March 17

Definition: March 17

March 17

Noun

1. A day observed by the Irish to commemorate the patron saint of Ireland.

Specialty Definitions: March 17

Domain	Definitions
19th Century Satire	St. Patrick's Day and Evacuation Day, when the British redcoats got out of Boston and Patrick evicted the snakes from Ireland. For observing the day, wear a turkey-red coat, or vest, and put a bit of green ribbon, or a shamrock, in the buttonhole-- the gr. Source: Foolish Dictionary, 1904.
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Specialty Definition: March 17

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

March 17 is the 76th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (77th in Leap years). There are 289 days remaining.

Events

45 BC - In his last victory, Julius Caesar defeats the Pompeian forces of Titus Labienus and Pompey the Younger in the Battle of Munda.
1756 - St. Patrick's Day is celebrated in New York City for the first time (at the Crown and Thistle Tavern).
1776 - American Revolution: British forces evacuate Boston, Massachusetts after George Washington places artillery overlooking the city.
1861 - The Kingdom of Italy is proclaimed.
1886 - Carrollton Massacre: 20 African Americans are killed in Mississippi.
1891 - The British steamship SS Utopia sinks off the coast of Gibraltar, killing 574.
1901 - A showing of 71 Vincent van Gogh paintings in Paris, 11 years after his death, creates a sensation.
1910 - Luther Gulick and his wife Charlotte found Camp Fire Girls (formally announced in 1912).
1931 - Nevada legalizes gambling.
1941 - In Washington, DC, the National Gallery of Art is officially opened by President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
1948 - Benelux, France, and the United Kingdom sign the Treaty of Brussels which is a precursor to the NATO Agreement.
1950 - University of California, Berkeley researchers announce the creation of element 98 which they have named "californium".
1958 - The United States launches the Vanguard 1 satellite.
1959 - The Dalai Lama flees Tibet and travels to India.
1966 - Off the coast of Spain in the Mediterranean, the ALVIN submarine finds a missing American hydrogen bomb.
1969 - Golda Meir of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA, becomes Prime Minister of Israel.
1970 - My Lai massacre: The United States Army charges 14 officers with suppressing information related to the incident.
1985 - Serial killer Richard Ramirez, the "Night Stalker", commits his first two murders in Los Angeles, California murder spree.
1988 - A Colombian Boeing 727 jetliner, Avianca Flight 410, crashes into the side of the mountains near Venezuela border killing 143.
1992 - 29 are killed and 242 injured when a suicide car-bomb goes off in the Israeli embassy in Buenos Aires.
2003 - British Cabinet Minister, Robin Cook, resigns over government plans for war with Iraq.

Births

1473 - King James IV of Scotland (+ 1513)
1777 - Roger Taney, Chief Justice of the United States (+ 1864)
1804 - Jim Bridger, pioneer (+ 1881)
1834 - Gottlieb Daimler, engineer and inventor (+ 1900)
1862 - Silvio Gesell, economist (+ 1930)
1870 - Horace St. John Kelly Donisthorpe, British entomologist, myrmecologist and coleopterist. (+ 1951)
1888 - Frank Buck, "big game" hunter (+ 1950)
1894 - Paul Green, novelist, Pulitzer Prize winning playwright (+ 1981)
1895 - Shemp Howard, actor ("The Three Stooges") (+ 1955)
1902 - Bobby Jones, golfer (+ 1971)
1908 - Brigitte Helm, actress (+ 1996)
1912 - Bayard Rustin, civil rights activist (+ 1987)
1914 - Sammy Baugh, American football star
1918 - Mercedes McCambridge, actress
1919 - Nat King Cole, singer (+ 1965)
1920 - Mujibur Rahman, Prime Minister of Bangladesh (+ 1975)
1926 - Siegfried Lenz, writer
1936 - Ladislav Kupkovic, composer
1938 - Rudolf Nureyev, dancer and choreographer (+ 1993)
1942 - John Wayne Gacy, serial killer (+ 1994)
1944 - John Sebastian, singer-songwriter, also a member of the Lovin' Spoonful
1948 - William Gibson, writer
1949 - Patrick Duffy, actor
1951 - Kurt Russell, actor
1954 - Lesley-Anne Down, actress
1955 - Gary Sinise, actor
1956 - Patrick McDonnell, creator of syndicated cartoon strip "Mutts"
1959 - Danny Ainge, basketball player, coach, baseball player
1964 - Rob Lowe, actor
1972 - Mia Hamm, soccer player

