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