Hisdates•ComPage 9: Historical Events In March - 17
Saturday, 18 January 2025
1973 On this day in history 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 March - 17 rubin "Hurricane" Carter is retried
1976 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site on March - 17.
1976 Luchino Visconti di Modrone, It director (Terra Diaeresis), dies at 69 on this day in history.
1977 On this day in history australia wins cricket Centenary Test by 45 runs, same result as 1877
1978 On March - 17 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
1978 Reds don green uniforms for St Patricks Day on March - 17.
1978 George Dickinson, cricketer (8 wickets in 3 Tests for NZ), dies on this day in history.
1979 World Ice Dance Championship at Vienna won by N Linichuk and G Karponosov USSR on this day in history.
1979 On this day in history 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 this day in history.
1981 On this day in history fC Lisse, Dutch soccer team forms
1982 On this day in history 4 Dutch TV crew members shot dead in El Salvador
1982 On this day in history 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 Hans ter Laag, Dutch sound technician, murdered in El Salvador on this day in history.
1983 On this day in history 9th People's Choice Awards
1985 On March - 17 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.
1985 On this day in history iBM surprised the computer industry by announcing the termination of its PC Jr., a watered-down version of its popular IBM PC
1985 On March - 17 near Coast of Central Chile a 6.6 earthquake caused one person died from a heart attack at Santiago
1985 On this day in history dattu Phadkar, cricketer (Indian all-rounder, 31 Tests 1947-58), dies
1986 On this day in history haemers gang robs gold transport in Belgium of 35 million BF
1986 On March - 17 hal Buckley, actor (John Quincy-OK Crackerby), dies at 49
1987 IBM releases PC-DOS version 3.3 (but Windows is on the way) on this day in history.
1987 Sunil Gavaskar ends his Test career with an inning of 96 vs Pakistan on March - 17.
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 Iran says Iraq uses poison gas on this day in history.
1988 Reg Sinfield, cricketer (one Test for England v Australia 1938), dies on March - 17.
1989 On March - 17 dorothy Cudahy is first female grand marshal of St Patrick Day Parade
1989 Merritt Butrick, actor (Shy People, Wired to Kill), dies of AIDS at 29 on March - 17.
1990 Germaine Capucine, French actress and fashion model (Rendez-Vous de Juillet), dies at 59 on this day in history.
1991 Former Australian governor-general Sir John Kerr, who dismissed the Whitlam Labor government in 1975, dies in Sydney aged 76 on this day in history.
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