Today In History For March 17th

Today is Thursday, March 17, the 76th day of 2011. There are 289 days left in the year. This is St. Patrick's Day.

In A.D. 461 (or A.D. 493, depending on sources), St. Patrick, the patron saint of Ireland, died in Saul.

In 1966, a U.S. midget submarine located a missing hydrogen bomb which had fallen from an American bomber into the Mediterranean off Spain.

In 1950, scientists at the University of California at Berkeley announced they had created a new  radioactive element, "californium."