{"id":19166,"date":"2020-03-17T12:00:08","date_gmt":"2020-03-17T06:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/?p=19166"},"modified":"2020-03-16T16:08:11","modified_gmt":"2020-03-16T10:38:11","slug":"history-of-17-march-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/history-of-17-march-2\/","title":{"rendered":"History of 17 March"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>History of 17 March<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>1992<\/strong> &#8211; In Buenos Aires, 10 people were killed in a suicide car-bomb attack against the Israeli embassy.<\/li>\n<li><strong>1992<\/strong> &#8211; White South Africans approved constitutional reforms to give legal equality to blacks.<\/li>\n<li><strong>1995<\/strong> &#8211; Gerry Adams became the first leader of Sinn Fein to be received at the White House.<\/li>\n<li><strong>1998<\/strong> &#8211; Washington Mutual announced it had agreed to buy H.F. Ahmanson and Co. for $9.9 billion dollars. The deal created the nation&#8217;s seventh-largest banking company.<\/li>\n<li><strong>1999<\/strong> &#8211; A panel of medical experts concluded that marijuana had medical benefits for people suffering from cancer and AIDS.<\/li>\n<li><strong>1999<\/strong> &#8211; The International Olympic Committee expelled six of its members in the wake of a bribery scandal.<\/li>\n<li><strong>2000<\/strong> &#8211; In Norway, Jens Stoltenberg and the Labour Party took office as Prime Minister. The coalition government of Kjell Magne Bondevik resigned on March 9 as a result of an environmental dispute.<\/li>\n<li><strong>2000<\/strong> &#8211; 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.<\/li>\n<li><strong>2004<\/strong> &#8211; NASA&#8217;s Messenger became the first spacecraft to enter into orbit around Mercury. The probe took more than 270,000 pictures before it crashed into the surface of Mercury on April 30, 2015.<\/li>\n<li><strong>2007<\/strong> &#8211; Mike Modano (Dallas Stars) scored his 502nd and 503rd career goals making him the all-time U.S. leader in goal-scoring.<\/li>\n<li><strong>2009<\/strong> &#8211; The\u00a0iTunes Music Store\u00a0reached 800 million applications downloaded.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Celebrating Birthday Today\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>1981<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Aaron Baddeley, American-Australian golfer<\/li>\n<li><strong>1981<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Servet \u00c7etin, Turkish footballer<\/li>\n<li><strong>1981<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Kyle Korver, American basketball player<\/li>\n<li><strong>1981<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Nicky Jam, American-Puerto-Rican singer and songwriter<sup>[5]<\/sup><\/li>\n<li><strong>1982<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Steven Pienaar, South African footballer<\/li>\n<li><strong>1983<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Raul Meireles, Portuguese footballer<\/li>\n<li><strong>1983<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0James Heath, English golfer<\/li>\n<li><strong>1984<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Ryan Rottman, American actor, producer, and screenwriter<\/li>\n<li><strong>1985<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Tu\u011fba Karademir, Turkish-Canadian figure skater<\/li>\n<li><strong>1986<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Chris Davis, American baseball player<\/li>\n<li><strong>1986<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Edin D\u017eeko, Bosnian footballer<\/li>\n<li><strong>1986<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Miles Kane, English singer-songwriter and guitarist<\/li>\n<li><strong>1986<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Silke Spiegelburg, German pole vaulter<\/li>\n<li><strong>1987<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Federico Fazio, Argentinian international footballer, centre back<sup>[6]<\/sup><\/li>\n<li><strong>1987<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Krisnan Inu, New Zealand rugby league player<\/li>\n<li><strong>1987<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Ryan Parent, Canadian ice hockey player<\/li>\n<li><strong>1987<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Bobby Ryan, American ice hockey player<\/li>\n<li><strong>1988<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Rasmus Elm, Swedish footballer<\/li>\n<li><strong>1988<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Fraser Forster, English footballer<\/li>\n<li><strong>1988<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Grimes, Canadian artist, musician and music video director<\/li>\n<li><strong>1988<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Ryan White, Canadian ice hockey player<\/li>\n<li><strong>1989<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Shinji Kagawa, Japanese footballer<\/li>\n<li><strong>1990<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Hozier, Irish singer-songwriter and musician<\/li>\n<li><strong>1990<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Saina Nehwal, Indian badminton player<\/li>\n<li><strong>1991<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Jack De Belin, Australian rugby league player<\/li>\n<li><strong>1992<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Patrick Cantlay, American golfer<\/li>\n<li><strong>1992<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0John Boyega, English actor<\/li>\n<li><strong>1993<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Matteo Bianchetti, Italian footballer<\/li>\n<li><strong>1994<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Dean Britt, Australian rugby league player<\/li>\n<li><strong>1995<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Ashley Taylor, Australian rugby league player<\/li>\n<li><strong>1997<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Katie Ledecky, American swimmer<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>History of 17 March 1992 &#8211; In Buenos Aires, 10 people were killed in a suicide car-bomb attack against the Israeli embassy. 1992 &#8211; White South Africans approved constitutional reforms to give legal equality to blacks. 1995 &#8211; Gerry Adams became the first leader of Sinn Fein to be received at the White House. 1998 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":2509,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[82],"tags":[1090],"class_list":{"0":"post-19166","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-history","8":"tag-history-of-17-march"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/today-history.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pab1DJ-4Z8","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19166"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19166\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19185,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19166\/revisions\/19185"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}