WHAT HAPPENED ON 17. MARCH
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The Ludendorff Bridge in Remagen, Germany, collapses, ten days after its capture. (17. March 1945)

First flight of the B-45 Tornado strategic bomber. (17. March 1947)

The Benelux, France, and the United Kingdom sign the Treaty of Brussels, a precursor to the North Atlantic Treaty establishing NATO. (17. March 1948)

Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley announce the creation of element 98, which they name "californium". (17. March 1950)

A plane crash in Cebu, Philippines kills Philippine President Ramon Magsaysay and 24 others. (17. March 1957)

The United States launches the Vanguard 1 satellite. (17. March 1958)

Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama, flees Tibet for India. (17. March 1959)

U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs the National Security Council directive on the anti-Cuban covert action program that will ultimately lead to the Bay of Pigs Invasion. (17. March 1960)

Mount Agung erupted on Bali killing more than 1,100 people. (17. March 1963)

Off the coast of Spain in the Mediterranean, the DSV Alvin submarine finds a missing American hydrogen bomb. (17. March 1966)

As a result of nerve gas testing in Skull Valley, Utah, US, over 6,000 sheep are found dead. (17. March 1968)

Golda Meir becomes the first female Prime Minister of Israel. (17. March 1969)

My Lai Massacre: The United States Army charges 14 officers with suppressing information related to the incident. (17. March 1970)

The Pulitzer Prize-winning photograph Burst of Joy is taken, depicting a former prisoner of war being reunited with his family. (17. March 1973)

The Penmanshiel Tunnel collapses during engineering works, killing two workers. (17. March 1979)

Serial killer Richard Ramirez, aka the "Night Stalker", commits the first two murders in his Los Angeles, California murder spree. (17. March 1985)

A Colombian Boeing 727 jetliner, Avianca Flight 410, crashes into a mountainside near the Venezuelan border killing 143. (17. March 1988)

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. (17. March 1988)

Israeli Embassy attack in Buenos Aires: Suicide car bomb attack kills 29 and injures 242. (17. March 1992)

A referendum to end apartheid in South Africa is passed 68.7% to 31.2%. (17. March 1992)