Happy St. Patricks Day !
March 17, 2000
Longhope lifeboat sank in the Pentland Firth with the loss of eight men on board, all from the small island of Hoy.
March 17, 1969
The cartoon character Dennis the Menace appeared for the first time in the Beano comic.
March 17, 1951
St. Patrick's Day, becomes a bank day
March 17, 1903
The Ossianic Society is founded to preserve and publish manuscripts of the Fionn cycle
March 17, 1853
Charles James Patrick Mahon, is born in Ennis, Co. Clare
March 17, 1800
King James IV, King of Scots, born.
March 17, 1473
Treaty of Edinburgh between King Robert I and Edward III
March 17, 1328