March 17 is the 77th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. If the ancient Mayans were correct, there are 279 days remaining until the end of time.
1756 St. Patrick's Day 1st celebrated in New York City at Crown and Thistle Tavern, and thus the tradition of drinking on this day begins.
1762 1st St. Patrick's Day parade in New York City, and thus the tradition of wandering the streets drunk on this day begins.
1845 Rubber band is patented by Stephen Perry of London for his own prurient interests
1897 After Bob Fitzsimmons KOs much larger Jim Corbett to win world heavyweight championship he says, "The bigger they are, the harder they fall"
1912 Mrs. Luther Halsey Gulick organizes the Campfire Girls who should not be confused with Hooker’s Army who were "camp followers"
1961 Chicago River is 1st dyed green in honor of St. Patrick’s Day and to make the river a lot less brown.
1976 Rubin "Hurricane" Carter is retried
1985 Matti Nykanen of Finland set a world ski jump record of 623' thanks to a built-in aileron
1988 Iran says Iraq uses poison gas in the war; Iraq says it was a bad batch of falafel
1991 Irish Lesbians and Gays march in St. Patrick Day parade unlike in some US cities.
2008 New York State Governor Eliot Spitzer resigns after a scandal involving a high-end prostitute. Sight-challenged mistress-keeper, David Paterson becomes New York State governor, and thus the blind lead the blind...
1987 Rob Kardashian Jr, US reality show star/gluteus-maximally blessed
493 St. Patrick, Welsh-born Apostle and Patron Saint (with Ss. Brigid and Columba) of Ireland, may have driven the snakes out of Ireland, but the worms get him in the end.
1989 Merritt Butrick, gay US actor (Shy People, Wired to Kill, Star Trek II), succumbs to AIDS.
1995 Ronnie Kray, gay English gangster (The Firm), goes out with gay abandon
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