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March 17: Day of the Week
March 17, 2024 was the 77th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There were 289 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week was Sunday.
If you are trying to learn Spanish then this day of the week in Spanish is domingo.
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Here’s the March calendar. You can also browse the full year monthly calendar.
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Zodiac & Birthstone
Pisces is the zodiac sign of a person born on this day. Aquamarine is the modern birthstone for this month. Jade is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
March 17 Historical Event(s)
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.
1842
The Relief Society of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints is formed;
1891
SS Utopia collides with HMS Anson in the Bay of Gibraltar and sinks, killing 562 of the 880 passengers on board.
1957
A plane crash in Cebu, Philippines kills Philippine President Ramon Magsaysay and 24 others.
1979
The Penmanshiel Tunnel collapses during engineering works, killing two workers.
1985
Serial killer Richard Ramirez, aka the “Night Stalker”, commits the first two murders in his Los Angeles, California murder spree.
1988
A Colombian Boeing 727 jetliner, Avianca Flight 410, crashes into a mountainside near the Venezuelan border killing 143.
1988
Eritrean War of Independence: The Nadew Command, an Ethiopian army corps in Eritrea, is attacked on three sides by military units of the Eritrean People’s Liberation Front in the opening action of the Battle of Afabet.
2000
More than 800 members of the Ugandan cult Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments of God die in what is considered to be a mass murder and suicide orchestrated by leaders of the cult.
Who were born on March 17?
1877
Otto Gross, Austrian psychoanalyst (d. 1920)
1908
Brigitte Helm, German actress (d. 1996)
1914
Sammy Baugh, American football player (d. 2008)
1955
Cynthia McKinney, American politician, Presidential candidate
1960
Arye Gross, American actor
1960
Rebeca Arthur, American actress
1961
Casey Siemaszko, American actor
1961
Dana Reeve, American actress and activist (d. 2006)
1980
Katie Morgan, American pornographic actress
1987
Rob Kardashian, American model and singer
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