Subj : This Day In History
To : All
From : Robert Wolfe
Date : Wed Mar 17 2021 06:00 am
Interesting things that have happened, and people born and died on this date
Registered to Omicron Theta
By Scott Labrecque
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Births:
03/17/1578 Francesco Albana, Italian painter (At-Hemelopneming van Maria)
03/17/1628 Daniel van Papenbroeck, [Papebrochius], Flemish historian
03/17/1664 Georg Osterreich, composer
03/17/1675 Petrus Laurentius Wockenfuss, composer
03/17/1685 Jean-Marc Nattier, French portrait painter
03/17/1746 Jan David Holland, composer
03/17/1777 Roger Brooke Taney, Calvert Md, 5th Chief Justice (Dred Scott dec)
03/17/1781 Dominique J de Eerens, governor-general of Neth Indies
03/17/1789 Edmund Kean, London England, tragic actor (Shylock)
03/17/1804 James Bridger, scout/fur trader/mountain man par excellance
03/17/1820 Patrick Edward Connor, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers)
03/17/1825 Rodolphe Bresdin, French cartoonist/lithographer (Le Bon Samaritain)
03/17/1826 Oskar Peschel, German journalist/geography (V�lkerkunder)
03/17/1828 Patrick Ronayne Cleburne, Major General (Confederate Army)
03/17/1832 Moncure Daniel Conway, US, abolitionist (Life of Thomas Paine)
03/17/1832 Walter Quintin Gresham, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers)
03/17/1834 Gottlieb Daimler, Germany, engineer/inventor/designed 1st motorcycle
03/17/1839 Josef Rheinberger, Vaduz Liechtenstein, opera composer (Munich Conse
03/17/1846 Kate Greenaway, England, artist/book illustrator (Under the Window)
03/17/1848 Horace Wadham Nicholl, composer
03/17/1873 Margaret Bondfield, Brit union leader/1st woman cabinet member
03/17/1874 Kincsem, horse that never lost a race
03/17/1874 Stephen Samuel Wise, US, pres of Zionist Org of America
03/17/1876 Frederic Ayers, composer
03/17/1877 Albert P Hahn, political cartoonist
03/17/1880 Guillermo Uribe Holguin, composer
03/17/1887 Ben Sajet, physician/politician
03/17/1890 Harold Morris, composer
03/17/1892 Sayed Darwish, composer
03/17/1894 Paul Green, US, novelist/playwright (In Abraham's Bosom)
03/17/1895 Shemp Howard, comic actor (3 Stooges, Bank Dick) [or 1891]
03/17/1899 Gloria Swanson, actress (Indiscreet, Sadie Thompson, Killer Bees)
03/17/1900 Alfred Newman, New Haven, composer (Love is a Many Splendored Thing)
03/17/1901 Eisaku Sato, premier of Japan (Nobel 1974)
03/17/1902 Bobby Jones Jr, Atlanta Georgia, PGA golfer (Grand Slam 1930)
03/17/1906 Michael O'Shea, Hartford Ct, actor (Denny-It's a Great Life)
03/17/1907 Jan M J van Houtte, premier Belgium (1952-54)
03/17/1908 Boris N Poveloi, [Kampov], Russian journalist/writer [NS]
03/17/1908 Radie Britain, composer
03/17/1909 Patrick Reilly, British diplomat
03/17/1910 Bayard Rustin, civil rights leader
03/17/1911 Raffaele d' Alessandro, composer
03/17/1914 Sammy Baugh, Texas, NFL hall of famer QB (Wash Redskins)
03/17/1915 Hans Namuth, German/US photographer (Todos Santos, Guatemala)
03/17/1915 William Roycroft, Austria, equestrian 3 day (Olympic-bronze-1976)
03/17/1917 Brian Boydell, composer
03/17/1918 D Arendo, [Arend Honhoff], pianist/composer (Eleonora)
03/17/1918 Mercedes McCambridge, Joliet Ill (Exorcist, All the King's Men)
03/17/1918 Wilhelmus M J Russell, attorney/ Member of 1st chamber (KVP/CDA)
03/17/1919 Hank Sauer, baseballer (NL MVP 1952)
03/17/1919 Nat 'King' Cole, Montgomery Ala, singer (Unforgettable, Mona Lisa)
03/17/1920 John La Montaine, Oak Park Ill, composer (Pulitzer 1959)
