17th of March
0461 - Bishop Patrick, St. Patrick, died in Saul. Ireland celebrates this day in his honor.
1776 - British forces evacuated Boston to Nova Scotia during the Revolutionary War.
1914 - Russia increased the number of active duty military from 460,000 to 1,700,000.
1973 - Twenty were killed in Cambodia when a bomb went off that was meant for the Cambodian President Lon Nol.
2000 - In Kanungu, Uganda, a fire at a church linked to the cult known as the Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments killed more than 530. On March 31, officials set the number of deaths linked to the cult at more than 900 after authorities subsequently found mass graves at various sites linked to the cult.
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17-Mar-2016 04:35:59