About March 17

March 17, 2021 is the 76th day of the year 2021 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 289 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Wednesday.

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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 321 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.

What Happened On March 17

  • 1337 –
    Edward, the Black Prince is made Duke of Cornwall, the first Duchy in England.
  • 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.
  • 1805 –
    The Italian Republic, with Napoleon as president, becomes the Kingdom of Italy, with Napoleon as King.
  • 1842 –
    The Relief Society of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints is formed;
  • 1860 –
    The First Taranaki War begins in Taranaki, New Zealand, a major phase of the New Zealand land wars.
  • 1861 –
    The Kingdom of Italy (1861–1946) is proclaimed.
  • 1921 –
    The Second Republic of Poland adopts the March Constitution.
  • 1958 –
    The United States launches the Vanguard 1 satellite.
  • 1959 –
    Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama, flees Tibet for India.
  • 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.
  • 1970 –
    My Lai Massacre: The United States Army charges 14 officers with suppressing information related to the incident.
  • 1973 –
    The Pulitzer Prize-winning photograph Burst of Joy is taken, depicting a former prisoner of war being reunited with his family.
  • 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 –
    A Colombian Boeing 727 jetliner, Avianca Flight 410, crashes into a mountainside near the Venezuelan border killing 143.
  • 1992 –
    A referendum to end apartheid in South Africa is passed 68.7% to 31.2%.
  • 2003 –
    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.
  • 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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