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17 March, 2004

Unrest in Kosovo results in more than 22 killed, 200 wounded, and the destruction of 35 Serb Orthodox shrines in Kosovo and two mosques in Belgrade and Nis.

17 March, 2003

British Cabinet Minister Robin Cook, resigns over government plans for war with Iraq.

17 March, 2000

The 800+ deaths of members of the Ugandan cult Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments of God on March 17, 2000 is considered to be a mass murder and suicide orchestrated by leaders of the cult.

17 March, 1992

A suicide car-bomb kills 29 and injures 242 at the Israeli Embassy attack in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

17 March, 1988

A Colombian Boeing 727 jetliner, Avianca Flight 410, crashes into a mountainside near the Venezuelan border killing 143.

17 March, 1988

Eritrean War of Independence: The Nadew Command, an Ethiopian army corps in Eritrea, is attacked on three sides by military units of the Eritrean Peoples Liberation Front (EPLF) in the opening action of the Battle of Afabet.

17 March, 1985

Serial killer Richard Ramirez, the "Night Stalker", commits his first two murders in Los Angeles, California murder spree.

17 March, 1979

The Penmanshiel Tunnel collapses during engineering works, killing two workers.

17 March, 1973

The Pulitzer Prize-winning photograph Burst of Joy is taken, depicting a former prisoner of war being reunited with his family.

17 March, 1970

My Lai massacre: The United States Army charges 14 officers with suppressing information related to the incident.

17 March, 1969

Golda Meir becomes the first female Prime Minister of Israel.

17 March, 1966

Off the coast of Spain in the Mediterranean, the Alvin submarine finds a missing American hydrogen bomb.

17 March, 1960

U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs the National Security Council directive on the anti-Cuban covert action program that will ultimately lead to the Bay of Pigs Invasion.

17 March, 1959

Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama, flees Tibet for India.

17 March, 1958

The United States launches the Vanguard 1 satellite.

17 March, 1950

University of California, Berkeley researchers announce the creation of element 98, which they name "Californium".

17 March, 1948

Benelux, France, and the United Kingdom sign the Treaty of Brussels, a precursor to the NATO Agreement.

17 March, 1945

The strategically important captured railway Bridge at Remagen, having sped the end of WW-II, but ironically no longer taking artillery fire, collapses ten days into the battle rendering the lodgement on the Germany bank of the Rhine dependent entirely on pontoon bridges.

17 March, 1942

Holocaust: The first Jews from the Lviv Ghetto (western Ukraine) are gassed at the Belzec death camp (eastern Poland).

17 March, 1941

In Washington, DC, the National Gallery of Art is officially opened by President Franklin D. Roosevelt.

17 March, 1939

Sino-Japanese War (1937-1945): The Battle of Nanchang between the Kuomintang and the Japanese breaks out.

17 March, 1921

The Second Republic of Poland adopts the March Constitution.

17 March, 1917

Delta Phi Epsilon is founded at New York University Law School.

17 March, 1913

The Uruguayan Air Force is founded.

17 March, 1910

Luther Gulick and his wife Charlotte found Camp Fire Girls (now Camp Fire USA) (formally announced in 1912).

17 March, 1906

The Phi Kappa Tau Fraternity is founded at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio.

17 March, 1901

A showing of 71 Vincent van Gogh paintings in Paris, 11 years after his death, creates a sensation.

17 March, 1891

The British steamship SS Utopia sinks off the coast of Gibraltar, killing 574.

17 March, 1886

Carrollton Massacre: 20 African Americans are killed in Mississippi.

17 March, 1861

The Kingdom of Italy (1861-1946) is proclaimed.

17 March, 1845

The rubber band is patented.

17 March, 1805

The Italian Republic, with Napoleon as president, becomes the Kingdom of Italy, with Napoleon as King.

17 March, 1776

American Revolution: British forces evacuate Boston, Massachusetts after George Washington and Henry Knox place artillery overlooking the city.

17 March, 1756

St. Patricks Day is celebrated in New York City for the first time (at the Crown and Thistle Tavern).

17 March, 1577

The Cathay Company is formed to send Martin Frobisher back to the New World for more gold.

17 March, 1337

Edward, the Black Prince is made Duke of Cornwall, the first Duchy made in England.

17 March, 624

Muhammad wins a key victory over his Meccan adversaries in the Battle of Badr.

17 March, 180

Marcus Aurelius dies. Commodus is now the only emperor.

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