Today, March 17 is the 76th day of the year (77th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. On this day in 1959 Dalai Lama left Tibet for a safe stay in India. On this very day in 1966: A hydrogen bomb that had fallen from a B-52 bomber when it collided with a KC-135 refueling jet over the Mediterranean Sea was located by a U.S. midget submarine off the coast of Spain, it is Recovered from the sea floor in April of the same year from a depth of 2,500 feet .

On March 17, 2010 the Indian Rupee recovered in the closing hours as the sensex zoomed past 12000 mark for the first time in Indian History. And Ms. Mayavati snubbed the entire nation by wearing again a garland made with currency notes.