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March 24 is the 83rd day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (84th in Leap years). There are 282 days remaining.
Events
- 1603 - James I
becomes King of England.
- 1765 - American Revolutionary War: The Kingdom of Great Britain passes the Quartering Act that requires the 13 American colonies to
house British troops.
- 1832 - In Hiram, Ohio a group of
men beat, tar and feather Mormon leader Joseph Smith, Jr..
- 1868 - Metropolitan Life Insurance Company is formed.
- 1878 - The UK frigate
Eurydice sinks, killing 300.
- 1882 - Robert Koch announces the
discovery of the bacterium responsible for tuberculosis (mycobacterium
tuberculosis).
- 1898 - Robert Allison of Port Carbon, Pennsylvania becomes the first person to buy an American-built automobile when he buys a Winton automobile that was advertised in Scientific American.
- 1900 - New York City Mayor Van
Wyck breaks ground for a new underground "Rapid Transit Railroad" that would link Manhattan and Brooklyn.
- 1944 - Tragedy in the Polish village Markowa.
- 1972 - The United Kingdom
imposes "Direct Rule" over Northern Ireland.
- 1973 - Kenyan track runner Kip Keino defeats Jim Ryun at the
first-ever professional track meet in Los Angeles, sanctioned by the International Track Association.
- 1976 - Argentina's military forces
depose president Isabel Perón.
- 1980 - Archbishop Óscar Romero
is killed by gunmen while celebrating Mass in San Salvador.
- 1989 - Exxon
Valdez oil spill: In Alaska's Prince William Sound the Exxon Valdez
spills 240,000 barrels (42,000 m³) of oil after running aground.
- 1998 - Jonesboro
massacre: In Jonesboro, Arkansas, two young boys (aged
11 and 13 years) fire upon students at Westside Middle School while hidden in woodlands near the school. Four students and one
teacher are killed and 10 injured.
- 1999 - Kosovo War: NATO launches air strikes in Yugoslavia which was
refusing to sign a peace treaty. This marks the first time NATO has attacked a sovereign country.
- 2001 - Apple Computer
releases Mac OS X version 10.0.
- 2003 - The Arab League votes 21-1
in favor of a resolution demanding the immediate and unconditional removal of US and British soldiers from Iraq.
Births
- 1494 - Georg Agricola,
scientist ("The Father of Minerology") (d. 1555)
- 1834 - John Wesley
Powell, explorer, environmentalist, (d. 1902)
- 1835 - Jožef Stefan,
Slovene physicist, mathematician and poet, (d. 1893)
- 1855 - Andrew Mellon,
financier, (d. 1937)
- 1855 - Olive Schreiner, writer (d. 1920)
- 1874 - Harry Houdini, magician,
(d. 1926)
- 1886 - Edward Weston,
photographer (d. 1958)
- 1887 - Fatty Arbuckle,
actor, (d. 1933)
- 1891 - John Knittel, dramatist, (d. 1970)
- 1897 - Wilhelm Reich, psychotherapist, (d. 1957)
- 1901 - Ub Iwerks, cartoonist, (d. 1971)
- 1902 - Thomas Dewey, politician,
(d. 1971)
- 1911 - Joseph Barbera, cartoonist
- 1919 - Lawrence
Ferlinghetti, author and publisher
- 1923 - Kermit Schafer, humorist, (d. 1979)
- 1926 - Dario Fo, author, 1997 Nobel Prize in
Literature
- 1927 - Martin Walser, author
- 1930 - Steve McQueen, film
director and producer, (d. 1980)
- 1935 - Peter Bichsel,
writer
- 1936 - David Suzuki,
environmentalist
- 1940 - Bob Mackie, costume designer
- 1949 - Nick Lowe, musician
- 1951 - Tommy Hilfiger,
fashion designer
- 1954 - Robert Carradine,
actor (Revenge of the Nerds, Lizzie McGuire)
- 1970 - Lara Flynn Boyle,
actress (The Practice)
- 1970 - Sharon Corr, musician ("The Corrs")
- 1974 - Alyson Hannigan,
actress
- 1976 - Peyton Manning,
NFL star
- 1983 - Clare Pollard, singer
- 1990 - Keisha
Castle-Hughes, actress
Deaths
- 809 - Harun al-Rashid,
Abbasid caliph (b. 763)
- 1455 - Pope Nicholas V, the
first Renaissance pope (b. 1397)
- 1603 - Queen Elizabeth I of England (b. 1533)
- 1869 - Antoine-Henri
Jomini, General (b. 1779)
- 1882 - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, author (b. 1807)
- 1905 - Jules Verne, author (b.
1828)
- 1909 - John
Millington Synge, playwright (b. 1871)
- 1944 - Orde Wingate, British soldier (b. 1903)
- 1946 - Alexander
Alekhine, chess champion (b. 1892)
- 1953 - Mary of Teck, wife of King
George V of the United Kingdom (b.
1867)
- 1962 - Jean Goldkette,
jazz musician (b. 1899)
- 1962 - Auguste Piccard, physicist and explorer (b. 1884)
- 1972 - Cristobal Balenciaga, couturier
- 1976 - Bernard
Montgomery, British Field Marshal (b. 1887)
- 1980 - Óscar Romero, Archbishop
of El Salvador (b. 1917)
- 1990 - An Wang, computer pioneer (b. 1920)
- 1993 - John Hersey, author (b.
1914)
Holidays and observances
- Ancient Latvia - Kazimiras
Diena observed
- World
Tuberculosis Day
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