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Birthday March 17, 1789 Edmund Kean, England, tragic Actor |
Birthday March 17, 1804 James Bridger, scout, fur trader |
Birthday March 17, 1804 Jim Bridger born |
Birthday March 17, 1834 Gottlieb Daimler, auto pioneer |
Birthday March 17, 1834 Auto pioneer Gottlieb Daimler born |
Birthday March 17, 1873 Margaret Bondfield, Brit union leader, 1st woman cabinet member |
Birthday March 17, 1894 Novelist and playwright Paul Green is born |
Birthday March 17, 1902 Bobby Jones is born |
Birthday March 17, 1902 Bobby Jones, 1st pro golfer to win 4 grand slams |
Birthday March 17, 1910 Bayard Rustin, civil rights leader |
Birthday March 17, 1914 Sammy Baugh, NFL QB (Wash Redskins) |
Birthday March 17, 1918 Mercedes McCambridge, Actress |
Birthday March 17, 1919 Nat King Cole, singer |
Birthday March 17, 1930 James B. Irwin, astronaut (Apollo 15) |
Birthday March 17, 1936 Thomas K. Mattingly, astronaut (Apollo 16, STS-4, 51C) |
Birthday March 17, 1938 Rudolf Nureyev, ballet dancer, Russia |
Birthday March 17, 1942 Paul Kantner, (Jefferson Starship) |
Birthday March 17, 1944 John Sebastian, American composer |
Birthday March 17, 1948 Robert Braunwart, added dates to TODAY |
Birthday March 17, 1949 Patrick Duffy, (Dallas) |
Birthday March 17, 1951 Kurt Russell, Actor |
Birthday March 17, 1954 Leslie-Anne Down, London |
History March 17, 0461 St Patrick - patron saint of Ireland - died in Saul |
History March 17, 1753 1st official St. Patrick's Day |
History March 17, 1762 First St. Patrick's Day parade |
History March 17, 1776 The British evacuate Boston |
History March 17, 1776 British evacuate Boston |
History March 17, 1776 British forces evacuated Boston during Revolutionary War |
History March 17, 1846 FW Bessel - measurer of distance to 61 Cygni - dies |
History March 17, 1860 Japanese embassy arrives aboard Candinmarruh [sic] |
History March 17, 1863 Battle of Kelly's Ford, Virginia |
History March 17, 1901 Van Gogh paintings shown |
History March 17, 1905 Eleanor Roosevelt married FDR in NY |
History March 17, 1905 Franklin Roosevelt marries Eleanor Roosevelt |
History March 17, 1906 Earthquakes kill more than 1,200 in Taiwan |
History March 17, 1906 Pres Theodore Roosevelt used term "muckrake" |
History March 17, 1910 Camp Fire Girls organize |
History March 17, 1917 Shakeup in French government |
History March 17, 1940 Todt named Reich Minister for Weapons and Munitions |
History March 17, 1941 Natl Gallery of Art opens in Wash DC |
History March 17, 1950 Element 98 (Californium) announced |
History March 17, 1958 Vanguard 1 measures shape of Earth |
History March 17, 1958 The Champs' Tequila is the #1 song on the U.S. pop charts |
History March 17, 1959 Dalai Lama flees Tibet for India |
History March 17, 1963 Elizabeth Ann Seton of NY beatified (sainted in 1975) |
History March 17, 1964 National Security Council reviews situation |
History March 17, 1966 US sub locates missing hydrogen bomb in Mediterranean |
History March 17, 1969 Golda Meir became Israeli PM |
History March 17, 1970 Results of Peers investigation announced |
History March 17, 1970 US casts 1st UN Security Council veto (Support England) |
History March 17, 1982 4 Dutch TV crew members shot dead in El Salvador |
History March 17, 1983 70th hat trick in Islander history - Mike Bossy |
History March 17, 1990 Lithuania rejects Soviet demand to renounce its independence |
History March 17, 2000 Julia Roberts collects $20 million for Erin Brockovich |
History March 17, 2011 Clark pleads guilty in Yale grad student slaying |