March 17

Thursday 17, 1988:

A Colombian Boeing 727 jetliner, Avianca Flight 410, crashes into the side of the mountains near the Venezuelan border killing 143.

Thursday 17, 1966:

Off the coast of Spain in the Mediterranean, the Alvin submarine finds a missing American hydrogen bomb.

Wednesday 17, 1948:

Benelux, France, and the United Kingdom sign the Treaty of Brussels, a precursor to the NATO Agreement.

Thursday 17, 1910:

Luther Gulick and his wife Charlotte found Camp Fire Girls (now Camp Fire USA) (formally announced in 1912).

Thursday 17, 1577:

The Cathay Company is formed to send Martin Frobisher back to the New World for more gold.

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