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March 17, 1998 USA Women's Hockey Team beats Canada for 1st Olympic Gold medal March 17, 1997 CNN begins spanish broadcasts March 17, 1996 "Bus Stop" closes at Circle in Sq Theater New York City after 29 performances March 17, 1996 "Getting Away With Murder" opens at Broadhurst New York City for 17 performances March 17, 1996 Aravinda De Silva gets 107* and 3-42 in cricket World Cup victory March 17, 1996 Liselotte Neumann wins LPGA Ping/Welch's Golf Championship March 17, 1996 Mike Tyson beat Frank Bruno in 3rd round to gain Heavyweight title March 17, 1996 Montreal Canadian's 1st game in their new arena March 17, 1996 Sri Lanka beat Australia by 7 wickets to win the World Cup March 17, 1995 British pound hits 2.4545 to Dutch guilder (record) March 17, 1995 Sinn-Fein leader Gerry Adams visits White House March 17, 1995 U.S. approves 1st chicken pox vaccine, Varivax by Merck March 17, 1994 "Little More Magic" opens at Belasco Theater New York City for 30 performances March 17, 1994 Iran transport aircraft crashes in Azerbaijan, 32 killed March 17, 1994 It is announced there is no smoking in Cleveland Indians new ballpark March 17, 1993 86 killed by bomb attack in Calcutta March 17, 1992 "Death and the Maiden" opens at Brooks Atkinson New York City for 159 performances March 17, 1992 18th People's Choice Awards: Garth Brooks and Reba McEntire March 17, 1992 28 killed in truck bombing of Israeli embassy in Buenos Aires, Argentina by Islamic Jihad March 17, 1992 De Klerk wins a white only referendum March 17, 1992 Russian manned space craft TM-14, launches into orbit March 17, 1991 9 of 15 Soviet reps officially approve new union treaty March 17, 1991 Irish Lesbians and Gays march in St. Patrick Day parade March 17, 1991 John Robin Baitz' "Substance of Fire," premieres in New York City March 17, 1991 New Jersey raises turnpike tolls 70% March 17, 1991 Penny Hammel wins Desert Inn LPGA Golf International March 17, 1990 PBA National Championship Won by Jim Pencak March 17, 1989 "Chu Chem" opens at Ritz Theater New York City for 44 performances March 17, 1989 Dorothy Cudahy is 1st female grand marshal of St. Patrick Day Parade March 17, 1988 "Les Miserables," opens at Det Norske Teatret, Oslo March 17, 1988 Highest scoring NCAA basketball game; Loyola-Marymont 119, Wyoming 115 March 17, 1988 Iran says Iraq uses poison gas in the war March 17, 1987 IBM releases PC-DOS version 3.3 March 17, 1987 Sunil Gavaskar ends his Test career with an innings of 96 vs. Pak March 17, 1986 Haemers gang robs gold transport in Belgium of 35 million BF March 17, 1985 Jane Blalock wins LPGA Women's Kemper Golf Open March 17, 1985 Matti Nykanen of Finland set a world ski jump record of 623' March 17, 1983 70th hat trick in Islander history-Mike Bossy March 17, 1983 9th People's Choice Awards March 17, 1982 4 Dutch TV crew members shot dead in El Salvador March 17, 1981 FC Lisse, Dutch soccer team forms March 17, 1979 Ice Dance Championship at Vienna won by N Linichuk and G Karponosov U.S.S.R. March 17, 1979 Ice Pairs Championship at Vienna won by Tai Babilonia and R Gardner USA March 17, 1979 Men's Figure Skating Champ in Vienna won by Vladimir Kovalev (U.S.S.R.) March 17, 1979 Worlds Ladies Figure Skating Champ in Vienna won by Linda Fratianne March 17, 1978 Amoco Cadiz tanker spills 1.6 mil gallons of oil off French coast March 17, 1978 Ligeti's opera "Le Grand Macabre," premieres in Stockholm March 17, 1978 Reds don green uniforms for St. Patricks Day March 17, 1977 Australia wins cricket Centenary Test by 45 runs, same result as 1877 March 17, 1976 Malikov skates world record 1000m (1:15.76) March 17, 1976 Rubin "Hurricane" Carter is retried March 17, 1976 U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site March 17, 1975 Valeri Muratov skates world record 1000m (1:16.92) March 17, 1974 Jane Blalock wins LPGA Bing Crosby Golf Classic International March 17, 1973 Queen Elizabeth II opens new London Bridge March 17, 1973 St. Patrick Day marchers carry 14 