March 1, 2017, The Dow Jones Industrial Average rises above 21,000 points, reaching an all-time high. (Los Angeles Times)
March 1, 2017, The European Union formally grants Georgian citizens visa-free travel to its member states, with the exception of Ireland and the United Kingdom. The signed documents will be published on March 8, and officially enter into force on March 28. (Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty)
March 1, 2017, Two women, Indonesian Siti Aisyah and Vietnamese Đoàn Thị Hương, are charged with murder in relation to the death of Kim Jong-nam, the estranged half-brother of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, at Kuala Lumpur International Airport. The women, who reportedly thought they were involved in a prank TV show, did not enter pleas. (CNN)
March 1, 2017, Scientists announce the finding of microfossils up to almost 4.3 billion years old, within rocks from the Hudson Bay shoreline in northern Quebec, Canada, that may represent the oldest-known evidence of life on Earth. (Reuters)
March 1, 2017, An American Atlas V successfully launched an NRO payload from Vandenberg Air Force Base. The launch is the 70th successful Atlas V launch and the 14th successful mission for the NRO. (SpaceflightNow)
March 2, 2017, The U.S. Senate confirms Donald Trump's appointment of his former opponents in the presidential primaries, neurosurgeon Ben Carson and Governor of Texas Rick Perry, as Secretaries of Housing and Urban Development and Energy respectively, with the support of all Republicans and some Democrats. (CNN)
March 2, 2017, Former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak is acquitted of involvement in the deaths of hundreds of anti-government protesters during the 2011 Egyptian revolution. (The Guardian)
March 3, 2017, Release of Logan
March 3, 2017, Release of Before I Fall
March 3, 2017, Release of Table 19
March 3, 2017, Release of The Last Word
March 3, 2017, The European Parliament votes to end visa-free travel for United States citizens after the U.S. government failed to agree to visa-free travel for citizens of five European Union member states, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Poland and Romania. The resolution is non-binding. (The Independent)
March 3, 2017, A mass grave is discovered at a former Catholic orphanage in Tuam, Ireland,
containing “significant quantities of human remains”, all of them
children. It is alleged over 800 children died at this orphanage and
most were buried in the 1950s. (The Guardian)
March 3, 2017, A 31-year-old ex-journalist is arrested and charged with making at least eight threats against Jewish Community Centers in the United States, as well as a threat made against the Anti-Defamation League, while allegedly impersonating a former girlfriend. (BBC)
March 4, 2017, U.S. President Donald Trump accuses former President Barack Obama of wiretapping Trump Tower the month before the 2016 presidential election
but offers no evidence to support his claim. A spokesman for President
Obama rejects these claims. Former national security adviser Ben Rhodes' tweet to President Trump pointed out, "No President can order a wiretap." (The New York Times)
March 4, 2017, Mexico opens legal aide centers in its 50 U.S. consulates to defend its
citizens' rights amid the United States "crackdown" on illegal
immigration. In a video, Foreign Minister Luis Videgaray Caso said Mexico supports following the law but notes that current circumstances highlight the need for immigration reform. (Reuters)
March 4, 2017, Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale
says Canada will not tighten its border because more migrants, reacting
to the United States immigration crackdown, are illegally crossing into
Canada from the U.S. Goodale added the issue had not risen to a scale
that required hindering the flow of goods and people moving across the
world's longest undefended border. (Reuters)
March 5, 2017, Series Premiere of Making History
March 5, 2017, Series Premiere of Time after Time
March 5, 2017, Series Premiere of Feud
March 5, 2017, Season 2 Premiere of Shades of Blue
March 5, 2017, Israel changes its law regarding marijuana use. Instead of facing criminal charges, first-time offenders who smoke marijuana in public places will only receive a fine. (Haaretz)
March 6, 2017, U.S. President Donald Trump signs a revised version of Executive Order 13769 eliminating Iraq from the order and reducing the indefinite suspension of Syrian refugees to 120 days. The order will be in effect on March 16, 2017. (The New York Times)
March 6, 2017,
March 6, 2017,
