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What happened in history on this day: March 17?
On March 17 in ...
- 1775 - British forces evacuate Boston.
- 1776 - British forces evacuate Boston to Halifax, Nova Scotia during American Revolutionary War.
- 1854 - First park land purchased by a US city, Worcester, Massachusetts.
- 1863 - Battle of Kelly's Ford, Virginia (211 casualities).
- 1870 - Massachusetts legislature authorizes incorporation of Wellesley Female Seminary.
- 1876 - General Crook destroys Cheyennes and Oglala-Sioux Indian camps.
- 1884 - John Joseph Montgomery makes first glider flight, in Otay, California, USA.
- 1886 - Carrollton Massacre in Mississippi, USA; 20 blacks are killed.
- 1894 - US and China sign treaty preventing Chinese laborers from entering US.
- 1898 - First practical submarine submerges for first time, at New York City, New York (for 1 hour 40 minutes).
- 1899 - Windsor luxury hotel in New York City, USA catches fire; 92 die.
- 1927 - US government doesn't sign League of Nations disarmament treaty.
- 1941 - National Gallery of Art in Washington DC opens.
- 1942 - US General Douglas MacArthur arrives in Australia to become supreme commander.
- 1945 - American forces complete the capture of Iwo Jima. Americans suffer 26,038 casualties, include 6821 dead. Of the 21,000 Japanese defenders, only 1083 survive.
- 1950 - Element 98 (Californium) announced.
- 1953 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site.
- 1956 - In Hollywood, California, the 8th Annual Emmy Awards are presented.
- Best Action or Adventure Series: Disneyland
- Best Actor Starring in a Regular Series: Phil Silvers for The Phil Silvers Show
- Best Actress Starring in a Regular Series: Lucille Ball for I Love Lucy
- Best Audience Participation Series: The $64,000 Question
- Best Children's Series: Lassie
- Best Comedian: Phil Silvers
- Best Comedienne: Nanette Fabray
- Best Contributing to Daytime Programming: Matinee Theatre
- Best Documentary Program: Omnibus
- Best Dramatic Program: Producers' Showcase
- Best Female Singer: Dinah Shore
- Best Male Singer: Perry Como
- Best MC or Program Host - Male or Female: Perry Como
- Best Music Series: Your Hit Parade
- Best News Commentator or Reporter: Edward R. Murrow
- Best Situation Comedy: The Phil Silvers Show
- Best Supporting Actor in a Regular Series: Art Carney for The Honeymooners
- Best Supporting Actress in a Regular Series: Nanette Fabray for Caesar's Hour
- Best Variety Program: Toast of the Town.
- 1958 - Navy launches Vanguard 1 into orbit (second US satellite), measures Earth shape.
- 1959 - USS Skate is first US submarine to surface at the North Pole.
- 1960 - US President Dwight Eisenhower forms anti-Castro-exile army under the US Central Intelligence Agency.
- 1961 - New York district attorney arrests professional gamblers who implicate Seton Hall players.
- 1966 - US submarine locates missing hydrogen bomb in Mediterranean.
- 1968 - The eight-nation Gold Pool is abolished. At a meeting in Washington, DC, central bank officials from the USA, Belgium, Federal Republic of Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom agree to not buy or sell gold in the private market.
- 1970 - US casts their first United Nations Security Council veto (Support England).
- 1971 - Edward Henry of Morristown, New Jersey, is first person to win US$1 million in a State lottery.
- 1976 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site.
- 1987 - IBM releases PC-DOS version 3.3.
- 1988 - Apple Computer files a copyright infringement suit against Microsoft, claiming copyright infringement by Windows 2.0 of graphical display technology used in the Macintosh.
- 1995 - Sinn-Fein leader Gerry Adams visits White House.
- 1995 - US approves first chicken pox vaccine, Varivax by Merck and Co.
- 1997 - The Dow Jones Industrial Average removes Westinghouse Electric, Texaco Incorporated, Bethlehem Steel, and Woolworth from its index, replacing them with Travelers Group, Hewlett-Packard Company, Johnson & Johnson, and Wal-Mart Stores Incorporated.
- 2003 - U.S. President George W. Bush gives an ultimatum: Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein and his sons must either leave Iraq, or face military action at a time of the U.S.'s choosing.
- 2006 - The United States strikes its two remaining Iowa-class battleships from the Naval Vessel Register, ending the age of the battleship.
- 2008 - The US dollar hits an all-time low of US$1.59 to the euro.
- 2008 - Share prices of American investment bank Lehman Brothers lose 20 percent of value on the stock market.
Births on March 17
- 1777 - Birth of Roger Brooke Taney in Calvert, Maryland; 5th Chief Justice (Dred Scott decision).
- 1895 - Birth of Shemp Howard AKA Samuel Horwitz in Brooklyn, New York; comedian/actor (The Three Stooges, Bank Dick).
- 1900 - Birth of Alfred Newman in New Hampshire, USA; composer (Love is a Many Splendored Thing).
- 1902 - Birth of Bobby Jones in Atlanta, Georgia, USA; PGA golfer (Grand Slam 1930).
- 1906 - Birth of Michael O'Shea in Hartford, Connecticut, USA; actor (Denny - It's a Great Life TV show).
- 1909 - Birth of Ken Anderson in Seattle, Washington, USA; worked on Disney animated films, Disneyland attractions, named a Disney Legend in 1991.
- 1914 - Birth of Sammy Baugh in Temple, Texas, USA; NFL hall of famer quarterback (Washington Redskins).
