429 Historic Events for March 17
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| 1939 |
Birth |
Shahid Mahmoud, cricketer (opener scored 16 and 9 in only Pak Test)
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| 1940 |
Birth |
Vito Picone, rocker (Elegants)
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| 1941 |
Death |
Isaak E Babel, writer, dies at 46
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| 1941 |
Birth |
Clarence Collins, US singer (Imperials-Tears on my pillow)
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| 1941 |
Birth |
Edward Harper, composer
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| 1941 |
Death |
Isaak Emmanuilovich Babel, Rus writer (Crvena Konjica), executed at 46
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| 1941 |
Death |
Joachim Schepke, German commandant (U-100), dies in battle
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| 1941 |
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National Gallery of Art, Wash DC opens
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| 1942 |
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Gen Doug MacArthur arrives in Australia to become supreme commander
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| 1942 |
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Belzec Concentration Camp opens-30,000 Lublin Polish Jews transported
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| 1942 |
Birth |
John Wayne Gacy, Chicago Ill, serial killer (32 boys)
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| 1942 |
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Sidney K Barthelmy, US politician(?)
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| 1943 |
Birth |
Don Mitchell, Houston Tx, actor (Mark-Ironside)
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| 1943 |
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F Hugh Herbert's "Kiss and Tell," premieres in NYC
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| 1943 |
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Aldemarin (Ned) and Fort Cedar Lake (US) torpedoed and sinks
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| 1944 |
Birth |
Patti Boyd, Somerset England, (Mrs George Harrison/Mrs Eric Clapton)
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| 1944 |
Birth |
Pat McCauley, N Ireland, rock drummer (Them)
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| 1944 |
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Danny DeVito, Neptune NJ, actor (Louie-Taxi, Twins)
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| 1944 |
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Cito Gaston, MLB manager (Toronto Blue Jays)
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| 1944 |
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John Sebastian, NYC, singer (Loving Spoonful, Welcome Back Kotter)
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| 1944 |
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Actor Charlton Heston weds Lydia Clarke
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| 1945 |
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Allied ships bomb North-Sumatra
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| 1945 |
Birth |
Paco Gonzalez, race horse trainer
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| 1946 |
Birth |
Harold Brown, Long Beach Ca, rock drummer (War-Summer, Galaxy)
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| 1946 |
Birth |
Michael Peter Finnissey, composer
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