On this day — March 17

At a conference in Rmelan, the Movement for a Democratic Society declares the establishment of the Democratic Federation of Northern Syria.

Thirty-five Serbian Orthodox shrines in Kosovo and two mosques in Serbia are destroyed.

Robin Cook, resigns from the British Cabinet in disagreement with government plans for the 2003 invasion of Iraq.

Car bomb attack kills 29 and injures 242.

Avianca Flight 410, crashes into a mountainside near the Venezuelan border killing 143.

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.

aka the "Night Stalker", commits the first two murders in his Los Angeles murder spree.

killing two workers.

killing 58.

depicting a former prisoner of war being reunited with his family, which came to symbolize the end of United States involvement in the Vietnam War.

Army Chemical Corps in Skull Valley, Utah, over 6,000 sheep are found dead.

the DSV Alvin submarine finds a missing American hydrogen bomb.