Today in History - Famous Events for Tomorrow

🏰 On this day in History - March 17, 2026

1926 Richard Rodgers & L Hart's musical "Girl Friend," premieres in NYC

1996 Sri Lanka beat Australia by 7 wickets to win the World Cup

1953 WBAY TV channel 2 in Green Bay, WI (CBS) begins broadcasting

1766 Britain repeals Stamp Act

1953 WWLP TV channel 22 in Springfield, MA (NBC) begins broadcasting

1945 Allied ships bomb North-Sumatra

1190 Crusades complete massacre of Jews of York England

1985 Matti Nykanen of Finland set a world ski jump record of 623'

1757 Prince Mas Sa‹d of Mataram surrenders to Mangkubumi in Java

1921 Sailors revolt in Kronstadt (thousands die)

1951 Govt of Drees takes power

1992 Russian manned space craft TM-14, launches into orbit

1988 Iran says Iraq uses poison gas

1960 Eisenhower forms anti-Castro-exile army under the CIA

1537 French troops invade Flanders

1943 F Hugh Herbert's "Kiss & Tell," premieres in NYC

1996 "Bus Stop" closes at Circle in Sq Theater NYC after 29 performances

1942 Gen Doug MacArthur arrives in Australia to become supreme commander

1753 1st official St Patrick's Day

1900 Stanley Cup: Montreal Shamrocks sweep Halifax Crescents in 2

1863 Battle of Kelly's Ford, VA (211 casualities)

1899 Windsor luxury hotel in NYC catches fire, 92 die

1966 US sub locates missing H-bomb in Mediterranean

1995 British њ hits 2.4545 to Dutch guilder (record)

1876 Gen Crook destroy Cheyennes & Oglala-Sioux indian camps

1924 Netherlands & USSR begin talks over USSR recognition

1953 Bill Veeck says he will sell his 80% of St Louis Browns for $2,475M

1979 Ice Dance Championship at Vienna won by N Linichuk & G Karponosov USSR

1985 Jane Blalock wins LPGA Women's Kemper Golf Open

1918 US Ladies Figure Skating championship won by Rosemary Beresford

1898 1st practical submarine 1st submerges, NYC (for 1 hour 40 minutes)