03/17/1922 Megan Bull, British head mistress (Holloway Jail)
03/17/1924 Stephen Dodgson, composer
03/17/1925 G M Hughes, British zoologist
03/17/1926 Siegfried Lenz, German writer
03/17/1927 Maurice Ingvar Karkoff, composer
03/17/1927 Patrick Allen, actor (High Hell, Roman Holiday, Dial 'M' for Murder)
03/17/1927 Sulkhan Ivanovich Nasidze, composer
03/17/1928 Edino Krieger, composer
03/17/1930 James B Irwin, Pittsburgh Penn, Col USAF/astronaut (Apollo 15)
03/17/1931 Eunice Gayson, London England, actress (Dr No, From Russia With Love
03/17/1934 Erhard Grosskopf, composer
03/17/1935 Adam Wade, Pitts Pa, singer (Tony Orlando & Dawn)
03/17/1936 Ladislaw Kupkovic, composer
03/17/1936 Thomas K Mattingly II, Chic, Capt USN/astro (Apollo 16, STS-4, 51C)
03/17/1937 Galina Samsova, ballerina
03/17/1938 Rudolf Nureyev, Russia, ballet dancer/choreographer (Kirov)
03/17/1941 Clarence Collins, US singer (Imperials-Tears on my pillow)
03/17/1941 Edward Harper, composer
03/17/1941 Gene Pitney, Hartford Ct, rock singer (Town without Pity)
03/17/1941 Paul Kantner, rock guitarist (Jefferson Starship-White Rabbit)
03/17/1942 John Wayne Gacy, Chicago Ill, serial killer (32 boys)
03/17/1942 Sidney K Barthelmy, US politician(?)
03/17/1943 Don Mitchell, Houston Tx, actor (Mark-Ironside)
03/17/1944 Danny DeVito, Neptune NJ, actor (Louie-Taxi, Twins)
03/17/1944 John Sebastian, NYC, singer (Loving Spoonful, Welcome Back Kotter)
03/17/1944 Patti Boyd, Somerset England, (Mrs George Harrison/Mrs Eric Clapton)
03/17/1945 Paco Gonzalez, race horse trainer
03/17/1946 Harold Brown, rock drummer (War-Summer, Galaxy)
03/17/1946 Michael Peter Finnissey, composer
03/17/1948 Robert Braunwart, who added thousands of dates to this database
03/17/1948 William [Ford] Gibson, Canada, sci-fi author (Neuromancer, Count Zer
03/17/1949 Patrick Duffy, Townsend Mont, actor (Bobby-Dallas, Man from Atlantis
03/17/1951 Kurt Russell, Springfeild Mass, actor (Thing, Overboard, Mean Season
03/17/1951 Scott Gorham, guitarist (Thin Lizzy-Jailbreak)
03/17/1954 Lesley-Anne Down, London, actress (A Little Night Music, Moonraker)
03/17/1954 Wally Stocker, vocalist/guitarist (Babys-Missing You)
03/17/1955 Bill Beyers, actor (Wally McCandless-Capitol)
03/17/1955 Cynthia McKinney, (Rep-D-Georgia)
03/17/1955 Paul Overstreet, Van Cleave Miss, country singer (Daddy's Come Aroun
03/17/1957 Robin Cousins, England, figure skater (Olympic-gold-1980)
03/17/1959 Mike Lindup, British rock keyboardist/singer (Level 42-Hot Water)
03/17/1960 Lee Ann Michelle, Surrey England, playmate (Feb, 1979)
03/17/1961 Casey Siemaszko, actor (Biloxi Blues, Young Guns, 3 O'Clock High)
03/17/1962 Clare Grogan, rocker (Altered Images-Happy Birthday)
03/17/1962 Janet Patricia Gardner, Juneau Alaska, rocker (Vixen-Rev It Up)
03/17/1962 Roxy Dora Petrucci, Rochester Minn, rock drummer (Vixen-Rev It Up)
03/17/1963 Rebeca Arthur, actress (Mary Anne-Perf Strangers, Opposites Attract)
03/17/1964 Rob Lowe, Charlottesville Va, actor (St Elmo's Fire, Hotel NH, Class
03/17/1964 Ron Warren Jr, jockey
03/17/1965 Andrew Hudson, South African cricket player
03/17/1965 Caitlin Bilodeaux, Boston Mass, US fencer (Olympic-92)
Deaths:
03/17/ 180 Antonius Marcus Aurelius, [Marcus Verus], Emperor of Rome, dies at 5
03/17/ 659 Gertrudis van Nijvel, saint/patron of travellers, dies at about 32
03/17/1040 Harold, British King (1035-40), dies
03/17/1565 Alexander Alesius, [Aless/Alane], theologist/physician, dies at 64
