies in a plane crash | ||
| 1959 Australia & USSR restore diplomatic relations | ||
| 1959 Dalai Lama flees Tibet for India | ||
| 1960 Eisenhower forms anti-Castro-exile army under the CIA | ||
| 1961 South Africa leaves British Commonwealth | ||
| 1963 Eruptions of Mount Agung Bali, kills 1,900 Balinese | ||
| 1966 South Africa governament bans Defense & Aid Fund | ||
| 1966 US sub locates missing H-bomb in Mediterranean | ||
| 1969 Golda Meir becomes Israel's 4th PM | ||
| 1970 Peter O'Malley becomes CEO of LA Dodgers | ||
| 1970 US casts their 1st UN Security Council veto (Support England) | ||
| 1973 Queen Elizabeth II opens new London Bridge | ||
| 1973 St Patrick Day marchers carry 14 coffins commemorating Bloody Sunday | ||
| 1978 Amoco Cadiz tanker spills 1.6 mil gallons of oil off French coast | ||
| 1982 4 Dutch TV crew members shot dead in El Salvador | ||
| 1983 70th hat trick in Islander history-Mike Bossy | ||
| 1986 Haemers gang robs gold transport in Belgium of 35 million BF | ||
| 1987 IBM releases PC-DOS version 3.3 | ||
| 1991 9 of 15 Soviet reps officially approve new union treaty | ||
| 1992 28 killed in truck bombing of Israeli embassy in Buenos Aires, Argentina | ||
| 1992 De Klerk wins a white only referendum | ||
| 1992 Russian manned space craft TM-14, launches into orbit | ||
| 1993 86 killed by bomb attack in Calcutta | ||
| 1994 Iran transport aircraft crashes in Azerbaijan (32 killed) | ||
| 1994 It is announced there is no smoking in Cleve Indians new ballpark | ||
| 1995 Sinn-Fein leader Gerry Adams visits White House | ||
| 1995 USt approves 1st chicken pox vaccine, Varivax by Merck & Co | ||
| 1996 Sri Lanka beat Australia by 7 wickets to win the World Cup | ||
| 1997 CNN begins spanish broadcasts | ||
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