What day of the week was March 17, 1988?

The day of the week March 17th, 1988 fell on was a Thursday. There were 17 days until Easter Sunday.

Grimes the Canadian singer-songwriter and producer was born on 17 March in 1988. As was Rasmus Elm the Swedish footballer , Fraser Forster the English footballer , Ryan White the Canadian ice hockey player .

Nikolas Asimos the Greek singer-songwriter (b. 1949) died on this day in 1988.

A Colombian Boeing 727 jetliner the Avianca Flight 410, crashes into a mountainside near the Venezuelan border killing 143. Eritrean War of Independence: The Nadew Command the an Ethiopian army corps in Eritrea, is attacked on three sides by military units of the Eritrean People's Liberation Front in the opening action of the Battle of Afabet.