History for March 17 - On-This-Day.com
Marquis Childs 1903 - Journalist, Nat "King" Cole (Nathaniel Adams Coles) 1919 - Singer, musician, John Sebastian 1944 - Singer, songwriter (Lovin' Spoonful)
Kurt Russell 1951 - Actor, Gary Sinise 1955 - Actor ("C.S.I: NY"), Rob Lowe 1964 - Actor
1989 - A series of solar flares caused a violent magnetic storm that brought power outages over large regions of Canada.