March 17
People born on this day are Pisces.
- 1969
Golda Meir becomes the first female Prime Minister of Israel.
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The Pulitzer Prize–winning photograph Burst of Joy is taken, depicting a former prisoner of war being reunited with his family, which came to symbolize the end of United States involvement in the Vietnam War.
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Aeroflot Flight 1691 crashes on approach to Vnukovo International Airport, killing 58.
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Serial killer Richard Ramirez, aka the "Night Stalker", commits the first two murders in his Los Angeles murder spree.
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A Colombian Boeing 727 jetliner, Avianca Flight 410, crashes into a mountainside near the Venezuelan border killing 143.
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Eritrean War of Independence: The Nadew Command, an Ethiopian army corps in Eritrea, is attacked on three sides by military units of the Eritrean People's Liberation Front in the opening action of the Battle of Afabet.
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Israeli Embassy attack in Buenos Aires: Car bomb attack kills 29 and injures 242.
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A referendum to end apartheid in South Africa is passed 68.7% to 31.2%.
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Five hundred and thirty members of the Ugandan cult Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments of God die in a fire, considered to be a mass murder or suicide orchestrated by leaders of the cult. Elsewhere another 248 members are later found dead.
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Leader of the House of Commons and Lord President of the Council, Robin Cook, resigns from the British Cabinet in disagreement with government plans for the 2003 invasion of Iraq.
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Unrest in Kosovo: More than 22 are killed and 200 wounded. Thirty-five Serbian Orthodox shrines in Kosovo and two mosques in Serbia are destroyed.
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Rojava conflict: At a conference in Rmelan, the Movement for a Democratic Society declares the establishment of the Democratic Federation of Northern Syria.
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1998Brandon Aiyuk, American football player
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1997Katie Ledecky, American swimmer
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1997Daniel Sprong, Dutch ice hockey player
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1995Claressa Shields, American boxer and mixed martial artist
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1994DeForest Buckner, American football player
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1994Terry Rozier, American basketball player
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1994Marcel Sabitzer, Austrian footballer
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1993Rhys Hoskins, American baseball player
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1993Yao Yuanjun, Chinese Border police officer (died 2011)
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1992John Boyega, British actor and producer
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1992Patrick Cantlay, American golfer
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1992Yeltsin Tejeda, Costa Rican footballer
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