Today in History

Today in History Today is Wednesday, March 17, the 76th day of 2021. There are 289 days left in the year. This is St. Patrick’s Day. Today’s Highlight in History: On March 17, 1762, New York held its first St. Patrick’s Day parade. On this date: In 1776, the Revolutionary War Siege of Boston ended as British forces evacuated the city. In 1936, Pittsburgh’s Great St. Patrick’s Day Flood began as the Monongahela and Allegheny rivers and their tributaries, swollen by rain and melted snow, started exceeding flood stage; the high water was blamed for more than 60 deaths. In 1941, the National Gallery of Art opened in Washington, D.C. In 1959, the Dalai Lama fled Tibet for India in the wake of a failed uprising by Tibetans against Chinese rule. In 1966, a U.S. Navy midget submarine located a missing hydrogen bomb that had fallen from a U.S. Air Force B-52 bomber into the Mediterranean off Spain. (It took several more weeks to actually recover the bomb.) In 1969, Golda...

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