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

  • 624 –
    Led by Muhammad, the Muslims of Medina defeat the Quraysh of Mecca in the Battle of Badr.
  • 1337 –
    Edward, the Black Prince is made Duke of Cornwall, the first Duchy in England.
  • 1780 –
    American Revolution: George Washington grants the Continental Army a holiday “as an act of solidarity with the Irish in their fight for independence”.
  • 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.
  • 1921 –
    The Second Republic of Poland adopts the March Constitution.
  • 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.
  • 1958 –
    The United States launches the Vanguard 1 satellite.
  • 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.
  • 1966 –
    Off the coast of Spain in the Mediterranean, the Ship DSV submarine finds a missing American hydrogen bomb.
  • 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.
  • 1988 –
    A Colombian Boeing 727 jetliner, Avianca Flight 410, crashes into a mountainside near the Venezuelan border killing 143.
  • 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 –
    A referendum to end apartheid in South Africa is passed 68.7% to 31.2%.
  • 1992 –
    Israeli Embassy attack in Buenos Aires: Suicide car bomb attack kills 29 and injures 242.

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