About March 17
March 17, 2024 is the 77th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 289 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Sunday.
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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 318 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On March 17
- 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.
- 1780 –American Revolution: George Washington grants the Continental Army a holiday “as an act of solidarity with the Irish in their fight for independence”.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1947 –First flight of the B-45 Tornado strategic bomber.
- 1948 –Benelux, France, and the United Kingdom sign the Treaty of Brussels, a precursor to the North Atlantic Treaty establishing NATO.
- 1950 –Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley announce the creation of element 98, which they name “Californium”.
- 1958 –The United States launches the Vanguard 1 satellite.
- 1973 –The Pulitzer Prize-winning photograph Burst of Joy is taken, depicting a former prisoner of war being reunited with his family.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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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