coffins commemorating Bloody Sunday March 17, 1972 Ringo releases "Back off Bugaloo" in UK March 17, 1970 Peter O'Malley becomes CEO of Los Angeles Dodgers March 17, 1970 U.S. casts their 1st United Nations Security Council veto (Support England) March 17, 1969 Golda Meir becomes Israel's 4th PM March 17, 1969 Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Orange Blossom Golf Open March 17, 1968 2-tiered gold price negotiated in Washington D.C. by U.S. and 6 European nations March 17, 1968 Kathie Whitworth wins LPGA St. Petersburg Orange Blossom Golf Open March 17, 1966 South Africa government bans Defense and Aid Fund March 17, 1966 U.S. submarine locates missing H-bomb in Mediterranean March 17, 1965 Beatles announce their film is named "8 Arms to Hold on to You" (Help) March 17, 1963 Bob Cousy plays his last NBA game March 17, 1963 Elizabeth Ann Seton of New York beatified (canonized in 1975) March 17, 1963 Eruptions of Mount Agung Bali, kills 1,900 Balinese March 17, 1961 New York DA arrests professional gamblers who implicate Seton Hall players March 17, 1961 South Africa leaves British Commonwealth March 17, 1960 Eisenhower forms anti-Castro-exile army under the CIA March 17, 1960 WSLA (now WAKA) TV channel 8 in Selma, AL (CBS) begins broadcasting March 17, 1959 Australia and U.S.S.R. restore diplomatic relations March 17, 1959 Dalai Lama flees Tibet for India March 17, 1958 Navy launches Vanguard 1 into orbit (2nd U.S.), measures Earth shape March 17, 1957 Dutch ban on Sunday driving lifted March 17, 1957 Ramon Magsaysay, president of Philipines dies in a plane crash March 17, 1956 8th Emmy Awards: Ed Sullivan Show, Phil Silvers Show and Lucy Ball March 17, 1955 Maurice "Rocket" Richard suspended, sparks 7 hour riot in Montreal March 17, 1953 Bill Veeck says he will sell his 80% of St. Louis Browns for $2,475M March 17, 1953 U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site March 17, 1953 WBAY TV channel 2 in Green Bay, Wisconsin (CBS) begins broadcasting March 17, 1953 WWLP TV channel 22 in Springfield, MA (NBC) begins broadcasting March 17, 1951 Government of Drees takes power March 17, 1951 Test Cricket debut of Brian Statham, England vs. NZ Christchurch March 17, 1950 Belgian government of Eyskens resigns March 17, 1950 Element 98 (Californium) announced March 17, 1945 Allied ships bomb North-Sumatra March 17, 1944 Actor Charlton Heston weds Lydia Clarke March 17, 1943 Aldemarin (Ned) and Fort Cedar Lake (U.S.) torpedoed and sinks March 17, 1943 F. Hugh Herbert's "Kiss and Tell," premieres in New York City March 17, 1942 Belzec Concentration Camp opens-30,000 Lublin Polish Jews transported March 17, 1942 General Doug MacArthur arrives in Australia to become supreme commander March 17, 1941 National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. opens March 17, 1935 KSO-AM in Des Moines Iowa call sign is given to KWCR March 17, 1934 Dollfuss, Mussolini and Gombos sign Donau Pact (protocols of Rome) March 17, 1932 German police raid Hitler's nazi-headquarter March 17, 1931 Stalin throws Krupskaya Lenin out of Central Committee March 17, 1929 General Motors acquires German auto manufacturer Adam Opel March 17, 1929 Spanish dictator Primo de Rivera closes university of Madrid March 17, 1927 U.S. government doesn't sign league of Nations disarmament treaty March 17, 1926 Dutch Calvinists oust Rev J G Geelkerken over Genesis 3 March 17, 1926 Richard Rodgers and L Hart's musical "Girl Friend," premieres in New York City March 17, 1926 Spain and Brazil prevent Germany joining League of Nations March 17, 1924 Eugene O'Neill's "Welded," premieres in New York City March 17, 1924 Netherlands and U.S.S.R. begin talks over U.S.S.R. recognition March 17, 1924 Sweden and U.S.S.R. exchange diplomats March 17, 1921 Dr. Marie Stopes opens Britain's 1st birth control clinic (London) March 17, 1921 Lenin proclaims New Economic Politics March 17, 1921 Sailors revolt in Kronstadt (thousands die) March 17, 1919 Dutch steel workers strike for 8 hr day and minimum wages March 17, 1918 