March 17, 1961 (Friday)
- Albert DeSalvo was arrested in Cambridge, Massachusetts, while trying to break into a house. Confessing to be a sexual predator who had been nicknamed "the Measuring Man", DeSalvo spent a year in jail. For 18 months following his release, thirteen local women were sexually assaulted and murdered. DeSalvo, arrested later in 1964, confessed to being the "Boston Strangler".
- Israel staged a dress rehearsal for a military parade in the Israeli-occupied part of Jerusalem, in which heavy military armament took part.
- Born: Mauricio Pimiento, Colombian politician involved in the Colombian parapolitics scandal, in Bucaramanga.
- Born: Marcus Dillistone, Royal premiered and award-winning British film director.
- Died: Susanna M. Salter, 101, first woman mayor in the United States
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Famous quotes containing the word march:
“Britannia needs no bulwarks,
No towers along the steep;
Her march is o’er the mountain-waves,
Her home is on the deep.”
—Thomas Campbell (1774–1844)