On This Day:
Tuesday March 17, 2015 This is the 76th day of the year, with 289 days remaining in 2015. Fact of the Day: Saint Patrick Saint Patrick is the patron saint and national apostle of Ireland, credited with bringing Christianity to Ireland and probably responsible in part for the Christianization of the Picts and Anglo-Saxons. He is known only from two short works, the Confessio, a spiritual autobiography, and his Epistola, a denunciation of British mistreatment of Irish Christians. His feast day is March 17. Before the end of the 7th century Patrick had become a legendary figure, and the legends have continued to grow. One of these would have it that he drove the snakes of Ireland into the sea to their destruction. Another, probably the most popular, is that of the shamrock, which has him explain the concept of the Holy Trinity, three Persons in one God, to an unbeliever by showing him the three-leaved plant with one stalk. Today Irishmen wear shamrocks, the national flower of Ireland, in their lapels on St. Patrick's Day, March 17.
Holidays St. Patrick's Day, commemorating his death on this day c 461-492 AD.
Feast day of St. Patrick, St. Withburga, St. Gertrude of Nivelles, St. Joseph of Arimathea, St. Paul of Cyprus, and the Martyrs of the Serapaeum.
Ireland, Northern Ireland: St. Patrick's Day (National Day).
United Nations: World Maritime Day.
Boston and Suffolk County, Massachusetts: Evacuation Day (of British during American Revolution).
Events 1328 - Scotland won its independence from England.
1762 - Irish soldiers serving in the British army held the first parade honoring St. Patrick, in New York City.
1776 - During the American Revolution, British forces were compelled to evacuate Boston; they fled to Nova Scotia.
1870 - The Massachusetts legislature authorized the incorporation of Wellesley Female Seminary, which later became Wellesley College.
1899 - The first-ever radio distress call was sent, summoning assistance for a merchant ship off the coast of England.
1905 - Anna Eleanor Roosevelt, niece of President Theodore Roosevelt, married Franklin D. Roosevelt.
1910 - The Camp Fire Girls organization was founded in Lake Sebago, Maine.
1941 - The National Gallery of Art opened in Washington, D.C.
1959 - The (14th) Dalai Lama fled Tibet and went to India.
1969 - Golda Meir became prime minister of Israel.
2003 - U.S. President George W. Bush gave Iraq's Saddam Hussein 48 hours to leave his country, but the ultimatum was rejected.
Births 1834 - Gottlieb Wilhelm Daimler, German engineer and automobile manufacturer.
1846 - Kate Greenaway, English painter, book illustrator.
1881 - Walter Rudolf Hess, Swiss Nobel Prize-winning physiologist.
1902 - Bobby Jones, American, first golfer to win the Grand Slam in professional golf.
1917 - Nat "King" Cole (Coles), American jazz pianist, bandleader, songwriter, singer.
1938 - Rudolf Nureyev, Russian ballet dancer who defected to United States.
Deaths 1993 - Helen Hayes, American film and theatre actress.
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