Deaths

45 BC - Titus Labienus, Roman statesman, and Gnaeus Pompeius (died in and executed after the battle of Munda)
180 - Marcus Aurelius, Roman Emperor
461 - Saint Patrick, patron saint of Ireland died in Saul, County Down
1058 - King Lulach I of Scotland
1956 - Irene Joliot-Curie, scientist
1965 - Amos Alonzo Stagg, baseball, basketball and American football coach and player
1976 - Luchino Visconti, director
1957 - Ramon Magsaysay, President of the Philippines
1990 - Capucine, actress
1993 - Helen Hayes, actress
2003 - Klaus Oldendorff, ship owner

Holidays and observances

Saint Patrick's Day: a public holiday in Ireland and Montserrat
Roman Empire - the second day of the Bacchanalia in honor of Bacchus
Roman Empire - the Liberia in honor of Liber
Ancient Latvia - Kustonu Diena observed
Boston, Massachusetts - Evacuation Day

See Also:

March 16 - March 18 - February 17 - April 17 -- listing of all days

January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "March 17."

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Synonyms: March 17

Synonyms: Saint Patrick's Day (n), St Patrick's Day (n). (additional references)

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Commercial Usage: March 17

Domain	Title
Books	FY 1995 DOE budget overview : hearing before the Subcommittee on Energy of the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, U.S. House of Representatives, One Hundred Third Congress, second session, March 17, 1994 (reference) Hearing on the semiannual report of the Resolution Trust Corporation, 1993 : hearing before the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, United States Senate, One Hundred Third Congress, first session ... March 17, 1993 (reference) (more book examples)
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Photo Album: March 17

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	"That's the worst one," says Elmer Davis, Director of Office of War Information at a press conference on foreign propaganda [...] March 17, 1943.Credit: Library of Congress.		Jornada de solidaridad con Zimbabwe (17 de marzo) = Day of Solidarity with Zimbabwe (March 17) ...Credit: Library of Congress.
	Zimbabwe : jornada de solidaridad, 17 de marzo = day of solidarity, March 17 ...Credit: Library of Congress.
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Non-Fiction Usage: March 17

Subject	Topic	Quote
Economic History	Lebanon	Lebanon's March 17, 1999 Copyright Law largely complies with WTO regulations and needs minor amendments to become fully compatible. (references)
	Venezuela	Since March 17, 2000, it announced that it will seek joint equity ventures, or "strategic associations," for the different elements of the company. (references)
	Zimbabwe	After 1965, the small remaining American consular staff continued to operate under authority of exequaturs issued by Queen Elizabeth II. Following declaration of a republic, the United States closed its Consulate General on March 17, 1970. (references)
Human Rights	Somalia	On March 17, 10 men were killed in Jowhar in retaliation for the killing of a young girl. (references)
	Colombia	The fourth incident was a March 17 paramilitary massacre in San Carlos, Antioquia, which resulted in the deaths of 13 persons. (references)
	Spain	On March 9, an ETA car bomb killed a member of the autonomous police force of the Basque Country, and on March 17 an ETA car bomb killed a member of the autonomous police force of Catalunya. (references)
Indigenous People	Bangladesh	After their safe and peaceful release on March 17, one of the hostages told a newspaper reporter that one of his abductors had confided that the motive was not political but rather, they wanted money "for the welfare of Chakma people." On June 23, a Bengali truck driver in Khagrachhari District in the Chittagong Hill Tracts was murdered. (references)
Travel	Ireland	As an example, the date March 17, 1996 is usually found in written correspondence as 17 March 1996 or 17.3.1996. For currency or other numerical quantities, use commas to mark off the thousands position and a decimal point (period) to denote decimal amounts -- the same practice as followed in the United States; for example IR�1,234,456.78. (references)
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Anagrams: March 17

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "1-7-a-c-h-m-r"
	-2 letters: charm, march.
	-3 letters: arch, cham, char, cram, harm, mach, marc.
	-4 letters: arc, arm, cam, car, ham, mac, mar, rah, ram.
	-5 letters: ah, am, ar, ha, hm, ma.
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