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| 0461 | - | St Patrick - patron saint of Ireland - died in Saul |
| 1753 | - | 1st official St. Patrick\s Day |
| 1776 | - | British forces evacuated Boston during Revolutionary War |
| 1846 | - | FW Bessel - measurer of distance to 61 Cygni - dies |
| 1860 | - | Japanese embassy arrives aboard Candinmarruh [sic] |
| 1905 | - | Eleanor Roosevelt married FDR in NY |
| 1906 | - | "Pres Theodore Roosevelt used term \""muckrake\""" |
| 1910 | - | Camp Fire Girls organize |
| 1941 | - | Natl Gallery of Art opens in Wash DC |
| 1950 | - | Element 98 (Californium) announced |
| 1958 | - | Vanguard 1 measures shape of Earth |
| 1959 | - | Dalai Lama flees Tibet for India |
| 1963 | - | Elizabeth Ann Seton of NY beatified (sainted in 1975) |
| 1966 | - | US sub locates missing hydrogen bomb in Mediterranean |
| 1969 | - | Golda Meir became Israeli PM |
| 1970 | - | US casts 1st UN Security Council veto (Support England) |
| 1982 | - | 4 Dutch TV crew members shot dead in El Salvador |
| 1983 | - | 70th hat trick in Islander history - Mike Bossy |
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