03/17/1588 Petrus Dathenus, Flemish minister/physician (Psalms of David), dies
03/17/1605 Pieter Bast, [Bastius], engraver/cartographer, dies at about 34
03/17/1649 Gerardus Johannis Vossius, [Gerrit Jansz Vos], regent, dies at 71
03/17/1653 Johan van Galen, admiral (battle of Livorno), dies in battle at 48
03/17/1704 Menno baron van Coehoorn, fort builder/Coevorden/howitzer, dies at 6
03/17/1764 George Parker, English astronomer, dies
03/17/1796 Pieter Paulus, lawyer/Chairman National Meeting, dies at 41
03/17/1801 Juan de Sesse y Balaguer, composer, dies at 64
03/17/1803 Candido Jose Ruano, composer, dies at 43
03/17/1846 F W Bessel, measured distance to 61 Cygni, dies
03/17/1846 Friedrich W Bessel, German astronomer (Bessel Functions), dies
03/17/1849 Willem II Frederik GL, King of Netherlands (1840-49), dies at 56
03/17/1855 Ramon Carnicer y Batlle, composer, dies at 65
03/17/1857 Adolph Trube, composer, dies at 42
03/17/1861 Petter Conrad Boman, composer, dies at 57
03/17/1862 Fromental Halevy, composer, dies at 62
03/17/1864 Alexandre Calamo, Swiss painter/etcher/lithographer, dies at 53
03/17/1889 Joseph A Alberdingk Thijm, [Pauwels Foreestier], poet, dies at 68
03/17/1891 Napoleon JKP Bonaparte, French prince/member Natl Meeting, dies at 6
03/17/1898 Blanche Kelso Bruce, (Sen-Miss, 1875-1881), dies at 57, in Washingto
03/17/1901 Franz Melde, German physicist (Melde Proof), dies at 69
03/17/1902 George William Warren, composer, dies at 73
03/17/1906 Carlos Calvo, Argentina diplomat (Calvo Clause), dies
03/17/1910 Joaquin Valverde, composer, dies at 64
03/17/1927 James Scott Skinner, composer, dies at 83
03/17/1933 Ferdinand Von Alten, actor (Champagne), dies
03/17/1941 Isaak Emmanuilovich Babel, Rus writer (Crvena Konjica), dies at 46
03/17/1949 Felix Bressart, actor (Escape, Ninotchka, Iceland), dies at 54
03/17/1953 Conrado del Campo y Zabaleta, composer, dies at 73
03/17/1954 Victor Rousseau, Belgian sculptor, dies at 88
03/17/1956 Fred Allen, comedian (Colgate Comedy Hour), dies at 61
03/17/1956 Ir�ne Joliot-Curie, French physicist (Neutron, Nobel 1935), dies
03/17/1959 Raffaele d' Alessandro, composer, dies on 48th birthday
03/17/1961 Suzanna Salter, 1st US female mayor/temperance leader dies at 101
03/17/1962 Frank Orth, actor (Boston Blackie, The Brothers), dies at 82
03/17/1963 William Henry Squire, composer, dies at 91
03/17/1965 Almos Alonzo Stagg, football coach (U of Chic), dies in Calif at 102
03/17/1965 Quentin Reynolds, newscaster (Its News to Me)/author (FBI), dies
03/17/1966 Walter Lang, composer, dies at 69
03/17/1967 Frank Wisbar, director (Fireside Theater), dies at 67
03/17/1967 Richard Reeves, actor (Murph-Date With an Angel), dies at 54
03/17/1973 Geertruida MW 'Truus' Bakker, actress (2 Orphans), dies at 81
03/17/1974 Carroll Nye, actress (Lawless Woman), dies at 72
03/17/1974 Louis I Kahn, Estonia/US architect, dies at about 73
03/17/1976 Luchino Visconti di Modrone, Ital director (Terra Diaeresis), dies
03/17/1980 Rudolf Escher, composer, dies at 68
03/17/1982 Hans ter Lag, sound technician, murdered in El Salvador
03/17/1982 Jan Kuiper, IKON news editor, murdered in El Salvador
03/17/1982 Joop Willemsen, cameraman, murdered in El Salvador
03/17/1982 Koos Koster, IKON newscaster, murdered in El Salvador
03/17/1986 Hal Buckley, actor (John Quincy-OK Crackerby), dies at 49
03/17/1989 Merritt Butrick, actor (Shy People, Wired to Kill), dies
03/17/1990 Capucine, actress (Lion, Red Sun, Fellini Satyricon), dies at 57
