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March 17

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In A.D. 461, according to tradition, St. Patrick - the patron saint of Ireland - died in Saul.

In 1776, British forces evacuated Boston during the Revolutionary War.

In 1870, the Massachusetts legilature authorized the incorporation of Wellesley Female Seminary.  It later became Wellesley College.

In 1905, Eleanor Roosevelt married Franklin D. Roosevelt in New York.

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Ballet star Rudolf Nureyev  (1938)

Singer-guitarist Paul Kantner  (1941)

Singer-songwriter John Sebastian  (1944)

Actor Patrick Duffy  (1949)

Actor Kurt Russell  (1951)

Actor Rob Lowe  (1964)

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"God made the grass, the air and the rain;  and the grass, the air and the rain made the Irish; and the Irish turned the grass, the air and the rain back into God."
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-Sean O'Faolain, Irish author.