Vero - Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/March 17
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Vanguard 1
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Golda Meir
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Mount Agung, Bali, Indonesia
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Voting bulletin of the Soviet Union referendum
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15th-century depiction of Edward the Black Prince
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Wreckage of the Template:Nowrap
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Sinking of the SS Utopia
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Effigy of Edward the Black Prince in Canterbury Cathedral
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Aftermath of the Cebu Douglas Template:Nowrap crash
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Emma Smith
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| 45 BC – Caesar's Civil War: Julius Caesar scored his final military victory at the Battle of Munda, defeating the Optimate forces of Titus Labienus and Pompey the Younger. | multiple issues |
| 1001 – The Song Shi recorded a tributary mission from the Rajahnate of Butuan, centered on the Philippine island of Mindanao, to the Song dynasty of China. | Date not in source cited |
| 1805 – Napoleon transformed the Italian Republic into the Kingdom of Italy. | refimprove section |
| 1842 – The Female Relief Society of Nauvoo is formally organized with Emma Smith as president. | Too much uncited |
| 1860 – New Zealand Wars: A property dispute between the colonial government and Māori landowners in Waitara instigated the First Taranaki War. | Date not cited |
| 1958 – Vanguard 1, the first solar-powered satellite, and the oldest man-made object still in Earth orbit today, was launched. | refimprove section |
| 1969 – Golda Meir became the first female prime minister of Israel. | Too much uncited |
| 1985 – American serial killer Richard Ramirez (pictured), known as "the Night Stalker", began a home invasion burglary and killing spree that resulted in 13 deaths and 11 sexual assaults over the following five months. | Couldn't verify 13 deaths in the period, the table lists fewer deaths and one that was before the period |
| 1992 – A suicide bomber killed 29 people and injured 242 others at the Israeli embassy in Buenos Aires, Argentina. | refimprove section |
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- 455 – After arranging for the assassination of Template:Nowrap, Petronius Maximus secured the throne of the Western Roman Empire, only to be killed 11 weeks later during the sack of Rome.
- 1337 – Edward the Black Prince (pictured) was created Duke of Cornwall, the first English dukedom.
- 1452 – Reconquista: Combined Castilian and Murcian forces defeated the Emirate of Granada at the Battle of Los Alporchones around the city of Lorca.
- 1677 – Franco-Dutch War: France captured the town of Valenciennes in the Spanish Netherlands.
- 1776 – American Revolutionary War: The 11‑month Siege of Boston ended with the evacuation of the city's British garrison.
- 1891 – The transatlantic steamship Utopia accidentally collided with the battleship Template:HMS in the Bay of Gibraltar, sinking in less than twenty minutes and killing 562.
- 1917 – World War I: Hugh Grosvenor, 2nd Duke of Westminster led a force to rescue 92 prisoners of war from Bir Hakeim, killing the Senussi guards and their families.
- 1942 – The Holocaust: The first mass killings of Jews began at Belzec extermination camp in occupied Poland, the first of the Operation Reinhard camps to begin operation.
- 1950 – Scientists at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory announced the synthesis of californium, a radioactive transuranium element.
- 1955 – Ice hockey fans in Montreal rioted to protest the suspension of Montreal Canadiens star Maurice Richard for hitting an official.
- 1963 – An eruption of Mount Agung on Bali, Indonesia, killed at least 1,100 people.
- 1968 – Six thousand sheep were killed on ranches near Dugway Proving Ground in Utah as a result of the U.S. Army spraying a nerve agent.
- 1973 – Slava Veder took his Pulitzer Prize-winning photograph Burst of Joy, which came to symbolize the end of United States involvement in the Vietnam War.
- 1988 – Eritrean War of Independence: Eritrean People's Liberation Front troops encircled Ethiopian forces in the Battle of Afabet, gaining a decisive victory three days later.
- 1991 – In a referendum, nearly 70 percent of voters in nine Soviet republics agreed that the Soviet Union should be preserved.
- 2000 – Hundreds of followers of the Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments of God, a Ugandan sect, died in a mass murder committed by its leaders.
- 2011 – First Libyan Civil War: The United Nations Security Council adopted Resolution 1973, authorizing military intervention in Libya to protect civilians.
- Born/died this day: | Gertrude of Nivelles |d|659| François Girardon |b|1628|William F. Raynolds |b|1820| Emily Sartain |b|1841| Rosina Heikel |b|1842|Edith New |b|1877| Walter Rudolf Hess |b|1881| Eduard Fraenkel |b|1888| Christapor Mikaelian |d|1905| Toni Preckwinkle |b|1947| William Gibson |b|1948| Chuck Muncie |b|1953| Stormy Daniels |b|1979| Hozier |b|1990| Margaret Whitlam |d|2012
March 17: Saint Patrick's Day (Christianity); Anniversary of the Unification of Italy (1861) Template:Main page image/OTD
- 1864 – Second Schleswig War: In an attempt to end a Danish blockade, Eduard von Jachmann led a Prussian squadron in an attack against a Danish fleet led by Edvard van Dockum.
- 1902 – The Dorchester Heights Monument (pictured), memorializing the siege of Boston during the American Revolutionary War, was dedicated.
- 1957 – A plane crash on the slopes of Mount Manunggal killed Philippine president Ramon Magsaysay and 24 others.
- 1979 – The Penmanshiel Tunnel in the Scottish Borders collapsed during refurbishing construction, killing two workers, and leading to the abandonment of the tunnel.
- 2004 – Unrest in Kosovo broke out, resulting in the deaths of 28, the wounding of more than 600 others, and the destruction of several Serb Orthodox churches and shrines.