- 1918 - Birth of Mercedes McCambridge in Joliet, Illinois, USA; actress (Abie's Irish Rose radio show, I Love a Mystery radio show, Big Sister radio show, Betty & Bob radio show, This is Nora Drake radio show, One Man's Family TV show, The Exorcist movie, CBS Mystery Theatre radio show, All the King's Men).
- 1919 - Birth of Nathaniel Adams Coles AKA Nat King Cole in Birmingham, Alabama, USA; singer/pianist ("Straighten Up and Fly Right", "Mona Lisa", "Too Young", "Unforgettable", "Pretend", "Ballerina", "Ramblin' Rose", "The Christmas Song").
- 1920 - Birth of John La Montaine in Oak Park, Illinois, USA; composer (Pulitzer 1959).
- 1930 - Birth of James Benson Irwin in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA; Colonel US Air Force/astronaut (Apollo 15).
- 1935 - Birth of Adam Wade in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA; actor/singer ("Kiss Me Goodbye", "Crazy Joe"), game show host (Super Globetrotters, Musical Chairs).
- 1936 - Birth of Thomas K Mattingly II in Chicago, Illinois, USA; Captain US Navy/astronaut (Apollo 16, STS-4, 51C).
- 1941 - Birth of Gene Pitney in Hartford, Connecticut, USA; rock singer ("Town without Pity", "The Man who Shot Liberty Vallance", "24 Hours from Tulsa").
- 1942 - Birth of John Wayne Gacy Junior in Chicago, Illinois, USA; serial killer (32 boys).
- 1943 - Birth of Don Mitchell in Houston, Texas, USA; actor (Mark - Ironside).
- 1944 - Birth of John Sebastian in New York City, New York, USA; singer (Loving Spoonful, Welcome Back Kotter TV show theme).
- 1946 - Birth of Harold Brown in Long Beach, California, USA; rock drummer (War - "Summer", "Galaxy").
- 1949 - Birth of Patrick Duffy in Townsend, Montana, USA; actor (Bobby - Dallas, Man from Atlantis, Step by Step).
- 1951 - Birth of Kurt Russell in Springfield, Massachusetts, USA; actor (The Thing, Overboard, Mean Seasons, Travels of Jamie McPheeters).
- 1955 - Birth of Paul Overstreet in Van Cleave, Mississippi, USA; country singer ("Daddy's Come Around").
- 1960 - Birth of Vicki Lewis in Cincinnati, Ohio, USA; actress (Beth - Newsradio, Three Sisters, Mission Hill).
- 1961 - Birth of Casey Siemaszko in Chicago, Illinois, USA; actor (Biloxi Blues, Three O'Clock High, NYPD Blue).
- 1962 - Birth of Janet Patricia Gardner in Juneau, Alaska, USA; rocker (Vixen - "Rev It Up").
- 1962 - Birth of Patrick Thomas Burke in Hollywood, Florida, USA; PGA golfer (1992 BellSouth-6th).
- 1962 - Birth of Roxy Dora Petrucci in Rochester, Minnesota, USA; rock drummer (Vixen - "Rev It Up").
- 1964 - Birth of Rob Lowe in Charlottesville, Virginia, USA; actor (Saint Elmo's Fire, The West Wing, Brothers and Sisters, Wayne's World, Class).
- 1965 - Birth of Caitlin Bilodeaux in Boston, Massachusetts, USA; US fencer (Olympics-1992).
- 1965 - Birth of John Smiley in Phoenixville, Pennsylvania, USA; pitcher (Cincinnati Reds).
- 1967 - Birth of Chris Luongo in Detroit, Michigan, USA; NHL defenseman (New York Islanders).
- 1967 - Birth of Kim Cathrein in Salinas, California, USA; LPGA golfer (1994 Rochester International-24th).
- 1967 - Birth of Melissa Allen in Portland, Oregon, USA; WPVA volleyball player (Reebok National-13th-1994).
- 1969 - Birth of Andrew McMarlin in Vienna, Virginia, USA; rower (Olympics-1996).
- 1970 - Birth of Shannan Mitchem in Decatur, Georgia, USA; female infielder (Colorado Silver Bullets).
- 1972 - Birth of Mia Hamm in Selma, Alabama, USA; soccer forward (Olympics-1996, US Women's World Cup-1999).
Deaths on March 17
- 1863 - John Pelham, Confederate artillery major, dies in battle at age 24.
- 1898 - Blanche Kelso Bruce, Senator (Mississippi, 1875-1881), dies in Washington DC at age 57.
- 1961 - Suzanna Salter, first US female mayor/temperance leader, dies at age 101.
- 1965 - Almos Alonzo Stagg, football coach (University of Chicago), dies in California at age 102.
- 1980 - Death of Hugh Farr in Caspar, Wyoming, USA; fiddler (Sons of Pioneers).
- 1983 - Death of Haldan Keffer Hartline, American physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1903).
- 1992 - George Lovi, US columnist (Sky and Telescope's "Ramblings"), dies.
- 1993 - Death of Helen Hayes Brown of congestive heart failure at age 92 in Nyack, New York, USA; actor (The Sin of Madelon Claudet film (1931, Best Actress Oscar award), Airport film (1970, Best Supporting Actress Oscar award), Happy Birthday show (1947, Leading Actress Tony award)), writer (A Gift of Joy book, On Reflection book).
- 1995 - Rick Aviles, US comic/actor (Ghost), dies of AIDS (born 1952).
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