03/17/1990 Mar� Mej�a, Guatemalian feminist, murdered
03/17/1992 Charles Rea, dies
03/17/1992 George Lovi, US columnist (Sky & Telescope's 'Ramblings'), dies
03/17/1992 Grace Stafford Lantz, cartoon voice (Woody Woodpecker), dies at 87
03/17/1992 Jack Arnold, actor/director (Sid Caeser Special, Emmy 1967), dies
03/17/1993 Helen Hayes, actress (Airport), dies of congestive heart failure at
03/17/1993 Laadi Flici, Algerian parliament leader, murdered
03/17/1993 Skip Young, actor (Smokey & Hotwire Gang), dies
03/17/1994 Walter Janka, German writer (Schwierigkeiten mit Wahrheit), dies at
Significant Events:
03/17/ 455 Roman senator Petronius Maximus becomes Emperor
03/17/1190 Crusades complete massacre of Jews of York England
03/17/1521 Ferdinand Magellan discovers the Philippines
03/17/1537 French troops attack Flanders
03/17/1580 Prince Willem of Orange welcomed in Amsterdam
03/17/1722 Willem KH Friso appointed viceroy of Drente
03/17/1753 1st official St Patrick's Day
03/17/1756 St Patrick's Day 1st celebrated in NYC at Crown & Thistle Tavern
03/17/1766 Britain repeals Stamp Act
03/17/1776 British forces evacuate Boston to Nova Scotia during Revolutionary W
03/17/1800 English warship Queen Charlotte catches fire; 700 die
03/17/1824 England & Netherlands sign a trade agreement
03/17/1833 Phoenix Society founded (NY)
03/17/1847 The opera 'Macbeth' is produced (Florence)
03/17/1852 A De Gasparis discovers asteroid #16 Psyche
03/17/1852 DeGasparis discovers asteroid Psyche (16)
03/17/1854 1st park land purchased by a US city, Worcester, Mass
03/17/1860 Japanese embassy arrives aboard Candinmarruh [sic]
03/17/1861 Italy declares independence; Kingdom of Italy proclaimed
03/17/1863 Battle of Kelly's Ford, VA
03/17/1868 Postage stamp canceling machine patent issued
03/17/1871 National Association of Professional Base-Ball players organized
03/17/1876 1st record high jump over 6' (Marshall Jones Brooks)
03/17/1876 Gen Crook destroy Cheyennes & Oglala-Sioux indian camps
03/17/1884 John Joseph Montgomery makes 1st glider flight, Otay, Calif
03/17/1886 Carrollton Massacre, (Mississippi) 20 blacks killed
03/17/1891 British Steamer 'Utopia' sinks off Gibraltor killing 574
03/17/1893 A Charlois discovers asteroid #363 Padua
03/17/1897 Robert Fitzsimmons KOs James Corbert & becomes world heavyweight cha
03/17/1898 1st practical submarine 1st submerges, NYC (for 1 hour 40 minutes)
03/17/1899 Windsor luxury hotel in NYC catches fire, 92 die
03/17/1900 Montreal Shamrocks sweep Halifax Crescents in 2 for the Stanley Cup
03/17/1901 Free thinking-Democratic Union forms in Netherlands
03/17/1902 Montreal AAA beat Winn Victorias 2 games to 1 for the Stanley Cup
03/17/1905 Eleanor Roosevelt marries FDR in NY
03/17/1906 Pres Theodore Roosevelt uses term 'muckrake'
03/17/1908 Quckest world heavyweight title fight (Burns KOs Roche in 88 seconds
03/17/1912 Camp Fire Girls organization announced by Mrs Luther Halsey Gulick
03/17/1917 1st US bowling tournament for women, St Louis
03/17/1917 Tsar Nicolas II of Russia abdicates the throne
03/17/1919 Dutch strike for 8 hr day & minimum wages
03/17/1921 Lenin proclaims New Economic Politics
03/17/1921 Sailors revolt in Kronstadt (thousands die)
03/17/1924 Netherlands & USSR begin talks over USSR recognizition
03/17/1924 Sweden & USSR exchange diplomats
03/17/1926 Calvinist oust Rev J G Golden out of office
03/17/1926 Spain & Brazil prevent Germany joining League of Nations
03/17/1927 US govt doesn't sign league of Nations disarmament treaty
