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24 March is the 83 rd day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (84th in Leap Year s). There are 282 days remaining.
Events
- 1603 - James VI of Scotland also becomes James I King of England .
- 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. .
- 1837 - Canada gives African men the right to vote.
- 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 .
- 1923 - Greece becomes a Republic .
- 1934 - U.S. Congress passes Tydings-McDuffie Act .
- 1944 - In an event later dramatized in the movie '' The Great Escape '', 76 prisoners begin breaking out of Stalag Luft III .
- 1959 - The Party Of The African Federation ( PFA ) is launched by Léopold Sédar Senghor and Modibo Keita .
- 1965 - NASA Spacecraft Ranger 9 , equipped to convert its signals into a form suitable for showing on domestic Television , brings images of the Moon into ordinary homes before crash- Landing .
- 1972 - The United Kingdom imposes " Direct Rule " over Northern Ireland .
- 1973 - Kenya n track runner Kip Keino defeats Jim Ryun at the first-ever professional track meet in Los Angeles , sanctioned by the International Track Association .
- 1973 - Rock band Pink Floyd releases '' The Dark Side Of The Moon ''
- 1976 - Argentina 's military forces depose president Isabel Perón and start the Proceso De Reorganización Nacional .
- 1980 - Archbishop Óscar Romero is killed by right-wing terrorists while celebrating Mass in San Salvador .
- 's Prince William Sound the '' Exxon Valdez '' spills 240,000 barrels (42,000 m³) of Petroleum after running aground.
- 1990 - Bob Hawke and the ALP defeats Andrew Peacock and the Liberal Party Of Australia in his final election as Prime Minister Of Australia .
- , two boys (aged 11 and 13 years) fire upon students at Westside Middle School ; four students and one teacher are killed and 10 injured.
- commences air bombardment against Yugoslavia , marking the first time NATO has attacked a sovereign country.
- 2003 - The Arab League votes 21-1 in favor of a resolution demanding the immediate and unconditional removal of U.S. and British soldiers from Iraq .
- 2006 - Long-term protests in Belarus are broken by police. More than 400 detained.
- 2006 - Pope Benedict XVI adds 15 men to the College Of Cardinals , in the first Consistory of his Pontificate.
Births
- 1490 - Georg Agricola , German scientist (d. 1555 )
- 1607 - Michiel Adriaenszoon De Ruyter , Dutch admiral (d. 1667 )
- 1657 - Arai Hakuseki , Japanese writer and politician (d. 1725 )
- 1693 - John Harrison , British clockmaker (d. 1776 )
- 1725 - Samuel Ashe , Governor of North Carolina (d. 1813 )
- 1725 - Thomas Cushing , American Continental Congressman (d. 1788 )
- 1796 - John Corry Wilson Daly , Canadian politician (d. 1878 )
- 1820 - A. E. Becquerel , French physicist (d. 1891 )
- 1830 - Robert Hamerling , Austrian poet (d. 1889 )
- 1834 - William Morris , English writer and designer (d. 1896 )
- 1834 - John Wesley Powell , American explorer and environmentalist (d. 1902 )
- 1835 - Jožef Stefan , Slovenian physicist, mathematician, and poet (d. 1893 )
- 1855 - Andrew Mellon , American financier (d. 1937 )
- 1855 - Olive Schreiner , South African writer (d. 1920 )
- 1874 - Harry Houdini , Hungarian-born magician (d. 1926 )
- 1884 - Peter Debye , Dutch chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1966 )
- 1886 - Edward Weston , American photographer (d. 1958 )
- 1887 - Fatty Arbuckle , American actor (d. 1933 )
- 1888 - Viktor Kingissepp , Estonian Bolshevik politician (d. 1922 )
- 1889 - Albert Hill , British athlete (d. 1969 )
- 1893 - Walter Baade , German astronomer (d. 1960 )
- 1897 - Wilhelm Reich , Austrian-born psychotherapist (d. 1957 )
- 1901 - Ub Iwerks , American cartoonist (d. 1971 )
- 1902 - Thomas Dewey , American politician (d. 1971 )
- 1903 - Adolf Butenandt , German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1995 )
- 1906 - Klavdiya Shulzhenko , Soviet singer (d. 1984 )
- 1909 - Clyde Barrow , notorious bank robber (d. 1934 )
- 1910 - Richard Conte , American actor (d. 1975 )
- 1911 - Joseph Barbera , American cartoonist
- 1915 - Gorgeous George , American professional wrestler (d. 1963 )
