17 MARCH Today in Military History 49 Pompey and his army take ship for Greece from Brindisi, besieged by Caesar -45 BC - Battle of Munda: Caesar defeats the last Pompeians, in Spain 455 Petronius Maximus becomes Roman Emperor (to 22 May 455) 1040 Hardthacanute, King of Denmark, becomes King of England (1040-1042) 1058 Malcolm III Canmore becomes King of Scotland 1229 Excommunicated Emperor Frederick II Hohenstaufen captures Jerusalem 1328 Treaty of Edinburgh: England recognizes Scottish independence 1431 Battle of Arzanello: The Visconti defeat the Florentines 1521 Ferdinand Magellan reaches the Philippines 1526 French King Francis I, released from Spanish captivity, promptly breaks his word, resumes war -- 1762 First St Particks Day parade in New York City 1776 British forces evacuate Boston; George Washington orders an extra gill of whiskey to every Irish soldier in the army 1800 HMS Queen Charlotte burns at Livorno, 673 of 829 aboard die 1861 Proclamation of the Kingdom of Italy 1863 Battle of Kellys Ford, VA 1864 Naval battle of Jasmond Sound: the Danes defeat the Prussians 1876 Gen Crook raids Cheyenne & Oglala-Sioux Indian camps 1886 Carrollton Massacre, 20 blacks killed in Mississippi 1913 Franlin D. Roosevelt is appointed Assistant Secretary of the Navy (1913-1921) 1916 The Japanese Navy formally institutes a Naval Air Service 1917 Tsar Nicholas II of Russia abdicates the throne (1894-1917), murdered 1918 1931 Stalin throws Lenins wife Krupskaya out of the Central Committee 1932 German police raid Hitlers headquarters 1942 Belzec Concentration Camp opens 1942 MacArthur flies from Mindanao to Australia in a B-17. 1944 Admiralty Is: 1st Cav Div captures Lorengau airfield, Manus 1945 B-29s raid Kobe, c. 15,000 casualties. 1959 Dalai Lama flees Tibet for India 1966 US mini-sub locates a missing H-bomb in the Mediterranean off Palomares, Spain 1969 Golda Meir becomes Israeli PM (1969-1974) 1992 Arab terrorists bomb the Israeli embassy in Buenos Aries, 28 die, 300 injured 1993 Terrorist bombing in Calcutta, 86 die
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