What happend on 17th March

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18.03
2004

Massive Unrest in Kosovo. Over 22 killed, 200 wounded, 35 destroyed Serb Orthodox shrines in Kosovo and two mosques in Belgrade and Nis.

2003

British Cabinet Minister, Robin Cook, resigns over government plans for war with Iraq.

1992

A suicide car-bomb kills 29 and injures 242 at the Israeli embassy in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

1988

A Colombian Boeing 727 jetliner, Avianca Flight 410, crashes into the side of the mountains near the Venezuelan border killing 143.

1985

Serial killer Richard Ramirez, the "Night Stalker", commits his first two murders in Los Angeles, California murder spree.

1970

My Lai massacre: The United States Army charges 14 officers with suppressing information related to the incident.

1969

Golda Meir of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA, becomes Prime Minister of Israel.

1966

Off the coast of Spain in the Mediterranean, the Alvin submarine finds a missing American hydrogen bomb.

1959

Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama, flees Tibet and travels to India.

1958

The United States launches the Vanguard 1 satellite.