What Happened On This Day In History: 17th March

March 17th is the 76th day of a calendar year and the 77th day in a leap year. Over the years in history, this day has witnessed many events, some of which are:

In the 1700s:

On this day in 1756, New York City celebrated St. Patrick’s Day for the very first time.
In 1766, Britain revoked the infamous Stamp Act.

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In the 1800s:

In 1868, the patent for the postage stamp cancelling machine was issued.
In 1884, John Joseph Montgomery made the first manned and controlled glider flight in the United States.
In 1891, Utopia, the British steamer ship, sank off the coast of Gibraltar.

In the 1900s:

On this day in 1901, Vincent Van Gogh’s paintings were exhibited at the Bernheim Gallery in Paris.
In 1910, Luther and Charlotte Gulick founded the Camp Fire Girls Organisation.
In 1930, Al Capone was released from jail. On the same day in New York City, the construction of the Empire State Building began.
In 1941, the then president of the United States of America, Franklin D. Roosevelt officially opened the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.
It was on this day in 1944, when the United States bombed Vienna during the Second World War.
In 1950, the scientists at the University of California at Berkeley created the “element 98,” which was a new radioactive element.
In 1958, the United States of America launched the Vanguard 1 satellite.
In 1959, the Dalai Lama fled to India from Tibet.
It was on this day in 1966, when a U.S. submarine found a missing H-bomb in the Mediterranean Sea off the coast of Spain.
In 1969, Golda Meir swore in as Israel’s fourth Prime Minister.
On this day in 1973, the first American Prisoners of War, also known as POWs, were released in Hanoi in Northern Vietnam.
In 1999, a group of medical experts came up with the conclusion that marijuana was medically beneficial for people who had AIDS and cancer.

2000s onwards:

In the year 2000, Jens Stotenberg, along with the Labour Party took over the government of Norway. In the same year, in Kanungu in Uganda, a fire at a church which was linked to the Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments killed over 500 people.
In 2004, NASA’s Messenger went on to become the first spacecraft that entered into Mercury’s orbit.