A New Zealand woman who lay trapped in the upturned wreckage of a car with two bodies for several days says she survived by thinking of her nine children.
“I was feeling like I couldn’t go on for too much longer but I was determined I would see my kids again,” Ada Makiri told the New [...]

461 On March 17, according to tradition, St. Patrick, the patron saint of Ireland, died in Saul. Some sources list the year as 493, others say 461.
1776 British forces evacuated Boston during the Revolutionary War.
1777 Roger Taney, the fifth chief justice of the United States and author of the Supreme Court’s infamous Dred Scott decision [...]