1992 De Klerk wins a white only referendum

1996 Liselotte Neumann wins LPGA Ping/Welch's Golf Championship

1910 DHC soccer team forms in Delft Neth

1944 Actor Charlton Heston weds Lydia Clarke

1963 Elizabeth Ann Seton of NY beatified (canonized in 1975)

1992 Islamic Jihad truck bombs Israeli Embassy in Buenos Aires killing 29

1897 Bob Fitzsimmons KOs James J Corbett in 14 for heavyweight boxing title

1776 British forces evacuate Boston to Nova Scotia during Revolutionary War

1755 Transylvania Land Co buys Kentucky for $50,000 from a Cherokee chief

1951 Test Cricket debut of Brian Statham, England v NZ Christchurch

1995 USt approves 1st chicken pox vaccine, Varivax by Merck & Co

1979 Worlds Ladies Figure Skating Champ in Vienna won by Linda Fratianne

1833 Phoenix Society forms (NY)

1983 9th People's Choice Awards

1991 Penny Hammel wins Desert Inn LPGA Golf International

1959 Dalai Lama flees Tibet for India

1902 Stanley Cup: Montreal AAA beat Winnipeg Victorias, 2 games to 1

1836 Texas abolishes slavery

1961 NY DA arrests professional gamblers who implicate Seton Hall players

1868 Postage stamp canceling machine patent issued

1658 Pro-Charles II plot in England discovered

1976 Malikov skates world record 1000m (1:15.76)

1992 "Death & the Maiden" opens at Brooks Atkinson NYC for 159 perfs

1941 National Gallery of Art, Wash DC opens

1988 Highest scoring NCAA basketball game; Loyola-Marymont 119, Wyoming 115

1927 US govt doesn't sign league of Nations disarmament treaty

1860 Japanese embassy arrives aboard Candinmarruh [sic]

1918 US Mens Figure Skating championship won by Nathaniel Niles

1804 Johann von Schiller's "Wilhelm Tell," premieres

1672 England declares war on Netherlands

1521 Ferdinand Magellan discovers the Philippines

1842 Indians land in Ohio, a 12э-mile area in Upper Sandusky

1957 Ramon Magsaysay, president of Philipines dies in a plane crash

1917 Tsar Nicolas II of Russia abdicates the throne [NS]

1908 Tommy Burns KOs Jem Roche in 1 for heavyweight boxing title

1950 Belgian govt of Eyskens resigns

1987 IBM releases PC-DOS version 3.3

1871 National Association of Professional Base-Ball players organized

1845 Rubber band patented by Stephen Perry of London

1991 NJ raises turnpike tolls 70%

1845 Bristol man, Henry Jones, patents self-raising flour

1894 US & China sign treaty preventing Chinese laborers from entering US

1955 Maurice "Rocket" Richard suspended, sparks 7 hour riot in Montr‚al

1986 Haemers gang robs gold transport in Belgium of 35 million BF

1996 Mike Tyson beat Frank Bruno in 3rd round to gain Heavyweight title

1978 Ligeti's opera "Le Grand Macabre," premieres in Stockholm

1847 "Macbeth" opera premieres in Florence

1950 Element 98 (Californium) announced

1891 British Steamer "Utopia" sinks off Gibraltar killing 574

1919 Dutch steel workers strike for 8 hr day & minimum wages

1968 Kathie Whitworth wins LPGA St Petersburg Orange Blossom Golf Open

1722 Willem KH Friso appointed mayor of Drente

1526 French king Fran‡ois I freed from Spain

1966 South Africa govt bans Defense & Aid Fund

1905 Eleanor Roosevelt marries FDR in NY

1924 Sweden & USSR exchange diplomats

1994 "Little More Magic" opens at Belasco Theater NYC for 30 performances

1917 1st exclusively women's bowling tournament begins in St Louis

0455 Roman senator Petronius Maximus becomes Emperor

1978 Reds don green uniforms for St Patricks Day

1995 Sinn-Fein leader Gerry Adams visits White House

1884 John Joseph Montgomery makes 1st glider flight, Otay, Calif

1756 St Patrick's Day 1st celebrated in NYC at Crown & Thistle Tavern

1956 8th Emmy Awards: Ed Sullivan Show, Phil Silvers Show & Lucy Ball

1996 Montreal Canadian's 1st game in their new arena

1979 Men's Figure Skating Champ in Vienna won by Vladimir Kovalev (USSR)

1982 4 Dutch TV crew members shot dead in El Salvador

1886 Carrollton Massacre, (Mississippi) 20 blacks killed

1521 Magelhaes lands on Homohon

0432 St Patrick, a bishop, is carried off to Ireland as a slave

1929 General Motors acquires German auto manufacturer Adam Opel

1987 Sunil Gavaskar ends his Test career with an innings of 96 v Pak

1861 Italy declares independence; Kingdom of Italy proclaimed

1824 England & Netherlands sign a trade agreement

1981 FC Lisse, Dutch soccer team forms

1988 "Les Miserables," opens at Det Norske Teatret, Oslo

1983 70th hat trick in Islander history-Mike Bossy

1934 Dollfuss, Mussolini & G”mb”s sign Donau Pact (protocols of Rome)

1580 Prince Willem of Orange welcomed in Amsterdam

1969 Golda Meir becomes Israel's 4th PM

1926 Dutch Calvinists oust Rev J G Geelkerken over Genesis 3

1994 It is announced there is no smoking in Cleve Indians new ballpark

1996 Aravinda De Silva gets 107* & 3-42 in cricket World Cup victory

1969 Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Orange Blossom Golf Open

