First Libyan Civil War: The United Nations Security Council adopted Resolution 1973, authorizing military intervention in Libya to protect civilians.
ClockHorizon daily selection“Well done is better than well said.”
Rojava conflict: At a conference in Rmelan, the Movement for a Democratic Society declares the establishment of the Democratic Federation of Northern Syria.
Unrest in Kosovo: More than 22 are killed and 200 wounded. Thirty-five Serbian Orthodox shrines in Kosovo and two mosques in Serbia are destroyed.
Leader of the House of Commons and Lord President of the Council, Robin Cook, resigns from the British Cabinet in disagreement with government plans for the 2003 invasion of Iraq.
Five hundred and thirty members of the Ugandan cult Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments of God die in a fire, considered to be a mass murder or suicide orchestrated by leaders of the cult. Elsewhere another 248 members are later found dead.
Israeli Embassy attack in Buenos Aires: Car bomb attack kills 29 and injures 242.
“Well done is better than well said.”
One highlighted entry is from 2011: First Libyan Civil War: The United Nations Security Council adopted Resolution 1973, authorizing military intervention in Libya to protect civilians.
People listed for March 17 include Brandon Aiyuk (1998), Katie Ledecky (1997), and Daniel Sprong (1997).
Observances listed for March 17 include Christian feast day: Alexius of Rome (Eastern Church), Christian feast day: Gertrude of Nivelles, and Christian feast day: John Sarkander.
