17th March

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180 – Marcus Aurelius dies leaving Commodus the sole emperor of the Roman Empire.
1337 – Edward, the Black Prince is made Duke of Cornwall, the first Duchy in England.
1776 – American Revolution: British forces evacuate Boston, ending the Siege of Boston, after George Washington and Henry Knox place artillery in positions overlooking the city.
1805 – The Italian Republic, with Napoleon as president, becomes the Kingdom of Italy, with Napoleon as King.
1842 – The Relief Society of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is formed;
1861 – The Kingdom of Italy is proclaimed.
1941 – In Washington, D.C., the National Gallery of Art is officially opened by President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
1948 – The Benelux, France, and the United Kingdom sign the Treaty of Brussels, a precursor to the North Atlantic Treaty establishing NATO.
1959 – Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama, flees Tibet for India.
1960 – U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs the National Security Council directive on the anti-Cuban covert action program that will ultimately lead to the Bay of Pigs Invasion.
1966 – Off the coast of Spain in the Mediterranean, the DSV Alvin submarine finds a missing American hydrogen bomb.
1969 – Golda Meir becomes the first female Prime Minister of Israel.
1973 – 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.
1992 – A referendum to end apartheid in South Africa is passed 68.7% to 31.2%.
2003 – Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs Robin Cook, resigns from the British Cabinet in disagreement with government plans for the 2003 invasion of Iraq.
2004 – Unrest in Kosovo: More than 22 are killed and 200 wounded. Thirty-five Serbian Orthodox shrines in Kosovo and two mosques in Belgrade and Niš are destroyed.
2013 – The largest meteorite (since NASA started observing the moon in 2005) hit the moon.

Births
1834 – Gottlieb Daimler, German engineer and businessman, co-founded Daimler-Motoren-Gesellschaft (d. 1900)
1846 – Kate Greenaway, English author and illustrator (d. 1901)
1880 – Lawrence Oates, English lieutenant and explorer (d. 1912)
1919 – Nat King Cole, American singer, pianist, and television host (d. 1965)
1930 – James Irwin, American colonel, pilot, and astronaut (d. 1991)
1939 – Robin Knox-Johnston, English sailor
1939 – Giovanni Trapattoni, Italian footballer and manager
1943 – Jeff Banks, Welsh fashion designer
1946 – Gavin Campbell, English actor and television host
1951 – Kurt Russell, American actor
1956 – Rory McGrath, English actor and screenwriter
1969 – Alexander McQueen, English fashion designer, founded Alexander McQueen (d. 2010)

Deaths
1853 – Christian Doppler, Austrian physicist and mathematician (b. 1803)
1993 – Helen Hayes, American actress (b. 1900)
1994 – Mai Zetterling, Swedish-English actress and director (b. 1925)
1995 – Ronald Kray, English gangster (b. 1933)
1999 – Rod Hull, English comedian and actor (b. 1936)
2007 – Jim Cronin, English zoo keeper and activist, founded Monkey World (b. 1951)
2011 – Michael Gough, English actor (b. 1916)

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