The 17t o Mairch is the 76t day o the year (77t in lowp years) in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 289 days ti come.
Events 1805: The Napoleonic Kinrick o Italy 1899 : Phoebe as a dot on a foto1328 - Isabella o Fraunce, on behalf o her 15-year-auld son Edward III o Ingland , recognises the unthirldom o Scotland , endin the first o the Scots Wars o Unthirldom .
1337 - Edward, the Black Prince becomes Prince o Wales .
1805 - The Napoleonic Kinrick o Italy is foondit.
1861 - The seicont Kinrick o Italy is foondit.
1899 - Saturn 's muin Phoebe is discovered.
1945 - Warld War II : The Ludendorff Brig in Remagen, Germany , collapses 10 days efter its captur.
1957 - Preses o the Philippines Ramon Magsaysay an 24 ithers are kilt in a plane crash on the island o Cebu.
1959 - Tenzin Gyatso , 14t Dalai Lama, flees Tibet tae Indie .
1963 - Munt Agung erupts on the island o Bali, Indonesie , killin 1,100 fowk.
1969 - Golda Meir becomes Prime meenister o Israel .
1969 - The Longhope lifeboat disaster in the Pentland Firth kills 8 crew members.
1988 - Avianca Flicht 410 crashes intae a muntain in eastren Colombie , killin 143 fowk.
1992 - A suicide car bombin at Israel 's embassy in Buenos Aires , Argentinae , kills 29 fowk.
1992 - A referendum in Sooth Africae approves the end o Apartheid.
2003 - Robin Cook resigns frae the Breetish cabinet ower plans tae gang tae war in Iraq .
2009 - Preses o Madagascar Marc Ravalomanana resigns efter a poleetical crisis.
2018 - Roushie expels 23 Breetish diplomats in response tae the Unitit Kinrick takin the semme action wi 23 o theirs, an decide tae close the Breetish Consulate in Saunt Petersburg an end the wirk o the Breetish Cooncil in Roushie , in a diplomatic row ower the poisonin o Sergei Skripal in Salisbury .
Births Gottlieb Daimler 1473 - James IV o Scotland (d. 1513)
1676 - Thomas Boston, Scots kirk leader, theologian an philosopher (d. 1732)
1834 - Gottlieb Daimler, German ingineer (d. 1900 )
1865 - Gabriel Narutowicz, Pols statesman (d. 1922 )
1919 - Nat King Cole , American muisicker (d. 1965)
1920 - Sheikh Mujibur Rahman , 1st Preses o Bangladesh (d. 1975)
1930 - Willie MacFarlane, Scots fitbawer (d. 2010 )
1938 - Keith O'Brien , Northren Ireland-born Scots cardinal (d. 2018)
1938 - Rudolf Nureyev, Roushie dancer an choreographer (d. 1993)
1941 - Paul Kantner , American muisicker (d. 2016)
1942 - John Wayne Gacy , American serial killer (d. 1994 )
1951 - Kurt Russell, American actor an producer
1953 - James Dornan, Scots politeecian
1955 - Gary Sinise, American actor
1962 - Kalpana Chawla, Indian-American astronaut (d. 2003 )
1964 - Rob Lowe, American actor
1966 - Andrew Rosindell , Inglish politeecian
1969 - Alexander McQueen, Inglis fashion designer (d. 2010 )
1973 - Caroline Corr, Erse sangster an muisicker
1976 - Stephen Gately , Erse pop sangster (d. 2009 )
1978 - Owen Thompson , Scots politeecian
1985 - Darren Barr, Scots fitbawer
1990 - Hozier, Erse sangster an sangwriter
1990 - Jean Segura , Dominican basebaw player
1990 - Greg Stewart, Scots fitbawer
1992 - John Boyega, Inglis actor
1997 - Ryan Hardie, Scots fitbawer
1997 - Katie Ledecky , American soummer
Daiths Saunt Patrick 180 - Marcus Aurelius , Roman Emperor (b. 121)
461 or 493 - Saunt Patrick , Patron Saunt o Ireland
1040 - Harold Harefit , King o Ingland
1058 - Lulach , King o Scots
1715 - Gilbert Burnet, Scots philosopher, historian an bishop (b. 1643)
1782 - Daniel Bernoulli, Swiss mathematician an pheesicist (b. 1700)
1849 - William II o the Netherlands (b. 1792)
1853 - Christian Doppler , Austrick pheesicst (b. 1803)
1927 - James Scott Skinner, Scots dancin master, violinist an componer (b. 1843)
1937 - Austen Chamberlain , Inglis politeecian (b. 1863)
1956 - Irène Joliot-Curie , French pheesicist an chemist (b. 1897 )
1957 - Ramon Magsaysay, Preses o the Philippines (b. 1907 )
2011 - Michael Gough , Inglis actor (b. 1916 )
2012 - Pape Shenouda III o Alexandria (b. 1923 )
2017 - Derek Walcott , Saunt Lucian poet an playwricht (b. 1930 )
2019 - Manohar Parrikar , Indie politeecian (b. 1955)
Halidays Saunt Patrick's Day celebration in Dublin
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