March 7, 2017, WikiLeaks releases thousands of documents that it claims provides details of surveillance software used by the United States Central Intelligence Agency. (The New York Times)
March 8, 2017, Season 2 Premiere of Underground
March 8, 2017,
March 8, 2017, The Day Without a Woman general strike occurs. (The Verge)
March 8, 2017, U.S. Congress passes a bill that mandates NASA send humans to Mars by 2033. (Business Insider)
March 8, 2017, Physicists synthesize space-time crystals for the first time. (Live Science)
March 10, 2017, United States Attorney General Jeff Sessions requests the resignations of 46 Barack Obama-era chief federal prosecutors, including United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York Preet Bharara, who was previously told to stay on by then President-elect Donald Trump in November. (Reuters)
March 12, 2017, Season 3 Premiere of American Crime
March 12, 2017, The field of 68 teams is announced. The overall top seed is defending national champion Villanova; the remaining #1 seeds are Kansas, North Carolina, and Gonzaga. (ESPN)
March 14, 2017,
March 15, 2017, Season 2 Premiere of Greenleaf
March 15, 2017, A U.S. federal judge in Hawaii, finding the revised federal immigration/refugee executive order violates the U.S. Constitution's religious establishment clause, grants the state of Hawaii's motion for a nationwide temporary restraining order on these rules that were set to become effective at midnight. President Donald Trump vows to appeal this ruling. Two other federal courts held hearings on similar requests filed by the states of Maryland and Washington; neither of these judges issued a ruling. (Reuters)
March 16, 2017, Series Premiere of Snatch
March 16, 2017, SpaceX successfully launches the EchoStar 23 satellite, a Direct-to-home television broadcast services for Brazil, into a geosynchronous transfer orbit, using the fully expendable version of their Falcon 9 launch vehicle. (NASA Spaceflight)
March 16, 2017, A shooting at a school in Grasse, France, injures at least eight people. Authorities arrest a 17-year-old student. (The Telegraph)
March 16, 2017, A letter bomb explodes at the office of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in Paris, injuring one person. (BBC)
March 17, 2017, The former Democratic National Committee chair and ex-CNN contributor Donna Brazile admits that she had forwarded some debate questions to Hillary Clinton's campaign during last year's Democratic primary before two debates with Bernie Sanders. (The New York Daily News)
March 18, 2017, Chuck Berry, pioneering rock music singer and guitarist, dies in the U.S. state of Missouri at the age of 90. Berry was one of the first inductees in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. (BBC)
March 18, 2017, French security forces shoot suspect Ziyed Ben Belgacem dead in Paris' Orly Airport after he put the pellet gun to her head and took away an assault rifle from one of three soldiers from "Sentinelle" operation
patrolling the airport. Airport security temporarily evacuates about
3,000 people from the terminal. Police had flagged the fugitive man for
suspected radicalism. Belgacem had earlier that day shot a police
officer with a pellet gun after he was pulled over for speeding with his
headlights off north of Paris. Later, he had threatened a bar and then
carjacked another vehicle to the airport. Authorities are investigating
the attack as a "possible" act of terrorism, but the motive is unclear
as the suspect's father says Belgacem did not pray, was not a terrorist,
and fell under the influence of the drugs and alcohol which were also
found in subsequent autopsy. (BBC)
March 20, 2017,
March 20, 2017, The United States House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence holds a hearing about Russian interference in the 2016 election and confirms that there is an ongoing investigation into ties between Trump's team and Russia. (The Washington Post)
March 20, 2017, British Prime Minister Theresa May announces that her government will trigger article 50, which begins the process of withdrawing from the European Union, on March 29. (The Guardian)
March 21, 2017, Citing security concerns because of recent terrorist activity, the American and British governments impose a ban affecting inbound-passengers flying from much of the Middle East and North Africa. The ban includes airplane cabin passenger-accessible items such as laptops, tablets, and other electronic devices which are larger than a smartphone. Larger such electronic devices will still be allowed on board in checked baggage which is thus more closely screened and passenger-inaccessible. (CNN)
