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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 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 289 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Monday.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is March 4, 2025 – a Monday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 1,742,169,600 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 337 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 4,469 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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March 17 Historical Events
- 1337 –Edward, the Black Prince is made Duke of Cornwall, the first Duchy in England.
- 1941 –In Washington, D.C., the National Gallery of Art is officially opened by President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
- 1969 –Golda Meir becomes the first female Prime Minister of Israel.
- 1985 –Serial killer Richard Ramirez, aka the “Night Stalker”, commits the first two murders in his Los Angeles, California murder spree.
- 2000 –More than 800 members of the Ugandan cult Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments of God die in what is considered to be a mass murder and suicide orchestrated by leaders of the cult.
Who were born on March 17?
- 1846 –Kate Greenaway, English children’s author and illustrator (d. 1901)
- 1862 –Silvio Gesell, Belgian economist (d. 1930)
- 1937 –Rudy Ray Moore, American comedian and actor (d. 2008)
- 1951 –Craig Ramsay, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1956 –Patrick McDonnell, American cartoonist
Who died on March 17?
- 1974 –Louis Kahn, American architect
- 1976 –Luchino Visconti, Italian director (b. 1906)
- 1990 –Ric Grech, British bass player (Blind Faith – Traffic) (b. 1946)
- 1992 –Grace Stafford, American actress (b. 1903)
- 1997 –Jermaine Stewart, American singer (b. 1957)
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