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History Events on March 17

By  Sonni Hill  17 Mar   87 Views

History Events on March 17

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The Battle of Los Alporchones is fought in the context of the Spanish Reconquista between the Emirate of Granada and the combined forces of the Kingdom of Castile and Murcia resulting in a Christian victory.

#Battle_of_Los_Alporchones

In 1452

Holocaust: The first Jews from the Lvov Ghetto are gassed at the Belzec death camp in what is today eastern Poland.

#The_Holocaust

In 1942

Petronius Maximus becomes, with support of the Roman Senate, emperor of the Western Roman Empire; he forces Licinia Eudoxia, the widow of his predecessor, Valentinian III, to marry him.

#Petronius_Maximus

In 455

Annibale De Gasparis discovers in Naples the asteroid Psyche from the north dome of the Astronomical Observatory of Capodimonte

#Annibale_de_Gasparis

In 1852

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

#14th_Dalai_Lama

In 1959

Golda Meir becomes the first female Prime Minister of Israel.

#Golda_Meir

In 1969

Unrest in Kosovo: More than 22 are killed and 200 wounded. Thirty-five Serbian Orthodox shrines in Kosovo and two mosques in Serbia are destroyed.

#2004_unrest_in_Kosovo

In 2004

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

#Italian_Republic_(Napoleonic)

In 1805

The Second Polish Republic adopts the March Constitution.

#Second_Polish_Republic

In 1921

American Revolution: George Washington grants the Continental Army a holiday "as an act of solidarity with the Irish in their fight for independence".

#Continental_Army

In 1780

The Siege of Valenciennes, during the Franco-Dutch War, ends with France's taking of the city.

#Siege_of_Valenciennes_(1676-77)

In 1677

Five hundred thirty members of the Ugandan cult Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments of God die in a fire, considered to be a mass murder or suicide orchestrated by leaders of the cult. Elsewhere another 248 members are later found dead.

#Uganda

In 2000

The Kingdom of Italy is proclaimed.

#Kingdom_of_Italy

In 1861

A plane crash in Cebu, Philippines kills Philippine President Ramon Magsaysay and 24 others.

#1957_Cebu_Douglas_C-47_crash

In 1957

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

#National_Gallery_of_Art

In 1941

Belgium, France, Luxembourg, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom sign the Treaty of Brussels, a precursor to the North Atlantic Treaty establishing NATO.

#Belgium

In 1948

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

#Serial_killer

In 1985

In his last victory, Julius Caesar defeats the Pompeian forces of Titus Labienus and Pompey the Younger in the Battle of Munda.

#Julius_Caesar

In 45 BC

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

#Colombia

In 1988

Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley announce the creation of element 98, which they name "californium".

#University_of_California,_Berkeley

In 1950

Fort Coligny on Villegagnon Island in Rio de Janeiro is attacked and destroyed during the Portuguese campaign against France Antarctique.

#Fort_Coligny

In 1560

Commodus becomes sole emperor of the Roman Empire at the age of eighteen, following the death of his father, Marcus Aurelius.

#Commodus

In 180

Mount Agung erupted on Bali killing more than 1,100 people.

#Mount_Agung

In 1963

American Revolution: British forces evacuate Boston, ending the Siege of Boston, after George Washington and Henry Knox place artillery in positions overlooking the city.

#American_Revolution

In 1776

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

#Eritrean_War_of_Independence

In 1988

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.

#Dwight_D._Eisenhower

In 1960

The United States launches the Vanguard 1 satellite.

#Vanguard_1

In 1958

SS Utopia collides with HMS Anson in the Bay of Gibraltar and sinks, killing 562 of the 880 passengers on board.

#SS_Utopia

In 1891

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

#DSV_Alvin

In 1966

Israeli Embassy attack in Buenos Aires: Car bomb attack kills 29 and injures 242.

#1992_attack_on_Israeli_embassy_in_Buenos_Aires

In 1992

The Pulitzer Prize-winning photograph Burst of Joy is taken, depicting a former prisoner of war being reunited with his family, which came to symbolize the end of United States involvement in the Vietnam War.

#Pulitzer_Prize

In 1973

The Ludendorff Bridge in Remagen, Germany, collapses, ten days after its capture.

#Ludendorff_Bridge

In 1945

Second Sino-Japanese War: Battle of Nanchang between the Kuomintang and Japan begins.

#Second_Sino-Japanese_War

In 1939

Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs Robin Cook, resigns from the British Cabinet in disagreement with government plans for the 2003 invasion of Iraq.

In 2003

A referendum to end apartheid in South Africa is passed 68.7% to 31.2%.

In 1992

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

In 1979

As a result of nerve gas testing in Skull Valley, Utah, over 6,000 sheep are found dead.

In 1968

First flight of the B-45 Tornado strategic bomber.

In 1947

The First Taranaki War begins in Taranaki, New Zealand, a major phase of the New Zealand Wars.

In 1860

The Relief Society of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is formed.

In 1842

The Anglo-Dutch Treaty is signed in London, dividing the Malay archipelago. As a result, the Malay Peninsula is dominated by the British, while Sumatra and Java and surrounding areas are dominated by the Dutch.

In 1824

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

In 1337

The Raja of Butuan in what is now the Philippines sends a tributary mission to the Song dynasty.

In 1001

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