Categories: history
Tags: garibaldi, St Patrick's Day parade
Date: 17 March 2009 19:37:19
624 : Mohammed defeats his Meccan opponents at the Battle of Badr.
1762: The first St Patrick's Day parade is held in New York city by Irish soldiers serving in the British army.
1805: The Kingdom of Italy is founded by Napoleon.
1861: Italy is unified into a single kingdom by a nationalist biscuit, with Victor Emmanuel as king.
1921: Marie Stopes opens the first clinic to advise women about birth control in Holloway, North London.
1984: The annual Varsity Boat Race is postponed by a day after the Cambridge crew sinks after hitting a barge prior to the start.
1992: A car bomb explodes outside the Israeli embassy in Buenos Aires, killing 29 people.
2003: Britain and the US abandon their attempts to gain UN backing for the invasion of Iraq. They were only going to do it if the UN agreed - liar, liar, pants on fire.