March 17

Today's Events

  • 461
    St Patrick - patron saint of Ireland - died in Saul
  • 1753
    1st official St. Patrick's Day
  • 1776
    British forces evacuated Boston during Revolutionary War
  • 1846
    FW Bessel - measurer of distance to 61 Cygni - dies
  • 1860
    Japanese embassy arrives aboard Candinmarruh [sic]
  • 1905
    Eleanor Roosevelt married FDR in NY
  • 1906
    Pres Theodore Roosevelt used term "muckrake"
  • 1910
    Camp Fire Girls organize
  • 1941
    Natl Gallery of Art opens in Wash DC
  • 1950
    Element 98 (Californium) announced
  • 1958
    Vanguard 1 measures shape of Earth
  • 1959
    Dalai Lama flees Tibet for India
  • 1963
    Elizabeth Ann Seton of NY beatified (sainted in 1975)
  • 1966
    US sub locates missing hydrogen bomb in Mediterranean
  • 1969
    Golda Meir became Israeli PM
  • 1970
    US casts 1st UN Security Council veto (Support England)
  • 1982
    4 Dutch TV crew members shot dead in El Salvador
  • 1983
    70th hat trick in Islander history - Mike Bossy
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