What are the important events that happened on March 17? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.
March 17: Facts & Myths About This Day
March 17 is the 76th day of the year 2017 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 289 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Friday.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is March 4, 2017 – a Friday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 1,489,708,800 seconds has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.
Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘heptacontahexagon’ day.
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Pisces is the zodiac sign of a person born on this day. Aquamarine is the modern birthstone for this month. Jade is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 339 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 1,547 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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March 17 Historical Events
- 180 –Marcus Aurelius dies leaving Commodus the sole emperor of the Roman Empire.
- 1776 –American Revolution: British forces evacuate Boston, Massachusetts, ending the Siege of Boston, after George Washington and Henry Knox place artillery in positions overlooking the city.
- 1921 –The Second Republic of Poland adopts the March Constitution.
- 1939 –Second Sino-Japanese War: Battle of Nanchang between the Kuomintang and Japan begins,
- 1945 –The Ludendorff Bridge in Remagen, Germany collapses, ten days after its capture.
- 1947 –First flight of the B-45 Tornado strategic bomber.
- 1960 –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.
- 1969 –Golda Meir becomes the first female Prime Minister of Israel.
- 1992 –Israeli Embassy attack in Buenos Aires: Suicide car bomb attack kills 29 and injures 242.
- 2004 –Unrest in Kosovo: More than 22 are killed and 200 wounded. 35 Serbian Orthodox shrines in Kosovo and two mosques in Belgrade and Niš are destroyed.
Who were born on March 17?
- 1777 –Roger Brooke Taney, 5th Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court (d. 1864)
- 1880 –Sir Patrick Hastings, British barrister (d. 1952)
- 1881 –Walter Rudolf Hess, Swiss physiologist, Nobel laureate (d. 1973)
- 1944 –Pattie Boyd, British photographer and model
- 1948 –William Gibson, American writer
- 1951 –Kurt Russell, American actor
- 1971 –Bill Mueller, American baseball player
- 1972 –Marc Gunn, poet, podcaster, and musician (Brobdingnagian Bards)
- 1973 –Vance Wilson, American baseball player
- 1976 –Cynthia Daniel, American actress and photographer
Who died on March 17?
- 1040 –Harold Harefoot, King of England
- 1640 –Philip Massinger, English dramatist (b. 1583)
- 1782 –Daniel Bernoulli, Dutch-born mathematician (b. 1700)
- 1846 –Friedrich Bessel, German mathematician and astronomer (b. 1784)
- 1961 –Susanna M. Salter, American politician (b. 1860)
- 1997 –Jermaine Stewart, American singer (b. 1957)
- 1999 –Ernest Gold, Austrian composer (b. 1921)
- 2007 –Jim Cronin, British animal welfare activist (b. 1951)
- 2007 –Roger Bennett, American gospel performer (b. 1959)
- 2008 –Roland Arnall, United States Ambassador to the Netherlands (b. 1939)
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