From Historynet: Today in History March 17

1766          Britain repeals the Stamp Act.

1776          British forces evacuate from Boston to Nova Scotia.

1799          Napoleon Bonaparte  and his army reach Mediterranean seaport of St. Jean d'Acra, only to find British warships ready to break his siege of the town.

1868          The first postage stamp canceling machine patent is issued.

1884          John Joseph Montgomery  makes the first glider flight in Otay, Calif.

1886          Twenty African Americans are killed in the Carrollton Massacre in Mississippi.

1891          The British steamer Utopia sinks off the coast of Gibraltar.

1905          Anna Eleanor Roosevelt , niece of President Theodore Roosevelt , marries 

Franklin D. Roosevelt  in New York.

1910          The Camp Fire Girls are founded in Lake Sebago, Maine.

1914          Russia increases the number of active duty military from 460,000 to 1,700,000.

1924          Four Douglas army aircraft leave Los Angeles for an around the world flight.

1930          Mob boss Al Capone  is released from jail.

1942          The Nazis begin deporting Jews to the Belsen camp.

1944          The U.S. Eighth Air Force bombs Vienna.

1959          The 14th Dalai Lama  flees Tibet and goes to India.

1961          The United States increases military aid and technicians to Laos.

1962          The Soviet Union asks the United States to pull out of South Vietnam.

1966          A U.S. submarine locates a missing H-bomb in the Mediterranean.

1970          The Army charges 14 officers with suppression of facts in the My Lai massacre case.

1972          Nixon  asks Congress to halt busing in order to achieve desegregation.

1973          Twenty are killed in Cambodia when a bomb goes off that was meant for the Cambodian President Lon Nol .

1973          First POWs are released from the "Hanoi Hilton" in Hanoi, North Vietnam.

1985          President Ronald Reagan  agrees to a joint study with Canada on acid rain.

1992          White South Africans approve constitutional reforms giving legal equality to blacks.