03/17/1929 General Motors acquires German auto manufacturer Adam Opel
03/17/1929 Spanish dictator Primo de Rivera shuts university of Madrid
03/17/1931 A Schwassmann discovers asteroid #1192 Prisma
03/17/1931 Stalin throws Krupskaya Lenin out of Central Committee
03/17/1932 German police raid Hitlers nazi-headquarter
03/17/1934 Dollfuss, Mussolini & G�mb�s sign Donau Pact (protocols of Rome)
03/17/1935 KSO-AM in Des Moines Iowa call sign is given to KWCR
03/17/1939 Y Vaisala discovers asteroid #1757 Porvoo
03/17/1941 National Gallery of Art, Wash DC opens
03/17/1942 Belzec Concentration Camp opens
03/17/1950 Belgian govt of Eyskens resigns
03/17/1950 Element 98 (Californium) announced
03/17/1951 Govt of Drees takes power
03/17/1953 WBAY TV channel 2 in Green Bay, WI (CBS) begins broadcasting
03/17/1953 WWLP TV channel 22 in Springfield, MA (NBC) begins broadcasting
03/17/1955 Maurice 'Rocket' Richard suspended, sparks 7 hour riot in Montr�al
03/17/1957 Dutch ban on Sunday driving lifted
03/17/1957 Ramon Magsaysay, president of Philipines dies in a plane crash
03/17/1958 Navy launches Vanguard 1 into orbit (2nd US), measures Earth shape
03/17/1959 Australia & USSR recover diplomatic relations
03/17/1959 Dalai Lama flees Tibet for India
03/17/1960 Eisenhower decides anti-Castro-exile army to form under the CIA
03/17/1960 WSLA (now WAKA) TV channel 8 in Selma, AL (CBS) begins broadcasting
03/17/1961 South Africa leaves British Commonwealth
03/17/1963 Bob Cousy plays his last NBA game
03/17/1963 Elizabeth Ann Seton of NY beatified (canonized in 1975)
03/17/1963 Eruptions of Mount Agung Bali, kills 1,900 Balinese
03/17/1965 Beatles announce their film is named '8 Arms to Hold on to You' (Hel
03/17/1966 South Africa govt bans Defense & Aid Fund
03/17/1966 US sub locates missing H-bomb in Mediterranean
03/17/1969 Golda Meir becomes Israeli PM
03/17/1970 Peter O'Malley becomes CEO of LA Dodgers
03/17/1970 US casts their 1st UN Security Council veto (Support England)
03/17/1972 Ringo releases 'Back of Bugaloo' in UK
03/17/1973 St Patrick Day marchers carry 14 coffins commerating Bloody Sunday
03/17/1975 Purple Mountain Observatory discovers asteroids #2387 & #2425
03/17/1975 Valeri Muratov skates world record 1000m (1:16.92)
03/17/1976 Malikov skates world record 1000m (1:15.76)
03/17/1976 Rubin 'Hurricane' Carter is retried
03/17/1977 Harvard College discovers asteroid #2395 Aho
03/17/1978 Amoco Cadiz tanker spills 1.6 mil gallons of oil off French coast
03/17/1982 4 Dutch TV crew members shot dead in El Salvador
03/17/1983 70th hat trick in Islander history-Mike Bossy
03/17/1985 Matti Nykanen of Finland set a world ski jump record of 623'
03/17/1986 Haemers gang robs gold transport in Belgium of 35 million BF
03/17/1987 IBM releases PC-DOS version 3.3
03/17/1988 Highest scoring NCAA basketball game; Loyola-Marymnt 119, Wyoming 11
03/17/1988 Iran says Iraq uses poison gas
03/17/1989 Dorothy Cudahy is 1st female grand marshal of St Patrick Day Parade
03/17/1991 Irish Lesbians & Gays march in St Patrick Day parade
03/17/1991 NJ raises turnpike tolls 70%
03/17/1991 USSR holds a referendum to determine if they should stay together
03/17/1992 Islamic Jihad truck bombs Israeli Embassy in Buenos Aires killing 29
03/17/1992 Russian manned space craft TM-14, launches into orbit
03/17/1993 86 killed by bomb attack in Calcutta
03/17/1994 Iran transport aircraft crashes in Azerbeidzjan (32 killed)
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