On this day, March 17
1762 New York held its first St. Patrick’s Day parade.
1776 The Revolutionary War Siege of Boston ended as British forces evacuated the city.
1905 Anna Eleanor Roosevelt married Franklin Delano Roosevelt in New York.
1941 The National Gallery of Art opened in Washington, D.C.
1942 Six days after departing the Philippines during World War II, Gen. Douglas MacArthur arrived in Australia to become supreme commander of Allied forces in the southwest Pacific theater.
1966 A U.S. Navy midget submarine located a missing hydrogen bomb that had fallen from a U.S. Air Force B-52 bomber into the Mediterranean off Spain. (It took several more weeks to actually recover the bomb.)
1970 The United States cast its first veto in the U.N. Security Council, killing a resolution that would have condemned Britain for failing to use force to overthrow the white-ruled government of Rhodesia.
2003 Edging to the brink of war, President George W. Bush gave Saddam Hussein 48 hours to leave his country. Iraq rejected Mr. Bush’s ultimatum, saying that a U.S. attack to force Saddam from power would be “a grave mistake.”
2016 Finally bowing to years of public pressure, SeaWorld Entertainment said it would no longer breed killer whales or make them perform crowd-pleasing tricks.
2020 The Kentucky Derby and the French Open were each postponed from May to September because of the coronavirus.
Today’s birthdays: The former national chairwoman of the NAACP, Myrlie Evers-Williams, 90. Former astronaut Ken Mattingly, 87. Singer-songwriter John Sebastian (The Lovin’ Spoonful), 79. Former NSA Director and former CIA Director Michael Hayden, 78. Rock musician Harold Brown (War; Lowrider Band), 77. Actor Patrick Duffy, 74. Actor Kurt Russell, 72. Country singer Susie Allanson, 71. Actor Lesley-Anne Down, 69. Actor Mark Boone Jr., 68. Country singer Paul Overstreet, 68. Actor Gary Sinise, 68. Actor Christian Clemenson, 65. Former basketball and baseball player Danny Ainge, 64. Actor Arye Gross, 63. Actor Vicki Lewis, 63. Actor Casey Siemaszko, 62. Writer-director Rob Sitch, 61. Actor Rob Lowe, 59. Rock singer Billy Corgan, 56. Actor Mathew St. Patrick, 55. Actor Yanic Truesdale, 54. Rock musician Melissa Auf der Maur, 51. Olympic gold medal soccer player Mia Hamm, 51. Rock musician Caroline Corr (The Corrs), 50. Actor Amelia Heinle, 50. Country singer Keifer Thompson (Thompson Square), 50. Actor Marisa Coughlan, 49. Actor Natalie Zea, 48.