Hisdates•ComPage 9: Historical Events In March - 17
Sunday, 30 March 2025
1973 St Patrick's Day marchers carry 14 coffins commemorating Bloody Sunday on this day in history. 
1973 On March - 17 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 March - 17.
1974 On this day in history 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 March - 17.
1976 On March - 17 luchino Visconti di Modrone, It director (Terra Diaeresis), dies at 69
1977 On March - 17 australia wins cricket Centenary Test by 45 runs, same result as 1877
1978 On March - 17 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
1978 Reds don green uniforms for St Patricks Day on this day in history.
1978 George Dickinson, cricketer (8 wickets in 3 Tests for NZ), dies on March - 17.
1979 On this day in history 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 March - 17.
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 March - 17.
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 On March - 17 hans ter Laag, Dutch sound technician, murdered in El Salvador
1983 On this day in history 9th People's Choice Awards
1985 On this day in history 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.
1985 IBM surprised the computer industry by announcing the termination of its PC Jr., a watered-down version of its popular IBM PC on March - 17.
1985 Near Coast of Central Chile a 6.6 earthquake caused one person died from a heart attack at Santiago on March - 17.
1985 Dattu Phadkar, cricketer (Indian all-rounder, 31 Tests 1947-58), dies on March - 17.
1986 Haemers gang robs gold transport in Belgium of 35 million BF on March - 17.
1986 Hal Buckley, actor (John Quincy-OK Crackerby), dies at 49 on this day in history.
1987 IBM releases PC-DOS version 3.3 (but Windows is on the way) on this day in history.
1987 On March - 17 sunil Gavaskar ends his Test career with an inning of 96 vs Pakistan
1987 On this day in history torrential rains and mudslides in Tajikistan, Soviet Union, destroy dam, killing 19 people and leaving nine others missing.
1988 On March - 17 iran says Iraq uses poison gas
1988 Reg Sinfield, cricketer (one Test for England v Australia 1938), dies on March - 17.
1989 Dorothy Cudahy is first female grand marshal of St Patrick Day Parade on March - 17.
1989 On March - 17 merritt Butrick, actor (Shy People, Wired to Kill), dies of AIDS at 29
1990 On this day in history germaine Capucine, French actress and fashion model (Rendez-Vous de Juillet), dies at 59
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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