On This Day for March 17 - Vote to end apartheid, Mia Hamm is featured, and more

This message contains graphics. If you do not see the graphics, [click here to view](. March 17 [Hamm, Mia]( FEATURED BIOGRAPHY 1972 Mia Hamm [READ MORE]( [South Africa]( FEATURED EVENT 1992 Vote to end apartheid [READ MORE]( Advertisement Advertisement [Explore Britannica's 100 Women Trailblazers]( MORE EVENTS ON THIS DAY [Andre Norton.] 2005: American author [Andre Norton]( who wrote more than 130 [sci-fi]( and fantasy adventure novels for juveniles and adults, died at age 93. 2000: A fire broke out at the headquarters of the doomsday cult Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments of God in Kanungu, [Uganda]( and it eventually led to the discovery of more than 775 bodies, many of which had been poisoned; a search was undertaken for the cult's leaders, who were believed to have killed their followers after a promised apocalypse did not occur. [Meir, Golda] 1969: [Golda Meir]( became the fourth prime minister of [Israel](. [Cole, Nat King] 1917: [Nat King Cole]( an American musician who first came to prominence as a [jazz]( pianist but who reached enormous popularity with his warm, relaxed, somewhat breathy-voiced [ballad]( singing, was born. [Bobby Jones] 1902: American [golfer]( [Bobby Jones]( the first player to achieve a Grand Slam, was born. 1861: In [Turin]( Italy, after more than 10 years of revolution led by such figures as [Giuseppe Garibaldi]( a parliament assembled and officially proclaimed the unified [Kingdom of Italy](. [SEE ALL EVENTS ON THIS DAY]( ALSO BORN ON THIS DAY 1948 [William Gibson]( American-Canadian author 1919 [Nat King Cole]( American singer and musician 1804 [Jim Bridger]( American frontiersman 1942 [John Wayne Gacy]( American serial killer 1938 [Rudolf Nureyev]( Russian dancer 1899 [Gloria Swanson]( American actress [SEE ALL BIOS ON THIS DAY]( Advertisement FOLLOW: [Facebook]( [Twitter]( [YouTube]( To unsubscribe from Britannica e-mails, [click here](. Encyclopædia Britannica 325 N. LaSalle Street, Suite 200 Chicago, Illinois 60654 United States © 2019 Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc. [Privacy Policy]( • [Help](