Serial killer Richard Ramirez, aka the "Night Stalker", commits the first two murders in his Los Angeles murder spree. Date: March 17, 1985 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on March 17 📅 Events on this day in 1985 📅 On This Day (Today)

Eritrean War of Independence: The Nadew Command, an Ethiopian army corps in Eritrea, is attacked on three sides by military units of the Eritrean People's Liberation Front in the opening action of the Battle of Afabet. Date: March 17, 1988 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on March 17 📅 Events on this…

A Colombian Boeing 727 jetliner, Avianca Flight 410, crashes into a mountainside near the Venezuelan border killing 143. Date: March 17, 1988 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on March 17 📅 Events on this day in 1988 📅 On This Day (Today)

A referendum to end apartheid in South Africa is passed 68.7% to 31.2%. Date: March 17, 1992 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on March 17 📅 Events on this day in 1992 📅 On This Day (Today)

Israeli Embassy attack in Buenos Aires: Car bomb attack kills 29 and injures 242. Date: March 17, 1992 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on March 17 📅 Events on this day in 1992 📅 On This Day (Today)

Five hundred and thirty members of the Ugandan cult Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments of God die in a fire, considered to be a mass murder or suicide orchestrated by leaders of the cult. Elsewhere another 248 members are later found dead. Date: March 17, 2000 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅…

Leader of the House of Commons and Lord President of the Council, Robin Cook, resigns from the British Cabinet in disagreement with government plans for the 2003 invasion of Iraq. Date: March 17, 2003 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on March 17 📅 Events on this day in 2003 📅 On This…

Unrest in Kosovo: More than 22 are killed and 200 wounded. Thirty-five Serbian Orthodox shrines in Kosovo and two mosques in Serbia are destroyed. Date: March 17, 2004 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on March 17 📅 Events on this day in 2004 📅 On This Day (Today)

Rojava conflict: At a conference in Rmelan, the Movement for a Democratic Society declares the establishment of the Democratic Federation of Northern Syria. Date: March 17, 2016 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on March 17 📅 Events on this day in 2016 📅 On This Day (Today)

The 7th and 10th US cavalry regiments under John J. Pershing cross the US–Mexico border to join the hunt for Pancho Villa. Date: March 16, 1916 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on March 16 📅 Events on this day in 1916 📅 On This Day (Today)