17 Mairch

The **17t o Mairch** is the 76t day o the year (77t in lowp years) in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 289 days ti come.

## Events

* 1328 - Isabella o Fraunce, on behalf o her 15-year-auld son Edward III o Ingland, recognises the unthirldom o Scotland, endin the first o the Scots Wars o Unthirldom.
* 1337 - Edward, the Black Prince becomes Prince o Wales.
* 1805 - The Napoleonic Kinrick o Italy is foondit.
* 1861 - The seicont Kinrick o Italy is foondit.
* 1899 - Saturn's muin Phoebe is discovered.
* 1945 - Warld War II: The Ludendorff Brig in Remagen, Germany, collapses 10 days efter its captur.
* 1957 - Preses o the Philippines Ramon Magsaysay an 24 ithers are kilt in a plane crash on the island o Cebu.
* 1959 - Tenzin Gyatso, 14t Dalai Lama, flees Tibet tae Indie.
* 1963 - Munt Agung erupts on the island o Bali, Indonesie, killin 1,100 fowk.
* 1969 - Golda Meir becomes Prime meenister o Israel.
* 1969 - The Longhope lifeboat disaster in the Pentland Firth kills 8 crew members.
* 1988 - Avianca Flicht 410 crashes intae a muntain in eastren Colombie, killin 143 fowk.
* 1992 - A suicide car bombin at Israel's embassy in Buenos Aires, Argentinae, kills 29 fowk.
* 1992 - A referendum in Sooth Africae approves the end o Apartheid.
* 2003 - Robin Cook resigns frae the Breetish cabinet ower plans tae gang tae war in Iraq.
* 2009 - Preses o Madagascar Marc Ravalomanana resigns efter a poleetical crisis.
* 2018 - Roushie expels 23 Breetish diplomats in response tae the Unitit Kinrick takin the semme action wi 23 o theirs, an decide tae close the Breetish Consulate in Saunt Petersburg an end the wirk o the Breetish Cooncil in Roushie, in a diplomatic row ower the poisonin o Sergei Skripal in Salisbury.

## Births

* 1473 - James IV o Scotland (d. 1513)
* 1676 - Thomas Boston, Scots kirk leader, theologian an philosopher (d. 1732)
* 1834 - Gottlieb Daimler, German ingineer (d. 1900)
* 1865 - Gabriel Narutowicz, Pols statesman (d. 1922)
* 1919 - Nat King Cole, American muisicker (d. 1965)
* 1920 - Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, 1st Preses o Bangladesh (d. 1975)
* 1930 - Willie MacFarlane, Scots fitbawer (d. 2010)
* 1938 - Keith O'Brien, Northren Ireland-born Scots cardinal (d. 2018)
* 1938 - Rudolf Nureyev, Roushie dancer an choreographer (d. 1993)
* 1941 - Paul Kantner, American muisicker (d. 2016)
* 1942 - John Wayne Gacy, American serial killer (d. 1994)
* 1951 - Kurt Russell, American actor an producer
* 1953 - James Dornan, Scots politeecian
* 1955 - Gary Sinise, American actor
* 1962 - Kalpana Chawla, Indian-American astronaut (d. 2003)
* 1964 - Rob Lowe, American actor
* 1966 - Andrew Rosindell, Inglish politeecian
* 1969 - Alexander McQueen, Inglis fashion designer (d. 2010)
* 1973 - Caroline Corr, Erse sangster an muisicker
* 1976 - Stephen Gately, Erse pop sangster (d. 2009)
* 1978 - Owen Thompson, Scots politeecian
* 1985 - Darren Barr, Scots fitbawer
* 1990 - Hozier, Erse sangster an sangwriter
* 1990 - Jean Segura, Dominican basebaw player
* 1990 - Greg Stewart, Scots fitbawer
* 1992 - John Boyega, Inglis actor
* 1997 - Ryan Hardie, Scots fitbawer
* 1997 - Katie Ledecky, American soummer

## Daiths

* 180 - Marcus Aurelius, Roman Emperor (b. 121)
* 461 or 493 - Saunt Patrick, Patron Saunt o Ireland
* 1040 - Harold Harefit, King o Ingland
* 1058 - Lulach, King o Scots
* 1715 - Gilbert Burnet, Scots philosopher, historian an bishop (b. 1643)
* 1782 - Daniel Bernoulli, Swiss mathematician an pheesicist (b. 1700)
* 1849 - William II o the Netherlands (b. 1792)
* 1853 - Christian Doppler, Austrick pheesicst (b. 1803)
* 1927 - James Scott Skinner, Scots dancin master, violinist an componer (b. 1843)
* 1937 - Austen Chamberlain, Inglis politeecian (b. 1863)
* 1956 - Irène Joliot-Curie, French pheesicist an chemist (b. 1897)
* 1957 - Ramon Magsaysay, Preses o the Philippines (b. 1907)
* 2011 - Michael Gough, Inglis actor (b. 1916)
* 2012 - Pape Shenouda III o Alexandria (b. 1923)
* 2017 - Derek Walcott, Saunt Lucian poet an playwricht (b. 1930)
* 2019 - Manohar Parrikar, Indie politeecian (b. 1955)

## Halidays

* Saunt Patrick's Day - celebration o the patron saunt o Ireland
* Saunt Gertrude o Nivelles
* Childer's Day (Bangladesh)