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03/17/1918
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D Arendo, [Arend Honhoff], Dutch pianist/composer (Eleonora)
Type: Birth
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03/17/1918
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Mercedes McCambridge, Joliet Ill, actress (All the King's Men)
Type: Birth
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03/17/1918
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Wilhelmus M J Russell, Dutch attorney/Member of 1st chamber (KVP/CDA)
Type: Birth
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03/17/1919
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Dutch steel workers strike for 8 hr day and minimum wages
Type: Event
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03/17/1919
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Hank Sauer, baseball player (NL MVP 1952)
Type: Birth
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03/17/1919
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Nat "King" Cole, Montgomery Ala, singer (Unforgettable, Mona Lisa)
Type: Birth
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03/17/1920
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John La Montaine, Oak Park Ill, composer (Pulitzer 1959)
Type: Birth
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03/17/1921
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Dr Marie Stopes opens Britain's 1st birth control clinic (London)
Type: Event
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03/17/1921
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Lenin proclaims New Economic Politics
Type: Event
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03/17/1921
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Sailors revolt in Kronstadt (thousands die)
Type: Event
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03/17/1921
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Mick Harvey, cricketer (in Newcastle Brother of Neil Test umpire)
Type: Birth
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03/17/1922
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Megan Bull, British head mistress (Holloway Jail)
Type: Birth
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03/17/1923
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Margaret Bondfield, 1st woman chairman (Trades Union Congress)
Type: Birth
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03/17/1924
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Eugene O'Neill's "Welded," premieres in NYC
Type: Event
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03/17/1924
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Netherlands and USSR begin talks over USSR recognition
Type: Event
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03/17/1924
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Sweden and USSR exchange diplomats
Type: Event
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03/17/1924
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Stephen Dodgson, composer
Type: Birth
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03/17/1925
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G M Hughes, British zoologist
Type: Birth
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03/17/1925
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Jerome Lejeune, physiologist
Type: Birth
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03/17/1926
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Dutch Calvinists oust Rev J G Geelkerken over Genesis 3
Type: Event
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03/17/1926
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Richard Rodgers and L Hart's musical "Girl Friend," premieres in NYC
Type: Event
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03/17/1926
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Spain and Brazil prevent Germany joining League of Nations
Type: Event
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03/17/1926
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Siegfried Lenz, German writer (Ein Kriegsende)
Type: Birth
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03/17/1927
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US govt doesn't sign league of Nations disarmament treaty
Type: Event
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03/17/1927
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Kenneth S Goldstein, folklorist/enthomusicologist
Type: Birth
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03/17/1927
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Maurice Ingvar Karkoff, composer
Type: Birth
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03/17/1927
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Nancy Sheehan, writer
Type: Birth
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03/17/1927
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Patrick Allen, Malawi, actor (Roman Holiday, Dial "M" for Murder)
Type: Birth
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03/17/1927
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Sulkhan Ivanovich Nasidze, composer
Type: Birth
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03/17/1927
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James Scott Skinner, composer, dies at 83
Type: Death
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03/17/1928
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Edino Krieger, composer
Type: Birth
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03/17/1929
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General Motors acquires German auto manufacturer Adam Opel
Type: Event
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03/17/1929
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Spanish dictator Primo de Rivera closes university of Madrid
Type: Event
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03/17/1930
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James Benson Irwin, Pittsburgh Penn, Col USAF/astronaut (Apollo 15)
Type: Birth
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03/17/1931
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Stalin throws Krupskaya Lenin out of Central Committee
Type: Event
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03/17/1931
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Eunice Gayson, London England, actress (Dr No, From Russia With Love)
Type: Birth
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03/17/1932
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German police raid Hitler's nazi-headquarter
Type: Event
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03/17/1932
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Dick Curless, singer/songwriter
Type: Birth
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03/17/1933
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Ferdinand Von Alten, actor (Champagne), dies at 48
Type: Death
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03/17/1934
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Dollfuss, Mussolini and G”mb”s sign Donau Pact (protocols of Rome)
Type: Event
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03/17/1934
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Erhard Grosskopf, composer
Type: Birth
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03/17/1934
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Q T Macon, blues vocal/guitar
Type: Birth
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03/17/1935
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KSO-AM in Des Moines Iowa call sign is given to KWCR
Type: Event
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03/17/1935
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Adam Wade, Pitts Pa, singer (Tony Orlando and Dawn)
Type: Birth
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03/17/1935
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H Wollschl„ger, writer
Type: Birth
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03/17/1936
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Ladislaw Kupkovic, composer
Type: Birth
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03/17/1936
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Thomas K Mattingly II, Chic, Capt USN/astro (Apollo 16, STS-4, 51C)
Type: Birth
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03/17/1937
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Adam Wade, actor (Kiss Me Goodbye, Crazy Joe)
Type: Birth
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03/17/1937
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Galina Samsova, ballerina
Type: Birth
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03/17/1938
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Rudolf Nureyev, Russia, ballet dancer/choreographer (Kirov)
Type: Birth
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