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 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 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 Iran says Iraq uses poison gas in the war
March 17, 1987 IBM releases PC-DOS version 3.3
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, 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 Pairs Championship at Vienna won by Tai Babilonia and R Gardner USA
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, 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, 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 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, 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, 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, 1951 Government of Drees takes power
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 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, 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 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, 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 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, 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