- 1916 - Donald Hamilton , Swedish-American novelist
- 1917 - John Kendrew , British molecular biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize In Chemistry (d. 1997 )
- 1919 - Lawrence Ferlinghetti , American author and publisher
- 1919 - Robert Heilbroner , American economist (d. 2005 )
- 1923 - Murray Hamilton , American actor (d. 1986 )
- 1924 - Norman Fell , American actor (d. 1998 )
- 1926 - Dario Fo , Italian writer, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1927 - Martin Walser , German author
- 1928 - Byron Janis , American pianist
- 1930 - David Dacko , first President Of The Central African Republic (d. 2003 )
- 1930 - Steve McQueen , American actor, director, and producer (d. 1980 )
- 1935 - Peter Bichsel , Swiss writer
- 1936 - David Suzuki , Canadian environmentalist
- 1938 - Holger Czukay , German musician ( Can )
- 1938 - David Irving , British historian
- 1944 - R. Lee Ermey , American actor
- 1945 - Robert T. Bakker , American paleontologist
- 1945 - Curtis Hanson , American film director
- 1951 - Tommy Hilfiger , American fashion designer
- 1953 - Louie Anderson , American comedian
- 1954 - Robert Carradine , American actor
- 1954 - Donna Pescow , American actress
- 1960 - Kelly LeBrock , American actress
- 1960 - Nena , German singer
- 1962 - Star Jones Reynolds , American television personality
- 1964 - Annabella Sciorra , American actress
- 1965 - The Undertaker , American professional wrestler
- 1970 - Lara Flynn Boyle , American actress
- 1970 - Sharon Corr , Irish musician ( The Corrs )
- 1974 - Chad Butler , American drummer ( Switchfoot )
- 1974 - Alyson Hannigan , American actress
- 1976 - Aaron Brooks , American football player
- 1976 - Peyton Manning , American football player
- 1984 - Chris Bosh , American basketball player
- 1985 - Haruka Ayase , Japanese actress and model
- 1990 - Keisha Castle-Hughes , New Zealand-born child actress
Deaths
- 809 - Harun Al-Rashid , Abbasid caliph (b. 763 )
- 1361 - Henry Of Grosmont, 1st Duke Of Lancaster , English soldier and diplomat
- 1381 - Catherine Of Sweden , Swedish saint
- 1455 - Pope Nicholas V (b. 1397 )
- 1563 - Hosokawa Harumoto , Japanese military leader (b. 1514 )
- 1575 - Yosef Karo , Spanish-born rabbi (b. 1488 )
- 1603 - Queen Elizabeth I Of England (b. 1533 )
- 1653 - Samuel Scheidt , German composer (b. 1587 )
- 1773 - Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Of Chesterfield , English statesman and man of letters (b. 1694 )
- 1776 - John Harrison , English clockmaker (b. 1693 )
- 1869 - Antoine-Henri Jomini , French general (b. 1779 )
- 1881 - Achille Ernest Oscar Joseph Delesse , French geologist (b. 1817 )
- 1882 - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow , American author (b. 1807 )
- 1905 - Jules Verne , French author (b. 1828 )
- 1909 - John Millington Synge , Irish playwright (b. 1871 )
- 1915 - Karol Olszewski , Polish scientist (b. 1846 )
- 1916 - Enrique Granados , Spanish composer (drowned) (b. 1867 )
- 1944 - Orde Wingate , British soldier (b. 1903 )
- 1946 - Alexander Alekhine , Russian chess player (b. 1892 )
- 1950 - James Rudolph Garfield , American politician (b. 1865 )
- 1953 - Mary Of Teck , Queen Consort to George V Of The United Kingdom (b. 1867 )
- 1962 - Jean Goldkette , Greek-born musician (b. 1899 )
- 1962 - Auguste Piccard , Swiss physicist and explorer (b. 1884 )
- 1972 - Cristobal Balenciaga , Spanish couturier (b. 1895 )
- 1976 - Bernard Montgomery , British field marshal (b. 1887 )
- 1980 - Óscar Romero , Archbishop of El Salvador (b. 1917 )
- 1984 - Sam Jaffe , American actor (b. 1891 )
- 1990 - Ray Goulding , American comedian (b. 1922 )
- 1990 - An Wang , Chinese-born computer pioneer (b. 1920 )
- 1993 - John Hersey , American author (b. 1914 )
- 1999 - Gertrud Scholtz-Klink , German women's leader (b. 1902 )
- 1999 - Birdie Tebbetts , baseball player and manager (b. 1912 )
- 2002 - César Milstein , Argentine scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize In Physiology Or Medicine (b. 1927 )
- 2003 - Hans Hermann Groër , Austrian Catholic archbishop (b. 1919 )
Holidays and observances
External links
March 23 - March 25 - February 24 - April 24 -- Listing Of All Days
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