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March 17, 1912
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Lawrence Oates, English Antarctic explorer, a member of Scott's expedition ,dies after walking into a blizzard, saying 'I am just going outside, and may be some time' 
 
March 17, 1912
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Camp Fire Girls organization announced by Mrs Luther Halsey Gulick 
 
March 17, 1908
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Quickest world heavyweight title fight (Burns KOs Roche in 88 seconds) 
 
March 17, 1906
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Pres Theodore Roosevelt uses term muckrake 
 
March 17, 1905
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Eleanor Roosevelt marries FDR in NY 
 
March 17, 1901
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Free thinking-Democratic Union forms in Netherlands 
 
March 17, 1899
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The first-ever radio distress call was sent, summoning assistanceto a merchant ship aground on the Goodwin Sands, off the Kent coast of England 
 
March 17, 1853
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Christian Doppler, Austrian physicist, dies 
 
March 17, 1782
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Daniel Bernoulli Swiss mathematician and physicist, dies 
 
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