The 17t o Mairch is the 76t day o the year (77t in lowp years) in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 289 days ti come.
Events
1805 : The Napoleonic Kinrick o Italy 1899 : Phoebe as a dot on a foto1328 - Isabella o Fraunce, on behalf o her 15-year-auld son Edward III o Ingland , recognises the unthirldom o Scotland , endin the first o the Scots Wars o Unthirldom .1337 - Edward, the Black Prince becomes Prince o Wales .1805 - The Napoleonic Kinrick o Italy is foondit.1861 - The seicont Kinrick o Italy is foondit.1899 - Saturn 's muin Phoebe is discovered.1945 - Warld War II : The Ludendorff Brig in Remagen, Germany , collapses 10 days efter its captur.1957 - Preses o the Philippines Ramon Magsaysay an 24 ithers are kilt in a plane crash on the island o Cebu.1959 - Tenzin Gyatso , 14t Dalai Lama, flees Tibet tae Indie .1963 - Munt Agung erupts on the island o Bali , Indonesie , killin 1,100 fowk.1969 - Golda Meir becomes Prime meenister o Israel .1969 - The Longhope lifeboat disaster in the Pentland Firth kills 8 crew members.1988 - Avianca Flicht 410 crashes intae a muntain in eastren Colombie , killin 143 fowk.1992 - A suicide car bombin at Israel 's embassy in Buenos Aires , Argentinae , kills 29 fowk.1992 - A referendum in Sooth Africae approves the end o Apartheid .2003 - Robin Cook resigns frae the Breetish cabinet ower plans tae gang tae war in Iraq .2009 - Preses o Madagascar Marc Ravalomanana resigns efter a poleetical crisis.2018 - Roushie expels 23 Breetish diplomats in response tae the Unitit Kinrick takin the semme action wi 23 o theirs, an decide tae close the Breetish Consulate in Saunt Petersburg an end the wirk o the Breetish Cooncil in Roushie , in a diplomatic row ower the poisonin o Sergei Skripal in Salisbury .
Births
Gottlieb Daimler 1473 - James IV o Scotland (d. 1513 )1676 - Thomas Boston , Scots kirk leader, theologian an philosopher (d. 1732 )1834 - Gottlieb Daimler , German ingineer (d. 1900 )1865 - Gabriel Narutowicz , Pols statesman (d. 1922 )1919 - Nat King Cole , American muisicker (d. 1965 )1920 - Sheikh Mujibur Rahman , 1st Preses o Bangladesh (d. 1975 )1930 - Willie MacFarlane , Scots fitbawer (d. 2010 )1938 - Keith O'Brien , Northren Ireland-born Scots cardinal (d. 2018 )1938 - Rudolf Nureyev , Roushie dancer an choreographer (d. 1993 )1941 - Paul Kantner , American muisicker (d. 2016 )1942 - John Wayne Gacy , American serial killer (d. 1994 )1951 - Kurt Russell , American actor an producer1953 - James Dornan , Scots politeecian1955 - Gary Sinise , American actor1962 - Kalpana Chawla , Indian-American astronaut (d. 2003 )1964 - Rob Lowe , American actor1966 - Andrew Rosindell , Inglish politeecian 1969 - Alexander McQueen , Inglis fashion designer (d. 2010 )1973 - Caroline Corr , Erse sangster an muisicker1976 - Stephen Gately , Erse pop sangster (d. 2009 )1978 - Owen Thompson , Scots politeecian1985 - Darren Barr , Scots fitbawer1990 - Hozier , Erse sangster an sangwriter1990 - Jean Segura , Dominican basebaw player1990 - Greg Stewart , Scots fitbawer1992 - John Boyega , Inglis actor1997 - Ryan Hardie , Scots fitbawer1997 - Katie Ledecky , American soummer
Daiths
Saunt Patrick 180 - Marcus Aurelius , Roman Emperor (b. 121 )461 or 493 - Saunt Patrick , Patron Saunt o Ireland 1040 - Harold Harefit , King o Ingland1058 - Lulach , King o Scots1715 - Gilbert Burnet , Scots philosopher, historian an bishop (b. 1643 )1782 - Daniel Bernoulli , Swiss mathematician an pheesicist (b. 1700 )1849 - William II o the Netherlands (b. 1792 )1853 - Christian Doppler , Austrick pheesicst (b. 1803 )1927 - James Scott Skinner , Scots dancin master, violinist an componer (b. 1843 )1937 - Austen Chamberlain , Inglis politeecian (b. 1863 )1956 - Irène Joliot-Curie , French pheesicist an chemist (b. 1897 )1957 - Ramon Magsaysay , Preses o the Philippines (b. 1907 )2011 - Michael Gough , Inglis actor (b. 1916 )2012 - Pape Shenouda III o Alexandria (b. 1923 )2017 - Derek Walcott , Saunt Lucian poet an playwricht (b. 1930 )2019 - Manohar Parrikar , Indie politeecian (b. 1955 )
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