Page 9: Historical Events In March - 17

1973  On March - 17 st Patrick's Day marchers carry 14 coffins commemorating Bloody Sunday   

1973  On this day in history 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  On this day in history rubin "Hurricane" Carter is retried   

1976  On this day in history uS performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site   

1976  On March - 17 luchino Visconti di Modrone, It director (Terra Diaeresis), dies at 69   

1977  On this day in history australia wins cricket Centenary Test by 45 runs, same result as 1877   

1978  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 on this day in history.   

1978  On this day in history reds don green uniforms for St Patricks Day   

1978  On March - 17 george Dickinson, cricketer (8 wickets in 3 Tests for NZ), dies   

1979  World Ice Dance Championship at Vienna won by N Linichuk and G Karponosov USSR on this day in history.   

1979  On March - 17 merv Inverarity, cricketer (father of John WA player 1925-40), dies   

1980  Rudolf G Escher, Dutch composer (Vrai Visage de la Paix), dies at 68 on March - 17.   

1981  FC Lisse, Dutch soccer team forms on March - 17.   

1982  4 Dutch TV crew members shot dead in El Salvador on March - 17.   

1982  On March - 17 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   

1982  On March - 17 hans ter Laag, Dutch sound technician, murdered in El Salvador   

1983  9th People's Choice Awards on this day in history.   

1985  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 on March - 17.   

1985  IBM surprised the computer industry by announcing the termination of its PC Jr., a watered-down version of its popular IBM PC on this day in history.   

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 this day in history.   

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  On this day in history iBM releases PC-DOS version 3.3 (but Windows is on the way)   

1987  On March - 17 sunil Gavaskar ends his Test career with an inning of 96 vs Pakistan   

1987  Torrential rains and mudslides in Tajikistan, Soviet Union, destroy dam, killing 19 people and leaving nine others missing on this day in history.   

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 this day in history.   

1989  On this day in history merritt Butrick, actor (Shy People, Wired to Kill), dies of AIDS at 29   

1990  Germaine Capucine, French actress and fashion model (Rendez-Vous de Juillet), dies at 59 on this day in history.   

1991  On March - 17 former Australian governor-general Sir John Kerr, who dismissed the Whitlam Labor government in 1975, dies in Sydney aged 76.   

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1231  On this day in history birth of emperor Shijō of Japan (d. 1242)   

1473  James IV, king of Scotland (1488-1513) was born on this day in history.   

1578  On this day in history birth of francesco Albana, Ital painter (Mary's Ascension)   

1628  Daniel van Papenbroeck, [Papebrochius], Flemish historian was born on this day in history.   

1664  On this day in history birth of georg Osterreich, composer   

1675  Petrus Laurentius Wockenfuss, composer was born on March - 17.   

1676  On March - 17 birth of thomas Boston, Scottish church leader (d. 1732)   

1685  Jean-Marc Nattier, French portrait painter was born on March - 17.   

0180  Antonius Marcus Aurelius, [Marcus Verus], Emperor of Rome, dies at 58 on March - 17.   

0461  On this day in history st Patrick, patron St of Ireland, dies in Saul (according to legend)   

0659  Gertrudis van Nijvel, saint/patron of travellers, dies at about 32 on March - 17.   

1040  Harold Harefoot (Harold I), King of England (1035-40), dies on March - 17.   

1058  Death of King Lulach I of Scotland on this day in history.   

1199  Death of Jocelin, bishop of Glasgow on this day in history.   

1272  On March - 17 death of emperor Go-Saga of Japan (b. 1220)   

1425  On March - 17 death of ashikaga Yoshikazu, Japanese shogun (b. 1407)