About March 17
March 17, 2025 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.
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Pisces is the sun 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.
What Happened On March 17
- 45 BC –In his last victory, Julius Caesar defeats the Pompeian forces of Titus Labienus and Pompey the Younger in the Battle of Munda.
- 180 –Marcus Aurelius dies leaving Commodus the sole emperor of the Roman Empire.
- 624 –Led by Muhammad, the Muslims of Medina defeat the Quraysh of Mecca in the Battle of Badr.
- 1805 –The Italian Republic, with Napoleon as president, becomes the Kingdom of Italy, with Napoleon as King.
- 1861 –The Kingdom of Italy (1861–1946) is proclaimed.
- 1891 –SS Utopia collides with HMS Anson in the Bay of Gibraltar and sinks, killing 562 of the 880 passengers on board.
- 1939 –Second Sino-Japanese War: Battle of Nanchang between the Kuomintang and Japan begins,
- 1941 –In Washington, D.C., the National Gallery of Art is officially opened by President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
- 1942 –Holocaust: The first Jews from the Lvov Ghetto are gassed at the Belzec death camp in what is today eastern Poland.
- 1945 –The Ludendorff Bridge in Remagen, Germany collapses, ten days after its capture.
- 1948 –Benelux, France, and the United Kingdom sign the Treaty of Brussels, a precursor to the North Atlantic Treaty establishing NATO.
- 1959 –Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama, flees Tibet for India.
- 1969 –Golda Meir becomes the first female Prime Minister of Israel.
- 1970 –My Lai Massacre: The United States Army charges 14 officers with suppressing information related to the incident.
- 1979 –The Penmanshiel Tunnel collapses during engineering works, killing two workers.
- 1985 –Serial killer Richard Ramirez, aka the “Night Stalker”, commits the first two murders in his Los Angeles, California murder spree.
- 1988 –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.
- 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.
- 2008 –Governor of New York Eliot Spitzer resigns after a scandal involving a high-end prostitute. Lieutenant Governor David Paterson becomes New York State governor.
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