March 17, 1959 (Tuesday)
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama, escaped Tibet and found sanctuary in India.
- USS Skate (SSN-578) surfaced at the North Pole after setting a record by spending 12 days under the polar ice cap. In a ceremony at the pole, tha ashes of polar explorer Sir Hubert Wilkins, who had died in 1958, were scattered at the pole
- Born: Danny Ainge, Boston Celtics guard and Toronto Blue Jays second baseman, in Eugene, Oregon
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Famous quotes containing the word march:
“After the brief bivouac of Sunday,
their eyes, in the forced march of Monday to Saturday,
hoist the white flag, flutter in the snow storm of paper,”
—Patricia K. Page (b. 1916)