March 21, 2017, In a 6–2 decision (NLRB v. SW General, Inc), the U.S. Supreme Court puts new restrictions on presidential powers, limiting a president's authority to staff certain top government posts in a case involving an appointment to the National Labor Relations Board saying that under the Federal Vacancies Reform Act, a person cannot serve as the acting head of a federal agency once the president nominates him or her to permanently serve in the role if it is a position that requires U.S. Senate confirmation. The court upholds a lower court's ruling that then-President Barack Obama exceeded his legal authority with his temporary appointment of an NLRB general counsel in 2011. The ruling will give President Donald Trump and future presidents less flexibility in filling jobs that require Senate confirmation. (Reuters)
March 22, 2017, An attacker carries out a vehicle-ramming attack outside the Houses of Parliament in London, before stabbing a police officer and subsequently being shot by security forces. Including the attacker, there are at least five people dead . (BBC)
March 23, 2017,
March 24, 2017, Former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak is released from detention in Cairo. (AFP)
March 24, 2017, United States President Donald Trump approves the controversial Keystone XL pipeline. (CNN)
March 24, 2017, The replacement plan for the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (aka Obamacare) is withdrawn after Republican leaders fail to gain enough support. The failure of the Trump administration to repeal the act means it will remain law in the United States.(BBC)
March 24, 2017, NASA astronaut Shane Kimbrough and ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet take a spacewalk outside of the International Space Station to prepare the vessel for new arrivals. (Space.com)
March 30, 2017, The state legislature of North Carolina repeals the Public Facilities Privacy & Security Act, more commonly known as the "transgender bathroom bill." In its place, the legislature enacts a ban on cities in North Carolina from enacting "civil rights" protections for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people through 2020. (Reuters)
March 21, 2017, In a 6–2 decision (NLRB v. SW General, Inc), the U.S. Supreme Court puts new restrictions on presidential powers, limiting a president's authority to staff certain top government posts in a case involving an appointment to the National Labor Relations Board saying that under the Federal Vacancies Reform Act, a person cannot serve as the acting head of a federal agency once the president nominates him or her to permanently serve in the role if it is a position that requires U.S. Senate confirmation. The court upholds a lower court's ruling that then-President Barack Obama exceeded his legal authority with his temporary appointment of an NLRB general counsel in 2011. The ruling will give President Donald Trump and future presidents less flexibility in filling jobs that require Senate confirmation. (Reuters)
March 23, 2017,
March 23, 2017, A man drives into a crowd of pedestrians in Antwerp, Belgium, injuring several people. Police arrest the man, who is believed to be North African born and living in France. (The New York Times)
March 23, 2017, The night parrot is confirmed sighted (and photographed) in Western Australia for first time in nearly 100 years. (The Guardian)
March 24, 2017, Former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak is released from detention in Cairo. (AFP)
March 24, 2017, United States President Donald Trump approves the controversial Keystone XL pipeline. (CNN)
March 24, 2017, The replacement plan for the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (aka Obamacare) is withdrawn after Republican leaders fail to gain enough support. The failure of the Trump administration to repeal the act means it will remain law in the United States.(BBC)
March 24, 2017, NASA astronaut Shane Kimbrough and ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet take a spacewalk outside of the International Space Station to prepare the vessel for new arrivals. (Space.com)
March 25, 2017, European Union leaders gather in Rome to mark 60 years since the Treaty of Rome was signed. (BBC)
March 25, 2017, The UK-US air travel ban on laptops and other electronic devices in the passenger cabin comes into effect. (BBC)
March 26, 2017, A shooting in Cincinnati, Ohio, kills one person and injures fourteen others. (CNN)
March 27, 2017,
March 27, 2017,
March 27, 2017,
March 27, 2017, The Big Maple Leaf, a solid gold 1 million dollar Canadian coin weighing 100 kilograms (220 lb), is stolen from the Bode Museum in Berlin, Germany.(CBC)
