Today in History

Listings for Thursday, March 17, 2022.

Birthdays:


Events:
  • St. Patrick's Day
  • Evacuation Day (celebrated in Boston)
  • World Maritime Day
  • 1906 President Theodore Roosevelt first uses the term "muckrake".
  • 1910 Camp Fire Girls are organized.
  • 1941 National Gallery of Art opens in Washington, DC
  • 1950 Element 98 (Californium) is announced.
  • 1958 Vanguard 1 measures shape of Earth
  • 1959 Dalai Lama flees Tibet for India
  • 1966 US sub locates missing hydrogen bomb in Mediterranean.
  • 1969 Golda Meir becomes Israeli Prime Minister.

That's all for today.



Today In History