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March 17 Through the Years

  Happy St. Patric's Day

   180- Marcus Aurelius dies

  1776- The Siege of Boston is ended

  1941- FDR opens the National Gallery of Art

  1958- The Vanguard I Satellite is launched

  1960- Eisenhower signs paper that will lead to the Bay of Pigs 

  1968- 6,000 sheep are found dead in Skull Valley, Utah; the deaths were from nerve toxin testing

  1992- Apartheid in South Africa is ended by a referendum which passed by a 68.7 to 31.2 vote

  2000- 530 members of the Ugandan Cult Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Comandments of God Die in an episode of a Mass Murder/Suicide