March 27, 2017, More than 25,000 people are evacuated from the city of Mackay, Queensland, ahead of Cyclone Debbie which is expected to make landfall in northern Queensland tomorrow. The Australian Bureau of Meteorology warns that Cyclone Debbie will be the worst storm to hit Queensland since Cyclone Yasi in 2011. (ABC)
March 27, 2017, The National Football League (NFL) owners approve, by a 31–1 vote, the move of the Oakland Raiders to Las Vegas, Nevada, for the 2019 or 2020 season. The Las Vegas Raiders will become the second top-level professional sports franchise in the city, following the National Hockey League's Vegas Golden Knights, which will begin play in October 2017. The move now awaits completion of a new Raiders stadium, until which time the Raiders will continue playing home games in Oakland. Bank of America has issued the Raiders $650 million in credit to purchase land and build the new stadium in Clark County. (NBC Sports)
March 28, 2017, U.S. President Trump signs an executive order undoing former President Obama's climate change policies. (BBC)
March 28, 2017, British Prime Minister Theresa May signs a letter invoking Article 50 of the Treaty on European Union. Its notification to the European Council tomorrow will formally begin the UK's withdrawal from the European Union. (BBC)
March 29, 2017, A head on crash between a pickup truck and a church bus outside Garner State Park in the American state of Texas kills at least 12 people and injures 3 others. (Fox News)
March 30, 2017, SpaceX successfully places the SES-10 telecommunications satellite on a geostationary transfer orbit. The event is notable because of the implied economic cost savings of reusing, for the first time, a used Falcon 9 first stage which had previously been recovered. That first stage had previously launched a Dragon spacecraft to the International Space Station and landed on an autonomous drone ship during the CRS-8 mission. (The New York Times)
March 30, 2017, A fire results in the collapse of a bridge on Interstate 85 in Atlanta, Georgia, during rush hour, stranding motorists and resulting in a state of emergency. Atlanta mayor Kasim Reed
calls the situation a "transportation crisis" that could close the
affected stretch of highway for days or weeks. A 2015 report stated that
the highway carried nearly a quarter-million vehicles a day. (NBC News)
March 30, 2017, Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections:
-Michael T. Flynn is willing to testify under the condition of immunity in the ongoing congressional probe on Russia's role in the 2016 U.S. presidential election. (CNN)
-A Congressional witness states that Russia hire 1,000 people to create anti-Clinton 'fake news' in key U.S. states during the election. (The Independent)
-During a Senate hearing, United States Senator Marco Rubio states that there have been post-election hack attempts against the U.S. House Speaker Paul Ryan and Rubio himself. (CNN)
-Michael T. Flynn is willing to testify under the condition of immunity in the ongoing congressional probe on Russia's role in the 2016 U.S. presidential election. (CNN)
-A Congressional witness states that Russia hire 1,000 people to create anti-Clinton 'fake news' in key U.S. states during the election. (The Independent)
-During a Senate hearing, United States Senator Marco Rubio states that there have been post-election hack attempts against the U.S. House Speaker Paul Ryan and Rubio himself. (CNN)
March 30, 2017, The state legislature of North Carolina repeals the Public Facilities Privacy & Security Act, more commonly known as the "transgender bathroom bill." In its place, the legislature enacts a ban on cities in North Carolina from enacting "civil rights" protections for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people through 2020. (Reuters)
March 30, 2017, Authorities arrest Impeached South Korean President Park Geun-hye on charges of bribery, abuse of authority, coercion, and leaking government secrets. (BBC)
March 30, 2017, United States Secretary of State Rex Tillerson says he thinks the longer term status of president Bashar al-Assad is to be "decided by the Syrian people". This appears as a policy shift, since under president Barack Obama’s administration, the United States made the departure of Assad a key policy aim. (The Times of Israel)
March 31, 2017, Officials state that repairs will take months following a fire that collapsed a bridge on Interstate 85 in Atlanta, Georgia.
Police arrest three individuals in connection with the disaster,
charging two with criminal trespass and one with first degree criminal
damage. (WSB TV)
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