This Day in History
17 Mar 1190
Crusades complete massacre of Jews of York England
17 Mar 1337
Edward the Black Prince is made Duke of Cornwall the first Duchy made in England
17 Mar 1755
Transylvania Land Company buys Kentucky for 50000 from a Cherokee chief
17 Mar 1756
St. Patricks Day is first celebrated in NYC at the Crown & Thistle Tavern
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Clark pleads guilty in Yale grad student slaying
On this day in 2011 26-year-old Raymond Clark III a former animal research assistant at Yale University in New Haven Connecticut pleads guilty to the murder...
Julia Roberts collects $20 million for Erin Brockovich
With Erin Brockovich released on this day in 2000 Julia Roberts becomes the first actress ever to command 20 million per movie.Born in Smyrna Georgia on Oc...
First St. Patrick’s Day parade
In New York City the first parade honoring the Catholic feast day of St. Patrick the patron saint of Ireland is held by Irish soldiers serving in the British...
The Champs’ Tequila is the #1 song on the U.S. pop charts
Written on the spot and recorded as an afterthought near the end of a session at Gold Star Studios in Los Angeles the songTequila ...
Van Gogh paintings shown
On March 17 1901 paintings by the late Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh are shown at the Bernheim-Jeune gallery in Paris. The 71 paintings which captured their...
The British evacuate Boston
During the American War for Independence British forces are forced to evacuate Boston following Patriot General George Washingtons successful placement...
Saint Patrick dies
On this day in 461 A.D. Saint Patrick Christian missionary bishop and apostle of Ireland dies at Saul Downpatrick Ireland.Much of what is known about Patr...
Results of Peers investigation announced
After an investigation the U.S. Army accuses 14 officers of suppressing information related to an incident at My Lai in March 1968.Soldiers from a company had ...
National Security Council reviews situation
President Lyndon B. Johnson presides over a session of the National Security Council during which Secretary of Defense McNamara and Gen. Maxwell Taylor present ...
Bobby Jones is born
On March 17 1902 Robert Tyre Jones Jr. is born in Atlanta Georgia. Jones the first great American golfer was a hero of the so-called Golden Age of ...
Franklin Roosevelt marries Eleanor Roosevelt
Future president Franklin Delano Roosevelt weds his fifth cousin once removed Eleanor Roosevelt in New York on this day in 1905.Eleanor born Anna Eleanor Ro...
Jim Bridger born
Two months before Lewis and Clark begin their epic western expedition Jim Bridger is born in Richmond Virginia. Twenty years later Bridger heading West alo...
Novelist and playwright Paul Green is born
Paul Green future winner of the 1927 Pulitzer Prize for his play In Abrahams Bosom is born. Although Green was white his work examined the problems o...
Earthquakes kill more than 1,200 in Taiwan
A powerful earthquake and a full day of aftershocks rock Taiwan on this day in 1906 killing over 1200 people. This terrifying day of tremors destroyed several...
Lithuania rejects Soviet demand to renounce its independence
The former Soviet Socialist Republic of Lithuania steadfastly rejects a demand from the Soviet Union that it renounce its declaration of independence. The situa...
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