1989 Dorothy Cudahy is 1st female grand marshal of St Patrick Day Parade

1908 Quickest world heavyweight title fight (Burns KOs Roche in 88 seconds)

1992 18th People's Choice Awards: Garth Brooks & Reba McEntire

1870 Mass legislature authorizes incorporation of Wellesley Female Seminary

1877 Bill Midwinter completes Test Crickets' 1st 5-wkt haul, 5-78 v Eng

1968 2-tiered gold price negotiated in Wash DC by US & 6 European nations

1970 US casts their 1st UN Security Council veto (Support England)

1978 Amoco Cadiz tanker spills 1.6 mil gallons of oil off French coast

1998 USA Women's Hockey Team beats Canada for 1st Olympic Gold medal

1961 South Africa leaves British Commonwealth

1963 Eruptions of Mount Agung Bali, kills 1,900 Balinese

1924 Eugene O'Neill's "Welded," premieres in NYC

1991 9 of 15 Soviet reps officially approve new union treaty

1994 Iran transport aircraft crashes in Azerbaijan (32 killed)

1989 "Chu Chem" opens at Ritz Theater NYC for 44 performances

1932 German police raid Hitler's nazi-headquarter

1921 Dr Marie Stopes opens Britain's 1st birth control clinic (London)

1972 Ringo releases "Back off Bugaloo" in UK

1993 86 killed by bomb attack in Calcutta

1997 CNN begins spanish broadcasts

1953 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

1800 English warship Queen Charlotte catches fire; 700 die

1992 28 killed in truck bombing of Israeli embassy in Buenos Aires, Arg

1975 Valeri Muratov skates world record 1000m (1:16.92)

1976 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

1942 Belzec Concentration Camp opens-30,000 Lublin Polish Jews transported

1929 Spanish dictator Primo de Rivera closes university of Madrid

1958 Navy launches Vanguard 1 into orbit (2nd US), measures Earth shape

1935 KSO-AM in Des Moines Iowa call sign is given to KWCR

1974 Jane Blalock wins LPGA Bing Crosby Golf Classic International

1906 Stanley Cup: Montreal Wanderers beat Ottawa Silver 7, although both winning a game, Montreal outscores Ottawa 12-10

1959 Australia & USSR restore diplomatic relations

1965 Beatles announce their film is named "8 Arms to Hold on to You" (Help)

1926 Spain & Brazil prevent Germany joining League of Nations

1976 Rubin "Hurricane" Carter is retried

1901 Free thinking-Democratic Union forms in Netherlands

1957 Dutch ban on Sunday driving lifted

1973 Queen Elizabeth II opens new London Bridge

1963 Bob Cousy plays his last NBA game

1762 1st St Patrick's Day parade in NYC

1943 Aldemarin (Ned) & Fort Cedar Lake (US) torpedoed & sinks

1991 Irish Lesbians & Gays march in St Patrick Day parade

1996 "Getting Away With Murder" opens at Broadhurst NYC for 17 perfs

1973 St Patrick Day marchers carry 14 coffins commemorating Bloody Sunday

1876 1st record high jump over 6' (Marshall Jones Brooks)

1977 Australia wins cricket Centenary Test by 45 runs, same result as 1877

1960 WSLA (now WAKA) TV channel 8 in Selma, AL (CBS) begins broadcasting

1979 Ice Pairs Championship at Vienna won by Tai Babilonia & R Gardner USA

1906 Pres Theodore Roosevelt uses term "muckrake"

1990 PBA National Championship Won by Jim Pencak

1854 1st park land purchased by a US city, Worcester, Mass

1970 Peter O'Malley becomes CEO of LA Dodgers

1921 Lenin proclaims New Economic Politics

1912 Camp Fire Girls organization announced by Mrs Luther Halsey Gulick

1931 Stalin throws Krupskaya Lenin out of Central Committee

1991 John Robin Baitz' "Substance of Fire," premieres in NYC

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