Today in History for 17th March 2017:
Historical Events
1969 – Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Orange Blossom Golf Open
1979 – The Penmanshiel Tunnel collapses during engineering works, killing two workers
1979 – Worlds Ladies’ Figure Skating Champ in Vienna won by Linda Fratianne
1979 – Ice Pairs Championship at Vienna won by Tai Babilonia and R Gardner USA
1983 – 70th hat trick in Islander history-Mike Bossy
2013 – Pope Francis delivers his first Angelus prayer and blessing
Famous Birthdays
1942 – Sidney K Barthelmy, US politician(?)
1953 – Filemon Lagman, Filipino communist revolutionary (d. 2001)
1954 – Rena Jones, rock vocalist
1969 – Gilbert Schaller, Bruck Austria, tennis star
1969 – Domenic “Filane” Figliomeni, Terrace Bay Ontario, boxer (Olympics-96)
1981 – Servet Çetin, Turkish Football Player
Famous Deaths
1640 – Philip Massinger, dramatist, dies
1927 – James Scott Skinner, composer, dies at 83
1953 – Conrado del Campo y Zabaleta, composer, dies at 73
1995 – Ronnie Kray, English gangster (The Firm), dies at 61
1996 – Kenneth Jameson, art educationalist, dies at 83
1999 – Ernest Gold, Austrian-born American film composer (Exodus), dies at 77