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:
“At the earliest ending of winter,
In March, a scrawny cry from outside
Seemed like a sound in his mind.
He knew that he heard it,
A bird’s cry, at daylight or before,
In the early March wind.”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)