| 1766 |
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Britain repeals the Stamp Act. |
| 1776 |
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British forces evacuate from Boston to Nova Scotia. |
| 1799 |
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Napoleon Bonaparte and his army reach Mediterranean seaport of St. Jean d’Acra, only to find British warships ready to break his siege of the town. |
| 1868 |
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The first postage stamp canceling machine patent is issued. |
| 1884 |
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John Joseph Montgomery makes the first glider flight in Otay, Calif. |
| 1886 |
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Twenty African Americans are killed in the Carrollton Massacre in Mississippi. |
| 1891 |
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The British steamer Utopia sinks off the coast of Gibraltar. |
| 1905 |
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Anna Eleanor Roosevelt, niece of President Theodore Roosevelt, marries Franklin D. Roosevelt in New York. |
| 1910 |
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The Camp Fire Girls are founded in Lake Sebago, Maine. |
| 1914 |
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Russia increases the number of active duty military from 460,000 to 1,700,000. |
| 1924 |
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Four Douglas army aircraft leave Los Angeles for an around the world flight. |
| 1930 |
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Mob boss Al Capone is released from jail. |
| 1942 |
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The Nazis begin deporting Jews to the Belsen camp. |
| 1944 |
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The U.S. Eighth Air Force bombs Vienna. |
| 1959 |
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The Dalai Lama flees Tibet and goes to India. |
| 1961 |
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The United States increases military aid and technicians to Laos. |
| 1962 |
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The Soviet Union asks the United States to pull out of South Vietnam. |
| 1966 |
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A U.S. submarine locates a missing H-bomb in the Mediterranean. |
| 1970 |
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The Army charges 14 officers with suppression of facts in the My Lai massacre case. |
| 1972 |
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Nixon asks Congress to halt busing in order to achieve desegregation. |
| 1973 |
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Twenty are killed in Cambodia when a bomb goes off that was meant for the Cambodian President Lon Nol. |
| 1973 |
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First POWs are released from the "Hanoi Hilton" in Hanoi, North Vietnam. |
| 1985 |
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President Ronald Reagan agrees to a joint study with Canada on acid rain. |
| 1992 |
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White South Africans approve constitutional reforms giving legal equality to blacks. |
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Born on March 17 |
| c.389 |
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St. Patrick, the patron saint of Ireland. |
| 1828 |
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Patrick R. Cleburne, Confederate general. |
| 1832 |
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Daniel Conway Moncure, U.S. clergyman, author, abolitionist |
| 1846 |
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Kate Greenway, painter and illustrator (Mother Goose). |
| 1902 |
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Bobby Jones, American golfer. |
| 1919 |
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Nat "King" Cole, American jazz pianist and singer. |
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