U.S. Ladies Figure Skating championship won by Rosemary Beresford March 17, 1918 U.S. Mens Figure Skating championship won by Nathaniel Niles March 17, 1917 1st exclusively women's bowling tournament begins in St. Louis March 17, 1917 Tsar Nicolas II of Russia abdicates the throne March 17, 1912 Camp Fire Girls organization announced by Mrs. Luther Halsey Gulick March 17, 1910 DHC soccer team forms in Delft Neth March 17, 1908 Quickest world heavyweight title fight (Burns KOs Roche in 88 seconds) March 17, 1908 Tommy Burns KOs Jem Roche in 1 for heavyweight boxing title March 17, 1906 President Theodore Roosevelt uses term "muckrake" March 17, 1906 Stanley Cup: Montreal Wanderers beat Ottawa Silver 7, although both winning a game, Montreal outscores Ottawa 12-10 March 17, 1905 Eleanor Roosevelt marries Franklin D. Roosevelt in NY March 17, 1902 Stanley Cup: Montreal AAA beat Winnipeg Victorias, 2 games to 1 March 17, 1901 Free thinking-Democratic Union forms in Netherlands March 17, 1900 Stanley Cup: Montreal Shamrocks sweep Halifax Crescents in 2 March 17, 1899 Windsor luxury hotel in New York City catches fire, 92 die March 17, 1898 1st practical submarine 1st submerges, New York City (for 1 hour 40 minutes) March 17, 1897 After Bob Fitzsimmons KOs much larger Jim Corbett to win world HW championship he says, "The bigger they are, the harder they fall" March 17, 1894 U.S. and China sign treaty preventing Chinese laborers from entering U.S. March 17, 1891 British Steamer "Utopia" sinks off Gibraltar killing 574 March 17, 1886 Carrollton Massacre, (Mississippi) 20 blacks killed March 17, 1884 John Joseph Montgomery makes 1st glider flight, Otay, California March 17, 1877 Bill Midwinter completes Test Crickets' 1st 5-wkt haul, 5-78 vs. Eng March 17, 1876 1st record high jump over 6' (Marshall Jones Brooks) March 17, 1876 Gen Crook destroy Cheyennes and Oglala-Sioux indian camps March 17, 1871 National Association of Professional Base-Ball players organized March 17, 1870 Mass legislature authorizes incorporation of Wellesley Female Seminary March 17, 1868 Postage stamp canceling machine patent issued March 17, 1863 Battle of Kelly's Ford, Virginia (211 casualities) March 17, 1861 Italy declares independence; Kingdom of Italy proclaimed March 17, 1860 Japanese embassy arrives aboard Candinmarruh March 17, 1854 1st park land purchased by a U.S. city, Worcester, Massachusetts March 17, 1847 "Macbeth" opera premieres in Florence March 17, 1845 Bristol man, Henry Jones, patents self-raising flour March 17, 1845 Rubber band patented by Stephen Perry of London March 17, 1842 Indians land in Ohio, a 12 mile area in Upper Sandusky March 17, 1836 Texas abolishes slavery March 17, 1833 Phoenix Society forms (New York) March 17, 1824 England and Netherlands sign a trade agreement March 17, 1804 Johann von Schiller's "Wilhelm Tell," premieres March 17, 1800 English warship Queen Charlotte catches fire; 700 die March 17, 1776 British forces evacuate Boston to Nova Scotia during Revolutionary War March 17, 1766 Britain repeals Stamp Act March 17, 1762 1st St. Patrick's Day parade in New York City March 17, 1757 Prince Mas Said of Mataram surrenders to Mangkubumi in Java March 17, 1756 St. Patrick's Day 1st celebrated in New York City at Crown and Thistle Tavern March 17, 1755 Transylvania Land Co. buys Kentucky for $50,000 from a Cherokee chief March 17, 1753 1st official St. Patrick's Day March 17, 1722 Willem K. H. Friso appointed mayor of Drente March 17, 1672 England declares war on Netherlands March 17, 1658 Pro-Charles II plot in England discovered March 17, 1580 Prince Willem of Orange welcomed in Amsterdam March 17, 1537 French troops invade Flanders March 17, 1526 French king Francois I freed from Spain March 17, 1521 Ferdinand Magellan discovers the Philippines March 17, 1521 Magelhaes lands on Homohon March 17, 1190 Crusades complete massacre of Jews of York England March 17, 455 Roman senator Petronius Maximus becomes Emperor March 17, 432 St. Patrick, a bishop, is carried off to Ireland as a slave |